Eric Grunwald (Writer, Teacher, Reviewer, Translator, and Photographer)


Selected Works

Fiction
"1-800-ME"
Published short story
"The Far Side of Nollendorfplatz"
Short story in progress
Reviews
"Uncomfortably Adrift with the Bewildered Mr. Blank"
Review of Travels in the Scriptorium, by Paul Auster (from Boston Globe)
"Battling Evil and Its Long Reach"
Leonardo Sciascia's The Day of the Owl and Equal Danger (from Boston Globe)
Translations
"Sightseeing" by Sabine Gruber
Translation of Viennese author's short story "Wahrzeichen"
“The Poet” by Hermann Hesse
Translation, from German, of Hermann Hesse’s short story “Der Dichter.”



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Writings

"1-800-ME"
Short story originally published in September 2005 issue of Spoiled Ink (now Edit Red.

"The Far Side of Nollendorfplatz"
In-progress short story set in Berlin, Germany.

"Sightseeing" by Sabine Gruber
Translation, published in Two Lines (2005), of Austrian author Sabine Gruber's short story "Wahrzeichen."

"Uncomfortably Adrift with the Bewildered Mr. Blank"
Review of Paul Auster's twelfth novel, Travels in the Scriptorium, from The Boston Sunday Globe, 2/25/07

"Battling Evil and Its Long Reach"
Review of two literary crime novels, rereleased in English for the first time in 40 years by New York Review Books Classics, by one of Sicily's--and Italy's--most famous 20th-century writers, Leonardo Sciascia.

"Auster Explores the Mysteries and Mechanics of Reality"
From The Boston Sunday Globe, February 15, 2004, a review of Paul Auster’s eleventh novel, Oracle Night.

“The Poet” by Hermann Hesse
My translation of Hesse's short story about a young man who seemingly has it all but wants above all else to become a poet. Co-won second prize in the 1998 Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize. To be published in the premier issue of Place Quarterly.




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