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Bitte, Ich Spreche Nur Amerikanisch I’d like to bracket these observations between two half-remembered New Yorker cartoons. The first shows three people, a woman and two men, each tops in their fields, being interviewed by a man who has asked them to identify three people who’ve influenced them. The woman, a writer, mentions Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, and Chekhov; the golfer names Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and, to everyone’s surprise, Chekhov; finally the physicist rattles off his list: Einstein, Newton, and . . . yes, you guessed it, Chekhov. The importance of translation, anyone...

Essay: Thinking about Karl Kilian - Houston's literary lion Rich Levy FacebookTwitterEmail Karl Kilian posed in Brazos Bookstore Monday March 13, 2006. He owned the independent bookstore for nearly 20 years.Sharon Steinmann, Staff / Houston Chronicle When we moved to Houston in 1986 from Iowa City — a writer-filled college town with the highest per capita number of indie bookstores and readings in the U.S. — we were disappointed. Houston had far better food, it had Fiesta, it was amazingly diverse, but the book scene appeared to be dominated by big box stores — not a happy situation. U...

New York Trilogy in three separate volumes, Laurie Colwin’s Happy All the Time, Barry Hannah’s Ray, Robb Forman Dew’s Dale Loves Sophie to Death (which won a National Book Award), Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Grace Paley’s Later the Same Day, Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story (another NBA winner), Frederick Barthelme’s Moon Deluxe, Frank Conroy’s Midair, Pete Dexter’s You Bright and Risen Angels, Ivan Doig’s English Creek, and Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety. As is so often the case, editorial passion conquered timid conventional wisdom, and li...