Three Percent Podcast #214: “Kicking Down the Gatekeepers”

Jeremy Tiang and Bruna Dantas Lobato get things started this episode by talking about Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation, a collection of essays about the art and politics of translation. That’s followed by a conversation with Makana Eyre about a piece he wrote for Now Voyager about the two translations of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent. And finally, Katrine Øgaard Jensen and Kelsi Vanada preview ALTA 49: Give and Take, taking place in Portland, OR from October 21–24.

This episode’s music is “Kick Stones (The Boys)” by Westside Cowboy.

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Tuesday, October 6, 7pm: The 2026 Icelandic Translator Triptych at Scandinavia House, NYC.

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