Recent Prizes and Awards [Snowed In Odds & Ends]
Not only did I survive the MLA, but I was also able to make it all the way back to Rochester without delay. (Couple U of R professors who were scheduled to go through Atlanta, and ended up stranded in L.A. for a few extra days. Hopefully they beat this latest chapter in Snowpocalypse 2011.) Anyway, MLA was a pretty ...
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The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño has recently become one of the new stars of Latin American fiction, which is made all the more tragic by his death in 2003. His mammoth novel 2666 was a posthumous smash hit in both North and South America, and although much of his work was available in translation, New Directions is now publishing ...
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Uncorking Cuba: One Hundred Bottles
Where: The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River Street, Austin, TX Join us for a literary conversation with Achy Obejas about One Hundred Bottles, her acclaimed translation of Cuban writer Ena LucÃa Portela’s provocative novel, Cien botellas en una pared. Obejas will be interviewed by ...
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The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
It is a sunny spring day in the city you have recently moved to, and on your way to work in the morning, you decide on a whim to get off the bus and walk instead. You are on a major boulevard, but at the point where you begin walking, removed from the city center, it is fairly empty. Your thoughts begin to wander, as they ...
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of the MLA
This year’s MLA convention starts tomorrow, and for once, Open Letter will be exhibiting. (We’re sharing a booth with Counterpath. Number 237 in case you’re going to be there.) MLA isn’t necessarily the most uplifting of conventions, although as with anything else that’s social, I love the ...
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2011 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation [Young Italian Translators]
I’ve been meaning to post this for a month now . . . At least there’s still some time before the March deadline: THE 2011 SUSAN SONTAG PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION $5,000 grant for a literary translation from Italian into English: PLEASE POST & DISTRIBUTE PLEASE NOTE: The deadline is March 1, ...
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The MLA °µÍø³Ô¹Ï/Open Letter Party
Since last year’s MLA party was shut down by the man hotel security, this year we’ve decided to go all weak and have our reception at the Open Letter/Counterpath book (#237) from 5-7 on Saturday, January 8th. So, if you happen to be in L.A. this weekend for the MLA, please feel free to stop by. There will be a ...
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