{"id":264446,"date":"2008-09-08T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/08\/and-now-there-are-two\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:52","slug":"and-now-there-are-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/08\/and-now-there-are-two\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now There Are Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, the second Open Letter book arrived — The Pets<\/em> by Bragi Olafsson.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just last week, Kirkus<\/em> reviewed this, giving it the most positive review I’ve read in quite some time:<\/p>\n

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Icelandic novelist \u00d3lafsson’s English-language debut is part Beckettian or even Kafkaesque black comedy, part existentialist novel in the Paul Auster mode, and part locked-room mystery in which the murderee is alive and well and hiding in the bedroom. [. . .] Dark, strange, elusive, compelling and oddly charming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To celebrate this release, through the end of the month, you can purchase a copy through the Open Letter website<\/a> for $10.50 (which seems absurdly cheap for a hardcover). Of course, you can always buy a subscription<\/a> and get 6 books for $65 or 12 titles for $120. <\/p>\n

Bragi’s reading tour kicks off of October 6 with an event in Buffalo, then on the 7th he’ll have a reading and conversation with Lytton Smith here at the University of Roichester. On October 8th at 7:00pm, he’ll be at McNally Jackson in New York with Dubravka Ugresic<\/a>, and on Thursday the 9th he’ll do a lunchtime event at Idlewild Books in NY, followed by an evening event at Book Culture (formerly Labyrinth) along with Mark Binelli.<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, on Saturday, October 11th, he’ll be participating in the Twin Cities Book Festival,<\/a> before flying off to Seattle for a reading at Elliot Bay Book Company. <\/p>\n

I’ll post a more detailed schedule in a couple weeks, and of course, we’ll post any and all recordings of these events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, the second Open Letter book arrived — The Pets by Bragi Olafsson. Just last week, Kirkus reviewed this, giving it the most positive review I’ve read in quite some time: Icelandic novelist \u00d3lafsson’s English-language debut is part Beckettian or even Kafkaesque black comedy, part existentialist novel in the Paul Auster mode, and part […]<\/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":[12996,1836,1646,13006],"class_list":["post-264446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bragi-olafsson","tag-cwp","tag-review","tag-the-pets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264446","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=264446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325566,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264446\/revisions\/325566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}