Three Percent
Chad W. Post, Joseph Alcala, KAIJA STRAUMANISThe 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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TMR 31.7: "Morgenstern or Mohrenfern or Whatever" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
This week, Brian, Kaija, and Chad talk about the unknown world of references Morgner is playing with, picaresque novels, the joys of writing tedious prose, the American healthcare system, and Beatrice’s fate.
This week’s music is “Out of T...
TMR 31.6: "Our Children Are Not Our Possessions" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
This week’s episode opens with some World Cup talk, before diving into the “Sixth Intermezzo” and first half of “Book Eleven.” According to Brian, “family” is the best way to sum up ~~Fast & Furious~~ this week’s reading, which revolves aro...
Ways of Exploring "Auroville"
Although the official pub date isn’t for a few more weeks, hopefully everyone who preordered Auroville: A City of Dreams by Katarzyna Boni, translated from the Polish by Mark Ordon, has already received their copy. And for anyone who didn’t...
TMR 31.5: "I Could Have Been The Conductor of a Shawm Band" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
Covering two sections of the novel—the “Fifth Intermezzo” and “Book Ten”—this episode of TMR starts by discussing how life didn’t turn out how Oskar Pakulat had hoped, and then meanders through Beatrice’s search for the unicorn Anaximander,...
TMR 31.4: "When I Was a Barge" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
This week, Kaija, Brian, and Chad talk about the various levels of narration to this book and the interplay between the “books” and the “intermezzos.” They also end up comparing and connecting The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice t...
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Publisher of Open Letter Books and editorial consultant for Dalkey Archive Press. Interested in international and innovative literature.
reading, writing.
Editorial Director at Coffee House Press, translator from the Latvian, TMR regular
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