#Szilvia Molnar

[dk-thrive]

It’s love when the person you are with doesn’t expect anything from you in terms of productivity or performance. Such are the modest things one has the chance to ponder when you are not beholden to too many or too much.

— Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery: A Novel (Pantheon, March 21, 2023)

[lazyydaisyyy]

…moments from the past appear, sweep in like a surprising breeze…

Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

[amiguiz]

Grammar is useful but rules seem ridiculous. I mean, I abide by most rules and lean on fairness for my paid work, but I have also caught myself slicing out a sentence or two to make the translation, if not the original work, “better.” Adaptation is my partner. Negotiations are necessary. And I am not shackled to the notion of accuracy, sometimes it’s more important to indicate the direction of the motion presented by a word than to land on the correct one. The more I can connect with the author’s intentions, the better I am at knowing what to reveal in my interpretation of their text. Honestly, I am more of an interpreter than anything else, but academics like to put significance on the capability of language. I suppose they are also right sometimes.

—Szilvia Molnar, en The Nursery

[swanmaids]

book rec anon again! i’ve read: inferno: a memoir of motherhood & madness, luster, & breasts and eggs! next up is earthlings (anticipating that i’ll enjoy it since i’ve loved what i’ve previously read from the author)! thank you again for sharing these recs. if you have any more i’d love to see them (but no pressure at all!!) <3

Firstly, I am SO SORRY -- I only just saw this message! I'm so happy you liked these recs, some great choices here! Some books that I've read recently-ish that I think have a similar vibe:

The Nursery -- Szilvia Molnar

A portrayal of woman suffering with PPD and anxiety and confined to her apartment .

Toddler Hunting and Other Stories -- Taeko Kono

Stories of unnassuming women with dark and taboo inner worlds.

Betty -- Tiffany McDaniel

A Cherokee girl comes of age amid cyclical family violence and racism in mid-20th Century Appalachia.

The Vegetarian -- Han Kang

Body and sexual horror abound as an "unremarkable" housewife begins refusing to eat meat.

Heaven -- Mieko Kawakami

An intense and tragic friendship between two bullied teenagers.

Woman Running in the Mountains -- Yuko Tsushima

A young single mother attempts to create a better future for her baby son away from her abusive parents.

No One is Talking About This -- Patricia Lockwood

A Very Online woman struggles to interact with the ordinary world amid a shattering family tragedy.

Apologies again for the very late response anon! I hope this reaches you still!

[adamgnade]

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About This is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You “[f]reewheeling and wild, tender and warm, funny and a little bit sad, and altogether something you won’t soon forget."  —Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac

About Locust House “Locust House is so dense, so angry, and so honest, and so everything that we need today to survive in the world.” –Szilvia Molnar, author of Soft Split and The Nursery (forthcoming with Pantheon Books, Spring 2023).

About Float Me Away, Floodwaters "An incantation for the end times." —Julia Eff, Crapandemic distro, author of Don't Piss Down My Back & Tell Me It's Raining  

About After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different "After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different is an excellent novel, an energetic tale of ambition, sorrow, and American hunger. Anthony Bourdain meets Roberto Bolaño." -Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, author of Wallop

[portalresenhando]

#ResenhandoIndica #MaquinaDeLeite

"Máquina de Leite", de #SzilviaMolnar, é um retrato visceral da maternidade

[triciansmithdesign]

Book Review: “The Nursery,” by Szilvia Molnar

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[kkecreads]

The Nursery by Szilvia Molnar

Published: March 21, 2023 Pantheon Genre: Women’s Literary Fiction Pages: 208 KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Szilvia Molnar is the foreign rights director at a New York-based literary agency, and author of a chapbook called Soft Split. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Lit Hub, Triangle House Review, Two Serious…

[monthmag]

In-Between Dreams Text by Szilvia Molnar

Dear K,

Fingerlickingly yours,

Szilvia *

[dk-thrive]

Love comes with sacrifices. The important kind of love does not exist without the existence of certain losses. It remains to be seen which loss is possible enough to bear, to endure, to relinquish.

— Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery: A Novel (Pantheon, March 21, 2023)

[lazyydaisyyy]

The line between where I was and where I am now is ever so faint.

Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

[amiguiz]

En The Nursery, un ensayo (novela, los gringos dicen novela) sobre su maternidad y la traducción, Szilvia Molnar afirma: Visibility is not my desire.

Aquí, siento, se condensa absolutamente la labor de la traductora. ¿Y la de la madre? Ahí sí no sé. Dejen ver.

[nicolebrewerwrites]

JANUARY READING: BOOKS AND THE SHORT STORY PROJECT

They say it takes three weeks to make a habit, so if good for literally nothing else, 2017 has so far helped me create a habit of reading more during the day. I read 31 stories, pretty consistently one per day with a couple of days where I needed to catch up and read two or three. I also read The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and started Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and also The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

I also rediscovered the library, to my absolute wonder and delight. I have discovered the joy of borrowing ebooks. (Which is how I’m finally reading Coates’s book, as well as A Manual for Cleaning Women, which seems to be sold out everywhere.)

ALSO I started a Goodreads account. If you don’t have one, do it. Almost literally the best bookish thing, except that it’s owned by Amazon, but, you know. It happens, I guess.

For nobody’s benefit other than my own, this month I’ve nailed down my own personal five-star rating system for both stories and books. I figured if I’m reading 365 short stories this year I should probably rate them as I go so I can recommend or go back to my favourites. In a few paragraphs I’ll get into a summary of January’s 4- and 5-star highlights. 5 stars means it’s excellent writing, an original concept or a concept presented originally, and also just appeals to my personal tastes. 4 stars means it appeals less to my personal tastes but is still subjectively and objectively and excellent story or book. There are a lot of three-starred stories so far, because basically everything from “I liked it, sure” to “I didn’t like that at all, but the writing was solid and I can see why someone else might like it.” 2- and 1-star ratings mean I felt there was something missing in the craft of the writing, or I felt there was something aggressively bad about the content or characters.

The Bone Clocks was fucking fantastic. I’ll probably never get the chance to recommend it, just like I never get to recommend Cloud Atlas, but it was a thrill to read from start to finish and the best book with which to begin my 2017 reading quest.

THE STORIES (4- and 5-star January highlights)

I was reading stories this month from a mix of recommendations and back issues of magazines I’ve purchased and never read. Some publications that appeared multiple times with great stories were Taddle Creek issue 31, Little Brother issue 4, TOK 5 from Disapora Dialogues, and Lucia Berlin’s collection of short stories A Manual for Cleaning Women, which dominated the end of the month and will continue to dominate early February.

“Seal” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer: flawless magic realism with the most serious, sombre storytelling for an eerie, fully submersive reading experience.

“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” by Delmore Schwartz: a sort of hasty storytelling that strings you along while you never fully nail down what’s going on; feels like a bit of a reading adventure.

“Japanese Quartz” by Lauren Kirshner: the first 5-star story of the month for its quirky, direct storytelling, and its strange, unemotional emotional quality. (White Wall Review 38)

“Apoptosis” by Becky Blake: more flawless magic realism, but more delightful--delightfully serious, I guess, at once so light, so airy, with slashes of depth and solemnity.

“Tableau Vivant” by Emma Donoghue: one of those stories where the crystal clarity of the writing is not remarkable in and of itself, but creates an impeccably crafted story wherein you hardly notice the craft.

“A Change of Seasons” by Karishma Krupalani: girl power despite being relatively powerless; fucking delightful.

“Sometimes You Break Their Hearts, Sometimes They Break Yours” by Marie Helene Bertino: alien reports back to its planet on the human condition, but better than I could ever have imagined, in every single way. The second five-star story of the month.

“Ark” by Sofi Papamarko: an aching subtlety to this story, which seems like something else entirely as it gets going, until it closes in like a fist around your chest in its final paragraphs. Five stars.

“Shrinkage” by Millie Ho: the straightforwardness of the story, directly opposed by its complete omission of details regarding the main events, made this a story I enjoyed reading for solidarity, if not necessarily pleasure.

“The Floe” by Jessica Bebenek: just one of those stories that nails a voice so perfectly, a voice you know but haven’t heard before, in an impossible situation you couldn’t possible understand but you do, here, in this story, you do, in your bones, and it hurts. Five stars, and very sad I can’t find it online for you. (Little Brother 4)

“Alternative Scenarios for Lovers” by Szilvia Molnar: delightful format, quirky, quintessentially hip; I am its target audience, and I enjoyed it exactly as you might predict I would. (Little Brother 4)

“Angel’s Laundromat,” “Dr A H Moynihan,” “Stars and Saints,” “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” “El Tim,” “My Jockey,” “Point of View” by Lucia Berlin, from A Manual for Cleaning Women: oh my god just go get this collection and read it immediately. Her writing is so crisp and so unlike anyone, I love her first person narrators, I love how she doesn’t give a shit about you, I love her, I love her, I love her. “Dr. A H Moynihan” is my favourite so far, and I wish I could find it online for you, but they all have either 4 or 5 stars (mostly 5).

[stellailoveyou]

The Shark is Constantly Swimming Around Me but Sometimes I Wonder if It’s a Dolphin.

Szilvia Molnar (An Interview with Szilvia Molnar)