{"id":298296,"date":"2014-06-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/06\/20\/updated-world-cup-of-literature-bracket-world-cup-of-literature\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:12:38","slug":"updated-world-cup-of-literature-bracket-world-cup-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/06\/20\/updated-world-cup-of-literature-bracket-world-cup-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated World Cup of Literature Bracket [World Cup of Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the first week-plus of “World Cup of Literature” matches have been “played,” it’s a perfect time to provide everyone following along with an updated bracket. <\/p>\n

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And you cand download a printable PDF<\/span> version here.<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, nine matches have been decided so far (click the link above to see all of the various write ups), and results from the remaining seven first-round matches will appear next week. (Few really intriguing ones coming up . . . )<\/p>\n

Just as intriguingly, a couple of second-round clashes are already set: First off, we have Japan and Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84<\/em> going up against Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment<\/em>, which may well be one of the favorites of the tournament going forward. And on the other side of the bracket—in a match I’ll be judging, so get your bribes in now—Mexico’s Faces in the Crowd<\/em> by Valeria Luiselli is facing off against Australia’s Barley Patch<\/em> by Gerald Murnane. INTRIGUING<\/span>. <\/p>\n

We’ll be off for a couple days watching Real World Cup matches (Go Belgium!), but will be back Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the first week-plus of “World Cup of Literature” matches have been “played,” it’s a perfect time to provide everyone following along with an updated bracket. And you cand download a printable PDF version here. As you can see, nine matches have been decided so far (click the link above to see all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[56386],"class_list":["post-298296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-world-cup-of-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298296","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=298296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337746,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298296\/revisions\/337746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}