As we enter the curl-up-with-a-good-book months, these recommendations are ripe with intrigue, humor, and escape.
Open Letter Books
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Rochester’s role in translating worldwide women authors
Reading contemporary women authors in translation gives us a perspective that diverges from the both European and male-dominated canon. We explore the world of international women writers and the Rochester-based translators and publishers who make their work accessible to an English-reading audience.
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Open Letter Books finishes 2016 strong
The last few weeks of December set Open Letter Books up for a great 2017. In mid-December, The National Endowment of the Arts awarded the small literary translation press an Art Works grant of $40,000. This was the largest amount awarded to any Rochester organization this cycle — BOA Editions and George Eastman Museum each […]
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Writers & Books names new executive director
Writers & Books today announced the selection of its new executive director following a nation-wide search. Writer and literary translator Kyle Semmel, most recently of Bethesda, Maryland, will take the position on May 16. “We were looking for someone with a real passion for literature, because you can’t really do this job without that,” says […]
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Found in translation
Storytelling is and always will be a powerful expression of humanity’s ability to reflect upon itself and to connect the disparate parts of its whole. And though slippery tongues divide us more firmly than they ought, language persists as a barrier to our education about one another, and ourselves. Imagine a world in which important […]
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Fools = gold
The archetype of the fool is a complicated one, but we can learn a thing or two about the value of clowns from Shakespeare and rodeos. And apparently, from Iceland. Jón Gnarr is an anarchist comedian, actor, and artist who served as mayor of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. His forearm tattoos — Reykjavík’s coat […]
