{"id":302946,"date":"2015-11-13T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/11\/13\/latest-review-rambling-jack-by-micheal-o-conghaile\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:33","slug":"latest-review-rambling-jack-by-micheal-o-conghaile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/11\/13\/latest-review-rambling-jack-by-micheal-o-conghaile\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: &#34;Rambling Jack&#34; by Miche\u00e1l \u00d3 Conghaile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=16122\">latest addition<\/a> to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=reviews\">Reviews<\/a> section is by Vincent Francone on <em>Rambling Jack<\/em> by Miche\u00e1l \u00d3 Conghaile, translated by Katherine Duffy, and published by Dalkey Archive Press.<\/p>\n<p>Vince went for a non-standard review format for this bilingual edition, favoring a flowing dialogue-style, and it&#8217;s pretty awesome. Here&#8217;s a taste of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRambling Jack\u2014what\u2019s that?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cA novel.  Novella, I guess.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYeah, it looks short.  What is it, a hundred pages?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSorta.  It\u2019s a duel language book, so really, only about&#8230; 50 pages total.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201c50 pages?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIncluding illustrations.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAnd this\u2014what is it\u2026 Dalkey Archive\u2014they want 14 bucks for a 50 page book?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYeah.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s pretty short.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt is, but the book is good.  What does it matter how long it is if it\u2019s a good read?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI guess.  So is it?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cA good read?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt is.  Oh yeah.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cRambling, eh?  Sounds like fun.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not rambling like a romantic wayward hobo boxcar type of rambling, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of the &#8220;conversation,&#8221; go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=16122\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Vincent Francone on Rambling Jack by Miche\u00e1l \u00d3 Conghaile, translated by Katherine Duffy, and published by Dalkey Archive Press. Vince went for a non-standard review format for this bilingual edition, favoring a flowing dialogue-style, and it&#8217;s pretty awesome. Here&#8217;s a taste of it: \u201cRambling Jack\u2014what\u2019s that?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[1646],"class_list":["post-302946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302946","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309176,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302946\/revisions\/309176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}