Comments on: Listen Up

By: bibliomom

bibliomom — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:34:58 +0000

I haven’t read the P & V translations as of yet. I’ve only read the Gardner translation but I should see if they have done a translation of AK.

You know I feel the same way about reading in translation. My favorite book of all time is Love in the Time of Cholera and I always feel as though I’m missing something because can’t read Marquez in the language in which he wrote it. I think that good translation is an art form that gets ignored frequently.

Thank you so much for stopping in and come again please.

By: the individual voice

the individual voice — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:33:57 +0000

I love This American Life, too, but I’ve never heard Babysitting before. It was incredibly funny and sad and psychologically profound and so much about storytelling and the magic of fiction . I came here from your hilarious comment today on “crocks” over at Pmousse. I also love the Pevear and Volokhonsky translations. My spouse just got War and Peace and is reading it before I get around to it. Crime and Punishment was amazing. Constance Gardner’s translations were so incredibly stilted. I’ve always felt like reading in translation is not really reading grasping the author’s voice. Great blog.

By: J

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:39:34 +0000

I listen to Wait Wait, TAL, and TTBOOK on my beloved iPod. I’m going to try to see if I can download a podcast of A Way With Words now, and give it a try. How cool that the co-host commented on your blog!

By: pandemonic

pandemonic — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:59:15 +0000

I love This American Life. It’s my favorite NPR show.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:09:05 +0000

I used to listen to NPR all the time, during my commutes to work. Now that I’m not working, I forget to turn it on.

Thank you for the reminder!

By: Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:22:42 +0000

My backlog of radio to listen to is weeks long--I work at home and no longer have 90 minutes total of commute time each day, so I'm lucky if I can catch up on Wait, Wait. High on my list are From Our Own Correspondent and Night Air from Radio National in Australia. Thanks for mentioning the show. We've got new one-hour episodes coming this week, by the way. —Grant Barrett, co-host of A Way with Words.