Covert Joy: Katrina Dodson on Clarice Lispector
7:00 pm PT
City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Ave | San Francisco, CA
Katrina Dodson reads from her translation of Covert Joy: Selected Stories by Clarice Lispector (New Directions) and discusses it in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel.
This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector’s best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as “The Smallest Woman in the World,” “Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Lispector’s luminous regard for life’s small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume.
Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2015), winner of the PEN Translation Prize and other awards. Her translation of Mário de Andrade’s 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero With No Character was published by New Directions in 2023. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. A San Francisco native, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University.
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot and Belly Up. She is also the editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly. She lives in San Francisco.