Brazilian Literary Networks: Translation
Where: Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 702 Langdon St., Madison, WI With: Elizabeth Lower (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aileen El-Kadi (University of Texas at El Paso), Alison Entrekin (Literary Translator), Elizabeth Jackson (Wesleyan ...
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TOC Frankfurt
Not sure how long this has been available online, but you can now download a lot of the presentations from the inaugural Tools of Change Frankfurt conference. Lot of interesting ones, including: Sara Lloyd, Pan Macmillan: Revisiting a Publishing Manifesto: What Does the Future Look Like for Publishers? Ann ...
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"Glory Is a Drag" [ALTA Conference]
OK, so I may have cocked up the title of yesterday’s ALTA post—my typing/hearing skills are pretty suspect . . . It should’ve read “Short Stop Only While Getting It Off,” although “short drop” might be a bit more, um, dirty—but I’m positive I have today’s right. It ...
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Meir Shalev: The State of Israeli Literature
Where: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102, Columbia Law School, 116th and Amsterdam Ave., New York,
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"Short Drop Only While Getting It Off"
So, I’m back from Southern California, all post-ALTA inspired about translation, the state of translation, the amazing manuscripts people are working on, etc. But I’m way, way too jetlagged and exhausted to actually write any real posts today . . . So, in a blogging version of an “under ...
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The Future of Latin American Fiction (Part V)
To celebrate the recent release of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash, all this week we’re going to serialize a speech that Jorge gave this past summer on the Future of Latin American Fiction. And, as a special offer, for the next 20 people who subscribe to Open Letter—either a 5 book or 10 book ...
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The Future of Latin American Fiction (Part IV)
To celebrate the recent release of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash, all this week we’re going to serialize a speech that Jorge gave this past summer on the Future of Latin American Fiction. And, as a special offer, for the next 20 people who subscribe to Open Letter—either a 5 book or 10 book ...
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