The One Pro-NPR Three Percent Post
The only thing more rare than a Three Percent post praising—or at least, gently supporting—NPR is one heaping accolades on a publisher’s website. But, well, this is proof that anything is possible. NPR, the World’s Greatest Source of Middle-minded Hem-Haw Opinions, is actually doing something ...
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Death in Spring on All Things Considered
This review actually appeared online a couple months ago, but National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s piece on Merce Rodoreda’s Death in Spring made it onto “All Things Considered” last night. I personally think Death in Spring is one of the most unique, and interesting books that we’ve ...
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E.J. and Nate have censored this post for reasons that are probably obvious. I swore to myself that I would never write about Amazon, pricing, price checking, and the suckery of NPR ever again, but then of course, NPR has to go and run this insipidly stupid piece about a “predatory” Amazon. I’m ...
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Death in Spring on NPR's "You Must Read This"
Over at NPR, Jesmyn Ward has a really nice write-up of Merce Rodoreda’s Death in Spring: When a friend gave me Merce Rodoreda’s Death in Spring, he told me it would blow my mind. Ten pages in, I doubted his claim. The book begins when the narrator, a 14-year-old boy from a small mountain village, slips ...
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Jim Kates on Translation on "Here & Now"
Yesterday, Jim Kates (former American Literary Translators Association president, and director of Zephyr Press) was on the NPR show “Here & Now” to talk about Bringing the World’s Literature to an American Audience. Super-awesome that he namechecks us, but what’s really interesting is his list of ...
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Nitpicking
Over the break, while I was drinking mimosas and staying as far away from work-related email as possible, NPR did a story on literature in translation, namely, Edith Grossman’s translation of Don Quixote and Lydia Davis’s Madame Bovary. Before getting all screedy, here’s a bit of the piece that I ...
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Six Words: More. Reviews. Of. Open. Letter. Books.
NPR is going all nationalist and public and polling their listeners on what they’d like to hear in terms of book reviews and book coverage: What makes a book review worth reading? What type of books should NPR cover more? What do we write about too much? Who are you people, and what do you want? As editors ...
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