I am trying to write my memoir which appears to be a lifelong affair (no pun intended).
In addition to translating, I am also trying my hand at poetry and short story writing of my own.
I am an immigrant - yes, legal - At the citizenship hearing, the only persons present were I and my husband, and our two witnesses-friends and - yes not to forget - the Justice.
I was asked only two questions:
One: In the USA, who holds the Executive Power, the Legislative Power and the Judicial Power
and:
Two: whose portrait was on the wall above the Justice.
(It was a portrait of President Eisenhower).
And all the way crossing the Bay Bridge to get from Oakland to the Immigration Office in S.F., I'd kept trying to memorize all the names of the heads of the President's Cabinets, the names of the senators, the members of Congress.
About my reading: Alice Munro (short stories), Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, old Scandinavian writers and, lately: Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare (Will in the World).