NewsHour and Open Letter
Last week, Open Letter was highlighted as part of NewsHour‘s ongoing The Next Chapter in Reading series. It was pretty awesome to be interviewed for NewsHour, and I’m glad that I didn’t realize ahead of time how many star authors have participated in this series, otherwise I would’ve been much more ...
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April 12, 2010 – Reading the World Conversation Series: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Our first Reading the World Conversation event was Monday, and it featured Helen Anderson & Konstantin Gurevich—the translators of our recently released edition of the Russian comedic classic The Golden Calf by Ilf & Petrov. Video of whole, engaging discussion will be posted soon, but, now, it’s time to ...
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Schedule for "Your Face Tomorrow"
Again with me and the last minute postings, but if you’re planning on participating in Conversational Reading’s YFT Reading Group, here’s the official schedule: VOLUME 1 –1: Fever– Week 1, March 21-27: pp. 3 – 95 (Section ends at: “But before getting back to the Tupras . . .”) Week 2, ...
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Rossica Young Translators Prize
I feel like I’m always posting about these awards/fellowships/prizes six seconds before the deadline (curses on the limits of 24-hour days!), but here’s a really interesting prize for translators under the age of 25: Rossica Young Translators Prize 2010 Now in its second year, the Rossica Young ...
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Google, Machine Translation, and Literature
The other week, the New York Times ran a piece on advances in Google’s translation tools, focusing on the way Google essentially crowdsources its mechanical translations by searching its mammoth database of web pages, books, etc. Creating a translation machine has long been seen as one of the toughest challenges ...
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A Tipsy Post about Drunken Literature [Pilch's "A Thousand Peaceful Cities"]
This was written late last night and set aside for, um, proofing. For the sake of accuracy, one should never drink while proofreading. But in the case of Jerzy Pilch, it just feels right . . . After all, The Mighty Angel is—despite all of the narrator’s attempts to artfully beautify this away with words and ...
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