{"id":268956,"date":"2009-03-02T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/03\/02\/issue-15-of-quarterly-conversation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:18","slug":"issue-15-of-quarterly-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/03\/02\/issue-15-of-quarterly-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 15 of Quarterly Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to me like <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/\">The Quarterly Conversation<\/a> is getting better and better with every issue . . . The most recent one (which just went online over the weekend) has some great cover features, including a piece from the editors <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/from-the-editors-on-the-demise-of-publishing-reading-and-everything-else\">On the Demise of Publishing, Reading, and Everything Else,<\/a> a (aforementioned) <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/zone-by-mathias-enard\">review of Mathias Enard&#8217;s <em>Zone<\/em>,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/electronic-literature-n-katherine-hayles\">An Intro to E-Lit,<\/a> which references University of Rochester grad N. Katherine Hayles&#8217;s most recent book, <em>Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to these longer pieces, there are a ton of reviews of books in translation in this issue. Here&#8217;s a sampling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/my-fathers-wives-by-jose-eduardo-agualusa-review\"><em>My Father&#8217;s Wives<\/em> by Jose Eduardo Agualusa,<\/a> reviewed by our own E.J. Van Lanen;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/ghosts-by-cesar-aira\"><em>Ghosts<\/em> by Cesar Aira,<\/a> reviewed by Scott Bryan Wilson;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/bonsai-by-alejandro-zambra\"><em>Bonsai<\/em> by Alejandro Zambra,<\/a> reviewed by Elizabeth Wadell;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/best-of-contemporary-mexican-fiction-edited-by-alvaro-uribe-and-olivia-sears\"><em>Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction<\/em>,<\/a> reviewed by Scott Esposito;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/oblomov-by-ivan-goncharov-review\"><em>Oblomov<\/em> by Ivan Goncharov<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/white-guard-by-mikhail-bulgakov-review\"><em>White Guard<\/em> by Mikhail Bulgakov<\/a> both translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz and reviewed by Karen Vanuska;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/the-fat-man-and-infinity-other-writings-by-antonio-lobo-antunes-review\"><em>The Fat Man and Infinity &#038; Other Writings<\/em> by Antonio Lobo Antunes,<\/a> which I reviewed;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/the-assignment-by-friedrich-durrenmatt-review\"><em>The Assignment<\/em> by Friedrich Durrenmatt,<\/a> reviewed by Jordan Anderson;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/happy-families-by-carlos-fuentes-review\"><em>Happy Families<\/em> by Carlos Fuentes,<\/a> reviewed by Meg Sefton;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/woods-and-chalices-by-tomaz-salamun-review\"><em>Woods and Chalices<\/em> by Tomaz Salamun,<\/a> reviewed by Levi Stahl; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/five-spice-street-by-can-xue-review\"><em>Five Spice Street<\/em> by Can Xue,<\/a> reviewed by John Madera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phew. A very impressive list of titles . . . There aren&#8217;t many review sources out there (in print or online) that are doing such a comprehensive job of reviewing such a wide range of international literature. This issue is definitely worth checking out, as are a number of the titles under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to me like The Quarterly Conversation is getting better and better with every issue . . . The most recent one (which just went online over the weekend) has some great cover features, including a piece from the editors On the Demise of Publishing, Reading, and Everything Else, a (aforementioned) review of Mathias Enard&#8217;s [&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":[1836,8536,1646,416],"class_list":["post-268956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-quarterly-conversation","tag-review","tag-scott-esposito"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268956","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=268956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324386,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268956\/revisions\/324386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}