3 Quotes & Sayings By Elena Mauli Shapiro

Elena Mauli Shapiro is a freelance writer, editor, and novelist whose work has appeared in Salon, The Awl, and the New York Times. She is also the author of two collections of short stories; her first novel, The Borrower, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

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...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards. Elena Mauli Shapiro
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A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is never safe, the meaning changes in the channel – becomes tinted, adulterated, absurd, stronger. Elena Mauli Shapiro