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Articles by Ági Bori
Memorandum: Our Condo Association’s Updated Guidance on What to Do When Dumpster Boy Asks If You Are Going to the Dumpster
To: Unit Owners From: The Board Subject: Updated Trash Guidelines Dear Neighbors, Inevitably, on or around trash pickup day, each of our residents will be confronted with a high-pitched, “Hey, y’all goin’ to the dumpster?” That squeaky voice, of course, belongs to Dumpster Boy. For those unfamiliar with Dumpster Boy’s motivations, he was dumped in our complex’s dumpster as a newborn, but was not found until he had matured into a young adult.
Her Five Children - Guernica
Ági Bori Ági Bori is from Hungary, and has lived in the United States for more than thirty years. She translates between Hungarian and English, and her translations and writings have appeared in 3:AM, Anomaly, Apofenie, Asymptote, The Baffler, Hopscotch Translation, Hungarian Literature Online, Litro Magazine, Northwest Review, Points in Case, The Rumpus, Tablet, Trafika Europe, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is a translation editor at the Los Angeles Review.
Someone Else - 3:AM Magazine
By Miklós Vámos. Translated by Ági Bori. “Good day, Lajos.” “I kiss your hand, Olga.” “What brings you here?” “I thought I’d drop in.” “Come in. Pista is not home yet, but he should be here any moment. Have a seat and wait for him.” “Yesss. To be honest, I didn’t come to see Pista.” “Well?” “Umm.” “To see me?” “Yes.” “I understand.” “No, I think you don’t yet understand.
Funny Women: 10 Most Anticipated AI-Generated Books
The Sacred Blow Job, a hefty erotic tome of 400,000 words about the life of a Catholic priest who has had sacred pornographic dreams his whole life and now seeks out a therapist to help him with this blasphemous and heady issue. Any reader interested in theology and psychology will be aroused as Father Gregor seeks inner peace with the help of Dr. Mrs. Wilder. Casino King, a perplexing portrayal of a math prodigy and self-taught poker wiz who is bonkers about blackjack, roulette, and baccarat.
The Burgeoning Collection of Unnecessary Screenshots on Your Phone
Label of a clinically proven sleep-enhancing powder that will help you fall asleep and stay asleep. At nights when you can’t sleep, you try to find the screenshot that is two thousand photos deep, so that you can take another screenshot of it, then order it in the morning. Twitter profiles you were not ready to follow at the time you took the screenshots, and are still waiting for the right time to follow them. Meantime, you’re planning to peruse their personal websites.
Miklós Vámos: Translator’s Note
by Ági Bori. Miklós Vámos is a Hungarian author with more than forty books to his name. He’s undeniably a great admirer of the Hungarian language and, throughout his career, has used its malleability to create his distinctive, multidimensional style. His voice is immediately recognizable, even though his novels, short stories, and various other writings often differ from each other to such an extent, stylistically and structurally, that it’s almost as if they had been written by different authors.
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