“My life is split between two places right now, which means my book stacks are split and which has also slowed down my reading even more than usual (I’m always slow and like to keep some books nearby for years before quite finishing them). This allows Moschovakis to drill down into the concerns of creative production, moving away from one’s youth, and what it is, essentially, to “be.”
Overall, it is a funny, philosophical novel that employs plot only when necessary. Moschovakis’ first novel Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love was a meta-novel that jockeys between the novelist, the titular character she was writing about, and the novelist’s fuzzily defined relationship with a critic. On the other side of reading of her accomplishments, one largely wonders what it is she can’t do. It is clear she has invested years of time and energy in connecting people and to people through her activism, translation, and writing. She helped found the small press darling Ugly Duckling Presse, prized for its translations, experimental works, and beautiful letter-pressed covers.Īnd, more recently, Moschovakis cofounded a collectively run art space Bushel in the Catskills. Her poetry collection You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her translation from French of David Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black won the 2020 Booker Prize. She is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, publisher, professor, and community organizer.
Anna Moschovakis is one of those unicorns in the literary world who manages not only to do it all, but do it well- more than well.
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