What goes into the choosing of an author or the making of a book? How do translators move from research to words — from ideas to “solutions,” if we can call them that? What happens after translation, when a book finally enters the world?

This event brings together Flora Thomson-DeVeaux and Katrina Dodson in celebration of two translations being released simultaneously this year: "The Apprentice Tourist" and "Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character," both by Brazilian modernist Mário de Andrade.