“The River” by Laura Vinogradova and Kaija Straumanis [Excerpt]
Today's #WITMonth post is a preview for an Open Letter title coming out next summer, which isn't even available for sale anywhere yet. It's聽River聽by Laura Vinogradova, translated by Kaija Straumanis, and part of Straumanis's "Translator Triptych" coming next summer. The novel was the Latvian representative for the European ...
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TMR 14.6: “A Strolling Game of Pocket Billiards” [J R]
Chad and Brian go it alone this week, and prove that even the most claustrophobic sections (trigger warning for anyone who grew up with hoarders) of J R聽are also riotously funny. They also don't understand money or business, but no one else in the book seems to either . . . There's also a lot of talk about Gibbs's footwear ...
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BTBA #1: GUANTANAMO by Dorothea Dieckmann and Tim Mohr
The year-long Best Translated Book Award retrospective kicks off with this episode featuring the very first winner of the BTBA:聽Guantanamo聽by Dorothea Dieckmann, translated from the German by Tim Mohr and published by Soft Skull. There are three discussions on this episode: Chad W. Post and Patrick Smith talk about the ...
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TMR 13.8: “Vinelander” [ADA, OR ARDOR]
In a rather subdued (re: election night hangover) episode, Chad and Brian discuss the relationship between cinema and writing, photos and memory, and what seems to be Nabokov's relationship to movies as art. They also talk about the screwball comedy nature of Van and Ada being found out, discuss the way in which part II ...
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Spanish-Language Speculative Fiction by Women in Translation. [#WITMonth]
Today's post is by Rachel Cordasco, founder and curator of Speculative Fiction in Translation, co-translator of聽Creative Surgery聽by Clelia Farris, and is working on a book about speculative fiction from around the world.聽 Despite 2020 being a downright awful year, it has given us several excellent works of ...
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“Garden by the Sea” by Merc猫 Rodoreda
Garden by the Sea by Merc猫 Rodoreda Translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Rela帽o and Martha Tennent 230 pgs. | pb | 9781948830089聽 聽| $15.95 Open Letter Books Review by Kira Baran Originally published in 1967 in the Catalan, Garden by the Sea is just one of several works that has earned ...
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