Contributions by Janet Hendrickson
Janet Hendrickson translated The Future Is Not Ours (ed. Diego Trelles Paz), an anthology of short stories by Latin American writers born since 1970. Her translations of fiction and essays from Spanish have appeared in publications including Granta, n+1, Zoetrope: All-Story, The White Review, and Traviesa. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and is currently a PhD student in Hispanic literature at Cornell. She deeply admires the writing and translations of Anne Carson and Eliot Weinberger and is rediscovering her love for the poets of the Latin American avant-garde.
Everything Good That I Know I Learned from Women
Tryno Maldonado
translated by Janet Hendrickson
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My mother is a teacher. A preschool teacher. If you want to fuck up a man’s amorous relationships with women for the rest of his life, there’s no more efficient method than this: sign him up for his mother’s preschool class. Good luck, Freud! With time I’ve developed the belief that my relationships with women are nothing but one emulation after another of this, my platonic and stormy relationship with my preschool teacher. Who happened to be my mother. The same longings, the same idealizations, the same expectations. The same scenes of jealousy. The same mistakes. Ah, Freud… One day, when I was six, my mother caught me masturbating with a pair of her underwear that she’d hung to dry in the shower. I was accused. That afternoon my grandmother … Read More »
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