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Today I will Bake a Cake

After getting shooed away by yet another business owner who couldn’t understand what we wanted, I was reminded how some fruit never sweeten. No matter how you till the soil, no matter how many kind words you speak while watering, no matter how many days you wait for the fruit to ripen, some fruit will always come out bitter.

Lissette Escariz Ferrá
Origine

–Why are you translating me? –-I want to understand every word in your body. –You…

120 Kingsway store Port Harcourt Nigeria
Native Tongue

It was the summer of 2010 at the height of World Cup fever on an…

Editor’s Note: Kitchen Table Translation

A few years ago the translator Bill Martin invited me to participate in The Bridge…

The Paper Camera (excerpt)

  To translate, would mean engaging an electrical circuit in his brain, bypassing his heart.…