{"id":304256,"date":"2016-04-26T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/04\/26\/three-percent-114-btba-shortlists-the-vegetarian-diorama\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:01","slug":"three-percent-114-btba-shortlists-the-vegetarian-diorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/04\/26\/three-percent-114-btba-shortlists-the-vegetarian-diorama\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #114: BTBA Shortlists, The Vegetarian, Diorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s podcast Tom and Chad talk about the recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/04\/finalists-best-translated-book-awards.html\">Best Translated Book Award shortlists,<\/a> before moving on to discussion of the two Reading the World Conversation Series books for April: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=16882\"><em>The Vegetarian<\/em><\/a> by Han Kang and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=16892\"><em>Diorama<\/em><\/a> by Roc\u00edo Cer\u00f3n. <\/p>\n<p>Additional articles and books discussed include, Porochista Khakpour&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/07\/books\/review\/the-vegetarian-by-han-kang.html\">review of <em>The Vegetarian<\/em> in the <em>NY Times<\/em>,<\/a> Don DeLillo&#8217;s <em>Zero K<\/em>, Gabriella Coleman&#8217;s <em>Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy<\/em>, and A.J. 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