{"id":289586,"date":"2012-03-15T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/03\/15\/three-percent-32-everybody-loves-a-bracket\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:06","slug":"three-percent-32-everybody-loves-a-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/03\/15\/three-percent-32-everybody-loves-a-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #32: Everybody Loves a Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the NCAA<\/span> Men’s Basketball Tournament getting underway this afternoon (I refuse to acknowledge the “First Four” games), Tom and I thought this would be a good time to talk about the fact that we both picked the exact same Final Four (Kentucky, Missouri, UNC<\/span>, and Ohio State) and that The Morning News’s Tournament of Books<\/a> is made up of a lot of mediocre books. <\/p>\n

We also talk about the idea of a “Tournament of World Literature” featuring the best translated works of the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s kind of fun coming up with what books would be included in such a mythical tournament—Sartre’s Nausea<\/em>, Cortazar’s Hopscotch<\/em>, Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark<\/em>, Lispector’s The Hour of the Star<\/em>, Perec’s Life, a User’s Manual<\/em>, so on and forth—and trying to figure out how to seed these. I am pretty serious about trying to bracket this out, so if you have any suggestions of books that just have<\/em> to be included, send me an email (chad.post [at] rochester.edu), or post them in the comments below. <\/p>\n

This week’s music is Regina Spektor’s totally kick-ass new single, All the Rowboats.<\/a> I heard this on a recent episode of NPR<\/span>’s “All Songs Considered,” and it totally blew me away . . . <\/p>\n

As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google’s Listen<\/a>, copy the following link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the NCAA<\/span> Men’s Basketball Tournament getting underway this afternoon (I refuse to acknowledge the “First Four” games), Tom and I thought this would be a good time to talk about the fact that we both picked the exact same Final Four (Kentucky, Missouri, UNC<\/span>, and Ohio State) and that The Morning News’s Tournament of Books<\/a> is made up of a lot of mediocre books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67446],"tags":[45886,7666,45896,45876,40016,30456,10376],"class_list":["post-289586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-percent-podcast","tag-all-the-rowboats","tag-chad-w-post","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-regina-spektor","tag-three-percent-podcast","tag-tom-roberge","tag-tournament-of-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330266,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289586\/revisions\/330266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}