Na série de blog Conveyances, as salas de leitura das coleções internacionais da Biblioteca do Congresso exploram as formas em que a palavra traduzida nos conecta através de continentes, culturas, e séculos. O presente blog é uma entrevista escrita entre Henry Widener (HW), Bibliotecário Lusófono de Referência, com a autora e tradutora brasileira Vanessa Bárbara …
A written interview between Henry Widener, Portuguese Language Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Reading Room, and Brazilian author and translator Vanessa Bárbara on the author’s lifelong engagement with translation, both through translating authors like Lewis Carroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Virginia Woolf, and her own award-winning novel Noites de Alface.
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The third recipe is Steve Colyer’s recipe for caldo de albóndigas (meatball soup), taken from Buen Provecho: 500 Years of Hispanic Cuisine, a publication by the New Jersey Chapter of the Hispanic Association of AT&T Employees (HISPA).
Reflexiones sobre el trabajo con las colecciones de panfletos de Puerto Rico, Nicaragua y Guyana en la Sala Hispánica de Lectura, las cuales reflejan las drásticas transformaciones sociales que estos países vivieron a mediados del siglo XX, principalmente desde la perspectiva femenina y literaria.
A discussion of the Hispanic Reading Room’s pamphlet collections from Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, and Guyana, which tell their histories of dramatic social change in the mid-twentieth century through the eyes of women in various literary genres such as poetry.
A series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The second recipe is ensalada de pimientos con naranja as presented in Jenny Chandler’s The Real Taste of Spain.
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The first recipe is arroz con camarones as presented in Nilda Luz Rexach’s The Hispanic Cookbook.
This blog highlights some of the collection items from Ediciones Vigía (Watchtower Editions). These are handmade books that present text and images in interactive and unexpected ways.
A new batch of fifty recordings from the PALABRA Archive (an audio archive dating back to 1943) featuring Luso-Hispanic writers are released as part of National Poetry Month.
