we are talking translation today – from video games to literary fiction – with ruth ahmedzai kemp and jessica west. wonderful show with live audience for the first time: lightsabers and snowballs were thrown all the while bristol vr lab controlled the tech aspect tightly. consequently we had great content delivered with a bit more  “public access channel vibes” [should i trademark this term?]

enjoy the show and i do hope you get the bug for some out-of-the-mainstream fare when choosing your next book:

read on dear listener, for context:

• the unedited live stream from sansar

• big thx to bristol vr lab for facilitating the vr onboarding for ruth and jessica:

• lots of translated books were discussed, like “the raven’s children”,  samar yazbek’s “the crossing”, “a history of the world with the women put back in” & my favorite: “the dot”

• interesting initiative: new books in german seeks to connect publishers, authors and translators [and grant givers because $$$ matters!]

• drax mentions “the master and margarita”at some point [read it now folks!]

• fun in the studio clearly amplified by random lightsaber action from the audience:

• drax discovered tomris uyar recently through asymptote journal: almost nothing of her work has been translated into english

• what is happening in second life you ask? lab gab reunited me with strawberry !!

• next week on this very show: joe haldeman in an avatar made by silas merlin [of course!]

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