Andrian Nathan West the author of
The Aesthetics of Degradation (Repeater, 2016) and
My Father's Diet (And Other Stories, 2022) and the translator of dozens of books from Spanish, Catalan, and German; his work has received awards from English PEN, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Austrian Cultural Forum, and has been shortlisted for the International Booker and the National Book Award. His recent translations include Hermann Burger's
Brenner, Rainald Goetz's
Rave, and Sibylle Lacan's
A Father: Puzzle. He is also a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. His essays and literary criticism have appeared in numerous publications in print and online, including
The New York Review of Books,
The London Review of Books,
The Times Literary Supplement, and
The Baffler. He lives between Spain and the United States.
The void at the heart of an economically insecure family is laid bare when an analytical son helps his oblivious father stave off despair by competing in a bodybuilding competition. Grimly hilarious; My Father's Diet is an elegy for our outmoded conceptions of manhood; as well as...
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