{"id":289426,"date":"2012-03-06T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/03\/06\/you-too-can-be-a-three-percent-writer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:34","slug":"you-too-can-be-a-three-percent-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/03\/06\/you-too-can-be-a-three-percent-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"You Too Can Be a Three Percent Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, as you probably know, for the next four+ weeks, we’re going to be featuring a book a day from the BTBA<\/span> Fiction Longlist.<\/a> These posts aren’t reviews<\/em> per se, but more like little intros designed to both intrigue new readers and make a case for why that particular book deserves to win the whole thing. <\/p>\n

I’m planning on writing a bunch of these, and have a few other people lined up as well, but if there’s a book from the list that you read and loved, and you’d like to participate in this project, just email me at chad.post [at] rochester.edu.<\/p>\n

At the moment, we still need people to write up all of these:<\/p>\n

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Demolishing Nisard<\/em> by Eric Chevillard
\nTranslated from the French by Jordan Stump
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Private Property<\/em> by Paule Constant
\nTranslated from the French by Margot Miller and France Grenaudier-Klijn
\n(University of Nebraska Press)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?<\/em> by Johan Harstad
\nTranslated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin
\n(Seven Stories)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Upstaged<\/em> by Jacques Jouet
\nTranslated from the French by Leland de la Durantaye
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Fiasco<\/em> by Imre Kert\u00e9sz<\/del>
\nTranslated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson<\/del>
\n(Melville House)<\/del><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Suicide<\/em> by Edouard Lev\u00e9
\nTranslated from the French by Jan Steyn
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

New Finnish Grammar<\/em> by Diego Marani
\nTranslated from the Italian by Judith Landry
\n(Dedalus)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Purgatory<\/em> by Tom\u00e1s Eloy Mart\u00ednez<\/del>
\nTranslated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne<\/del>
\n(Bloomsbury)<\/del><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Scenes from Village Life<\/em> by Amos Oz<\/del>
\nTranslated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange<\/del>
\n(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<\/del><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Seven Years<\/em> by Peter Stamm<\/del>
\nTranslated from the German by Michael Hofmann<\/del>
\n(Other Press)<\/del><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

The Truth about Marie<\/em> by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
\nTranslated from the French by Matthew B. Smith
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

In Red<\/em> by Magdalena Tulli
\nTranslated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
\n(Archipelago Books)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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