{"id":292196,"date":"2012-11-26T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/11\/26\/kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:04:18","slug":"kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/11\/26\/kirkuss-best-fiction-of-2012-list-featuring-two-open-letter-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkus's Best Fiction of 2012 List Featuring TWO Open Letter Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Cyber Monday is underway, it’s about time for the “Best of Everything!!!” lists to start coming out. (Or, as documented at Largehearted Boy,<\/a> continue coming out.) Personally, I fricking love these sorts of lists, to find books\/albums that I need to check out, and to serve as fodder for my anger . . . I’ll bet at least half of an upcoming podcast will be an escalation of complaints about some utterly predictable list of shit that most four-book-a-year readers will slobber over . . . And hopefully our year end lists (in books, movies, and music) will get some other cultural elitists all bent. <\/p>\n

But for now, the only year end list I’ve checked out is this Kirkus<\/em> one,<\/a> which is definitely my favorite, since it includes TWO<\/span> Open Letter titles: Children of Reindeer Woods<\/em><\/a> by Kristin Omarsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith and My First Suicide<\/em><\/a> by Jerzy Pilch (Kirkus<\/em> LOVES<\/span> the Pilch), translated from the Polish by David Frick. <\/p>\n

There are a number of interesting books on this list—Kingdom Come<\/i> by J.G. Ballard, The Investigation<\/em> by Philip Claudel, Arcadia<\/em> by Lauren Groff, Lazarus Is Dead<\/em> by Richard Beard, and Three Strong Women<\/em> by Marie NDiaye—but not many (any?) from small, nonprofit presses. YAY<\/span> TO US FOR<\/span> OVERACHIEVING<\/span>! <\/p>\n

I love both of these books, and you can buy them from your local independent bookstore, from Amazon, from B&N, or directly from us: click here<\/a> for Children<\/em>, and here<\/a> for Suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n

However you get them, I hope you do. And I want to take a second to give a special shout-out to Lytton Smith and David Frick for translating these. Both books set forth their own unique difficulties, and both translators totally nailed it. Congrats to both of you!<\/p>\n

\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Cyber Monday is underway, it’s about time for the “Best of Everything!!!” lists to start coming out. (Or, as documented at Largehearted Boy, continue coming out.) Personally, I fricking love these sorts of lists, to find books\/albums that I need to check out, and to serve as fodder for my anger . . […]<\/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":[43556,29666,6046,11786,17906,27366,18236,46246,2376,1646,8266],"class_list":["post-292196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-children-in-reindeer-woods","tag-david-frick","tag-icelandic-literature","tag-jerzy-pilch","tag-kirkus","tag-kristin-omarsdottir","tag-lytton-smith","tag-my-first-suicide","tag-polish-literature","tag-review","tag-year-end-lists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292196","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=292196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318806,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292196\/revisions\/318806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}