{"id":275906,"date":"2010-01-05T14:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/01\/05\/bombs-americas-issue\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:08","slug":"bombs-americas-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/01\/05\/bombs-americas-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"BOMB&#39;s Americas Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year <em><span class=\"caps\">BOMB<\/span><\/em> puts together a special &#8220;Americas Issue&#8221; focusing on art and literature from a different part of the Americas. This tends to mean South America, but you never know, maybe Canada will be&#8212;or was?&#8212;the focus at some point in time. Regardless, this is always one of my favorite issues of the year from this esteemed magazine that&#8217;s been around since 1981, and this year&#8217;s focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/issues\/current\">Colombia and Venezuela<\/a> keeps that tradition going. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antonio Ungar (whose &#8220;My Grandrather&#8217;s Disintegration&#8221; is included in the &#8220;First Proof&#8221; supplement as translated by Katherine Silver) has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/issues\/110\/articles\/3364\">interview with Evelio Rosero,<\/a> author of <em>The Armies<\/em>, which won this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/may\/14\/colombian-independent-foreign-fiction-prize\">Independent Foreign Fiction Prize<\/a> ;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/issues\/110\/articles\/3368\">Conversation between Sergio Fajardo and Giancarlo Mazzanti<\/a> about Medellin&#8217;s urban transformation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussion between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/issues\/110\/articles\/3370\">Venezuela&#8217;s Ana Teresa Torres<\/a> and Carmen Boullosa; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/issues\/110\/articles\/3374\">Interview with Juan Gabriel Vasquez<\/a> (<em>The Informers<\/em>) conducted by Silvana Paternostro.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;First Proof&#8221; literary supplement also has pieces by Luis Enrique Belmonte, Carolina Lozada, Victor Manuel Gaviria, Yolanda Pantin, Federico Vegas, Hector Abad Faciolince, Igor Barreto, and Luis Molina-Pantin. (You have to buy the actual magazine to get access to these pieces . . .)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know as much about contemporary Venezuelan literature, but Colombia is pretty hot these days with both Vasquez&#8217;s <em>The Informers<\/em> and Rosero&#8217;s <em>The Armies<\/em> getting a lot of good attention. Not to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2208\">Santiago Gamboa<\/a> . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/378.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year BOMB puts together a special &#8220;Americas Issue&#8221; focusing on art and literature from a different part of the Americas. This tends to mean South America, but you never know, maybe Canada will be&#8212;or was?&#8212;the focus at some point in time. Regardless, this is always one of my favorite issues of the year from [&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":[29906,9186,27306,29916],"class_list":["post-275906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-americas-issue","tag-bomb-magazine","tag-colombian-literature","tag-venezuelan-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275906","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=275906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349786,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275906\/revisions\/349786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}