Translator, Author, Cherished Friend A Great One Died 10 Years Ago Today

Carl was a “little magazine” editor, a radio playwright, German translator of more than 100 books (but principally of Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs, Nelson Algren and J.G. Ballard, also of Frank Zappa and Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen), as well as a literary agent who spread the work of dissident writers even further. Le Regard d’Autrui, published posthumously in 2019, shows him to have been as magnetic a storyteller as any of the celebrated writers he tr