Amazing talk today at PUC Rio with Stephen Sexton, whose book If All the World and Love Were Young was released in Brazil last year as Se o Mundo e o Amor Fossem Jovens. It was translated to Portuguese by Ana Guadalupe. Sexton talked to Paulo Henriques Britto and Maria Cecilia Brandi.

Rio: Tracy K. Smith will be at our university (Uerj) next Tuesday, 6 pm :)

Yesterday, we listened to Jamaica Kincaid’s recording of the last paragraph of See Now Then while reading the Brazilian translation. It was the best way of finishing our discussion about the novel; those adverbs will keep haunting us...