On the shuttle from Fiumicino Airport to Termini, I start feeling small and anxious. After a brief email exchange, the Swiss author whose novel I’m currently translating has invited me to come and spend six days and five nights with her in Rome, where she is in residence for 10 months – so here I am.
A playground of our own: punk spaces within and without The Diary of Marlene Marder
Back in 2017, I got an email from Grace Ambrose, founder of one-woman punk label and micropublisher Thrilling Living, asking if I would be interested in translating ‹The Diary of Marlene Marder›. Originally published in 1986 (my birthyear, incidentally), the hefty compendium has the full title: ‹Kleenex/LiLiPUT: The Diary of the Guitarist Marlene Marder –
