{"id":257286,"date":"2007-10-30T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/30\/open-letter-article-fall-list-and-upcoming-event\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","slug":"open-letter-article-fall-list-and-upcoming-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/30\/open-letter-article-fall-list-and-upcoming-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter Article, Fall List, and Upcoming Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty loaded post, but this morning the new issue of UR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/currents\/V35\/V35N17\/story09.html\">Currents<\/a> was released (which explains the above picture) and includes a long overview on Open Letter, including descriptions of our inaugural list of titles. <\/p>\n<p>The books don&#8217;t come out until Fall 2008 (the first will have a September 26th pub date), but here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Nobody&#8217;s Home<\/i> by Dubravka Ugresic<\/li>\n<li><i>The Taker and Other Stories<\/i> by Rubem Fonseca<\/li>\n<li><i>The Pets<\/i> by Bragi Olafsson<\/li>\n<li><i>Vilnius Poker<\/i> by Ricardas Gavelis<\/li>\n<li><i>The Conqueror<\/i> by Jan Kjaerstad<\/li>\n<li><i>The Sailor from Gibraltar<\/i> by Marguerite Duras<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part of the reason for this article is to promote the upcoming event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/humanities\/projects\/index?openletter&#38;events\">Commerce and Culture: The Impact of the Business of Books on the Literature of the Americas<\/a>, which is part of UR&#8217;s Humanities Project. <\/p>\n<p>With such a great list of panelist&#8212;Lisa Dillman (translator), Daniel Shapiro (Director of Literature at the Americas Society), Jack Kirchhoff (Book Review Editor at the <i>Toronto Globe and Mail<\/i>), and Jonathan Welch (co-founder and buyer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tleavesbooks.com\/--it\">Talking Leaves<\/a> should be an interesting conversation. And we will be able to record this and post it next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty loaded post, but this morning the new issue of UR&#8217;s Currents was released (which explains the above picture) and includes a long overview on Open Letter, including descriptions of our inaugural list of titles. The books don&#8217;t come out until Fall 2008 (the first will have a September 26th pub date), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,7586,7596,1866,1646],"class_list":["post-257286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-fall-2008-list","tag-humanities-project","tag-open-letter","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327806,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257286\/revisions\/327806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}