Overheard - Dominik Barta

Dominik Barta was born in Upper Austria and studied in Vienna, Bonn, and Florence. In addition to Tür an Tür , he published the award-winning Vom Land . Gary Schmidt, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State University, is the author of The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature , translator of The Summers , cotranslator of What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin , and coeditor of Quertext: An Anthology of Queer Voices from German-Speaking Europe .