{"id":274106,"date":"2009-10-05T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/10\/05\/the-city-lights-no-contest\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:24","slug":"the-city-lights-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/10\/05\/the-city-lights-no-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Lights No Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just received this message from City Lights about a contest they&#8217;re running to tie-in with the release of Mario Bellatin&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazosbookstore.com\/book\/9780872864733\"><em>Beauty Salon<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a recent interview with <span class=\"caps\">PRI<\/span>&#8217;s World Books, <em>Beauty Salon<\/em> author Mario Bellatin described a writing technique called the &#8220;No Method&#8221;: &#8220;For years I tried to create for myself a method of writing that would be my own. I called it the No Method, not because it was influenced by the Japanese theatrical form of that name, but rather because it was about appending a &#8216;no&#8217; to all the elements that supposedly make up literary texts. No adjectives, no dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience, no names, and so on and so forth, until I had compiled a long list of noes. It was in that way, restricted all the way down to the most minimal aspects, that I began to see that, in a certain sense, things could be named anew.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our challenge to you: use Bellatin&#8217;s No Method&#8212;no adjectives, no dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience, no names&#8212;to write a short piece of fiction (under 200 words), and send your entry to contest [at] citylights [dot] com under the subject line &#8220;No Contest.&#8221; The person with the best entry will receive a free copy of <em>Beauty Salon<\/em> and a choice of four other books from our City Lights Publishers Literature in Translation list. Submissions are due no later than October 15, 2009. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The winner will be announced in our November newsletter.\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received this message from City Lights about a contest they&#8217;re running to tie-in with the release of Mario Bellatin&#8217;s wonderful Beauty Salon: In a recent interview with PRI&#8217;s World Books, Beauty Salon author Mario Bellatin described a writing technique called the &#8220;No Method&#8221;: &#8220;For years I tried to create for myself a method of [&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":[26926,26906,27926],"class_list":["post-274106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-city-lights","tag-mario-bellatin","tag-no-contest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274106","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=274106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351006,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274106\/revisions\/351006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}