{"id":429252,"date":"2020-02-04T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=429252"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:49:58","slug":"three-percent-176-dirty-bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2020\/02\/04\/three-percent-176-dirty-bookshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #176: Dirty Bookshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a bit of a hiatus, Chad and Tom return to talk about the two biggest things to happen during Winter Institute: The\u00a0American Dirt\u00a0<\/em>controversy and the launch of Bookshop.org. If you haven’t been following the\u00a0American Dirt\u00a0<\/em>debacle, here are a couple pieces to read: Laura Miller’s piece in\u00a0<\/a>Slate<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Rebecca Alter’s in\u00a0Vulture<\/em><\/a>, and Ron Charles’s from the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em><\/a>. And here’s Chad’s Bookshop.org affiliate page<\/a> in case you want to buy any of the books talked about on this podcast.<\/p>\n

Books that are recommended this week include:<\/p>\n

The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place<\/em><\/a> by Patrik Ourednik, translated from the French by Alexander Hertich;<\/p>\n

Four by Four<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Sara Mesa, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore;<\/p>\n

On Time and Water<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith; and,<\/p>\n

Grabeland<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by eteam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This week’s music is “Wicked Witches<\/a>” by Kiwi Jr.<\/p>\n

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