{"id":276776,"date":"2010-02-24T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/02\/24\/btba-2010-and-mcnally-jackson\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:39","slug":"btba-2010-and-mcnally-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/02\/24\/btba-2010-and-mcnally-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"BTBA 2010 and McNally Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I sent out a brief message to our indie bookseller mailing list (which all booksellers can easily join by e-mailing me at chad.post [at] rochester.edu) about the Best Translated Book Award Finalists and how we&#8217;d be willing to run pictures of any displays that the stores put together for the award. (To be honest, this is mainly a means to gushing about the bookstores I love . . .)<\/p>\n<p>The first to come back with pics was <a href=\"http:\/\/mcnallyjackson.com\/\">McNally Jackson,<\/a> which one of my interns refers to as her &#8220;favorite bookstore in the world.&#8221; (I think one of the reasons she so loves McNally Jackson is because of the high propensity of Open Letter titles on display there. And really, who doesn&#8217;t love that? But seriously, it&#8217;s really cool for an intern to see something she worked on out on display in the &#8220;real world.&#8221; I&#8217;m still saving my over-the-top thrill for my subway moment: when I see someone on the subway reading one of our books, I&#8217;ll feel like we&#8217;ve really made it.) There are so many cool things about McNally Jackson that I made a list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>unique book selection and display, thanks to buyer John Turner and a staff of engaged, insatiable readers;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>all the fiction is organized by country\/region;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>thanks to Javier Molea, the Spanish language section is the best in New York (which, I believe according to the rules of East Coast bias makes it the Best In The World);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>the fact that Sarah McNally is simply awesome;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>beautifully lit and designed store;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>excellent events (I was at the McNally event for the announcement of the <span class=\"caps\">NBCC<\/span> finalists back when <em>Voices from Chernobyl<\/em> won&#8212;one of the high points of my publishing life);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>connection to Canada;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>did I mention that McNally is one of the top 3 stores in terms of sales of Open Letter books?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s their <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> display with the randomly fantastic sign advertising the University of Rochester:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/434.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I sent out a brief message to our indie bookseller mailing list (which all booksellers can easily join by e-mailing me at chad.post [at] rochester.edu) about the Best Translated Book Award Finalists and how we&#8217;d be willing to run pictures of any displays that the stores put together for the award. (To be [&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":[67476],"tags":[29976,30636,30946],"class_list":["post-276776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba-2010","tag-displays","tag-mcnally-jackson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276776","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=276776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334646,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276776\/revisions\/334646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}