{"id":265886,"date":"2008-11-10T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/11\/10\/november-e-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:38","slug":"november-e-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/11\/10\/november-e-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"November E-Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Open Letter Newsletter is now available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/newsletter\/november_08\/\">online.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As an update: the <em>Vilnius Poker<\/em> giveaway is now closed. We received a <em>lot<\/em> of submissions and will be sending out e-mails to the three winners (and all other entries) this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Another book featured in the newsletter is Fonseca&#8217;s <em>The Taker and Other Stories<\/em>, which was recently reviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/litlicense.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/taker-and-other-stories-by-rubem.html\">Literary License,<\/a> where Gwen Dawson had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Taker and Other Stories<\/em>, by Brazilian author Rubem Fonseca, is a collection of short stories examining death in all its forms: murder, suicide, road kill (animal and human), medical emergencies, sickness, and old age. One protagonist laments, \u201cMan is a solitary animal, an unhappy animal, and only death can fix us.\u201d This thought echoes throughout this collection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was also reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/writingdoctor.typepad.com\/writing_doctors_blog_by_n\/2008\/11\/the-snake-in-the-garden-of-eden-the-taker-by-rubem-fonseca-translated-by-clifford-e-landers.html\">Nancy Yanes Hoffman:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although Fonseca steadfastly refuses to discuss the meaning of his stories, he once said of himself, \u201cPerhaps I am \u2018The Taker.\u2019 \u201d He also says, \u201cA writer should have the courage to show what most people are afraid to say.\u201d Fonseca\u2019s bitterly grim stories, mostly in the first person, show the skull beneath the skin in Rio\u2019s violent world. Tough to read, they analyze Rio\u2019s gratuitous criminality as a symptom of universal hatred among people of every class.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As mentioned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/newsletter\/november_08\/\">newsletter,<\/a> for the rest of the month <em>The Taker<\/em> is available through our website for only <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/6\">$12.00.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/131.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Open Letter Newsletter is now available online. As an update: the Vilnius Poker giveaway is now closed. We received a lot of submissions and will be sending out e-mails to the three winners (and all other entries) this afternoon. Another book featured in the newsletter is Fonseca&#8217;s The Taker and Other Stories, which [&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":[1836,16396,1646,14746],"class_list":["post-265886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-open-letter-newsletter","tag-review","tag-rubem-fonseca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265886","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=265886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325236,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265886\/revisions\/325236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}