{"id":307136,"date":"2017-10-17T18:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T18:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/10\/17\/three-percent-134-the-books-we-read-and-why-we-read-them\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:00","slug":"three-percent-134-the-books-we-read-and-why-we-read-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/10\/17\/three-percent-134-the-books-we-read-and-why-we-read-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #134: The Books We Read and Why We Read Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an impassioned pitch for why you should <a href=\"https:\/\/give.funderbolt.io\/uofr\/open-letter-tenth-anniversary\">support Open Letter&#8217;s annual campaign,<\/a> Chad and Tom talk about <span class=\"caps\">ALTA<\/span>, about how best to promote international literature to common readers, about the moral argument for reading translations, about Tim Parks and <a href=\"https:\/\/give.funderbolt.io\/uofr\/open-letter-tenth-anniversary\">this article on Han Kang&#8217;s <em>Human Acts<\/em>,<\/a> and about how baseball is broken and breaking Chad&#8217;s will to live. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>One other note: The next season of the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/two-month-review\/id1253564436\"><em>Two Month Review<\/em><\/a> will kick off on Thursday, October 26th with an episode introducing Merc\u00e8 Rodoreda and the two books of hers that will be featured this season: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/the-selected-stories-of-merce-rodoreda\"><em>Selected Stories<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/death-in-spring\"><em>Death in Spring.<\/em><\/a> Both are avaialble for 20% off by using the code 2MONTH at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/\">checkout.<\/a> The full schedule of episodes is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=20412\">available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s music is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7pH5dCoy1Hg\">Two Thousand and Seventeen<\/a> (the same number of minutes in game five of the the Cubs-Nationals series) by Four Tet. <\/p>\n<p>As always, feel free to send any and all comments or questions to: threepercentpodcast@gmail.com. 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