{"id":278096,"date":"2010-05-04T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/05\/04\/pen-world-voices-2010-some-cool-things-to-watch\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:40:54","slug":"pen-world-voices-2010-some-cool-things-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/05\/04\/pen-world-voices-2010-some-cool-things-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN World Voices 2010: Some Cool Things to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so another <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> World Voices Festival is now in the books. As usual, all the people at <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> (especially festival director Caro and her amazing staff of employees and interns) did a spectacular job putting this all together and making sure everything came off with a hitch. (Or at least without too many noticeable hitches.) It was a really fun festival, right up through the final swanky party (and the totally rad after-party). <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been working all day (and all last night, and all tonight, and all day tomorrow) on a longer piece for <em>Publishing Perspectives<\/em> about the festival, and will post about that as soon as it runs. (Oh, and as soon as I&#8217;m done with that I can get back to &#8220;normal&#8221; Three Percent blogging, including running a few reviews&#8212;of Suzanne Jill Levine&#8217;s <em>The Subversive Scribe<\/em>, of Sofi Oksanen&#8217;s <em>Purge.<\/em>) <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I just went through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/page.php\/prmID\/1996\">list of available audio\/video on <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span>&#8217;s site,<\/a> and here are a few cool events that I&#8217;d recommend checking out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4728\/prmID\/1986\">Blogs, Twitter, and the Kindle: The Future of Reading.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually listening to this now . . . Heather Cleary Wolfgang (who is translating Sergio Chejfec for us) attended and said it was really interesting. Very interested to hear what Alberto Ruy-Sanchez has to say, seeing that he&#8217;s one of the most popular international authors I&#8217;m aware of (at least in terms of Facebook friends and Twitter followers). <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4729\/prmID\/1986\">Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next up in my queue. I really wish I could&#8217;ve made it to this . . . Albert Mobilio moderated the conversation with Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk. (Particularly interested in hearing what Lethem and Stasiuk have to say. I had a chance to briefly meet Stasiuk at a special Polish party. He was there with his wife Monika, who runs one of the coolest presses in Poland . . .)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4734\/prmID\/1986\">Javier Cercas in Conversation with Amanda Vaill<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I actually did attend this one, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2677\">wrote about it.<\/a> It was an OK event, but the reason I mention it here is to stand up for all my fellow Midwesterners. In talking about Cercas&#8217;s accent, Vaill does what must be the most awful and inaccurate imitation of an Illinois accent ever recorded. Amanda, the Midwest is larger than <em>Fargo<\/em>. Just an <span class=\"caps\">FYI<\/span>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4697\/prmID\/1986\">New York Stories<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hoping that the audio\/video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2674\">Quim Monzo&#8217;s conversation with Robert Coover<\/a> is posted at some point . . . But in the meantime, you can hear him on this panel, which was moderated by Edwin Frank and included Darryl Pinckney, Roxanna Robinson, and Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/8-gavelis\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/204.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so another PEN World Voices Festival is now in the books. As usual, all the people at PEN (especially festival director Caro and her amazing staff of employees and interns) did a spectacular job putting this all together and making sure everything came off with a hitch. 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