The stories that confirm that bigger story are brought in and easily digested. But there's another set of stories that are always there, which do not confirm, but which complicate and contradict what we think we already know. And I'm always attracted to that. There doesn't seem to be much of a market for it. Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.
Elliott CollaIf I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.
Elliott CollaI think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.
Elliott Colla