three percent podcast – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:11:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Three Percent #189: Baseball /College/translation/threepercent/2023/07/05/three-percent-188-baseball/ /College/translation/threepercent/2023/07/05/three-percent-188-baseball/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:00:46 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=441352 Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker of Island Books, James Crossley of Madison Books, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis join Chad W. Post from Open Letter to pick their “all-time favorite” books about baseball.

This week’s music is “” and “” by The Baseball Project.

Caitlin’s Picks:

Ěýby Jonathan Fraser Light

by David James Duncan

by Jim Bouton

by Robert K. Adair

Alan Nathan’s blog,

by Ron Shelton

Ěýby Marcos BretĂłn and JosĂ© Luis Villegas

by John Helyar

 

Dan’s Picks:

by John R. Tunis

by Mark Kingwell

by Heidi LM Jacobs

 

James’s Picks:

& by Pat Jordan

by Andrew Forbes

by Eric Rolfe Greenberg

by Kadir Nelson

by Donald Hall

 

Chad’s Picks:

by Derek Jeter

by Robert Coover

by Rick Ankiel

(film)

by Ivan Felt and Harris Conklin

 

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2023/07/05/three-percent-188-baseball/feed/ 0 Three Percent #188: Cultural Support in Multilingual Spain [A Riveting Event] /College/translation/threepercent/2023/04/25/three-percent-188-cultural-support-in-multilingual-spain-a-riveting-event/ /College/translation/threepercent/2023/04/25/three-percent-188-cultural-support-in-multilingual-spain-a-riveting-event/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 05:15:42 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=440242 In this episode, Chad talks with Olga Castro (Univ. of Warwick), and translators Jacob Rogers (Galician), Mara Faye Lethem (Catalan), Robin Munby (Asturian), and Aritz Branton (Basque) about literatures from the official (and unofficial) languages of Spain, ways in which the regional governments support translation from these languages, the burden of pitching, challenges and joys, books you should know about, and much more.

This week’s music is “We Will Live for Ages” by HjaltalĂ­n.

Things we discussed that you should check out:

The Spanish issue of ;

, for access to Basque literature;

A recording ofĚý.

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2023/04/25/three-percent-188-cultural-support-in-multilingual-spain-a-riveting-event/feed/ 0 Three Percent #187: Is This The End? /College/translation/threepercent/2022/04/28/three-percent-187-is-this-the-end/ /College/translation/threepercent/2022/04/28/three-percent-187-is-this-the-end/#respond Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:43:46 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=438432 After a two-year hiatus, Chad and Tom are back! In this episode—maybe the final one of this particular scope and format—they talk about what’s gone on over the past couple years, how much printing sucks right now, distribution issues, Fum d’Estampa,ĚýĚýby Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo,ĚýĚýby Mark McGurl,ĚýĚýby David Peace,ĚýĚýby Kaoru Takamura, Jon Fosse, Dalkey Archive’s impending relaunch, and more.

This week’s music is “Always Together With You” by Spiritualized.

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2022/04/28/three-percent-187-is-this-the-end/feed/ 0 Three Percent #153: Winter Beats and Breaks /College/translation/threepercent/2019/02/05/three-percent-153-winter-beats-and-breaks/ /College/translation/threepercent/2019/02/05/three-percent-153-winter-beats-and-breaks/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:00:12 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=414382 At the top of this episode, Tom explains why he and Chad fell off the biweekly schedule for a bit, but then they come back strong, talking about Winter Institute, the , minimum wage, this wildĚý that doesn’t quite do enough, but makes Chad angry, and Hanif Abdurraqib’sĚýGo Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest.ĚýAnd Tom talks about baseball. Because, of course.

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2019/02/05/three-percent-153-winter-beats-and-breaks/feed/ 0 Three Percent #141: Reimagining the Podcast (AKA Everything Stays the Same) /College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/19/three-percent-141-reimagining-the-podcast-aka-everything-stays-the-same/ /College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/19/three-percent-141-reimagining-the-podcast-aka-everything-stays-the-same/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:00:45 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=401642 This week, Chad and Tom talk about the “newly reimagined” BookExpo, the New York Rights Fair, the Albertine Prize (congrats to Emma Ramadan, Anne Garreta, and Deep Vellum!), the BTBA (congrats to Will Vanderhyden and Rodrigo Fresán!), likely shortlisted titles for next year’s award, and more. Totally lacking in sports talk this week, which is weird, given the start of the US-less World Cup . . .

Music this time is “” byĚý The Go! Team.

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/19/three-percent-141-reimagining-the-podcast-aka-everything-stays-the-same/feed/ 0 Three Percent #140: Save All the Nobels /College/translation/threepercent/2018/05/16/three-percent-140-save-all-the-nobels/ /College/translation/threepercent/2018/05/16/three-percent-140-save-all-the-nobels/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 21:30:47 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=399752 Chad and Tom reunite after a few weeks of travel and hot takes to talk about the Best Translated Book Award shortlists, the , why we should (or shouldn’t? or who cares?) , and the awesomeness that is Jean-Patrick Manchette.

This week’s music is “Every 1’s a Winner” by Ty Segall, because, well, everyone’s a winner.

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2018/05/16/three-percent-140-save-all-the-nobels/feed/ 0 Three Percent #139: The Local Scene /College/translation/threepercent/2018/04/11/three-percent-139-the-local-scene/ /College/translation/threepercent/2018/04/11/three-percent-139-the-local-scene/#respond Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2018/04/11/three-percent-139-the-local-scene/ Chad and Tom reconvene to talk about self-published titles that stay local, the Best Translated Book Award longlists, and how you should vote for Emma Ramadan’s translation of Not One Day for this year’s

This week’s music is a snippet from the 13+ minute long by Car Seat Headrest. Great song, great album.

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]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2018/04/11/three-percent-139-the-local-scene/feed/ 0 Three Percent #138: This Is the Most This Podcast Ever /College/translation/threepercent/2018/02/13/three-percent-138-this-is-the-most-this-podcast-ever/ /College/translation/threepercent/2018/02/13/three-percent-138-this-is-the-most-this-podcast-ever/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2018/02/13/three-percent-138-this-is-the-most-this-podcast-ever/ joins Chad and Tom to discuss the state of book journalism, the new National Book Award for Translation, Chad’s annoying whining about BookMarks, Winter Institute, and more. It’s a fun episode that goes deep into some contemporary book publishing issues—and the disparity between the haves and have nots—while remaining entertaining and a bit unhinged.

This week’s music is by Unlikely Friends. Yes, this is the second week in a row that we’re featuring this album. It’s great!

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For those keeping track as you listen, and here’s a link to on Brigid Hughes and The Paris Review.

Sorry, while we’re goofing on Rochester’s delusional ambitions, I have to share Please try and make sense of those statements.

This week’s music is by Unlikely Friends. Now that football is over with Minnesota’s crushing defeat to the Eagles, it’s almost time to pay attention to America’s game!

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]]> Three Percent #136: The Riffraff Is Upon Us /College/translation/threepercent/2017/12/19/three-percent-136-the-riffraff-is-upon-us/ /College/translation/threepercent/2017/12/19/three-percent-136-the-riffraff-is-upon-us/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:24:45 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2017/12/19/three-percent-136-the-riffraff-is-upon-us/ Back at last! Chad and Tom reunite after a month in which Tom finished building an entire which is now open! In addition to talking about Riffraff’s first week of business, they talk about the against publishers selling direct to consumers and institutions, about about never again working with agents, about “Cat Person,” and about the release of the

This week’s music is “Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me” by Ron Gallo.

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