Many Elections Ago: The First Translation from Amazon Crossing
The first Amazon Crossing translation was released exactly 10 years ago today. Born into a political season, the imprint keeps widening its own campaign for international literature in a political world.
Gabriella Page-Fort in Seattle. Image: Galen Maynard
Page-Fort: ‘Just by Saying Yes’
Unlike today, November 2 ten years ago was a Tuesday. But like today, it was a day highly charged with political energy.
On that Tuesday in 2010, the United States midterm elections would end the Democratic Party’s control of the country’s congressional balance, the Republican Party prevailing in the House of Representatives, but not the Senate. Barack Obama was concluding his first two years in the White House. Economics and health care were key issues. The Affordable Care Act had been passed the previous March.