{"id":274676,"date":"2009-10-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/10\/28\/a-wall-in-my-head-roundup\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:19","slug":"a-wall-in-my-head-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/10\/28\/a-wall-in-my-head-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#34;Wall in My Head&#34; Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read Three Percent often, then you&#8217;ve already heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/18-withoutborders\">The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain<\/a>. In case you&#8217;ve missed it, though, <em>Wall<\/em> is a collection of of stories and essays from over 30 writers (and nearly as many translators) &#8220;that witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain firsthand with the impressions and reflections of those who grew up in its wake.&#8221; All of these written pieces are surrounded by more than 70 photos, original documents, and other images. (As you can see, <em>Wall<\/em> has a surprisingly accurate subtitle.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Wall<\/em> is also a significant book because it was tirelessly arranged and edited by the always-great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/\">Words without Borders<\/a>, who have put together several excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=Books\">anthologies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s new with <em>Wall<\/em>? Well:<\/p>\n<p>-Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thewallinmyhead.com\/\">Wall in My Head blog<\/a> there&#8217;s a newly posted excerpt from the book. This excerpt is part Paul Wilson\u2019s fascinating essay \u201cTower of Song: How the Plastic People Helped Shape the Velvet Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-Also, the <em>Harvard Crimson<\/em> has already run an early <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=529563\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Finally, the books official pub. date is on Nov. 9 (the twenty-year anniversary of the wall of the Berlin Wall), but it&#8217;s freshly in from the printer, and it looks very cool.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thewallinmyhead.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/298.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read Three Percent often, then you&#8217;ve already heard of The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain. In case you&#8217;ve missed it, though, Wall is a collection of of stories and essays from over 30 writers (and nearly as many translators) &#8220;that witnessed the fall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[20796,4506,1646,23616],"class_list":["post-274676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-harvard-crimson","tag-njf","tag-review","tag-wall-in-my-head"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274676","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323006,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274676\/revisions\/323006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}