There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

"Like many debuts, People With No Charisma is a partly autobiographical coming-of-age story...autobiographical in terms of theme, and the protagonist’s disco outfit." Jente Posthuma & Sarah Timmer Harvey shared a playlist for the novel People with No Charisma largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/10/j...

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

For the past few months, I've been corresponding with the brilliant Elizabeth Bryer about translation, AI, remuneration & the 2025 NSW translation prize, which Bryer won. You can now read our entire conversation at the Sydney Review Of Books: sydneyreviewofbooks.com/interviews/t... 📚✨️

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

It's US publication day for my translation of Jente Posthuma's brilliant, quirky novel, People With No Charisma!! North Americans, you can now buy it from your fave indie bookstore and gift it to the most charismatic person in your life 📖✨️

Q: Are there any other advantages to using ChatPerson over chatbots? A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.

Lots happening with the Anthropic AI settlement including the judge temporarily rejecting the settlement terms. I've written an update about all the recent news along with must-read threads from @courtneymilan.com @corabuhlert.bsky.social & @susankayequinn.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

A blog for @literaryhub.bsky.social about how authors deserve more from an industry that unabashedly treats all of our work and private information as grist for their own profits

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

Denmark's Ministry of Justice has announced that post-editing machine translation (PEMT) does not qualify as "translation" under its legal framework. #Translation #ProfessionalStandards #AITranslation

Sharing memes of Trump and Putin kissing or engaged in any s*x act or dressed as women is not the huge own you think it is. It's actually deeply homophobic & rooted in misogyny 🧵

Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth

Historian Rashid Khalidi cancels his Fall class

My translation of Jente Posthuma's quirky and darkly funny debut novel People With No Charisma is out now in the UK & Australia. You can find it at your local indie bookshop or order directly from @scribepub.bsky.social...📚✨️

Delighted to hear that my translation of Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About has been shortlisted for the NSW Literary Awards Translation Prize. I'm excited to be heading to Gadigal country/Sydney in May! Huge congratulations to the other nominees #NSWLA

Freedom is when your boss tells you what to write

Congratulations to this year's International Booker Longlistees!! I'm particularly excited to see Lucy Scott's translation of Astrid Roemer's excellent novel On a Woman's Madness make the longlist. I do not envy the judges.This list will so hard to narrow down! 📚💚

I recently spoke to Kyo Gerritson of INCREC about my approach to translation and the threat of AI. The interview is out on Spotify now! ⬇️

New York: I'll be at Molasses books in Brooklyn on January 31st reading my translations of @nadiadevries.bsky.social & @mauritsdebruijn.bsky.social alongside these fine people ⬇️ Come through!

The low countries asked me for my Dutch book recs so I got to wrote about the legendary Astrid Roemer and Maurits de Bruijn's brilliant new novel ⬇️📚 www.the-low-countries.com/article/sara...

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by @carcanet.bsky.social.

100% of all *unnamed* translators "really, really like" Nuanxed Ai book translations ⬇️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The Amsterdam launch of Thistle by Nadia de Vries is happening this Saturday at San Serriffe! Nadia will be reading from my translation at 6.30. Come through!! 💟⬇️

"If you are a HarperCollins writer, I suggest getting on the horn to your agent immediately and getting them to preemptively tell HC (and any/every publisher!) that your work will never be available to train LLMs or other AI processes." 🚨Essential reading🚨⬇️

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

“Ever since my mother’s death...falling in love had become a completely different experience for me.” Read Ine Boermans’ story “Love Interbellum,” translated by @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social and published in The Michigan Quarterly Review.

My translation of 'Love Interbellum" by the excellent Ine Boermans, first published by the Michigan Quarterly Review is featured on Lithub today! You can read the full excerpt below! ⬇️📚💚 lithub.com/love-interbe...

"Machines do not translate, they merely generate textual material; books are written by human authors and should be translated by human translators. Imagination, understanding and creativity are intrinsically human and should not be left out of any literary text." www.ceatl.eu/open-letter-... #xl8

To celebrate my new translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries, The New Menard Press are offering this limited edition Thistle tote bag, which means you can carry Thistle everywhere with you & support an awesome indie press! Link in bio! 👇💕🖤

Sarah Timmer Harvey vertaalde Jente Posthuma’s Waar ik liever niet aan denk als What I’d Rather Not Think About (shortlist International Booker Prize 2024). Lees haar over Posthuma’s​ humor en haar toon en een Sef van Oekel-referentie op www.athenaeum.nl/nie...

What I'd Rather Not Think About is more of an internet novel than those marketed as internet novels. Characters trying to seem smart by quoting Wikipedia etc. Loved it

Picked up this novel shortly after the shortlist for the International Booker was announced and read it basically as soon as I got it home. It's been a few weeks since then, but it continues to bounce around in my head. I really appreciate how effective the episodic format was. Definitely recommend.

My translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries is out now in The UK through The New Menard Press! You can find it it at your favourite indie bookshop or online. Link in bio 💓