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« Google Street View comes to Boston | Main | London hubbub and city smells » Thursday, June 7, 2007More about Reading the WorldOn Monday, I mentioned that at Barbara's Booksellers (in South Station) and other independent bookstores across the country, you will find literature in translation prominently displayed through the end of the month. Thanks to Reading the World, an initiative cofounded by Chad Post, formerly of the Dalkey Archive Press -- about which I've written for Ideas once or twice -- and now an employee of the University of Rochester, where he is assisting in the creation of a literary translation program and starting a new (yet unnamed) literary imprint dedicated to publishing translations. I think Chad Post is fighting the good fight. Here's a two-part interview with him, over at the website Conversational Reading: Part One | Part Two.
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