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34 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
100 episodes
since Oct. 15, 2020
episodic

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A great translation can feel effortless, which is exactly why so many people underestimate what it takes. We sit down with Granit Zela, an Albanian poet, writer, university lecturer, and award-winning literary translator, to get honest about the craft behind “bringing a book into another language” …

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Season 8

· transcript
We’re joined by Serena Barone from the International Artists Forum, an international organization built to connect author groups worldwide and strengthen the push for authors’ rights across borders. If you care about copyright, intellectual property, creator advocacy, and how culture gets protected…
We’re in London at the INTA 2026 Annual Meeting, but we’re not doing a standard conference recap. We wanted to show how intellectual property work can be creative, inventive, and even fun, so we built THE INVENTIVE MINDSET GAME, a scenario game, and handed real IP lawyers a stack of tricky client p…
Somewhere right now, a kid is kicking a ball in the street while a stadium across the world is holding its breath for a final-second win. We love sports because they create instant shared meaning, but the part most fans never see is the structure that makes those moments travel, repeat, and endure.…
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