{"id":14829,"date":"2021-11-10T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:21:45","slug":"episode-459-tess-lewis-and-alta-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-459-tess-lewis-and-alta-price","title":{"rendered":"Episode 459 – Tess Lewis and Alta Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 459:
\nTess Lewis & Alta L. Price<\/a><\/p>\n

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“‘Turn And Face The Strange’ is a pretty ideal theme not just for the era we’re living, but the particular books we chose for the festival.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They were among the last people I recorded with before lockdown, and now translators Tess Lewis<\/a> and Alta L. Price<\/a> are back to talk about co-curating the Festival Neue Literatur 2021<\/a> (which runs from November 11 to 14, 2021<\/strong><\/span>), and how the theme they developed for the postponed 2020 edition, TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE<\/a>, became even more appropriate for the pandemic era. We get into the cliffhanger of rescheduling FNL and the offsetting challenges of virtual vs. in-person author attendance, the rise of nationalism and closed borders, how literature from other languages can become the fallback to let us understand the world from another person’s perspective, and the act of translating when people refer to the pandemic in the past tense. We get into the German-language authors (and two American ones) who are participating in this year’s FNL \u2014 Anna Baar, Joshua Cohen, Isabel Fargo Cole, Judith Keller, Helen Phillips, Benjamin Quaderer, Sasha Marianna Salzmann<\/strong>, and Ivna \u017dic<\/strong> \u2014 and how their works approach questions of identity and belonging through strange means. We also get into what Tess and Alta have learned about the world and themselves over the past 20 months in Pandemia, why the seclusion of a translator’s life prepped them for some of the worst of it, what themes they’d love to curate for future FNLs, and whether H\u00f6lderlin would have used DoorDash. (Listen to my 2020 episodes with Tess<\/a> and Alta<\/a>.)<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a> And go check out the Festival Neue Literatur<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“What is life if you’re living in one room, or if you’re not interacting with people?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n