my first suicide – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:11:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Kirkus's Best Fiction of 2012 List Featuring TWO Open Letter Titles /College/translation/threepercent/2012/11/26/kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles/ /College/translation/threepercent/2012/11/26/kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:01:55 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2012/11/26/kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles/ Now that Cyber Monday is underway, it’s about time for the “Best of Everything!!!” lists to start coming out. (Or, as documented at continue coming out.) Personally, I fricking love these sorts of lists, to find books/albums that I need to check out, and to serve as fodder for my anger . . . I’ll bet at least half of an upcoming podcast will be an escalation of complaints about some utterly predictable list of shit that most four-book-a-year readers will slobber over . . . And hopefully our year end lists (in books, movies, and music) will get some other cultural elitists all bent.

But for now, the only year end list I’ve checked out is this which is definitely my favorite, since it includes TWO Open Letter titles: by Kristin Omarsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith and by Jerzy Pilch (Kirkus LOVES the Pilch), translated from the Polish by David Frick.

There are a number of interesting books on this list—Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard, The Investigation by Philip Claudel, Arcadia by Lauren Groff, Lazarus Is Dead by Richard Beard, and Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye—but not many (any?) from small, nonprofit presses. YAY TO US FOR OVERACHIEVING!

I love both of these books, and you can buy them from your local independent bookstore, from Amazon, from B&N, or directly from us: click for Children, and for Suicide.

However you get them, I hope you do. And I want to take a second to give a special shout-out to Lytton Smith and David Frick for translating these. Both books set forth their own unique difficulties, and both translators totally nailed it. Congrats to both of you!

]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2012/11/26/kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles/feed/ 0 "My First Suicide" Giveaway on GoodReads /College/translation/threepercent/2012/04/02/my-first-suicide-giveaway-on-goodreads/ /College/translation/threepercent/2012/04/02/my-first-suicide-giveaway-on-goodreads/#respond Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:55:55 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2012/04/02/my-first-suicide-giveaway-on-goodreads/ For all the Jerzy Pilch fans out there, we’re going to be publishing his new book, this summer, but for those of you who are too eager to wait until May, enter the contest below for a chance to win one of the 10 copies we’re giving away via GoodReads.

This new book is in the same vein as the other Pilch titles we’ve published: it’s semi-autobiographical, very funny, dark, filled with shittons of drinking and women . . . Vintage Pilch.

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Giveaway ends April 15, 2012.

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