Interpreters of Men Get It On

by Fiona Maazel, Jennifer Acker (Foreword)

"That night was a lesson There’s the erotics of a woman who feels so miserable and wrecked and anxious and sad she will get on her knees and let four people have at her with varying degrees of rupture and bliss, and then there’s everything else."The Common, guest editor of Recommended Reading 2.4, publishes stories with a strong sense of place, yet the opening of "Interpreters of Men Get It On" sets the story to be the "Middle of Nowhere." In her editor's note, founding editor of The Common Jennifer Acker admires the way Fiona transforms the bleak landscape, "What guts Fiona has, dovetailing a linguistic translation breakthrough with the loss of innocence of a very different kind. Such exquisitely paired action can only happen here, in this nowhere rank with boredom."Author Maazel is author of the novels Last Last Chance and, forthcoming, Woke Up Lonely. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.About Recommended authors inspire us. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, the latest project from Electric Literature, publishes one story every week, each chosen by a great author or editor. In this age of distraction, we uncover writing that's worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we help give great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.About this week's guest Common is a new print and online literary magazine publishing literature and images with a strong sense of place. Based at Amherst College, the magazine takes its name from the role of the town common--a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas--and from its ambition to find the extraordinary in the every day. Edited by Jennifer Acker, The Common has published three print issues and maintains an active website with original web-only content. Subscribe to The Common here.

Genres: Short Stories

14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 10, 2012

About the author

Fiona Maazel is the author of the novels LAST LAST CHANCE (FSG, 2008), WOKE UP LONELY (Graywolf, 2013) and A LITTLE MORE HUMAN (Graywolf 2017). She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Reviews

[bee! ʚɞ · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a complete waste of time. T.T

[Kent Winward · Rating 3 out of 5]

In case you've ever wondered what was going on with our spies listening in on North Korea, interpretation gets left behind for getting it on.