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Ravenna Press published Chinese Checkers: Three Fictions in May 2006. The book includes Cooper Renner's translation of three novellas by noted Mexican writer Mario Bellatin: "Chinese Checkers," "Hero Dogs" and "My Skin Luminous". Renner has also translated the following works by Ignacio Padilla: "Funeral Among the Oyameles", an essay (elimae, 2005); "The Sad Fate of the Graduate Rocamadour Muskaria, a story (Cafe Irreal, 2006); and "The Kindness of Strangers", an excerpt from the novel Espiral de artillería, in The Anemone Sidecar #3 (2006: Ravenna Press. Lovers Hate, his translation of the crime novel Los que aman, odian by Silvina Ocampo and A. Bioy Casares, has been serialized at elimae. Since 1997, Renner has written the literary column "In Dissent" for Web Del Sol. In 2005, he began editing elimae, founded by Deron Bauman in 1996 and edited by him through 2004. Doug Martin and Brian Beatty interviewed Renner in 2007 for Snowvigate magazine. With Deron Bauman and Kathryn Rantala, he founded Triple Press in 2005 and edited Faruk Ulay's Terra Infirma (2005), Robert Castle's The End of Travel (2006) and Norman Lock's Two Plays for Radio (2006). In 2006, he became a co-editor at Ravenna Press. Kim Chinquee's first collection Oh Baby is now available and will be followed, later in 2008, by Daryl Scroggins' collection This Is Not the Way We Came In. |
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