#105: Alexievich, Amazon, and Rights

This week's podcast features a discussion of Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich (who Chad helped publish at Dalkey Archive), Amazon's recent announcement about investing $10 million into translations, and how rights work. There's a minor rant about Chase Utley ("worst human being on earth") and a little bit of baseball talk.

 

In honor of the Mets in the World Series (and Cubs making the post-season), this week's music is "Been So Long" by Win Win.

 

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The books discussed on this episode include:

• Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich


• Zone and Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard


• Summer of Hate by Chris Krause


• Target in the Night by Ricardo Piglia


• Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters by Hubert Haddad

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