L’Arabe du futur/The Arab of the Future, by Riad Sattouf.Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H.French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter.It Would be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo.This Close to Okay: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith.Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston.Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey.Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters by Vanessa Finney.Our book recommendations (we are deliberately not including links, so that you can purchase them from the outlet of your choice!) Articles on the closing of the iconic Paris bookstore Gibert Jeune, in English and in French.The Read Queen bookstore and cafe in Lafayette, Colorado.The Tattered Cover, a large independent bookstore in Denver, Colorado.Peppercorn, a cooking store that sells cookbooks in Boulder, Colorado.Librairie Gourmande, an all-cookbook bookstore in Paris.Boulder Book Store (our local, independent bookstore!).Letterfolk’s Book Passport (“another book in the books”).Real Simple magazine’s best books of 2020, and 2021.In this episode, Eve and Corinne discuss a favorite topic among translators: books, and what we’re reading: what genres we enjoy, how we make time for reading, how we choose new books, what formats we enjoy and don’t enjoy reading or listening to, how we track what we read, and book recommendations for our listeners! What factors we personally take into consideration when planning which conferences to attend next year.What speakers should be mindful of when they present in a hybrid format.What in-person and virtual attendees should keep in mind when attending a hybrid conference.Which smart habits come in handy when preparing to attend a hybrid conference.a fully in-person one or a fully virtual one What we think will be different when attending a hybrid conference vs.So, how can attendees and speakers prepare for hybrid conferences? But hybrid conferences aren’t quite the same thing as an in-person event or a virtual event. As much as we look forward to returning to fully in-person events, unfortunately, we’re not quite there yet because of the pandemic and travel restrictions. In this fun conversation, we discuss a topic that many of us are faced with (yet again!) this fall as many of our favorite conferences are going virtual or hybrid. Surprise, we’re back! Speaking of Translation comes out of retirement only for very special occasions when our friends and colleagues Madalena and Veronika at Smart Habits for Translators asked us to record a joint episode about hybrid conferences, we couldn’t resist!

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