{"id":254186,"date":"2007-08-10T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/10\/weekly-roundup-august-10\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:52","slug":"weekly-roundup-august-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/10\/weekly-roundup-august-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Roundup &#8212; August 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hightlights from this week on Three Percent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Industry-wide, the big news of the week was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=168\">Booker longlist<\/a>, which has been described as &#8220;quiet&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuff finally came out from Dalkey Archive. Namely, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=161\">Spring 2007 D.A. Annual issue of RCF<\/a> came out (disappointing), as did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=179;\"><span class=\"caps\">CONTEXT<\/span> 20<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of <span class=\"caps\">CONTEXT<\/span> 20, it contains a decent article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=191\">Michael Pinker<\/a> on Witold Gombrowicz, an author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=164;\">everyone should read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=162\">Tabish Khair<\/a>, we were able to talk a bit about how magical realism has taken an aesthetic downturn of sorts;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=167\">Espresso Book Machine<\/a> was back on the site this week, thanks to an article in the <i>NY Times<\/i>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And we let the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=195--another\">LongPen<\/a> technological innovation out to rewrite the publishing rules&#8212;make itself look silly and green;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No one has named an author from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=175\">Brunei<\/a>, proving something about something;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=194\">ArteEast<\/a> has a special focus on Iranian Persian Literature, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetranslationproject.org\/\">The Translation Project<\/a> is well worth exploring;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In online mag news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=171\"><i>Bomb<\/i><\/a> is making a lot of its past content available online for free, and the August issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=169\">Words Without Borders<\/a> is now available;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>E.J. 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