Three Percent
Chad W. Post, KAIJA STRAUMANIS, Joseph AlcalaThe Substack from Open Letter at the University of Rochester featuring cultural analysis, the Translation Database, the Three Percent Podcast, book reviews, insights into publishing literary translations, and more.
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The following post was written by Two Month Review co-host, Kaija Straumanis.
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There’s a lot of information about Open Letter Books to share this month, so instead of my usual rambling prelude, let’s jump right into it with our next release: The City by Lara Moreno, translated from the Spanish by Alice Banks & Katie W...
Kurdish Literature and Henar Press
On this episode, special guest Aryan Omar Hassan talks about Henar Press and their first publications: Gābor by Seyed Qader Hedayati, translated from the Kurdish by Chiya Parvizpur & Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo; I Am Going to Kill Somebody by Fi...
TMR 30.8: "The Fatherland or Death!" [I the Supreme]
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A Voyage to India
Last month, Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares received the Formentor Prize for Literature—an award I had honestly never heard of before seeing it on Deep Vellum’s Instagram announcement. I am quite familiar with Tavares though—been a big...
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Publisher of Open Letter Books and editorial consultant for Dalkey Archive Press. Interested in international and innovative literature.
Editorial Director at Coffee House Press, translator from the Latvian, TMR regular
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