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Elena Marcu

Elena Marcu
Elena Marcu is co-publisher of Black Button Books, the first all-female-run publishing house in Romania. James Baldwin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maggie Nelson, David Foster Wallace, Roxane Gay, Elaine Castillo, Junot Diaz and Aleksandar Hemon are amongst the writers they publish.


A Letter to Virginia Woolf,On Translating A Room of One’s Own into Romanian

"I write to you as myself, I write to you as us all, I write to you as one."
March 6, 2019  By Elena Marcu
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The Joy and Terror of Translating James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

Elena Marcu on Bringing an American Classic to Romania
August 22, 2018  By Elena Marcu
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Learning the Language of Democracy: A Protest Diary

Elena Marcu on the Lessons of Four Years of Protesting in Romania
March 9, 2017  By Elena Marcu
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This is Not a Primer on American Fascism

Make Your Social Media Utopia an IRL Reality
November 17, 2016  By Elena Marcu
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Why I’m Starting a Publishing House in Romania

On Reading Our Way to the Real Issues
September 14, 2016  By Elena Marcu
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