{"id":303956,"date":"2016-04-04T20:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/04\/04\/contribute-to-the-why-this-book-should-win-series-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:56:55","slug":"contribute-to-the-why-this-book-should-win-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/04\/04\/contribute-to-the-why-this-book-should-win-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Contribute to the &#8220;Why This Book Should Win&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you\u2019ve probably noticed, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/tag\/why-this-book-should-win\/\">Why This Book Should Win<\/a> series has basically taken over the website. Our plan is to highlight all 35 titles longlisted for the Best Translated Book Awards before the announcement of the finalists on Tuesday, April 19th. Most of these posts are written by <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> judges, although a number of reviewers, booksellers, readers, and Three Percent fans are contributing as well.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been lining people up for these posts as fast as possible, but we do have a handful of titles waiting to be assigned. So, if you\u2019ve already read one of these, and are interested in writing something up for the website (I\u2019ll need it by the end of the week), just email me at chad.post [at] rochester.edu. First come, first serve. And remember, these posts don\u2019t have to be carefully crafted reviews\u2014just passionate responses on why these particular titles are so great.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the books that we still need people to cover:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><del><em>A General Theory of Oblivion<\/em><\/del><br \/>\n<del><em>Nowhere to Be Found<\/em><\/del><br \/>\n<em>French Perfume<\/em><br \/>\n<del><em>Sphinx<\/em><\/del><br \/>\n<em>The Body Where I Was Born<\/em><br \/>\n<del><em>I Refuse<\/em><\/del><br \/>\n<del><em>The Four Books<\/em><\/del><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you\u2019ve probably noticed, the Why This Book Should Win series has basically taken over the website. Our plan is to highlight all 35 titles longlisted for the Best Translated Book Awards before the announcement of the finalists on Tuesday, April 19th. Most of these posts are written by BTBA judges, although a number 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":[18416,35996,61536,1646,37876],"class_list":["post-303956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-best-translated-book-award","tag-btba","tag-btba-2016","tag-review","tag-why-this-book-should-win"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303956","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=303956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397142,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303956\/revisions\/397142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}