{"id":276446,"date":"2010-02-09T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/02\/09\/btba-finalists-event-at-idlewild-books\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:40","slug":"btba-finalists-event-at-idlewild-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/02\/09\/btba-finalists-event-at-idlewild-books\/","title":{"rendered":"BTBA Finalists Event at Idlewild Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We still have a few (like seven) books from the fiction longlist left to profile, but to be honest, my attention is turning to next week&#8217;s announcement of the fiction and poetry finalists . . . As we did last year, we&#8217;ll be announcing 10 books from each category&#8212;truly the best of the best of the literature in translation published last year. <\/p>\n<p>Rather than simply announce these on the website, this year we&#8217;re going to have a special event at <a href=\"http:\/\/idlewildbooks.com\/\">Idlewild Books<\/a> to celebrate the finalists. <\/p>\n<p>So, next Tuesday, February 16th at 7pm, Cressida Leyshon of <em>The New Yorker<\/em> will host the festivities and Idra Novey and I will make the grand announcements. This won&#8217;t really be a formal panel&#8212;more a chance for us to talk about the importance of international literature and to bring some extra deserved attention to these books. <\/p>\n<p>And, as with every great publishing party, there will be drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone reading this should definitely come, and tell all your journalist and blogger friends. It&#8217;d be great to use this event as the next push to bring attention to all of these wonderful books and the great translators who often go unappreciated . . . <\/p>\n<p>Copies of all the books will be on hand as well so that attendees can <strong>cough<\/strong> financially support <strong>cough<\/strong> the publishers\/authors\/translators\/Idlewild. (And all <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> titles are 20% off . . . )<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you all there!<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/131.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still have a few (like seven) books from the fiction longlist left to profile, but to be honest, my attention is turning to next week&#8217;s announcement of the fiction and poetry finalists . . . As we did last year, we&#8217;ll be announcing 10 books from each category&#8212;truly the best of the best of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67476],"tags":[29976,18496,11316],"class_list":["post-276446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba-2010","tag-event","tag-idlewild-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276446","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334726,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276446\/revisions\/334726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}