{"id":281626,"date":"2011-01-21T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/01\/21\/open-letter-summer-2011-catalogs\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:28:19","slug":"open-letter-summer-2011-catalogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/01\/21\/open-letter-summer-2011-catalogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter Summer 2011 [Catalogs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I didn&#8217;t get to writing up all the things I wanted to this week, but before taking off for Amsterdam and the Non-Fiction Conference (see next post), I thought I&#8217;d share our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=file_download&#38;id=88\">Summer 2011 catalog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a little luck, I&#8217;ll highlight each of these next week, with excerpts and the like, but for now, here&#8217;s a list of all five titles along with links to their Open Letter pages, where you can find cover images, jacket copy, links to excerpts, author bios, etc., etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quim Monzo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/23-monzo\"><em>Guadalajara<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Excellent collection of Monzo&#8217;s stories, and the second book of his that we&#8217;re publishing. Next up: <em>1000 Morons.<\/em> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sergio Chejfec&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/29-chejfec\"><em>My Two Worlds<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Spanish by Margaret Carson, with an introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the first of three Chejfec titles we&#8217;re publishing, the other two being <em>The Dark<\/em> and <em>The Planets.<\/em> First came across Chejfec in a post by Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading linking to a recommendation at Hermano Cerdo written by Enrique Vila-Matas about how totally awesome this book is. (Or some similar Spanish phrasing.) We then went on to buy the rights to all three books thanks to a brilliant excerpt that was in <em><span class=\"caps\">BOMB<\/span><\/em> magazine. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ludvik Vaculik&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/27-vaculik\"><em>The Guinea Pigs<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Czech by Ka\u010da Pol\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is one of the funniest books I&#8217;ve ever read. And the second Open Letter book in which guinea pigs are subjected to uncool things. I get the strangest reaction from friends when I try and describe just how funny the narrator&#8217;s guinea pig &#8220;experiments&#8221; are. Like the one with the record player. Or the stove. Or the bathtub. . . . Um, yeah. But seriously, it&#8217;s hysterical&#8212;mainly because of the voice of the befuddled, clueless narrator. And we have some awesome promotions in mind for this . . . none of which involve the harming of physical, living guinea pigs. Promise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can Xue&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/28-xue\"><em>Vertical Motion<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This new collection by Can Xue (who has also been published by New Directions, Northwestern, Yale, and <em>Conjunctions<\/em>) is the first Chinese title to come out from Open Letter. She&#8217;s a very interesting, unique writer who reminds me a bit of Rikki Ducornet. The stories are a bit surreal, surprising, and, at time, disorienting in a very pleasurable way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ingrid Winterbach&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/20-winterbach\"><em>The Book of Happenstance<\/em>,<\/a> translated by Dick and Ingrid Winterbach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We published Winterbach&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/20-winterbach\"><em>To Hell with Cronje<\/em><\/a> last fall to some good attention. She&#8217;s a stark, interesting South African writer, and in the end, I think <em>Book of Happenstance<\/em> is an even better book than <em>Cronje<\/em> . . . <\/p>\n<p>More all next week . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/24-saer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/543.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I didn&#8217;t get to writing up all the things I wanted to this week, but before taking off for Amsterdam and the Non-Fiction Conference (see next post), I thought I&#8217;d share our Summer 2011 catalog. 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