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I wanted to write a lot more about this, but I'm running out of time . . . Here are a few clues about the fiction and poetry finalists for the 2016 Best Translated Book Awards. The shortlists will be officially unveiled tomorrow morning (Tuesday, April 19th) at 10am over at The Millions.
Fiction Finalists:
That should get you started . . . I suspect that someone will be able to guess at least seven of these titles.
As in years past, the first person to email me and correctly identify all ten titles will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Open Letter.
Over on the Poetry side of things:
OK, since this is a bit easier, I'll give the first person to guess all six a complete set of Open Letter poetry titles.
Guess away!
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series, is by Monica Carter, former BTBA judge and writer whose fiction has appeared in The Rattling Wall, Black Clock, Writers Tribe Review, and other publications. She is a freelance critic whose work has appeared in World Literature Today, Black Clock and Foreword Reviews. She is the Project Coördinator for Lambda Literary's LGBTQ Writers in Schools. She is currently working on her novel. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
The Four Books by Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas (China, Grove Press)
"I left some portions of the document in my drawer, and handed over others. The parts I handed over described my contribution and loyalty to Re-Ed, while the ones I left behind in my drawer contained material I hoped to use for a novel after I succeeded becoming a new man. I didn't know which of these was more important to me, just as I didn't know which is more important – the life of an author, or his works."
Yan Lianke is a distinguished novelist not quite recognized as he should be in his own native China despite having been nominated for the Man Booker Prize as well as winning the Franz Kafka Prize, which is based on an author's oeuvre to date. He is revered in China although most of his works have been banned there, including Serve the People, Dream of Ding Village (a run was published but then recalled) and his current work, The Four Books, which never found a mainland publisher. Political dissension doesn't make a literary work great, but a continual effort to challenge bureaucratic revisionist history of one's own government provides a strong foundation for honest, compelling, exemplary work especially in the face of reprobation. The Four Books is morbidly farcical, a literary feat that few authors can achieve, but more importantly stuns with its complexity that appears simple, its messages that seem to be reductive reboots of communist propaganda and its styles varied yet fluid enough to be utterly readable.
This is not an "entertaining" book, although it entertains. It is a book of importance and by the fact that it is banned in the author's homeland; it no doubt will be included one day in the canon of great Chinese literature.
The Four Books chronicles the time of Mao's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) and also sardonically includes the use of red blossoms as rewards for good deeds based on Mao Zedong Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956) that promoted open expression of the regime in order to let intellectual ideas flourish. Of course, Mao did a quick turnabout deciding that those intellectuals who took advantage of that freedom should be imprisoned for their counterrevolutionary ideas. As part of Mao's economic initiative to reign victorious in grain and steel production over the West, where the "United States is a pair of balls, and England, France, Germany and Italy are cock, balls and feces," he collectivized farming in rural areas and established Re-Education districts for rebellious criminals.
The novel opens with the setting of the ninety-ninth district located on the embankment of the Yellow River where the goal was to assign each criminal "a number and re-educate them through hard labor." The characters that figure prominently in this district are the Child, a low level leader in the Party whose ideology is based on an adolescent viewpoint of the world, Communism and the concept of reward and punishment, followed by intellectuals only referred to by their former profession: the Scholar, the Musician, the Theologian and most importantly, the Author. Almost a character itself, Chinese color symbolism imbues each page using red, white, yellow and black often and effectively to represent traditional interpretations ranging from beauty to imperial power to Communism.
Lianke shrewdly structures the book with alternating excerpts from four books. Translator Carlos Rojas stylistically creates fluidity and vibrancy throughout the novel with his language and interpretative choices. It opens with Heaven's Child, an anonymous book written in holy language borrowed from a pastiche of religious texts including the Bible and The Four Books of Confucius. Then he alternates with excerpts from Criminal Records in which the Author records the infractions of his fellow district criminals and is promised by the "higher-ups" "that as long as you finish the this book, not only will they allow you to return to the provincial seat to be reunited with your family, but they will have the book printed and distributed throughout the country. They will reassign you to the capital, to be a leader of the country's writers." With the rationed ink and paper he is given, the Author also begins his memoir, Old Course, an intimate first person account of his thoughts, his gradual devolvement from witness of the ninety-ninth to a gradual obsession with growing wheat bigger than an ear of corn. The fourth book is also the final chapter that is the Scholar's partial version of The New Myth of Sisyphus. The Scholar's unfinished philosophical text about what he has learned from living in the Re-Ed District states that once humans become acclimated to the conditions of punishment, humiliation and debasement, harsher forms must be introduced make them understand the idea of hardship and challenge. Lianke turns up Camus's myth into a futile exercise that involves the draconian task of not only rolling the rock up the hill, but down it as well.
As a symbol of the Communist Party, the Child is demanding, easily provoked, craves attention and wants to be constantly rewarded by the "higher ups." The intellectuals make promises to him in order to gain paper red blossoms, which once they gain one hundred twenty-five, they will be allowed to leave and return home. He makes them swear that if they don't mean it they say he makes childish, melodramatic demands like asking them to take a gun (placed on a platter), shoot him in the chest and make sure that he falls forward, not backwards.
Even though through raiding all the counterrevolutionary books of the intellectuals he is usually caught reading comic books emphasizing the simplistic nature of the bureaucracy as well as its lack of substantive provocative ideas. Paralleling the belief system of Christianity, even though the Theologian is forced to give up his copy of the New Testament for the Child to burn, Child's is fascinated by a picture of Mother Mary. He ends up believing in the mythological nature of the stories of Genesis to justify the actions of the Politburo in Beijing.
Determined to earn enough red blossoms to return home, the Author goes to live by himself so he can produce wheat as big as ears of corn. At first, he encounters a feeling of freedom and renewed vitality to write but then in order to keep his promise of growing this Monsanto-esque wheat stalks, he devolves into chained slave vulnerable to the perils that threaten his wheat including bad soil, sun, and sparrows (one of animals of the Four Pests Campaign the Mao created in order to kill these pest that threatened the grain). He cuts himself to mix his own blood with water to make the stalks grow bigger. He forgoes sleeping in his hut to guard his wheat from disaster and continues bloodletting until he is pale and too dizzy to walk back to his hut. His desperation is palpable when he thinks, "Instead I wanted to crawl back, and in the process show all of the wheat plants how much I had sacrificed for them, like parents who exaggerate their illness in order to get their children's sympathy."
While the "higher-ups" demand unrealistic wheat production and steel production from the labor camps, the land is barren with no hope of producing food for the Re-Ed workers and starvation results. When it is clear that the Great Chinese Famine hit the rural provinces hardest, some Re-Ed districts were faced with incidents of cannibalism. When it occurs in the ninety-ninth, the Scholar brings it up to the Child:
"The Scholar stared at the Child and said, "But at the very least we can't permit people to eat each other, right?"
The Child open the picture book he was holding to a page near the end, and said, "Early on, there was a devastating famine, and people died throughout the land. There was also an enormous flood in which nearly everyone drowned, and only Noah's family survived."
The satirical nature of the Author that Lianke employs in the beginning of the book slyly progresses to horror when the he realizes survival seems unlikely for anyone:
"I retreated to the middle of the room and told the Scholar not to look. The Scholar then walked over to the corpses lying on the innermost cot. As soon as he reached the bed, I recognized the two bodies that belonged to the Theologian and a young associate professor. The Theologian originally had not been on his bunk. Feeling flustered, I went over and pulled back the sheet covering the Theologian's body, and immediately felt a wave of nausea run through me. The body had no arms or legs, instead merely his trunk was lying there, like a corpse that has been disinterred after many years. I quickly covered him again with the sheet before the Scholar could see it and retreated from the room. I squatted in the doorway and repeatedly dry-heaved, as thought there were a clump of putrid grass wedged in my throat."
Lianke lays out the slow burn of this genocide by insidiously eliminating basic human rights and primal needs from each character. The only expression of sexual (which is forbidden) and romantic love happens between the Scholar and the young, pretty Musician. Ultimately, after being reported by the Author, they are brutally abused for their behavior and endure degrading behavior in order to obtain food for each other.
The realization that no matter how many red blossoms they collect, they are doomed to die without dignity or recognition. Loyalty to the Party is the highest goal which none of the criminals can ever achieve when the requirements are constantly changing.
It's not simply that The Four Books should win because Lianke continues to challenge the tragedies of China's past and their denial in the present of those tragedies, but because he represents the curiosity of a writer who refuses to let them be ignored. The Four Books, as well written and as devastating as it is, confronts history and the roles we play in it. It's a powerful testament to the courage Lianke renders as the obligation of a writer. Shouldn't more writers do this with each novel they write? The Four Books should win for the voice it gives to the millions who died without recognition, without acknowledgment that they even existed.Tweet
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series, is by Tess Lewis, BTBA judge, writer, translator from the French and German, and an advisory editor of the Hudson Review. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Djibouti, Seagull Books)
for miniature republic
parsimonious poems
The Djibouti writer Abdourahman Waberi's name will be familiar to BTBA followers for his novel Transit, short-listed in 2013. The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper is Waberi's first collection of poetry and there is a palpable sense of urgency to these lean poems. Size, of course, is not a reliable indicator of impact or import. Waberi sees his small native land as part of the cradle of mankind, of homo erectus, to be exact. Here, humans first stood, first put one foot in front of the other, joining gesture, movement and breath into a kind of freedom. And it is that instant, that conjunction, that inspires Waberi to imagine man making "that first gesture in the bed of [his] pages."
Writing poems, for Waberi, is "a matter of strictest necessity." He sows these "modest pebbles" in readers' paths, not to guide them—Waberi is suggestive, not prescriptive—but as markers to use in charting their own way to a meaningful life free from the tides of economic, financial, ecological, and spiritual excess that are washing over the world. "Another path of life is possible, apparent in the creases and folds of this collection."
These spare poems are laconic but evocative, conjuring up desert landscapes, a nomadic tribe, or his small country's struggles with civil war and extremism. He sees the wind as a calligrapher, covering the dunes with words.
brush in hand the wind sketches
landscapes of words
sculpted mountain slopes
shadow plains
horizon enclaves
This is a landscape that has witnessed much suffering, great and small. The Somali bullet,
. . . bloom of a new genus
that bans
all transports of joy
all shedding of tears in the name of love
drawn from the bittersweet milk of peace
is countered by a lame herdsman who laments
with my skinny legs
I've crossed vast desert sands
with my short strides
I've kept up with my camels' pace
so why should I care
if my shrew of a wife slanders my name!
Unsparing in their frankness, Waberi's poems are also finely attuned to the beauties and joys in a harsh landscape of "tortured geology" and happy simplicity. Waberi enjoins us to "let nomadic words live" for they, as much as any others, can open up new worlds and lead us to "the tree of knowledge [which] has wings to surpass the horizon."
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is by Charlotte Whittle, translator, and editor at Cardboard House Press. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by J. T. Lichtenstein (Mexico, Seven Stories Press)
Guadalupe Nettel's unsettling autobiographical novel, which follows on the success of her story collection Natural Histories, recounts the disorienting childhood of a girl coming to terms with living in her own skin. From the psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator recalls a youth marked by trauma and displacement, and details the magnified perceptions and small-scale metamorphoses of her coming of age. The Body Where I Was Born is a story of a girl learning to inhabit a body, and of how the body inhabits its surroundings. In her exploration of this process of becoming, the author trains her gaze on the uncomfortable discoveries of youth many of us would prefer to forget. Nettel's prose is elegant yet unadorned, and her translator, J.T. Lichtenstein, has preserved the book's matter-of-fact and sometimes deadpan tone in her skillful rendering of the novel.
Born with a birthmark on her cornea, the young Guadalupe is subjected to a series of corrective treatments and forced to wear an eye patch the color of her skin. This gives her the uncanny appearance of having only one eye, making her classmates "curious and uncomfortable," and initiating Guadalupe into her status as an outsider. The treatment regimen also involves exposure to black light: "for this, my parents built a wooden box that my small head fit into perfectly, then they lit it up. In the background, like a primitive cinemascope, drawings of animals went around and around: a deer, a turtle, a bird, a peacock." The image anticipates Guadalupe's withdrawal into her own world, where animals will become her protective totems.
In a defensive gesture, Guadalupe grows hunched and turns in on herself. Critical of her posture, her mother nicknames her "Cucaracha." Partly as a result of this, Guadalupe comes to identify with the kingdom of insects, creatures that provoke the same mix of curiosity and revulsion she feels she causes in others. This process of identification reveals Nettel's interest—also visible in Natural Histories—in the distasteful and beastly aspects of existence, those from which we might prefer to look away. Guadalupe's cold, distant grandmother, with whom she is forced to live after her parents abandon her, banishes her from lunch "exactly how one might throw an undesirable insect outside so as to not have to squash it in front of guests." Around the time of her first stirrings of sexual desire, Guadalupe sees in the mirror "something similar to the caterpillar found dead in my shoe." Even as she discovers the latent potentialities of her young body, she creates an "alternative geography" for herself, recognizing that "I really did resemble the cockroaches that travel through the marginal spaces and buried pipes of buildings." It is fitting then that Guadalupe reads Kafka, and recognizes her kinship with Gregor Samsa of The Metamorphosis: "Nowhere in the story does it say exactly what kind of insect Gregor Samsa was, but I quickly gathered it was a cockroach. He had turned into one; I was one by maternal decree, if not by birth." Guadalupe's identification with the indestructible cockroach and with the ancient trilobite places her within a tribe of tough-shelled survivors.
While Guadalupe's narrative is profoundly intimate and personal, it is also punctuated by far-reaching events that marked the era of her childhood. She grows up surrounded by members of the diaspora prompted by a series of Latin American dictatorships. Recalling the Villa Olímpica where she lived, built in 1968 to accommodate athletes and journalists attending the Olympics, Guadalupe associates it with the 1968 massacre of students at Tlatelolco on the eve of that same event. And in 1985, she and her mother watch in shock as a Mexico City in ruins, after the earthquake that killed thousands, appears on the television in their living room in Aix-en-Provence.
A child of the 1970s, Guadalupe is subjected to experimental practices typical of the decade. She attends a Montessori school, and witnesses her parents' flirtations with open relationships, communal living, and the predictive capacities of the I Ching. But despite their apparently liberated mindset, her parents are still conditioned by the mores of their own childhoods, and subject to curious blind spots and inconsistencies in their parenting ethos. When, after years of insisting that no truth should be withheld from their children, Guadalupe's father disappears, it takes years for Guadalupe to discover the truth of his whereabouts.
One of the book's most memorable episodes concerns the silent communication between Guadalupe and Ximena, daughter of exiles from Pinochet's military dictatorship. In a ritual of "marvelous symmetry" the two girls see each other from their windows and each recognizes the other in her isolation; they return to their respective windows night after night to quietly watch one another. It is as if each had found in the other a companion to share the quiet, intuited truths of their afflictions. But while Ximena sets fire to herself and escapes "once and for all from the cage of her life," Guadalupe is already on her way to developing the cockroach-like carapace that will shield her.
The novel's epigraph "I always wanted / to return / to the body / where I was born," from Allen Ginsberg's "Song" is borne out in the final sequence, in which the eye surgery Guadalupe's mother has been planning is ultimately deemed unsafe: returning from the journey, Guadalupe accepts her body and the marks it bears, saying: "my eyes and my vision were the same but I saw differently: . . . I decided to inhabit the body where I was born, in all its peculiarities."
The Body Where I Was Born captures the alienation of a childhood spent in solitude, and is a powerful testimony of a woman claiming her agency and her place in the world. In its measured, incisive prose, the small incidents of adolescence carry as much weight as the global, political events that frame them. We are thus invited to witness the evolution of a hardened, resilient self that wears its wounds like stamps of survival: "these tattoos and scars we add with our personality and convictions, in the dark, by touch, as best we can, without direction or guidance." Nettel's complex, probing testimony of survival and Lichtenstein's deft translation make The Body Where I Was Born a strong contender for the BTBA.
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is by Deborah Smith, BTBA judge, translator from the Korean, and founder of Tilted Axis Press. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan, edited and translated from the Persian by Farzana Marie (Afghanistan, Holy Cow! Press)
This collection, subtitled "Women's Poetry from Herat Afghanistan," bears moving witness to the extraordinary impact both poetry and translation—usually seen as minor, or marginal pursuits—is able to have on both our intellectual and emotional lives. In her introduction, powerhouse translator Farzana Marie explains that "poetry holds an exceedingly revered place in the consciousness of the people of Afghanistan," its orality lending it endurance in a country where so much else has been repeatedly destroyed. Her tight editorial focus makes this anthology as effective as a single-poet collection; poems by eight young women from Herat, an ancient city near the border with Iran, all written post-2001 (in other words, post Taliban). The feeling is one of an intimate circle, especially as the latter seven are in some sense disciples of Nadia Anjuman, the poet whose work opens the collection and who was widely seen as the city's leading literary light until her untimely death, a victim of domestic violence.
Two things about this book blew me away—one was the strength of the writing itself, and another was the astonishing work of its translator, whose time in Afghanistan has been spent volunteering at orphanages, on active duty in the US Air Force, and as a scholar of Persian literature. Crucially, though, Farzana Marie is also a poet in her own right, and an extremely gifted one, with the literary sensibility needed to carry off the tricky task of making poetry which relies heavily on strict forms like the ghazal and end rhymes come alive in English, substituting internal and slant rhymes to retain the music of the original (these translations beg to be read aloud). Here, in one of Nadia Anjuman's most famous poems, rhythm, line-breaks and vowel sounds combine to produce an effect both heady and heavy, the long "u" at the end dulling the poem into a soporific stupor, similar to the way that earlier repeated "full" hung alone like a weight or a stopper, bringing any hint of exuberance up short.
I'm full of the feeling of emptiness,
An abundant famine
boils me in my soul's fevered fields,
and this strange waterless boiling
startles the image in my poem
to life.
I watch the new-living picture,
a peerless rose
blush across the page!
But barely has she first breathed
when streaks of smoke begin
to obscure her face and fumes
consume her perfumed skin.
Sadly, I wasn't able to interview Farzana herself as she's currently recuperating from a stroke (and fundraising to pay for treatment), but her publisher Jim Perlman, at the wonderfully-named Holy Cow! Press, found time to answer a couple of questions.
How did you come to publish the book?
a.) We first became aware of Farzana Marie (her birth name is Felisa Hervey) in 2012 when we accepted her poem "Be-long-ing" for an anthology we were putting together called The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home. In her bio notes, Farzana wrote that she was currently studying for a Ph.D. in Persian Literature at the University of Arizona. In the winter of 13/14, wanting to escape the frozen tundra of northern Minnesota, I planned a two-week visit to Tucson where I have extended family. I decided to contact Farzana and set up a meeting. We met for lunch, and during our conversation, she mentioned that she'd translated a collection of contemporary poetry by Afghan women and was looking for a publisher. Soon after returning to Minnesota, I received a copy of that same manuscript. Although Holy Cow! are known primarily for writing by midwest regional American authors, I felt that Load Poems was a powerfully unique and historically important book. So, we went for it.
How does it feel to be longlisted?
b.) We're overjoyed that Load Poems has been selected for the BTBA—the nomination confirms for us the wisdom of taking this bold step in publishing Farzana's ground breaking collection, and it will definitely encourage us to seek out other translations to add to our list.
For those who are interested, here's a clip from the reading tour for this collection:
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is by Stacey Knecht, BTBA judge and translator from the Czech and Dutch. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon (Russia, FSG)
There I lay, on my little yellow sofa, felled by the flu. The first three days were foggy, inside and out, but on the fourth day my eyes began to clear, and I reached for the fat Russian novel that had been waiting next to me ever since the fever hit: The Big Green Tent. Given my penchant for things Slavic, and the fact that the second half of a flu is usually easier than the first, this promised to be a pleasurable recovery.
It's fascinating to trace the trajectories of people destined to meet. Sometimes such encounters happen without any special help from fate, without elaborate convolutions of plot, following the natural course of events—say, people live in adjacent buildings, or go to the same school.
These lines, at the start of Chapter One (they appear again halfway through the book, as if to remind us of their significance), sum up not only the book itself, but also the style in which it's written. The novel unfolds, "following the natural course of events," to reveal the cast of characters and the storylines one has come to expect from "the dear, dead, nineteenth-century Russians," as my favorite literature teacher used to say, the kind of book in which we'd write a list of all those characters on the inside cover. Yet the author of The Big Green Tent, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, is still very much alive, widely acclaimed, and "an outspoken protester of the Putin regime" (The Atlantic, December 2015). The events she describes, the post-Stalin years up through the early 1990s, are palpably recent; and repression, unfortunately, is timeless.
Perhaps to ensure that the reader is aware of the fact that history can and does repeat itself, Ulitskaya brings past and present together, blurring our sense of time. There are passages here that echo those dear, dead Russians:
The storm took place at half past two in the morning. It was like an opera or a symphony—with an overture, leitmotifs, and a duet of water and wind. Lightning bolts flew up in columns, accompanied by incessant rumbling and flashes. Then there was an intermission and a second act. Maria Nikolayevna's heart pains, which had plagued her all day, stopped immediately, as did Captain Popov's headache, from which he had been suffering for the past twenty-four hours. He even managed to get some sleep before going to work. The only thing he didn't manage to do was put a stamp on the document. But he could do that later.
Boris Ivanovich loved his mother-in-law; in her he saw Natasha, but with a more decisive character. In his wife, Natasha, he saw features of his mother-in-law — the first signs of a gentle fullness, small lines around the mouth, and a burgeoning soft pouch under the chin. Good, healthy stock. The generous plumpness of Kustodiev's women, but all the more alluring for it.
Then, just two pages later, we're reminded that this is a different era entirely:
What he was looking for was lying on his own desk in his office in the form of photocopied pages from Stern magazine. These were cartoons: gigantic letters spelling "Glory to the Communist party of the Soviet Union," and under them a crowd of people and dogs trying to reach the sacred words. The words themselves were made of sausages: boiled salami, with circles of white fat where they had been sliced. [. . .] Another cartoon depicted a mausoleum made of the same kind of salami, with the word Lenin written in sausage links.
I'd be very happy for The Big Green Tent to win the BTBA 2016. The prose is rich, the translation, strong, the themes, relevant. There's history, and humor, and a pinch of folklore. But above all: it cures the flu.
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is by Tiffany Nichols, who will start her Ph.D. studies this upcoming fall and is a contributor at to Three Percent. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
The Things We Don't Do by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia (Argentina, Open Letter)
My first rather obvious reason as to why The Things We Don't Do should win the Best Translated Book Award relies on the prestige already gained by Andrés Neuman. Neuman was introduced to the English-speaking audience with Traveler of the Century, a work which I personally believe is the War and Peace of the twenty-first Century. As Jeremy Garber points out in his Three Percent review of the work, Neuman "has been celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, having attracted a number of prestigious awards." Further, Neuman was celebrated by Roberto Bolaño (in verified print— Between Parentheses). In discussing Neuman's first novel, Bolaño states:
In it, good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature, the kind written by real poets, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what. In principle, this is the most difficult test (also the most difficult exercise and stretch) and on no few occasions Neuman pulls it off with frightening ease. . . When I come across these young writers it makes me want to cry. I don't know what the future holds for them. I don't know whether a drunk driver will run them down some night or whether all of a sudden they'll stop writing. If nothing like that happens, the literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.
Personally, I believe we can drop the mic here as to why Neuman should win the BTBA. Namely, (1) Neuman is still writing, and (2) Neuman has assumed a position of literary prestige in the Spanish-speaking world (and the English-speaking world)—All of Bolaño's criteria having been met. . .
Most works of literature stay with us for a short period of time upon completion. However, there are a select few that sneak into our thoughts weeks and months (even years) after completion. These works are challenging and thought-provoking not only during the act of reading, but also appear in one's thoughts without provocation when the mind is busy handling our daily lives because the subconscious needs time to make its own assessment of the work within the greater context of time and the reader's own identity. The Things We Don't Do (along with his other works) is one of such work. Neuman's aforementioned prestige and now his ability to write literature with staying power—the case is building for a winner.
Focusing on the work itself, The Things We Don't Do is divided into five parts, which appear to be based on thematic similarities between the short stories in their respective sections ending with a section containing clever aphorisms on writing within the short story form. The strength of the collection lies in Neuman's ability to craft short stories covering topics, on which people remain silent or often forget completely while carrying out their day-to-day activites. These topics range from terminal illness to suicide to the contents of hotel guest books to experiences of sex intertwined with birth and the clues one can observe from a clothes line.
True to this established style, Neuman places observations that are so globally ubiquitous that anyone could engage with his work as if there was a direct channel between the reader and the work. These observations are so simple and stated with such finesse that any reader will be forced to provide his/her undivided attention to the work. Examples (absent context) include:
. . . [I]n today's session he declared that people born in the '70s are orphans through excess. That is to say, a generation that feels unprotected due to its parents' overprotectiveness.
Ariel was, so to speak, a classically envious person. And, like all people of his kind, his fury turned against his own interests and slowly ate away what little happiness he had.
. . . [M]y male neighbor on the third floor, who takes the trouble to sort out his washing by size, type, and color. Never a shirt next to a hand towel. He lives alone. I am not surprised. How can anyone possibly sleep with someone unable to trust in the hospitality of chance? No doubt about it, my obsessive neighbor is a master of camouflage.
Scattered through the entire collection, the reader will also stumble across clever mind games, which add to the intrigue of the work as a whole and demanding the reader's attention (and later that of the reader's subconscious) despite the deceivingly simple and unencumbered prose. Further, Neuman's playfulness when it comes to these mind games, result in a work that becomes quite endearing to the reader without a scintilla of kitschiness. In addition, each story starts from a point of zero and flourishes into concepts that cannot be predicted or sensed until they occur, amplifying the suspense which is often laking from a short story collection. As Neuman himself states:
The extreme freedom of a book of short stories derives from the possibility of starting from zero each time. To demand unity from it is like padlocking the laboratory.
Turning to the end of the work, the last section of Things We Don't Do is comprised of series of statements—not meant to be "dogmatic poetics" but are "happy to contradict each other"—serving as an enjoyable reference pertaining to the art of writing short stories. The section's placement serves as a dare to the reader to apply the preceding stories to the statements to test whether the collection passes muster which can only come from an author who is aware of not only his craft, abilities, comfort with language, and peers, but also one who understands what came before and what will come after. To contain such a dare in one's work is yet another reason why The Things We Don't Do should win.
In closing, just as Patti Smith carried Albertine Sarrazin's Astragal throughout the world in a small metal suitcase, I have done the same with The Things We Don't Do (albeit, a generic polyester Samsonite suitcase). Like Astragal for Patti Smith, The Things We Don't Do has become a "trove of bittersweet memories" probably because The Things We Don't Do is "a book [that] tells me something I was trying to say, I feel the right to appropriate its words, as if they had once belonged to me and I were taking them back." I rest my case as to why this book should win.
(It should also be noted that The COOP at Harvard University believes that The Things We Don't Do is a perfect alternative to doing your homework. So you do not have to take my word for it.)
This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is by Amanda Bullock, BTBA judge and director of public programs at Literary Arts, Portland. We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico, Coffee House Press)
Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth, translated by Christina MacSweeney, is the most inventive and invigorating book I have read this year and it the most deserving of the Best Translated Book Award. The Story of My Teeth is about stories and storytelling, about art and how we value objects, about influence, and about teeth. It manages to be intelligent and experimental without an ounce of pretension (something I could not say for some of the other books on the longlist). In her afterword, Luiselli describes the book as a "collective 'novel-essay' about the production of value and meaning in contemporary art and literature."
Our narrator is the self-proclaimed "best auctioneer in the world," Gustav Sánchez Sánchez, known as "Highway." Highway is "a lover and collector of good stories, which is the only honest way of modifying the value of an object." One of the most delightful sections is "The Hyperbolics," in which Highway auctions off his own teeth, which he had removed in order to make room for Marilyn Monroe's (well, allegedly Marilyn Monroe's), spinning yarns about his teeth's origins in the jaws of Plutarch, Virginia Woolf, G. K. Chesterton, and more of his philosophical heroes. He is demonstrating, he explains, that objects themselves have no value, but that we give them value and meaning through stories.
The book is about storytelling, yes, and another way to describe "storytelling" could be "making things up," or "lying." Highway is an unreliable narrator, sure, and in fact we meet a second narrator, Jacobo Voraigne, a little more than midway through the story, but Highway's unshakeable confidence in himself and his style are irresistible. As we learn later from Voraigne, Highway is a self-made and self-mythologized man, a man who has written his own story.
The book is just the right amount of odd, making it playful where a lesser writer would be in danger of falling into pretentiousness or tweeness. Highway learns auctioneering from a Japanese man, "Master Oklahoma," in Mexico City and furthers his studies in Missouri. He builds a huge house and a warehouse for all of his objects bought at auction on Calle Disneylandia. He buys Marilyn Monroe's teeth and has them put into his own mouth. There is a truly disturbing scene that will haunt me forever involving clowns. Luiselli provides lanterns to the larger project at play. There is a lot of name-checking: Highway mentioned uncles including Juan Sánchez Baudrillard, Miguel Sánchez Foucault, Marcelo Sánchez Proust, Roberto Sánchez Walser, and Fredo Sánchez Dostoyevsky. Most of the seemingly strangest parts of the book are the parts that are real places (the Missouri Auction School, Calle Disneylandia, an art gallery attached to and funded by a juice factory) or people (El Perro) or events (the clowns are a real art installation, at the Jumex Gallery). Luiselli's is an intelligent humor, but is actually smart and actually funny.
Although I would argue that the novel alone, outside of the origin story, is worthy of the prize, in fact, the collaboration throughout this book is, if anything, the clincher. The award is not the "Best Novel Originally Written in a Foreign Language," or even "Best Novel." It is specifically "Best Translated Book Award," and both the author and the translator are recognized. I think that the final of the book's seven sections, "The Chronologic," (and the Afterword, in fact) is one of the strongest arguments for why it should win this award and not, as some would posit, a strike against the novel. The Chronologic was written by the translator, Christina MacSweeney, and is a narrative timeline of Highway's (fictional) life alongside events directly relating to the people and places in the novel: the death of Foucault, the beginning of work on Mexico's first Volkswagen plant, the birth of Doug Aitken. It's an amazing footnote to this strange story and highlights the close work between Luiselli and MacSweeney. In the Afterword, Luiselli says that she prefers to think of the translations of her books as "versions," as she is so involved in their journey into English and often much changes in the the process. This book in particular, written as a commission by the Jumex gallery and then in direct collaboration with the workers at the factory that funds the gallery, is so highly and intentionally participatory and open that it strikes at the very heart of translation.
The Story of My Teeth is a book about truth and fiction, a question I think is central to reading translated work. How does the reader know this is "true"? Can a translation ever be "true"? How do we know what was meant by the author? Who is telling the story? The novel is in many ways directly tied to the dilemma of translation itself, making it the perfect winner of the Best Translated Book Award.
End of argument.
To celebrate this year's Best Translated Book Awards, we're going to have two separate parties. The first is on Wednesday, May 4th at 6:30pm at The Folly (92 W Houston, NYC). That's where we'll announce the two winning titles. (For those of you who can't make it in person, be sure and tune into The Millions where the info will be posted promptly at 7pm.)
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Since not everyone is based in New York, and since we wanted to do something special for booksellers, we're having a second event on Wednesday, May 11th at 5pm at 57th Street Books (1301 E. 57th St., Chicago). A number of BTBA judges will be there, along with food and drink.
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Oscar Pistorius has sold the upmarket Pretoria home where he shot dead his girlfriend, as legal fees mounted from his lengthy murder trial that continued Friday.
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They include three of South Africa's leading defence attorneys, a raft of ballistics and forensic experts and a US crime scene reconstruction company.
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Calories 369 Calories from Fat 191
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Saturated Fat 6.2 g31%
Trans Fat 0 g
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Sodium 1065.2 mg44.4%
Total Carbohydrates 25 g8.4%
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Home country: USA
Current location: Deep in Red State Hell!
Member since: 2001
Number of posts: 5,250
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Godless democratic socialist, look towards northern Europe for inspiration on what role-models our economy should aspire towards. Love the ACLU and donate heavily to them each year, wish they'd get with the program and defend the Second Amendment with as much fervor as they do the rest of the Bill of Rights. Proud member of the 99%.
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Even Rush Limbaugh is beginning to see the writing on the wall...
Oh, this is just delicious...
Now you're seeing what happens when you go after the media. It doesn't work. But no matter how unbalanced, no matter how biased, no matter how unfair, no matter how a bunch of cheaters they are, no matter what a bunch of slavish pro-Democrat creeps they are, it never works going after them if you are the candidate. It makes you look small. Besides, despite what many people think, the media isn't on the ballot.
Trump was in Fairfield, Connecticut. Number one, what's Trump doing in Connecticut? There are maybe 10 Republicans there, and only five of them will admit it. He's in Fairfield. I go to Fairfield every summer to play in the member-guest golf tournament at the Country Club of Fairfield. And I'm telling you, folks, it's a foreign country. What is Trump doing there? I have no idea, but when he was there, he told them in the rally, he said to heck with running against Crooked Hillary. We're not running against Crooked Hillary. We're running against a crooked media.
What ticked him off, I guess the New York Times had a story on his chief campaign guy Manafort being involved in some scandal in, where is it, Ukraine or Manafort supposedly benefiting from some policy in Ukraine. It doesn't look pretty. And the Wall Street, folks, the media today is just -- I've never seen this. I have never seen what I am witnessing. (laughing) It's gotten so bad, I'm actually wondering if there's gonna be a backlash to this. I'm not wishful thinking here. I long ago gave up wishful thinking, on anything, not just this, I mean, just anything.
The Great Bloviator, of course, has been pimping what few outlier polls claim Trump has any sort of lead, but clear until now he has never wavered in claiming Trump was on the right course and has got this in the bag. It looks like, finally, reality (and dare I say: despair?) is beginning to sink in, in even the most hallowed of conservative circles.
The best part is, when Trump gets thoroughly trounced in November, all these talk radio shock jocks are already laying the groundwork to blame Establishment Republicans for not circling the wagons and getting on-board the Trump Train when it really counted. These fools are going to convince a significant chunk of their audience that the Republican Party itself has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, planting the notion that if the Establishment won't back more conservative candidates, why should conservatives ever back them?
The long-term damage to the GOP brand is going to resonate for quite a few more election cycles, the way this is shaping up... all thanks to these conservative "purists" who think doubling-down on their right-wing bullshit is a winning strategy for a general election.
Posted by LAGC | Tue Aug 16, 2016, 09:45 AM (19 replies)
Eww... Trump's Cabinet -- "Attorney General Chris Christie"
WASHINGTON ― Frustrated at the lack of enthusiasm for his vice presidential pick Mike Pence, Donald Trump is now telling those close to him that he wants a do-over of sorts, which he aims to get by rolling out the names of potential cabinet members, a source who spoke to Trump told The Huffington Post.
Trump was disappointed with the rollout of Pence, and the reaction to him, on several levels. He was first piqued that the news leaked before hed gotten around to telling the runners-up, Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie, about his choice. He then had second thoughts, postponed the announcement and spent Thursday night trying to find a way to back out of his choice, according to multiple news reports and the source close to Trump.
Trump sees Pence as a politically safe but unexciting choice, the source said. When non-politicians fantasize about running for president, they delight in imagining the unorthodox, thrilling running mate they might choose. For Trump to have ended up paired with such a standard pol, after a year of violating every campaign norm in the book, must be a major letdown.
Multiple sources say that Trump wants to name Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, as his attorney general, although knowing Trump, he could change his mind at any moment. Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law who plays a major role in the campaign, fought against Christie as a VP pick, as reported this week by HuffPost blogger Laura Goldman and later corroborated elsewhere.
Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, whom Trump at one point floated as a potential VP, will surely be on the short list for defense secretary, unless of course Kid Rock makes himself available.
Posted by LAGC | Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:08 AM (7 replies)
You know, I've steered clear of all the Orlando threads this weekend...
As much as I've been tempted to wade in, either to engage some of the apologists of religious extremism, or those trying to blame everything on inanimate objects while minimizing motive, those giving excuses to the visceral hate against LGBT people in this country (coming from all quarters) that fueled that perp's thinking and rationale, even if it does turn out he's really just mentally ill and only used the "I pledge allegiance to ISIS" line during his frantic 911 call as a cover for his psychosis...
After all, it's no mystery how these events inevitably unfold... people are naturally angry. And outraged. And understandably so. They want answers. They want solutions. The perp is dead, so we can't hold him accountable, so by God, we need to blame something, burn SOMETHING in effigy. Ban shit, censor shit, boost security, restrict rights and freedoms, you name it. Something must be done.
Everyone goes crazy for a few days or few weeks following, until the threat passes and things slowly start simmering back down and everyone goes back to business as usual. Until the next time it happens. Rinse and repeat.
I really wish breaking the cycle were as simple as merely passing a few more "feel good" laws. If, say, banning certain weapons or tools would somehow prevent people with ill intentions from not just resorting to other means to commit similar atrocities. Sure, "assault rifles" may be the weapon of choice right now because they are so easy and available, and perhaps heavily restricting them would reduce at least the violence from guns... but you're never going to stop these acts of mass violence from occurring without addressing motive. Not so long as people can just resort to chaining shut doors to crowded buildings and use a $5 can of gasoline to burn the whole place down.
I wish I knew what the solution was. I wish there were just a surefire way to absolutely, 100% prevent all future massacres from occurring. I think there are things we can do to address motive, to try to tamp down the overall level of hate that permeates this society, but we'll never prevent all lone nuts from raging and lashing out at society. All we can do is try to detect them earlier, get them the help they need sooner, and if necessary keep them confined in a secure institution if indeed a credible threat is realized, someone intent on doing actionable harm.
Posted by LAGC | Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:39 PM (7 replies)
It's Official: The Christian Right Has Lost Control of the Republican Party
With Lyin' Ted Cruz crashing and burning, the writing is on the wall... regular, frequently-attending church-going Christians overwhelmingly preferred Cruz as their candidate. Yet for the first time in a generation, they weren't able to deliver the GOP nomination.
It's Official: The Fascist Wing of the "Grand" Old Party has now taken over.
(At least Carnival Cruz has Carly at his side to help with laying off all those staffers... )
Posted by LAGC | Wed May 4, 2016, 06:18 AM (24 replies)
Donald Trump Compared Ben Carson to a 'Child Molester' and Now Carson's Endorsing Him??
While discussing his belief that Ben Carson's "pathological temper" from his youth is not curable, Donald Trump on Thursday compared Carson's temper to child molesting.
"You know, when he says he went after his mother and wanted to hit her in the head with a hammer, that bothers me. I mean, that's pretty bad," Trump said on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," adding that Carson described his temper as "pathological" in his book.
"I'm not saying anything other than pathological is a very serious disease. And he said he's pathological, somebody said he has pathological disease," Trump said.
"It's in the book that he's got a pathological temper," Trump continued. "That's a big problem because you don't cure that."
Trump then offered the example of a child molester.
"You don't cure these people. You don't cure a child molester. There's no cure for it. Pathological, there's no cure for that," he said.
Wow. He must really hate Cruz for spreading those lies about him dropping out in Iowa and hurting him so badly there for him to cozy up to Trump after all that.
Posted by LAGC | Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:28 PM (0 replies)
Does Anyone Else Think President Obama Was Classy, Ordering the Flag Lowered to Half-Staff?
Presidential Proclamation: Death of Antonin Scalia
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As a mark of respect for Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the United States, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 7 of title 4, United States Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on the day of interment. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.
We may not have agreed with the man very much due to his detestable Reaganesque political philosophies, but there is no denying he was a lion in the SCOTUS, leaving one hell of an impression. He was the literal, breathing embodiment of the Reagan Revolution, which suddenly and finally came to a crashing end with his passing.
Obama knows what he is doing. By showing the same respect for his political opponent as Justice Scalia showed to his good friends Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan when off the Court, he's put the Republicans in a really tough spot -- especially if they try to obstruct and deny even holding a confirmation hearing on some of these very qualified and capable candidates for SCOTUS replacement that were previously confirmed unanimously without objection by the entire Republican Senate.
Let them try their obstructionist bullshit now, and let the American public see them for what they are: partisan political hacks who have no interest in compromise, and have no business being in control of the Senate, the Presidency, or the Supreme Court.
Posted by LAGC | Tue Feb 16, 2016, 04:59 AM (16 replies)
A Brief History of the Candidacy of Donald J. Trump
Late Spring 2015
Bill Clinton has a private telephone conversation with The Donald at the same time the billionaire investor and reality-television star was nearing a decision to run for the White House, according to associates for both men. Clinton encouraged Trump's efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch/2015/08/05/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html
June 16, 2015 - Donald Trump Enters the Race
The Donald: "We're being invaded by Mexican immigrants -- drug dealers and rapists -- we need to seal the border, build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it!"
(Donald seizes an early lead in the GOP polls.)
Next up: Carly Fiorina begins to rise in the polls...
The Donald: "She's an ugly bitch -- just look at that face -- can you imagine that as the face of our next president?!"
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-insults-carly-fiorinas-appearance/
(Carly slips in the polls, as Donald continues to rise...)
Next up: Jeb Bush begins to gain traction...
The Donald: "His brother didn't keep us safe! We were attacked under his watch! He LET those terrorists in, he allowed 9-11 to happen!!"
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/donald-trump-jeb-george-w-bush-9-11-jeb-bush/
(Jeb Bush plummets to single digits in the polls and never recovers...)
Next up: Ben Carson begins to rise in the polls...
The Donald: "He's pathological like a child molester! There's no cure for that!"
Source: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-ben-carson-pathological-child-molester
(Ben Carson collapses in the polls, Donald rises further...)
Next up: Ted Cruz climbs in the polls...
The Donald: "He's a Canadian! A foreigner! He's illegimate just like Obama born in Kenya!"
Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/donald-trump-attacks-ted-cruz-over-his-canada-birth
(Ted Cruz's momentum halts, begins to slip slightly in the polls...)
Next up: Big Dawg calls back up The Donald, asking for a status report.
The Donald: "Takin' them down one by one, tearing up the Republican field."
Bill Clinton: "You're the man, Donald. Please proceed."
Posted by LAGC | Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:17 PM (2 replies)
NYT: Some Inconvenient Gun Facts for Liberals
FOR those of us who argue in favor of gun safety laws, there are a few inconvenient facts.
We liberals are sometimes glib about equating guns and danger. In fact, its complicated: The number of guns in America has increased by more than 50 percent since 1993, and in that same period the gun homicide rate in the United States has dropped by half.
Then there are the policies that liberals fought for, starting with the assault weapons ban. A 113-page study found no clear indication that it reduced shooting deaths for the 10 years it was in effect. Thats because the ban was poorly drafted, and because even before the ban, assault weapons accounted for only 2 percent of guns used in crimes.
Move on to open-carry and conceal-carry laws: With some 13 million Americans now licensed to pack a concealed gun, many liberals expected gun battles to be erupting all around us. In fact, the most rigorous analysis suggests that all these gun permits caused neither a drop in crime (as conservatives had predicted) nor a spike in killings (as liberals had expected). Liberals were closer to the truth, for the increase in carrying loaded guns does appear to have led to more aggravated assaults with guns, but the fears were overblown.
One of the puzzles of American politics is that most voters want gun regulation, but Congress resists. One poll found that 74 percent even of N.R.A. members favor universal background checks to acquire a gun. Likewise, the latest New York Times poll found that 62 percent of Americans approved of President Obamas executive actions on guns this month.
So why does nothing get done? One reason is that liberals often inadvertently antagonize gun owners and empower the National Rifle Association by coming across as supercilious, condescending and spectacularly uninformed about the guns they propose to regulate. A classic of gun ignorance: New York passed a law three years ago banning gun magazines holding more than seven bullets without realizing that for most guns there is no such thing as a magazine for seven bullets or less.
Pretty spot-on article... the author goes on to point out that more than 10 percent of murders in the United States, for example, are by intimate partners. Most risky is right after a violent breakup when a woman has won a restraining order against her ex. One "common sense" solution that both Democrats and Republicans might be able to agree on is temporarily prohibiting the subjects of these restraining orders from possessing a gun, which has been found to reduce these murders by 10 percent.
Other approaches that could win bipartisan support deal with working more with gangs to support high-risk children and reduce delinquency and adult crime. "If the left can drop the sanctimony, and the right can drop the obstructionism, if instead of wrestling with each other we can grapple with the evidence, we can save thousands of lives a year."
I would agree.
Posted by LAGC | Tue Jan 19, 2016, 12:55 AM (8 replies)
Trump again wont rule out a third-party run
Donald Trump is not ruling out a run for president as an independent if things go south for the front-runner in the Republican race.
"I'm going to have to see what happens," he told George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly."
Trump was responding to a Wall Street Journal report that Republican operatives are considering banding together donors from the other GOP campaigns in a bid to knock Trump off the top spot.
If Republican operatives succeed in knocking Trump off his perch, their plan could backfire if he then runs as an independent.
A July Washington Post-ABC News poll found that in a hypothetical general election matchup between Bush and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Clinton led 50 percent to 44 percent. But throw a third-party Trump run into the mix, and the poll found that he would tear support away Bush and give Clinton a 16-point lead.
Posted by LAGC | Sun Nov 22, 2015, 03:26 PM (15 replies)
PJ Media: I Compared My Obamacare Options to My Current Plan, and Surprise, Surprise
So I saw this nasty piece of conservative propaganda trending on Yahoo! News just now:
It happens that I started a new day job as a principal engineer a couple of weeks ago. It's for a Very Large Company, VLC. It has a health insurance plan that is, if not the absolute best one I've ever had, a nicely adequate one. It's what's called a "high deductible" plan, but that means a $1500 deductible, with both a health savings account to which the company contributes, and a flexible spending account. Looked good to me. With my contributions to max out both the HSA and the FSA, my net deduction from my pay is around $600 a month -- but remember, that's almost entirely pre-tax money going into accounts I can use to pay for health care of various sorts.
Because of the ACA, however, they were required to notify me I could opt out of their plans, and choose instead a plan from the health insurance exchanges.
Okay, so just to reassure everyone I haven't completely lost my mind, when this option was offered, I immediately said "you mean I can opt to buy my own expensive and inadequate coverage instead of going with the company's plan they pay for?" And, reassuringly, the HR person explaining these plans answered, "Yes, that's about it."
I did get curious, though: what would that option be?
So I went to Connect for Health Colorado, the Colorado exchange website and ... well, tried to sign up. After filling in a long page of personal information, I tried to submit it, and got an error
So I thought I'd do a little quick investigating to see if he was telling the truth.
So I went to Colorado's exchange site:
Clicked on the blue "Sign-In/Shop" button on the top-right, then chose "Individuals & Families" from the drop-down list.
Then scrolled down to the lower-middle: "Browse Plans" (you don't even have to sign up and make an account and enter anything to see prices and plans, like that guy was claiming)
I just entered a Denver zip code (80123) and a date-of-birth making my fake persona age 50 like I presume is around the age of the author of that piece is, based on his profile picture, then left "Start Coverage" date to 01-01-2016 and ticked the "Health" coverage type leaving "Dental" blank.
Well lo and behold... I did find some cheaper shitty Bronze and Silver plans like he was saying that had high deductibles, but if you scroll down further I was able to find a decent Gold EPO plan (Cigna Vantage Flex Gold 1400) that cost less ($589.41/month) than what he is paying now through his private employer and has a slightly lower deductible.
In short, he's a bald-faced liar! Claiming that none of the Obamacare plans are any good in comparison.
I suppose that's just par for course for right-wing media, but I found it quite funny how I could debunk this guy's story in less than 5 minutes just by visiting the Colorado exchange site that he claimed "stumped" him, trying to sign up.
Posted by LAGC | Thu Nov 19, 2015, 08:28 PM (1 replies)


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For many basketball players, the step to the NBA is one of the hardest to take. The step grows bigger if you are not one of the premier players. It grows bigger yet if you are not a senior in college.
(Note to readers: if you haven't thought of Chris Washburn or Josh McRoberts by this point, you might want to get your head examined.)
Without any further ado (or mentioning of Kwame Brown), here is the list of underclassmen sure to be busts if they remain in the NBA draft.


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so the Wii will support the wavebird even without pluging in the adapter?! AWSOME!
Right from the moment Nintendo announced that GameCube controllers would be compatible with the Wii it has been debated whether the Wavebird would also be supported.
A Nintendo representative today revealed that yes the Wii will support the Wavebird controller too. Here's what was revealed:
- WaveBirds and GameCube controllers can be used with all GameCube games and select Wii Disc games. (Emphasis ours.)
- WaveBirds are used as Nintendo GameCube controllers, so they need to use the receivers.
- The WaveBird receiver does indeed fit into the top of Wii.
- WaveBird and GameCube controller compatibility with Virtual Console games has not been announced. Nintendo will release more details about Virtual Console games and controls closer to launch.
Source: http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/vi...php?1159465412
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so the Wii will support the wavebird even without pluging in the adapter?! AWSOME!
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I was curious about the wavebirds, but I knew Nintendo would be smart enough to include support for them. Wired controllers are so 1980s.
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lol old news its not that hard to support the wavebird in the first place it just has to fit in top wow thats so hard to design a flap that doesn't get in the way
Yeah, controllers that didnt even exist are so kewl.Originally Posted by Flip
what the heck are wave birds???
wireless gamecube controllers
Cool, I thought the receivers wouldn't fit because the ports look flatter on the Wii than on the Gamecube, I'll keep my Wavebirds now, can't stand leads .
O_o;; I might need to GET a wavebird now. xP


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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Johns Hopkins University recruited participants to learn a simple visual-motor skill and monitored their progress over the course of six weeks.
During the six-week learning period, the research team examined the participants' brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track something different than typical fMRI studies. Read More


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Electronic Stabilisation Programme (ESP) prevents under- or over-steering via targeted braking of individual wheels.
Anti-lock braking system (ABS) shortens braking distance while maintaining steering power.
Brake assist system. Registers the speed at which the brake pedal is pressed. During a reflexive or emergency braking action, it ensures that full brake pressure is built up more quickly.
Electronic differential lock (EDL) distributes the engine torque to the tyres without slippage.
Traction control system (TCS) prevents wheelspin.
Hill Start Assist. Prevents the vehicle from rolling back on inclines and makes handling easier when starting off on uphill slopes.
Triggers braking after a collision, with the aim of preventing secondary collisions. The Multi-collision Braking System is activated when two independent sensors detect an accident. After a short delay, the vehicle begins a phased braking action down to 10 km/h, during which the driver can take over at any time.
Driver Alert System uses visual and acoustic warning signals to recommend that the driver takes a break as soon as it registers driving behaviour that indicates tiredness.
Safety technologies are not a substitute for the driver's responsibility of the vehicle.
Switch on automatically when the ignition is activated and lower the risk of an accident in daylight.
The right safety measures are essential for those who are on the road regularly. The Multivan therefore has airbags for the driver and front passenger as standard, as well as side and head airbags. Curtain airbags provide protection for passengers in the rear for short wheelbase models.


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