Loquela, the fourth novel from Carlos Labbé — and his second translated into English — is available now from Open Letter. Loquela is translated by Will Vanderhyden who previously translated Labbé's Navidad & Matanza.From the publishers:At a basic level, this book...
The winter issue of Your Impossible Voice has arrived, featuring new work from Misty Ellingburg, Aysegul Savas, Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Álvaro Enrigue, Suzanne Heagy, Michael Pritchett, Carlos Labbé, Elizabeth Savage, Chad Hanson, Madeline Vardell, Colin Dodds, Amy Woschek Schmidt, Brian McCarty, Erik Anderson, Johnathan Harper, Phyllis Brotherton, and E.J. Evans. In addition to the amazing prose and poetry you’ve come to expect, our latest issue also includes an excerpt from a new graphic novel by Heinz Fenkl and The’ T. Nguyen. Cover art for issue 6 by Louis Staeble.
Carlos Labbé was born in Chile and is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. This year, Open Letter published the English translation of his novel Navidad & Matanza, to be followed in 2015 by Loquela (both translated by Will Vanderhyden). He...