{"id":305586,"date":"2017-03-28T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/03\/28\/btba-final-clues-days-4-5-i-guess\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:13","slug":"btba-final-clues-days-4-5-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/03\/28\/btba-final-clues-days-4-5-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"BTBA Final Clues [Days 4 &#038; 5, I Guess]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so these clues are as late as possible, but I did promise a week of <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> hints, and technically, I have twelve more hours until the longlists are unveiled . . . It&#8217;s gotten more and more difficult to come up with these as the days have gone along. I mostly just can&#8217;t wait until we can get to talking about the actual books that made it . . . <\/p>\n<p>Just as a rundown, tomorrow at 10am, the longlists will be released on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\">The Millions.<\/a>. I&#8217;ll share them on the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> Facebook page and Twitter feed right away. Then, sometime after that, the new Three Percent podcast will go up, featuring a semi-educated breakdown of all thirty-five longlisted titles. And along the way, the official press release will appear here on Three Percent, and will be emailed to all the booksellers, reviewers, translators, etc., who are in our database.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here are a few more clues about what&#8217;s on the longlist:<\/p>\n<p>1) There are no Korean books on the fiction longlist. (But there is on the poetry . . .)<\/p>\n<p>2) On the fiction list, there are three books that are <em>definitely<\/em> considered &#8220;speculative fiction,&#8221; and one that features a talking <span class=\"caps\">XXXXXX<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>3) Technically, there&#8217;s only one collection of short stories on the list, but there&#8217;s another book that could easily be counted in the same category.<\/p>\n<p>4) There are two really long books on the fiction list, but the thickest book on the longlist is probably on the poetry side of things. <\/p>\n<p>All will be revealed shortly . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so these clues are as late as possible, but I did promise a week of BTBA hints, and technically, I have twelve more hours until the longlists are unveiled . . . It&#8217;s gotten more and more difficult to come up with these as the days have gone along. I mostly just can&#8217;t wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67476],"tags":[35996,64586,48766,65516,49386,1646],"class_list":["post-305586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba","tag-btba-2017","tag-btba-fiction","tag-btba-longlists","tag-btba-poetry","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315586,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305586\/revisions\/315586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}