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Reading the World Podcast #3: Suzanne Jill Levine

A new month and a new Reading the World Podcast, this time with Suzanne Jill Levine, famed translator (of Three Trapped Tigers, of Heartbreak Tango, of dozens of other wonderful books) and author of the very influential The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. We recorded this back at MLA in December (in ...

Reading the World Podcast #2: Susan Harris

Well, it’s the beginning of the month and time for another Reading the World Podcast. Erica Mena and I co-host this monthly podcast, which features interviews with authors, translators, scholars, publishers, and other international literature enthusiasts. All of the episodes we’ve taped are pretty awesome—a ...

RTW Podcast on iTunes

When we were launching the Reading the World podcast the other day, iTunes was all jacked and couldn’t accept our feed, etc., etc. (It just works! Sometimes. I suspect Apple IT employees were too busy watching TV on their souped-up iPads to bother with something so low-tech like iTunes.) Anyway, it’s up there now, ...

Reading the World Podcast #1

Over the past few months I’ve dropped hints here and there about the Reading the World podcast series that Erica Mena and I put together. We came up with the idea out of the last ALTA conference, and at the MLA convention this past December, we talked with a number of translators about their work and various issues ...

Back from MLA and Goodbye to 2009

Sorry that things have been a bit quiet around here. A couple days after Christmas I drove down to Philadelphia for this year’s Modern Language Association Convention, which had a special focus on Translation. (Jen Howard wrote a great summary piece about this for the Chronicle of Higher Education that’s worth ...