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Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

a novel by Josef Jedlička (2016, Karolinum Press)

Reviews, Interviews, Writings

Petra Hůlová’s Mongolian family saga All This Belongs to Me: No. 24 in the Radio Prague International series “The Czech Books You Must Read”

Jáchym Topol’s The Devil’s Workshop – exploring dark chapters of region’s history: No. 19 in the Radio Prague International series “The Czech Books You Must Read”

Petra Hůlová, Three Plastic Rooms: Review by Dr. Helen Vassallo on the Translating Women blog

“Bringing the Literatures of East Central Europe to English-speaking Readers,” September 27, 2019, East Central European Center, Columbia University, NYC – Video, Part 1

“Bringing the Literatures of East Central Europe to English-speaking Readers,” September 27, 2019, East Central European Center, Columbia University, NYC – Video, Part 2

“Alex Zucker: I Don’t Want to Translate Books, I Want to Translate Authors” (Interview with Radio Prague)

Video from launch of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, by J. R. Pick. May 10, 2018, at Památník ticha Nádraží Bubny, in Prague

“J. R. Pick and a Brilliant Novel of the Holocaust – At Last Available in English: Part 2” (Radio Prague)

“J. R. Pick and a Brilliant Novel of the Holocaust – At Last Available in English: Part 1” (Radio Prague)

“Laughing in the Dark: On J. R. Pick’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Petra Hůlová, Three Plastic Rooms: Review at TLS

8 Questions for Alex Zucker on Translation Pay, Diversity, Copyright, and More

“Petra Hůlová: Gender agendas”: Interview at Bookanista

“Three Plastic Rooms by Petra Hůlová, translated by Alex Zucker”: Review at EuropeNow

Petra Hůlová’s Three Plastic Rooms in “World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2017”

Tomáš Zmeskal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform: Review by Malynne Sternstein at Slavic Review

“Pleasure, Pity, Pain: On Petra Hůlová’s Three Plastic Rooms”: Review at Los Angeles Review of Books

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt in “10 Books about Occupy Wall Street You Need to Read” at Culture Trip

Jáchym Topol’s Angel Station: Review at TLS

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt on Book Culture “Dog Days” Summer Reading List

Jáchym Topol’s Angel Station: Review at Full Stop

Jáchym Topol’s Angel Station: Prepub review at Kirkus Reviews

Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform: Review at TLS

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt in “75 Notable Translations of 2016” at World Literature Today

Deciphering the Past Through Fiction: Interview with Tomáš Zmeškal at Words Without Borders

Josef Jedlička’s Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life: Review at TLS

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt in “13 Translated Books by Women You Should Read” at Literary Hub

Eagles, Cocks, and Roosters: Alex’s blog post on Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform for Yale University Press

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt: Review at Words Without Borders

Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform: Review by M. A. Orthofer at The Complete Review

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt: Review in World Literature Today

Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform: Review at Music & Literature

Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt in “Where Are the Women in Translation? Here Are 31 to Read Now” at Words Without Borders

Stalinist-Era Novella an Overlooked Classic: Josef Jedlička’s Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

Interview with a Translator: Alex Zucker talks to Molly Odintz of MysteryPeople in Austin, TX

The thrilling, tricky art of translation: BookPage interview with Alex Zucker

Translating Fact Into Fiction: Alex Zucker on Heda Margolius Kovály’s Innocence

Interview with Alex at Authors & Translators

Selected Works

Fiction

Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street

“. . . a book sure to dazzle and please a great many readers.” – Wall Street Journal

The Devil’s Workshop

“. . . should help to cement Jáchym Topol’s reputation as one of the most original and compelling European voices at work today.”

—Times Literary Supplement

“. . . a gleeful skewering of the Czech national character and a character-rich, dialogue-sassy send-up colored by a lingering Communist legacy.”

—Publishers Weekly

All This Belongs to Me

“. . . an acutely observed account — compelling despite its grimness — of the lives of its semi-nomadic subjects.”

—Times Literary Supplement

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