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Trans woman who, before she came out, wrote a lot of SF/F/H short stories that, in retrospect, were largely about gender dysphoria. Now working on a nonfiction WIP about trans motherhood, a collection of translated short stories by Der Nister, and book reviews.

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	Phantasm Japan by Nick Mamatas, Masumi Washington (Editor), Miyuki Miyabe 3.42 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2016 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #725) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlotte Ashley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Pat MacEwen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 95, August 2014 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Caroline M. Yoachim (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kassandra Jo Tomaras (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarkesworld: Year Eight by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FLAPPERHOUSE - Year One by Joseph P. O'Brien (Editor), Ed Ahern, Daniel Ari 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flapperhouse #2 by Joseph P. O'Brien (Editor), Kassandra Jo Tomaras (Goodreads Author), Frederick Pollack 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FLAPPERHOUSE - Year Three by Joseph P. O'Brien (editor), Matt Alexander, Nancy Au 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flapperhouse #9 - Spring 2016 by Joseph P. O'Brien (editor), J. Bradley (Goodreads Author), Lauren Milici 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FLAPPERHOUSE #3 (Fall 2014) by Joseph P. O'Brien (Editor), Brendan Byrne, Diana Clarke 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future Fire #32 by Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edward Ashton (Goodreads Author), Vanessa Fogg (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Yiddish Literature beyond the Singer Brothers

The following was written as a letter to the New Yorker. Since they elected not to print it, I am posting it here, for anyone interested in what I have to say about Yiddish literature.

As a translator of Yiddish fiction, I read Adam Kirsch's profile of I.J. Singer with delight. Yet I finished it concerned that, since so much of it refracts the elder Singer's work through the prism of the works of h Read more of this blog post »

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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive

by Giorgio Agamben

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A Little Queer Natural History

by Josh L. Davis

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Schriften zum Theater

by Bertolt Brecht

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