Table of Contents, Masthead, and Editor's Note

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WorldLiteratureToday Q&A 10 A Conversation with Luis Alberto de Cuenca by Diego Doncel 20 A Conversation with Tomasz Różycki and His Translators by Major Jackson & Mira Rosenthal 28 A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan by Aimee Phan Poetry 14 Two Poems by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza 19 Wooden Diamond Rocket by Lee Young-Kwang 43 Two Poems by Ana Blandiana Crime & Mystery 16 Dinner with Dick Francis by J. Madison Davis Fiction 26 The Stone Wall by Lee Upton 33 A Creature of Habit by Rumena Bužarovska Essay 36 The Scold’s Bridle by Dubravka Ugrešić Part of the the Puterbaugh Essay Series special section 44 Gulf Lit Guest-edited by Dolores Flores-Silva & Keith Cartwright Featuring Jesús J. Barquet 47 Charo Guerra 48 Feliciano Sánchez Chan 49 LeAnne Howe 50 Jay Wright 52 Agustín del Moral Tejeda 53 Luis Lorente 57 Brenda Marie Osbey 58 José Luis Rivas 60 Bárbara Renaud González 61 cover feature 62 Puterbaugh Fellow Alain Mabanckou With contributions from Rokiatou Soumaré 64 Alain Mabanckou 67 Dominic Thomas 68 Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 15 Editor’s Pick | 72 World Literature in Review | 104 Outpost SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2016 14 about the cover Alain Mabanckou photographed by Shevaun Williams during his visit to Oklahoma for the 2016 Puterbaugh Festival in April. 36 53 mabanckou : shevaun williams / shevaun williams and associates flickr left : kenneth dellaquila flickr right : renate dodell worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Visit our website for exclusive content including original audio recordings, photo galleries, blog posts, and more. Rob Vollmar’s YouTube playlist featuring the Achref Chargui Trio (page 08) Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Alain Mabanckou on world literature in French Lydie Moudileno on the anxiety of authorship in francophone lit Web Exclusive Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday On the WLT Blog In Love with Lou by Frank Beck “Rilke pursued Lou AndreasSalom é with a mixture of diffidence and determination that she found irresistible, perhaps because his youthfulness reversed the age differences she had known with Nietzsche and Andreas.” Surrealism on the Subway: Translating Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza by Arthur Dixon “I was treading shaky ground as I began my translation without personal experience of Mexico—I had to treat the theme of ‘inherent’ Mexican surrealism as noted by Breton while not falling into the trap of essentialization myself.” Read more at worldliteraturetoday.org/blog Join the conversation Join our community of readers and writers on Twitter. Use the hashtag #IReadWLT and tell us about your favorite features from this issue. Sunny Chermé Cooper @SunnyCherme The multicultural “emancipated consciousness”of @worldlittoday is fearless and inclusive in its scope. #IReadWLT Melissa Beck @magistrabeck Just received my first copy of @worldlittoday and am blown away by quantity/quality of writing. #IReadWLT AJ Engler @ajengler Congratulations – 90 yrs of @worldlittoday. Imagine other realities – Read something you don’t instantly identify with. Find us on flickr flickr.com/wltonline Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Write to us on Facebook, tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. editor’s note Throughout 2016, we’ve been celebrating World Literature Today’s ninetieth year of continuous publication. Our actual birthday? October 21, 1926. On that day, founding editor Roy Temple House (1878–1963) wrote to University of Oklahoma president William Bennett Bizzell to pitch his idea for a “journal of information as to current foreign books,” to be distributed free of charge. Dr. House modestly requested $150 to produce the first two issues, plus another $100 for a special typeface to accommodate foreign book titles. At the time serving as chair of OU’s Department of Modern Languages, House had seen firsthand the devastating effects of World War I in Europe and was concerned about the United States’ growing isolationism in the 1920s. The story of Books Abroad—the...