{"id":266346,"date":"2008-11-25T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/11\/25\/chad-on-omnivoracious\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:34","slug":"chad-on-omnivoracious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/11\/25\/chad-on-omnivoracious\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad on Omnivoracious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi, over at Omnivoracious, Amazon&#8217;s weblog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/2008\/11\/open-letter-and.html\">has an interview with Chad<\/a>, and some nice things to say about Open Letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you looked at the recent media frenzy over Bolano&#8217;s 2666 (even The Economist has a story about it), you&#8217;d think that translations were really hot this year. According to a translation database manually compiled by Open Letter this year, though, the percentage of new books published in the U.S. that are translations is still coming in at around 3% or lower. Open Letter&#8217;s mission is to try to change all that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A number of presses publish translations, but Open Letter (a small press out of the University of Rochester) only publishes translations. Their blog, Three Percent (based on the 3% mentioned above), has done a lot to promote international literature&#8212;it regularly features reviews, lit mags from other countries, and programs like Reading the World and Words Without Borders. This week they&#8217;re previewing their Spring 2009 line-up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Heidi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi, over at Omnivoracious, Amazon&#8217;s weblog, has an interview with Chad, and some nice things to say about Open Letter: If you looked at the recent media frenzy over Bolano&#8217;s 2666 (even The Economist has a story about it), you&#8217;d think that translations were really hot this year. According to a translation database manually compiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[8206,6476,2136,15636,1646],"class_list":["post-266346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-amazon","tag-chad-post","tag-ejvl","tag-omnivoracious","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266346","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325116,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266346\/revisions\/325116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}