{"id":277236,"date":"2010-03-18T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/03\/18\/hello-there\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:01","slug":"hello-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/03\/18\/hello-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello there!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like it&#8217;s been <em>ages<\/em> since I last posted anything new here . . . In my defense, it&#8217;s kind of tricky finding the time to come up with good material during a ten-day trip to Abu Dhabi, two panels (including the 2010 <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> announcement), and an extended trip to New York. Two-and-a-half weeks of traveling is mentally exhausting. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back in Rochester though, feeling more and more energized every sunny day that I can ride my bike to work, and ready to get back into all of this. Well, sort of. With the <span class=\"caps\">NCAA<\/span> tournament starting in two hours, and a million-and-one things to catch up on, I think I need another day or so to get sorted. So instead of a number of thoughtful, well-put-together posts (as if that <em>ever<\/em> happens anyway), here&#8217;s a smattering of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/home.vicnet.net.au\/~aalitra\/\">Australian Association for Literary Translation<\/a> just launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.vicnet.net.au\/~aalitra\/AALITRA_2010_1.pdf\"><em><span class=\"caps\">AALITRA<\/span> Review<\/em>,<\/a> to publish translations with commentary and essays on the art&amp;craft of translation. You can download the entire first issue (in pdf format) by clicking the link above. Number of interesting pieces in here, including a translation by Peter Hodges of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust the Band&#8221; by Boris Vian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> America&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/page.php\/prmID\/154\">2010 In Translation feature<\/a> is now available online, and, as expected, is fricking <em>loaded<\/em> with material. Just look at the list of <em>conversations<\/em>: Anthea Bell &amp; Doris Orgel (e-mail exchange), Nahid Mozaffari and Sara Khalili (audio), Gregory Rabassa, Edith Grossman, and Michael F. Moore (!!!!!!!). There&#8217;s also a number of good excerpts, including a piece from Robert Walser&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4605\/prmID\/1502\"><em>Microscripts<\/em>,<\/a> a few prologues from Macedonio Fernandez&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4629\/prmID\/1502\"><em>The Museum of Eterna&#8217;s Novel<\/em><\/a> (everyone <em>should<\/em> read this), and a bit from Alejandro Zambra&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4633\/prmID\/1502\"><em>The Private Lives of Trees<\/em>.<\/a> And that&#8217;s just scratching the surface . . .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Next week we&#8217;re going to giveaway copies of Macedonio&#8217;s book to our Facebook fans, so if you&#8217;re not already one, you need to be. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Open-Letter-Books\/21935471709\">Clicking here<\/a> to become a fan and have a chance to win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently I had heard from a bunch of translators about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalkeyarchive.com\/aboutus\/?fa=Educational\">crazy new program<\/a> that Dalkey\/U of I had launched through which translators can pay $5,000 to get their first full-length book translation published. Which everyone I heard from thought this was a total scam. In Dalkey&#8217;s defense, there is a lot a translator could learn from working closely with an editor on a particular manuscript . . . but to be honest, the publication aspect changes this&#8212;in my mind, and all the translators who forwarded this announcement to me complete with their witty remarks (thanks!)&#8212;from a low-residency <span class=\"caps\">MFA<\/span> sort of set-up, to something more vanity and seedy. (But seriously, wtf is going on <a href=\"http:\/\/dalkeyarchive.com\/\">here?<\/a> It&#8217;s like being punched in the brain! Or a way induce seizures in kids? Although there are a billion things to make fun of here&#8212;like the fact that it may well be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalkeyarchive.com\/aboutus\/?fa=news\">most unreadable<\/a> website ever&#8212;I&#8217;m not going to do it. Or at least I&#8217;m going to stop right now. Right. Now.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to a series of posts about the always interesting Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, we also have a few reviews coming up, including pieces on the new Peter Handke and Dubravka Ugresic titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like it&#8217;s been ages since I last posted anything new here . . . In my defense, it&#8217;s kind of tricky finding the time to come up with good material during a ten-day trip to Abu Dhabi, two panels (including the 2010 BTBA announcement), and an extended trip to New York. 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