harlequin – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:38:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Publishing Things That Make Me Cry /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/21/publishing-things-that-make-me-cry/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/21/publishing-things-that-make-me-cry/#respond Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:10:23 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/08/21/publishing-things-that-make-me-cry/ I remember seeing the larger-than-life posters at BEA a couple of years ago, but I naively believed that this was a fever-dream that would never become reality . . . unfortunately, the Harlequin-NASCAR partnership has been even more than anyone predicted.

Although this is a serious blow to my belief in humanity, I should’ve seen it coming. I mean, who doesn’t want to read Speed Dating, the cover of which prominently features a NASCAR car, a scruffy, blond-haired dude with passionate eyes, and the exellent slogan, “Feel the RUSH on and off the track.”

And after you’re done with that, who wouldn’t move on to read Full Throttle, No Time to Lose, and Speed Bumps?

Jesus, I’m going to go vomit now and ball myself up in the corner of my office. . . .

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