I barely use this site, but I updated my portfolio and would love if you commissioned me/said something nice about my work. shinjinidey.wordpress.com

I wrote this! And I'm damned pleased with it! And I'd be even happier if you read it!

Denise Levertov

I wrote about Olga Ravn's incredible My Work for On The Seawall's Nov/Dec issue—motherhood as practice, occupation, and a nationalized spectator sport. ronslate.com/on-my-work-a-n…

Al Jazeera is still broadcasting from Gaza! They have access to digital satellites so please follow if you can. Tareq Abu Azzoum was just reporting live from Khan Younis.

The UN, WHO and MSF have all lost all contact with their Palestinian staff.

Islamic University of Gaza (which has 25,000 students) has been totally destroyed. BDS NOW!!

Grateful to @shinjinidey.bsky.social & @seizethepress.bsky.social for not just reviewing my novella but delving deep in this lovely essay. 'Culture is both consumed and cannibalized, ritualized and inevitably lost, birthed and destroyed...Kolkata is, in all its modernity, a city bereft of dragons.'

What feeds should I follow?

As an editor: editors only really edit your work if they're going out of their way, taking time outside work, delaying, etc. to do it. They don't do it on the (big 5) company dime.

Can't believe I wrote this (almost three years ago) about Kolkata and its Bangalis—and here I am now, gallivanting around (the nationalistic) CR Park as if I can't identify the stench of a festering wound.

knitting circles should allow non-knitters to join if we’re good at gossip

What's a good Gillian Rose and Jacqueline Rose intellectual-biography-ish piece?

I'm quite weary of the supplication required to prove my worth, and worn out by the constant desperation present in my performance of competence.

When will the "you're so good with words" or "how can you like literature so much" stop being a opening address? How to repel these pandering assholes?

On top of the sicko fiction in the new issue, we've got some baller non-fic too. Shinjini Dey has an essay on the mythicisation of Kolkata in Indra Das' new book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. Jay Hawking writes about how border and immigration policies are limiting our imaginations in SFF.

Forgot to share the news here, but I also reviewed @indrapramitdas.bsky.social THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR for @seizethepress.bsky.social last week and wrote about myths, the city, and the suggestions and persuasions of his fiction. www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/t...

One of the greats of translation, Edith Grossman, has just died.

I have a review/essay on Yuri Herrera in @strangehorizons.bsky.social newest issue, meandering through surrealism, translation, Latin American fiction, and Herrera's own claims about writing TEN PLANETS alongside his non-fic debut, A SILENT FURY. strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

Moyra Davey, Index Cards

I failed the Sealey challenge on many occassions this month, but I did read about a dozen books of poetry.

Heather Treseler, Thoraic Ode

the sealey challenge so I'm reading the language poets. Diane Ward's Trop-i-dom (Jawbone, 1977)

Today's work regimen has involved screaming at a pigeon and drinking limeade

Specfic is like "imagine ......... dragons"

Naomi Replansky

rereading Cruel Optimism instead of going to therapy

Adnan's At Two in The Afternoon (trans. Sarah Briggs). Excerpts below.

On pleasures of masking (from Yuri Herrera's Transmigration of Bodies)

How long are we going to talk about (new) social media and form?

I did a deep dive into "boundaries" for Parapraxis. Where did they come from and why do we like them so much?? https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/boundary-issues/

I just want to be invited to write stuff, over and over and over till it resembles a life I can tolerate.

i wrote about how brecht learned marx with his friends! http://hypocritereader.com/101/commodity-theater?from=cp

reconnecting with my twitter mutuals