translation
The Author's ProcessSusanna Bairdbooks, translation, Open Letter Books, The Invented Part, Rodrigo Fresán, Madame Nielsen, The Endless SummerComment

Open Letter Books, Translating Stories from Acquisition to Publication

Open Letter Books brings world literature to English-language readers. Working in conjunction with the University of Rochester's Literary Translation Studies program, the nonprofit press publishes ten titles a year. To explain how Open Letter moves a title from acquisition to publication, Publisher Chad W. Post walked Spine through the process on two recent titles.

The Author's ProcessSusanna Bairdbooks, translation, Open Letter Books, The Invented Part, Rodrigo Fresán, Madame Nielsen, The Endless SummerComment
Open Letter Books, Translating Stories from Acquisition to Publication
Spine Staffbooks, covers, design, translation, cultureComment

Altering the Apparent: Translating Design

If like me you live, work and read in two or more languages and cultures, you may have noticed how the books that we love in one language sometimes suffer radical changes in another. And I am not referring to the words themselves—which for obvious reasons need to be varied—but to the whole book: its format, its layout and, more tangible, its cover.

Spine Staffbooks, covers, design, translation, cultureComment
Altering the Apparent: Translating Design