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Claire Foster

literary translator from French, writer, bookseller
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  • writing
  • interviews
  • events
  • notebook
  • about

 

SELECTED WRITING

  • “‘He Stops Only When the Foam Starts’: On Jean-Pierre Léaud, again, a postcard from the shore of 2025,” In the Mood Magazine

  • “Empty Tracks,” Cleveland Review of Books 3.2

  • “Precious Vestiges of Something That Took Place”: On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • Dispatch: Pack Animal and Midnight Mass present Shampoo Boy by Stevie Manning, Zona Motel

  • “As Long As I’m Happy: On Jean Pierre Léaud, a postcard from Marseille,” In the Mood Magazine

  • Dispatch: a poetry reading at Zoème, a bookstore in Marseille, Zona Motel

  • “Give Them Space”: On Jacqueline Feldman’s Precarious Lease, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • The Lover at 40: A Virtual Roundtable, Public Books

  • “A Precarious, Provisional Order”: On Daniel Saldaña París’s Planes Flying Over a Monster, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • “On Nathalie Granger; or, On the 10th of April, 1972,” In the Mood Magazine

  • “What I’m Not Reading,” Womb House Books Review

  • THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS JUST A READER

  • “On Tone: Translating the Vibe of a Room,” Arcade

  • On River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, Literary Review of Canada