{"id":291796,"date":"2012-09-27T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/09\/27\/canvas-release-date-and-a-special-offer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:04:20","slug":"canvas-release-date-and-a-special-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/09\/27\/canvas-release-date-and-a-special-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas Release Date! And a Special Offer . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, yesterday was the official release date for Benjamin Stein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/35#canvas\"><em>The Canvas<\/em>,<\/a> one of the most curiously designed Open Letter books to date. With two openings, and myriad ways to read it, you can read a totally different <em>Canvas<\/em> at the same time as your friend:<\/p>\n<p><txp_image id=\"1342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The novel consists of two narratives: Amnon Zichroni&#8217;s depiction of growing up in an orthodox Jewish family, and his eventual realization of his &#8220;gift&#8221; to see people&#8217;s memories; and, Jan Wechsler&#8217;s quest to recover his missing memories after receiving a mysterious briefcase with information about his past. These two stories play off each other in subtle ways, and it&#8217;s not until the very end of the book (or middle, if you prefer) that you find out how the two character intersect . . .<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this (and my birthday, which is why we always publish a book on September 26th), we&#8217;re offering <em>The Canvas<\/em> for free to all new <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\">Open Letter subscribers.<\/a> If you&#8217;ve been thinking about signing up&#8212;and who hasn&#8217;t? what could be better than receiving an excellent work in translation every month&#8212;this is the time. You&#8217;ll get 6 books for $60 or 11 for $100, which is just an insanely good bargain. <\/p>\n<p>So since up for the savings, and stay for the literature. <\/p>\n<p>Or just sign up as a birthday present to me. Please? <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/24-saer#scars\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/759.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yesterday was the official release date for Benjamin Stein&#8217;s The Canvas, one of the most curiously designed Open Letter books to date. With two openings, and myriad ways to read it, you can read a totally different Canvas at the same time as your friend: The novel consists of two narratives: Amnon Zichroni&#8217;s depiction [&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":[67486],"tags":[33756,46996,1866,45006,17416,33766],"class_list":["post-291796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-benjamin-stein","tag-brian-zumhagen","tag-open-letter","tag-special-offer","tag-subscriptions","tag-the-canvas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291796","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=291796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340596,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291796\/revisions\/340596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}