Lisa C. Hayden
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Literary translator learning, trying, slowly, to translate Ukrainian fiction. Reader. Feeder of Cats
pinned post!
So! For those of you interested in reading Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga with
@yelenafurman.bsky.social
and me, here are a few details: -Start on Monday, April 27 -Read six chapters per week (many are short!) -Read any edition you want -Hashtag
#ForsyteSaga26
I'm very much looking forward to this!
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Thank you very much to Punctured Lines for running this excerpt from my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body! I'm happy to add that today's our publication day, thanks to
@newvesselpress.bsky.social
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Would anyone like to read Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga with
@yelenafurman.bsky.social
and me? We'll start in late April. It's hundreds of pages but looks, at first glance of the ToC, like a chapter-a-day kind of book... Details to come if anyone would like to join us! 📚
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New Vessel Press
about 1 month ago
MY DREADFUL BODY gets rave review
@fullstopmag.bsky.social
“Essential feminist, anticolonial reading . . . MY DREADFUL BODY is about power. The power of one nation to colonize another, which is in turn echoed by the power of men to control women . . . "
www.full-stop.net/2026/03/09/r...
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My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova
For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols
https://www.full-stop.net/2026/03/09/reviews/sarahgear/my-dreadful-body-egana-djabbarova/
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Bergstrom Press and Books
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Are you, like us, waiting impatiently for the April release of Egana Djabbarova's book My Dreadful Body (
@newvesselpress.bsky.social
)? You are in luck - we have some of her other writings, not yet translated, though! This is an author you need to read.
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It's gratifying to read another favorable review of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body, this time from Publishers Weekly.
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New Vessel Press
3 months ago
"It's like discovering over time from a charming, charismatic friend various shocking and fascinating details from her life."—Russian Life on
@lizoksbooks.bsky.social
's translation of MY DREADFUL BODY.
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
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My Dreadful Body
A dazzling debut novel about a young woman's vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim
https://newvesselpress.com/books/my-dreadful-body/
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It got chills reading this, thank you,
@puncturedlines.bsky.social
, Yelena Moskovich & Dzanc Books! Margarita's "Klotsvog" means the world to me in ways I can't articulate. That's partly because I knew her & partly because the book hits so hard emotionally. The "dead tone" is a perfect example.
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Thank you so much
@bergstrombookstore.bsky.social
for your skeet and kind words about My Dreadful Body, wr. Egana Djabbarova, tr. me, pub.
@newvesselpress.bsky.social
! I feel very fortunate to have translated Egana's book for NVP. It's not long but it brims with life & ideas to contemplate.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
3 months ago
MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova (tr.
@lizoksbooks.bsky.social
,
@newvesselpress.bsky.social
) is Education Fellow Emma Deshpande’s pick:
bookshop.org/p/books/my-d...
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My Dreadful Body
Check out My Dreadful Body - <p><span><b>"Gripping, vivid . . . plainspoken and elegiac. I've never read anything like it."—Claire Oshetsky, author of<i> Poor Deer</i></b></span></p><p><span>A…
https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-dreadful-body-egana-djabbarova/f059937b11efc4b0?ean=9781954404427&next=t&digital=t&affiliate=169
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While staring out the window at falling snow, thinking of
#ToveWinter26
, I happened to see a fox running through neighbors' yards. What a perfect day to start Tove Jansson's "A Winter Book"! ❄️📖 Feel free to join me &
@petipaw.bsky.social
if you have a copy. Or even read TJ's "Summer Book" instead!🌞
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Happy Boxing Day! This autumn,
@petipaw.bsky.social
& I decided to read Tove Jansson's "A Winter Book" in Jan. 2026. Please join us! This will be very low-key: read what & when you like. I'll start Jan 1, read 1 story a day & post a bit. ❄️📖
#ToveWinter26
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Winte...
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A Winter Book - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Winter_Book
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Rachel Deering
4 months ago
Sunday plans: Nonchaloire (Repose), John Singer Sargent, 1911.
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I deactivated my FB account in late August and wish I'd done so much earlier! I don't miss it one bit: their ludicrous algorithms filled my feed with tons of sponsored junk and clips I had no interest in. Good riddance: It just made me cranky!
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5 months ago
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Bakhtin! More than ever.
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5 months ago
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Iva Cheung 🍗
5 months ago
With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook
#AfterTheFeast
to as many folks as possible. Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
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After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
https://ivacheung.com/2025/09/after-the-feast-a-turkey-leftovers-cookbooklet/
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I'm excited to see that my translation of Egana Djabbarova's "My Dreadful Body," on the way from New Vessel Press in spring 2026, is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair!
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
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Dig It Dan
6 months ago
Another beautiful Maine blueberry field.
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Sauteed, souped, sliced and diced for cole slaw
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7 months ago
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This brief and moving piece, by Patrick Bringley, about a painting by Bruegel the Elder made my day. (Bringley wrote a whole book that I may just have to read.)
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
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The World, and That’s All - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“During my ten years of working as a guard at The Met, no picture rewarded my attention as consistently.”
https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/patrick-bringley-harvesters
7 months ago
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8 months ago
Edward Hopper, Lighthouse at Two Lights - 1929
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This brings back memories of one of my very first jobs, circa 1990. I sometimes had to take a little stack of punch cards to a programmer and ask him to run them so my department could receive a report.
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8 months ago
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Your Parents Are Sellouts
8 months ago
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Lincoln Michel
9 months ago
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
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Loving this, particularly given
@christina500.bsky.social
's Shakespeare marathon and the fact that Polonius popped up in other reading last night.
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9 months ago
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Enjoying this for the art of it, because the tower has always fascinated me, and because there will be celery (chopped, not sculpted) in tonight's hot-weather dinner. Also,
@willevans.bsky.social
, this makes me think of you!
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9 months ago
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It looks like I need to reread The Sheltering Sky, particularly given that it was decades ago that I had something of a Bowles binge, reading both Jane and Paul.
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9 months ago
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Annie Fisher
10 months ago
Hey Chicago! Come see me read from
#pioneersummer
tomorrow night at City Lit Books, in conversation with the rad and talented Ali Kinsella!
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We're now officially on a fox streak: two days in a row now we've seen a fox (the fox? how many are there?) trotting through our front yard carrying a snack in its mouth.
11 months ago
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Exciting Breaking Update: A technician is now replacing our torsion spring and all sorts of stuff that goes with it! I got the feeling he may have heard similar stories involving farm jacks.
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11 months ago
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If you're looking for a book event in Tulsa on Friday, May 23rd, look no further than this! I know Annie, Derek, and
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
won't disappoint, plus there will be tea and sweets.
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11 months ago
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Today's top news story from our house: Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
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Yard work has been called off for now because a large, fluffy, and very comfortable fox is taking a nap in a pile of wood chips. Apologies for the blurry photo!
11 months ago
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My office mate Edwina is shirking her editorial duties again, but she's thoroughly enjoying a blanket and warm sun in my nap room.
11 months ago
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Thank you! (I think Day 57 is actually May 15 though I do like the idea of time travel here...)
11 months ago
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And so I turn around, glance out the window, and it's snowing again, a thick shroud
about 1 year ago
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Endless Screaming
about 1 year ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
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Endless Screaming
about 1 year ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
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Thank you!
about 1 year ago
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M.A.Orthofer
about 1 year ago
OMG, this is so sad
authorsguild.org/news/ag-laun...
(Via
@ginnytkmr.bsky.social
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Authors Guild Launches "Human Authored" Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature - The Authors Guild
AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is ...
https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-launches-human-authored-certification-to-preserve-authenticity-in-literature/
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And so the new week starts... With a tremor and rumbling from a little 4.1 earthquake in southern Maine.
about 1 year ago
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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her)
about 1 year ago
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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Steve Rosenberg
over 1 year ago
“This way Georgia is dragged into Russia’s orbit & there is a feeling of now or never,” a Tbilisi university professor tells me. Our report for BBC News on a fifth night of protests in the Georgian capital. Camera: Anton Chicherov Producer:
@bentavener.bsky.social
Thanks to
@annagvarish.bsky.social
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A fifth night of protests in Tbilisi, Georgia - our BBC News report
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
https://youtu.be/poX5hsSTOOU
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Sounds promising!
over 1 year ago
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So this makes me extra glad that we didn't replace our dryer when it died last spring!
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over 1 year ago
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Bluesky
over 1 year ago
If you're seeing "Invalid Handle" on your profile, this should resolve on its own — thanks for your patience!! 🦋
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Katherine E. Young
over 1 year ago
Book announcement!!! Thurs. 11/21 is the launch of my translation of persecuted Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli's "People and Trees." Please join moderator Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal, and me in Bethesda MD to celebrate these marvelous novellas!
writer.org/event/people...
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Book Launch & Conversation for People and Trees - The Writer's Center
The Writer's Center welcomes Plamen Press and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center for the launch of Plamen's latest publication, People and Trees, by Azerbaijani writer and playwright Akram A...
https://writer.org/event/people-and-trees/
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Joel Pinckney
over 1 year ago
Like so many of you, planning to be here more. Here's where my head was at last Wednesday morning, and has largely remained since.
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I love this story and the hope these kids (and their lovely bookmarks!) give.
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over 1 year ago
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alex roberts
over 1 year ago
today in useful post-election inventions, my kid’s first grade class made a feelings box you can feed your worries to
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