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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Interview with KUCI “Writers on Writing”

Friday, February 13, 2009

“Writers on Writing” on KUCI is an excellent regular program, on which many great writers–Tobias Wolff, for example–have been interviewed at length. There’s a regular podcast to which you can subscribe for free. If you’re interested, check out their schedule: http://www.kuci.org/schedule.shtml The interviewers are sharp: they’ve actually read the books and they ask great questions. [...]

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Machine translation arguably improving

Monday, February 2, 2009

Here’s a Google translation of this introductory passage from Winner: Lightning sought our mother out, when she was a young girl in Brown County, Indiana. Licked her body up and down, so she said, with a long scratchy cat tongue. She smelled the ozone, which she described as indescribable. “Not a smell at all, really, [...]

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