{"id":13193,"date":"2020-04-20T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13193"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:20:01","slug":"episode-370-alta-l-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-370-alta-l-price","title":{"rendered":"Episode 370 – Alta L Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 370:
\nAlta L. Price<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Books were my first drug.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Translator Alta L. Price<\/a> joins the show to talk about co-curating the 2020 (now 2021) edition of Festival Neue Literatur<\/a> with Tess Lewis<\/a>. We talk about the bureaucratic snafu that led her into a life of translation, how she fights the urge to revise translations between editions, the differences between translating a classic vs. a contemporary work, her work to promote gender parity among translators and translated authors, and how editors serve as gatekeepers that inadvertently perpetuate disparities. We also get into how studying printmaking brought her an understanding of what a work of art is and does as it shifts media, her literary ambassadorship of Chicago, how she overcame perfection-paralysis, and plenty more. This episode was intended to promote the Festival Neue Literatur, which was to be held April 23-26, 2020 in NYC but has been postponed to 2021; I decided to retain the portions about that to remind us of The Before Times.<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

This isn’t strictly one of ’em, but you can listen to all my COVID Check-In episodes at The COVID-19 Sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Some would argue that as soon as you speak a sentence or write something on paper, you’re translating.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n