POND "A Very Original Dinner" was

"A Very Original Dinner" was written in English by Fernando Pessoa under his proto-heteronym Alexander Search in June of 1907

A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk’s funny

and speech

more a sauced one

Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of departure (“ossia” means “or rather” and is used to indicate an alternative way of playing a passage in a musical score)

POND "A Very Original Dinner" wasFrom the press: Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire Louise Bennetts debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual