Selected Publications and Events by Scott Esposito

Events

• Leader/facilitator, Found in Translation Book Group at The Booksmith, since January 2010
• Judge, Open Letter Press’s Best Translated Book Award, 2008, 2009
• Guest of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, October 23 – 30, 2009
• Panelist, National Book Critics Circle/Litquake NBCC Reads Translation Panel, October 13, 2009
• Master of Ceremonies, Berkeley City Arts and Letters event with Rebecca Solnit, September 17, 2009
• Master of Ceremonies, Best of the Web event at The Booksmith, August 4, 2009
• Co-leader/facilitator, Indie Bookstore Tour in San Francisco, July 25, 2009

Selected Publications

2010

• Introduction to The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig, Dalkey Archive Press, August 2010
• Review of The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe, Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2010
• Editing Georges Perec: An Interview with Susan Barbara, Words Without Borders, January 29, 2010
• Tracking the True Roberto Bolano, Barnes & Noble Review, January 27, 2010 (review/essay of Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview and Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano)

2009

• Review of The Armies by Evelio Rosero, Fall 2009, The Critical Flame
• The Other Half of Moby-Dick: The Damion Searls Interview, The Quarterly Conversation
• 99 Essential African Books: The Geoff Wisner Interview, The Quarterly Conversation
• Horacio Castellanos and the New Political Novel, Issue 17, The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of The Cardboard Universe by Christopher Miller, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol XXIV, #2
• Review of Desert by JMG Le Clezio, Summer 2009, The Critical Flame
• Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of Choice, Issue 16, The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of The Easy Chain by Evan Dara, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol XXIV, #1
• Response to “Some Darker Bouquets,” Mayday journal, Issue 1
• Review of The Late Age of Print by Ted Striphas, The Quarterly Conversation
• Reading and Publishing in Print’s Late Age: An Interview with Ted Striphas, The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, Issue 15, The Quarterly Conversation

2008

• Between the Ellipses: The True-to-Life Fiction of William T. Vollmann, The Chattahoochee Review, Fall 2008
• Interview with Katherine Silver, The Bloomsbury Review (reprinted for The Center for the Art of Translation)
• Profile of Horacio Castellanos Moya, Boldtype Issue 59
• The Dream of Our Youth, (El sueño de nuestra juventud), April 2008 issue of HermanoCerdo
• Review of Dirt for Art’s Sake by Elisabeth Ladenson, Spring 2008 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Spring 2008 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Golemnism: An Interview with Marc Estrin, turnrow issue 5.2
• A Theory of Everything, Norman Rush’s Mating, Critical Mass, February 2008
• Interview with Norman Rush, Critical Mass, February 2008
• Review of The Enormity of the Tragedy by Quim Monzo, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2008
• The Fruits of Parasitism, Winter 2008, The Quarterly Conversation

2007

• On Packing Two Bags for Mexico, October 2007 Open Letters
• What are Prisons For? The Quarterly Conversation, Fall 2007
• Review of Travels with Herorodus by Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2007
• Review of Falling Man by Don DeLillo, Small Spiral Notebook, Summer 2007
• Interview with Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown, Small Spiral Notebook, Summer 2007
• Educating Bolano’s Orphans, The Quarterly Conversation, Summer 2007
• Review of The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 2007
• Thrice Told Tales: How Stories Become Reality
  in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow, Spring 2007 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian, Spring 2007 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of Ice by Vladimir Sorokin, Spring 2007 Rain Taxi print edition
• Review of Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, March 2007 Boldtype
• Review of Mohr by Frederick Reuss, February 2007 Boldtype
• New Clichés: How Mulligan Stew Uses Old Lines to Slam Pretentious Authors,
  Winter 2007 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of Triangle by Katherine Weber, Winter 2007 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Interview with Edie Meidev, Winter 2007 issue of The Chattahoochee Review

2006

• Review of Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, Winter 2007 Rain Taxi online edition
• Review of The Echo Maker by Richard Powers, Winter 2007 Rain Taxi print editon
• Haruki Murakami’s Meaningful Metaphors, Fall 2006 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of Mohr by Frederick Reuss, Fall 2006 Rain Taxi print editon
• Interview with Edward Falco, Spring 2006 issue of The Chattahoochee Review
• Review of Duchess of Nothing by Heather McGowan, April 9, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle
• Review of A Temple of Texts by William Gass, Summer 2006 Rain Taxi
• Review of Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo, Summer 2006 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster, April SFStation
• Interview with Lance Olsen, Spring 2006 PopMatters
• Review of Nietzche’s Kisses by Lance Olsen, Spring 2006 PopMatters
• Review of Things in the Night by Mati Unt, Spring 2006 Rain Taxi
• Review of The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer, Spring 2006 Rain Taxi
• Review of The Judgment of Paris by Ross King, March 2006 SFStation
• Review of Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead, March 2006 PopMatters
• Review of The Conversations by Michael Ondaatje, February 2006 Powels.com
• Review of The Conversations by Michael Ondaatje, February 2006 Boldtype
• Review of Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe, Winter 2006 Rain Taxi
• Reading Alberto Moravia’s Boredom, Winter 2006 issue of The Quarterly Conversation

2005

• Review of Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace, December 2005, SFStation
• Review of King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, November 2005 Boldtype
• Review of Slow Man by JM Coetzee, September 2005, SFStation
• Review of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, Fall 2005 issue of The Quarterly Conversation
• Review of King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, August 2005 Boldtype
• Review of 10:01, by Lance Olsen, Fall 2005 Rain Taxi
• Review of Maps for Lost Lovers, by Nadeem Aslam, Fall 2005 Rain Taxi
• Review of Beyond Desert Walls, by Ken Lamberton, Summer 2005 Rain Taxi
• Review of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, SFStation July 2005
• Litblogs Provide a New Alternative for Readers, Summer 2005 Rain Taxi
• Review of Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, Spring 2005 Rain Taxi
• Review of The Seas by Samantha Hunt, Spring 2005 Rain Taxi
• Review of The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, SFStation January 2005

2004

• Review of We the Media, by Dan Gilmore, Winter 2004 Rain Taxi
• Review of The Meaning of Everything, by Simon Winshester, November 2004 East Bay Express
• Review of What’s the Matter with Kansas by Thoman Frank, Fall 2004 Rain Taxi
• Review of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, October 2004, Flak Magazine
• Review of The Middle Mind by Curtis White, July 2004 SFStation
• Review of Bandbox by Thomas Mallon, Spring 2004 Rain Taxi
• Article on Book Art, April 2004 SFStation
• Review of Backstory by Ken Auletta, January 2004 SFStation

2003

• Review of The Oath by Khassan Baiev, Winter 2003 Rain Taxi
• Article on Book Donations, December 2003 SFStation
• Review of Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee, November 2003 SFStation
• Review of Deafening by Frances Itani, Fall 2003 Rain Taxi
• Too Much Cotton, Spring 2003 Toward Freedom

Prior to 2003

• Op-Ed: Dim the Lights, Los Angeles Daily News, 12/17/2000
• Op-Ed: Off-label prescribing of drugs calls FDA role into question, Pittsburgh Tribune, 11/25/2000