Rochester Student/Open Letter Intern Selected for Banff Translation Program
Very excited to share the news that Andrew Barrett — a former Open Letter intern and U of R Translation Student who has written for Three Percent on a few occasions — was the only U.S. student to be chosen to attend the Banff International Literary Translation Centre’s annual summer program. I could go on ...
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Nabokov and Books about Nabokov
Although I haven’t read all of his works, Vladimir Nabokov is one of my personal favorite writers. I love Pale Fire and Lolita, but also like the less tricksy novels, like Laughter in the Dark. (Which was on Lost!) And for the past year(s) I’ve been planning on reading The Gift and Ada, or Ardor, both of which ...
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
“Sulfia wasn’t very gifted. In fact, to be honest, I’d say she was rather stupid. And yet somehow she was my daughter—worse still, my only daughter.” As her seventeen-year-old daughter sobs on a kitchen stool after confessing she is pregnant with an unknown man’s child, all Rosa can think about is how stupid, ...
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I Can't Keep Writing Posts about Cutting You Up
So the last time I went to BookExpo America, I ended up writing a five-part series that was basically about how everything sucked, the publishing industry was imploding, BEA’s focus was fuzzy at best, etc., etc. Well, last week BEA took place in the fairly dysfunctional Jacob Javits Center in NY and the mood was . . ...
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Granta: Literature in Translation
Where: 192 Books, New York City (T) 212-255-4022 www.192books.com The Spain-USA Foundation and the Embassy of Spain, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Spain, Duomo Ediciones, and Granta en español, are pleased to present “Building Bridges: Spanish and English Language Writers in Conversation”, a ...
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Olga Slavnikova Reading
Where: Jerry Orbach Theater (entrance on the south side of West 50th Street), 1627 Broadway, Third Floor, New York, NY 10019 Causa Artium is proud to announce a Reading, Meeting and Discussion with Olga Slavnikova, one of the Crucial Figures in Russian Literature. Marian Schwartz, award winning translator – and the ...
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European Book Club: Polish
Where: New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor The book discussed will be Primeval and Other Times, by Olga Tokarczuk. Click here for more information about this book. If you would like to register for this event, send us an email at poland.nyc@europeanbookclub.org. McNally Jackson ...
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