{"id":422242,"date":"2019-07-03T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=422242"},"modified":"2019-07-03T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:44:27","slug":"three-percent-bonus-becky-crook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2019\/07\/03\/three-percent-bonus-becky-crook\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent Bonus: Becky Crook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of &#8220;Norwegian Month&#8221; here at Three Percent, translator Becky Crook (<em>The Black Signs, Monsterhuman, Silence: In the Age of Noise<\/em>, and many more) came on the podcast to talk about her first cover letter, in which ways she&#8217;s become a better translator over the past half-decade, what to watch out for in contracts, the difficulties in translating intentional mistakes, Norwegian dream projects, and much more. Emerging and experienced translators are sure to get something out of this, even if it&#8217;s just the desire to rush out and get ahold of the wild, absurd <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokendimanche.eu\/the-black-signs-1\">The Black Signs<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Lars M\u00f8rch Finbourd.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad<\/a> on Twitter and Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/openletterbooks\/\">OL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chadwpost\/\">Chad<\/a>) for book and baseball talk, and for information about other podcasts and Three Percent articles.<\/p>\n<p>This episode&#8217;s music is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDZplFnMZ4o\">You&#8217;re My Excuse to Travel<\/a>&#8221; by Baths.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t already subscribe to the Three Percent Podcast you can find us on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\/id434696686?mt=2\">iTunes,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\">Stitcher,<\/a> and other places. 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