{"id":258096,"date":"2007-11-27T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/27\/nyrbs-summer-2008-titles\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:53","slug":"nyrbs-summer-2008-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/27\/nyrbs-summer-2008-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"NYRB&#39;s Summer 2008 Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most disorienting things about publishing is the time gap between when you first hear about a title and when it actually comes out. It&#8217;s really bad from the editing end of things&#8212;frequently you first encounter a book two-plus years before it&#8217;s published and on bookstore shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a pure consumer, this gap can be frustrating. For instance, in today&#8217;s mail, I got the new New York Review Books catalog. As a huge fan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=570\">aren&#8217;t we all?<\/a>), I&#8217;m always exciting to see what they&#8217;re coming out with, and this catalog includes a few interesting books, none of which will be available until the middle of next year . . .<\/p>\n<p>The two titles that most caught my eye are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Family Mashber<\/i> by Der Nister, translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf: compared to <i>The Brothers Karamazov<\/i> this is a &#8220;detailed an panoramic picture of an Eastern European town and its people, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, a brilliantly innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a tale of weird humor and mounting tragic power.&#8221; (May 2008.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Queue<\/i> by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Sally Laird: This is a fantastic&#8212;and very funny&#8212;novel about thousands of citizens waiting in line for . . . something. The novel is entirely in dialogue (except for one expository passage if memory serves) and functions almost like a three-act play. I read this in the Readers International version years ago, and am really looking forward to reading it again next August when it comes out. . . <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most disorienting things about publishing is the time gap between when you first hear about a title and when it actually comes out. It&#8217;s really bad from the editing end of things&#8212;frequently you first encounter a book two-plus years before it&#8217;s published and on bookstore shelves. Even as a pure consumer, this [&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":[1836,2056,1646,8316],"class_list":["post-258096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-nyrb","tag-review","tag-summer-2008-titles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258096","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=258096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327586,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258096\/revisions\/327586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}