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Three Percent Podcast

Open Letter Books
Translation
Kurdish Literature
Hagfish Press
Sergio Pitol
The Calf
Shakespeare
Latin American Boom
World Editions
If This Be Magic
Manuel Puig
Finnegans Wake
Madagascar
Godzilla
Chaurangi Press
Stackbooks
Henar Press
Catching Fire
Shakespeare In Translation
Fair, the Life-Art Of Translation
Married Life

The Three Percent Podcast is a weekly(ish) conversation about new books, the publishing scene, international literature in translation, and many other random rants and raves. Chad W. Post of Open Letter Books and Tom Roberge of New Directions and Albertine Bookstore keep things irreverent, informed, and funny in a podcast that'll keep you up to date on the international literary and publishing wor... more

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On this episode, Daniel Hahn OBE joins Chad to talk about his new book, If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. They discuss how the book foregrounds the roles creativity and interpretation play in translation, what a good c... more

On this episode, special guest Aryan Omar Hassan talks about Henar Press and their first publications: Gābor by Seyed Qader Hedayati, translated from the Kurdish by Chiya Parvizpur & Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo; I Am Going to Kill Somebody by Firat Ceweri... more

Arunava Sinha—professor, journalist, translator of over 100 works, including The Laboratory by Rabindranath Tagore—discusses his new venture, Chowringhee Press, his career in translation, the literary scene in India writ large, and provides a list of... more

Jeffrey Angles (translator of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again and many non-Kaiju related titles) joins Chad and special guest Joanne Bernardi (Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement, Provenance and Early Cinema (e... more

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Recent Guests

Daniel Hahn
Writer, translator, editor; author of If This Be Magic
Canongate (UK) / Canopy (US)
Episode: Daniel Hahn on "If This Be Magic"
Aryan Omar Hassan
Founder of Henar Press, Kurdish literature advocate
Henar Press
Episode: Kurdish Literature and Henar Press
Arunava Sinha
Award-winning translator of Bengali, Hindi and English literature; founder involved in Chowringhee Press and Stackbooks
Chowringhee Press / Stackbooks
Episode: Three Percent Podcast #209: Arunava Sinha on South Asian Literature in Translation
Jeffrey Angles
Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Western Michigan University; translator
Western Michigan University; translator of The Thorn Polar; translator of The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
Episode: Three Percent Podcast #208: Translating Godzilla & Mothra
Joanne Bernardi
Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies; Project Director of ReEnvisioning Japan
University of Rochester
Episode: Three Percent Podcast #208: Translating Godzilla & Mothra
Allison Charette
Translator and founder/mentor of ALTNA and ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
Emerging Literary Translators Network (ALTNA); ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
Episode: Three Percent Podcast #207: Translating Malagasy Literature with Allison Charette
Leif Høghaug
Author of The Calf
Fumde Stampe Press
Episode: "The Calf" by Leif Høghaug & David M. Smith
David M. Smith
Translator and author
Self/Open Letter (translator for book)
Episode: "The Calf" by Leif Høghaug & David M. Smith
Mark Haber
Author of several novels; wrote the introduction to Married Life
Coffee House Press
Episode: "Married Life" by Sergio Pitol & George Henson

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Chad W. Post
Host of The Three Percent Podcast; Open Letter Books (presenter) and University of Rochester event organizer

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Three Percent Podcast #203: World Editions 3.0 + "The Cracks We Bear"
Q: Why did you choose to publish The Cracks We Bear under World Editions and how did the collaboration start?
Catalina Infante sent the manuscript; the translator and editor built a long-running collaboration beginning around 2020, including prior engagement with the author's story collection and translations published in literary journals.
Three Percent Podcast #203: World Editions 3.0 + "The Cracks We Bear"
Q: What is this book about and how did you come across it?
The book opens as a story about new motherhood but quickly expands to explore daughterhood, grief, and trauma within a Chilean setting and historical context, weaving personal and political timelines.
"Married Life" by Sergio Pitol & George Henson
Q: How do editors influence the translation process, and what is the balance between translator autonomy and editorial guidance?
Editors shape the translation by providing critical feedback that helps surface the book's voice and assist the translator in making informed choices about word orders, collocations, and rhythm; the best editing preserves the author's intent while allowing the translator to write confidently, sometimes requiring the translator to push back on suggested changes that would erode the book's distinctive voice.
"Married Life" by Sergio Pitol & George Henson
Q: What is your overarching approach to translating Pitol, and how does that play out in Married Life specifically?
The overarching approach is a spectrum between domestication and foreignization, with a deliberate preference for preserving foreignness in service of voice and stylistic fidelity, even if that means sacrificing some readability for the sake of the original's cadence and complexity; in Married Life, this means maintaining long, intricate sentence structures and the nuanced, intellectually playful tone that characterizes Pitol, while still ensuring it remains accessible to English readers.
Three Percent Podcast #201: Suzanne Jill Levine's "Unfaithful"
Q: How did you come to write Unfaithful?
Levine explains that Unfaithful emerged from reflecting on her life as a translator and her relationships with major Latin American writers, using the biography of Puig as a springboard to discuss broader themes of translation and memory.

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A weekly-ish dialogues focused on international literature, translation, and publishing, with a sharp eye on how translated works reach English-speaking readers. Across episodes, the show spotlights translators, editors, and publishing houses, exploring practical realities—from funding and rights to distribution and the economics of small presses—while also delving into big-picture questions about representation, global literature, and the politics of translation. Notable threads include translator-centric publishing imprints, independent presses, and cross-cultural collaborations, often pairing authors, translators, and editors to unpack craft and industry dynamics. The format tends to blend rigorous literary discussion with candid industr... more

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