{"id":288066,"date":"2011-11-07T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/11\/07\/impacs-longlist-sure-is-long-websites-should-be-pretty\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:16:51","slug":"impacs-longlist-sure-is-long-websites-should-be-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/11\/07\/impacs-longlist-sure-is-long-websites-should-be-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPAC's Longlist Sure Is Long [Websites Should Be Pretty]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The longlist for the 2012 IMPAC<\/span> Dublin Literary Award was announced earlier today,<\/a> and is made up of 147<\/em> titles, the full list of which you can find here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a pretty decent, if wide-ranging, group of books, which includes everything from Paul Auster’s latest to Sofi Oksanen’s Purge<\/em> to our own Private Lives of Trees<\/em> by Alejandro Zambra to fricking Freedom<\/em>. In glancing through this, it’s difficult to figure out which recent books aren’t<\/em> on the list. <\/p>\n

But I think that’s sort of the point at this stage: to provide library patrons and general readers with a list of titles that covers most every interest and aesthetic. You want sci-fi? Try China Mieville’s Kraken.<\/em> Scandinavian thriller? How about Nesbo’s The Snowman.<\/em> From a librarian perspective, this sort of makes sense, and provides a solid list for putting together a decent “new titles” shelf. <\/p>\n

Personally, I’m too distracted by the continued ugliness of their website to give this as much attention as it might deserve. There are a good number of books on this list that I haven’t heard of, but I’ll be damned if I click through to see what they’re about. I know I’ve been relatively quiet about shitty website design as of late, mainly since some people can’t take a joke,<\/del> but how hard is it to use the same color scheme and template across a handful of pages? The home page,<\/a> News page,<\/a> and list of titles<\/a> all employ different looks and menus and colors. And this page<\/a> looks like a seven-year-old’s first attempt at learning HTML<\/span>. (Note the changing font-sizes. Classic.)<\/p>\n

Websites don’t have to be overly flashy to be effective, but seeing that this is one of the richest literary prizes in the world, you’d think they’d drop $10K into putting together a site that doesn’t suck. End rant. <\/p>\n

I am looking forward to seeing the shortlist (which will be announced in April 2012<\/em>), especially since Dubravka Ugresic is one of judges . . . I have a feeling that list will be a pretty cool collection of titles. And a lot easier to process than this overwhelming list of books written by people about things. <\/p>\n

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