This year’s ALTA, the 38th annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, is in Tucson and themed “Translation and Traffic.†I will be speaking on a panel that takes its title from Karen Emmerich’s forthcoming book, “The Making of Originals: Translation as a Form of Editing†with translator and professor Karen Emmerich herself, and translator and co-chair of PEN America’s Translation Committee Alex Zucker, moderated by Words Without Borders editor Susan Harris. It’s at 3:45 on the afternoon of Friday, October 30th. Come see!