nerdy things I like to do:

(nerdy being my daughter's word for it, for me): listen to the diversity test, gender and literature in translation, a PEN initiative on youtube taking place in the bygone year of 2010. at some point one of the panelists says that first person narrative in on a steep decline and I wonder. but then another panelist had said that only 3% of all books published in the US are translations and there I rest my case. what really bothers me, and spooks me to no end, is the fact that of all the people we had to go and mimic their market, as if we had something to do with it. (actually it's about the American literary market and I really couldn't care less about that).