SELECTED ESSAYS
“Pregnant Pause: On Šimaitė, Archives,Writing and Motherhood.” This piece tells of a love triangle of sorts between a mother, her baby, and her biographical subject. It ponders the riddle of how to be both a mother and a writer.
“My link to the past is gone.” An elegiac essay on the passing of a beloved maternal grandmother.
“Alphabet fusion” A meditation on the strange and beautiful linguistic fusion of a 3-year-old living in three languages.
“Lietuvių kilmės rašytojos J.Šukys namuose Monrealyje skamba trijų kalbų mišinys.” Translation of “Alphabet fusion.”
“Brovka: Reconstructing a Life in Tatters (My Grandmother’s Journey).” An exploratory essay that reads the letters of a Lithuanian woman exiled alone to Siberia for seventeen years.
“Ona Šimaitė and the Vilnius Ghetto: An Unwritten Memoir.” A piece from the early stages of my work on Šimaitė, the Vilnius Univeristy librarian and Holocaust rescuer. It is in this essay that I first started to work through the problem of an archive that is simultaneously silent and verbose.
“Lost and Found in Vilna: Letters From a Librarian.” These are my first translations of Šimaitė’s letters, and my first significant publication.
SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS
Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis. Translated by Elizabeth Novickas.
The Last Girl by Stephen Collishaw.
Algeria in Others’ Languages, edited by Anne-Emmanuelle Berger.
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