Bad News
An unfortunate bit of news: we’ve been asked by the State University of New York press to take down our samples of Wang Xiaobo’s Golden Age, since the samples apparently conflict with the English-language translation rights they hold for Wang in Love and Bondage. Frankly, I’m not in the least convinced that this is legally viable, but I’m also very unwilling to get into a fight about it. The prospect of a practically penniless university press suing a group of actually penniless translators over stories few are ever likely to read is too depressing to bear consideration, so down they come. We’re leaving the stubs up; if you want to read the longer samples email us.
By Eric Abrahamsen, February 15, 5:19p.m.