But meanwhile my Margarita is roaming through my mind, and the cat, and flying

[sovay]

Have a short interview with me at Stone Telling! I talk about my poem "A Bulgakov Headache" and the reasons I will never make coffee syrup in my kitchen again.

Yesterday we took my parents to the Museum of Modern Renaissance for Somerville Open Studios and got an unexpected concert: a woman with a guitar, singing in Russian. I couldn't tell if they were her own songs or not. One was a poem by Yevtushenko. Her voice had the '60's folk vibrato I associate with Joan Baez and Judy Collins. The sun clouded and brightened through the windows, making green and lavender patches on the polished floor. That hall still contains one of the best mermaids I've seen painted.

Today is mostly work, although in the evening derspatchel and I have reservations at Tryst, because we've been married for five months and we can do that.

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[thistleingrey]

darkforge and I still celebrate a mensiversary, most months (though during the era of small child underfoot, sometimes it has been fancy take-out eaten at home). It's been about nine years since we began dating.

[sovay]

It's been about nine years since we began dating.

That's lovely.

[rinue]

Do you have a favorite Master and Margarita translation? I read it some years back (and still have my copy) and was underwhelmed, but I suspect the blame goes to uninspired English-language prose devoid of both energy and nuance.

[sovay]

Do you have a favorite Master and Margarita translation?

Diana Burgin and Katherine O'Connor (Vintage, 1996). There is also a much more annotated version by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Penguin, 1997) which isn't terrible—I was assigned it for a class—but I encountered the other first in the wild and I like its style better. I'm sure new translations have come out since I was in college, but I'm really not familiar with any.

[captainecchi.livejournal.com]

I love Tryst! Have fun!

[sovay]

I love Tryst! Have fun!

Thank you!

(I am trying to decide if the pork confit taco is worth having to drink the margarita. I love mezcal. Tequila is not congenial to me. Also, if I could live with myself after ordering anything called a Habanero Lime Rita. It's like an appletini. No.)

[captainecchi.livejournal.com]

You could ask them to make it with mezcal instead? But I suspect in this case they might not, since it's promotional anyway... and yeah, I think you ruin perfectly good booze.

There is a restaurant out here in Leominster called (tellingly enough) Mezcal that has some really good mezcal-based cocktails. We went for a pre-Cinco dinner and had a pitcher of their "smoky margaritas," which are made with mezcal.

[sovay]

There is a restaurant out here in Leominster called (tellingly enough) Mezcal that has some really good mezcal-based cocktails. We went for a pre-Cinco dinner and had a pitcher of their "smoky margaritas," which are made with mezcal.

Nice! Saloon used to have a mezcal-based cocktail called the Smoke Stack (there was burning rosemary involved) that I ordered every time we went. When they took it off the menu, I was sad.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Nice interview!

The museum sounds fascinating and the concert lovely.

I hope the dinner has been delicious.

[sovay]

I hope the dinner has been delicious.

It was pretty epic.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A tryst at a place called Tryst--nice. Happy five months!

I like this series of interviews--yours is lovely!

And wow, I must see the Museum of Modern Renaissance next time I'm in the area. Maybe I'll make it a deliberate thing and bring the healing angel on grounds of art and edification.