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Reactions to the attack on author Salman Rushdie

WXXI Connections  radio

2022-08-15

The events surrounding the author raise questions about free speech and the dangers writers face in charged and polarized environments. We explore those issues with our guests, including Chad Post, publisher for Open Letter Books

Guadalajara Book Fair Continues to Grow in Importance

Publishers Weekly  

2019-12-06

Though final numbers are not yet in, this year鈥檚 Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which ran November 30鈥揇ecember 8, attracted some 800,000 members of the public, 2,300 publishing professionals, and 300 rights directors. FIL is the largest book event for publishers and authors in the Spanish-speaking world, and this year鈥檚 fair featured presentations on a variety of topics, including the rise of audiobooks and the importance of peer review for university presses.

Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books, a press that specializes in translated literary fiction, returned to FIL for the first time in 15 years. He said that, compared to other events such as the Frankfurt Book Fair, attending FIL is 鈥渓ike entering another world鈥� because 鈥渆very meeting is enthusiastic and collegial, more representative of the overall ecosystem in a way that鈥檚 very positive for all the various stakeholders.鈥�

Biblioasis's 'Ducks' is an Unexpected Hit

Publishers Weekly  online

2019-10-07

鈥淚t has taken 15 years for this to happen and I don鈥檛 anticipate that it will happen again,鈥� said Dan Wells, publisher of Biblioasis, about the surprising surge in sales of Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann, a 1,040-page experimental novel that largely consists of a single unending sentence in the mind of housewife in suburban Ohio. The book was already a darling of independent bookstores, who got a preview of the title back at Winter Institute in Albuquerque this January. But when the book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the U.K.鈥檚 most prestigious prize for fiction, the title started generating buzz and headlines.

Wells notes that the book might not merely be attracting the curious. 鈥淚鈥檝e been following the conversations about the book online and can see that it is now being propelled by word-of-mouth,鈥� he said. He also reports that the book is attracting attention from academics. One professor, Randy Boyagoda, who teaches at the University of Toronto, is the head of this year鈥檚 Giller Prize jury, and is also published by Biblioasis, is assigning it to his literature class. 鈥淗e鈥檚 teaching it alongside David Foster Wallace, and I鈥檝e seen others say that some are thinking of Ducks as this generation鈥檚 Infinite Jest,鈥� Wells said. The Two Month Review podcast by Chad Post at the 人妻少妇专区 has just started a close reading of the book with fans and critics for its tenth season.

Words Without Borders鈥� 2019 Ottaway Award: Edith Grossman

Publishing Perspectives  online

2019-09-05

For the gala on October 29, Emily Wilson, the Philadelphia-based translator of WW Norton鈥檚 2017 edition of The Odyssey, will serve as honorary chair, and the co-chairs of the event are Jennifer Moross and Rebecca Servadio.

Last year鈥檚 Ottaway winner was Chad Post, director of Open Letter Books, a press at the 人妻少妇专区 dedicated to publishing contemporary literature from around the world, and managing editor of Three Percent,

Shine a Light: Tom Roberge and Emma Ramadan on Selling Uncommon Books

Los Angeles Review of Books  online

2019-07-11

RIFFRAFF, A BOOKSTORE, COFFEE SHOP, and bar in Providence, Rhode Island, is co-owned by Tom Roberge and Emma Ramadan. Since the bookstore's opening in December 2017, Roberge and Ramadan have curated their books with uncommon specificity and intention.

Roberge is also on a judging panel for the Fondation Jan Michalski for writer and translator residencies in Switzerland and regularly co-hosts the translated literature podcast Three Percent with Chad Post.

Half of all translated books in the US come from just nine countries

Quartz  online

2019-06-06

In 2018, 632 never-before-translated books of fiction and poetry were published in the United States. It's the fifth straight year the US has published more than 600 translations, quite the feat for a country that has long been accused of having an insular book culture. By comparison, less than 400 translations were published in each year from 2008 to 2010. The data are from Publishers Weekly Translation Database, which goes back to 2008. (Accurate data before 2008 are not available.)

What accounts for the huge increase? Chad Post, the maintainer of the Translation Database and the director of the press Open Letter Books, believes it's a combination of two factors. One, a large number of new new translation-focused publishing houses opened over the last several decades, which Post thinks might be a result of the US becoming more engaged in world events after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Two, the huge popularity of a few recent translations like Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, led publishers to see translation as increasingly commercially viable.

YIKES! WE NEED MORE BOOKS IN TRANSLATION

Book Riot  

2019-05-23

On average, there are only 421 new fiction translations published each year in the United States, according to the recent Vulture article by Chad Post called 鈥淲ill Translated Fiction Ever Really Break Through?鈥� You might think, 鈥�421! That's a lot!鈥� but on average (and depending on where you're looking) the United States publishes around 300,000 books annually. Proportionally speaking: we need more books in translation!

In the Vulture article, Post paraphrases a New York Times piece called 鈥淎merica Yawns at Foreign Fiction.鈥� It was written in 2003, but seems to illuminate the current regard publishers have for books in translation. The assumption is that Americans think books in translation are too boring and not salacious or thrilling enough to hold the attention of a wider audience.

Editor's note: Chad Post is the publisher and founder of the 人妻少妇专区's Open Letter Books

Danielle Steel has published 179 books in her lifetime

Vox  online

2019-05-11

At Vulture, Chad Post considers why it is that America publishes so little translated literature:
In an industry 鈥� publishing 鈥� that loves data about as much as a vegan digs barbecues, numbers are not normally dwelled upon. Whereas we can know to the dollar how much money Avengers: Endgame has made, almost in real time, book sales are guesstimates based on Nielsen BookScan's admittedly incomplete reporting. So it was a big deal when a study back in 2005 鈥� initiated by PEN World Voices 鈥� announced that less than 3 percent of all the books published in English were originally written in another language.

Editor's note: Chad Post is the publisher and founder of the 人妻少妇专区's Open Letter Books

Americans Are Finally Reading More Translated Translation -- Aren't They?

Arts Journal  online

2019-05-09

Yes, there are some literary stars here whose books come to U.S. readers in translation 鈥� Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stieg Larsson, Elena Ferrante 鈥� but the number of books published in English that were originally written in another language has held steady at around 3% of the total for many years. Chad Post, founder of the publishing house Open Letter, which specializes in translated lit, writes about the interlocking issues behind 鈥渢he 3 percent problem.鈥� 鈥� Vulture

Open Letter鈥檚 Chad Post Wins 2018 Ottaway Award

Writers and Readers Magazine  

2018-12-15

"Chad W. Post of Open Letter Books to Receive 2018 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature

Post will be honored at the Words Without Borders 15th Anniversary Gala on October 30..."