daniel shapiro – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 Reimagining the Americas /College/translation/threepercent/2007/11/06/reimagining-the-americas/ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:24:20 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/11/06/reimagining-the-americas/ Last night, Open Letter hosted a panel entitled “Commerce and Culture: The Impact of the Business of Books on the Literature of the Americas.” Moderated by Chad Post, the panel featured Lisa Dillman, who translates from Spanish and Catalan and is a lecturer in Spanish at Emory University; Jack Kirchoff, the book review editor and paperbacks columnist at the Toronto Globe & Mail; Daniel Shapiro, director of literature at the and editor of Review; and Jonathon Welch, co-founder and buyer at .

It was a wide-ranging discussion, covering—as you can imagine by reading the brief bios above—the business of books, reviewing, translating, and bookselling.

If youÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™d like to listen to the panel, you can download the podcast by clicking here. (The file is 86MB and the discussion lasts about 90 minutes.)

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