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Little Star is a journal of poetry and prose. This translation by Steven Hartman of Stig Dagerman's “Vårt behov av tröst är omättligt” (first published 1952) appears in issue 5, 2014. So far, this is the only English translation that I have been able to find. Available for pdf download.

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.