What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation elliottbaybook.com/events/47732

Congratulations to Alexander Podrabinek and translator @mbs51.bsky.social on the release of BETWEEN PRISON AND FREEDOM. This #Memoir captures the spirit of the dissident movement and the #Solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward. #Soviet #Russia Order today at: https://bit.ly/3TnZexL#Memoir

Working with the @khoreo.bsky.social team on the production of the audio version of my translation from issue 5.1 (out as a pod soon) has been a dream experience. Talented, refreshingly diverse roster of voice actors, unparalleled attention to detail. Vote for them if you can🖤📚

Simultané playing cards, 1964 by Sonia Delaunay (b. 1885, Ukraine)

If you liked "Mass Deportations Now," you're going to love $50 Chipotle burritos!

"Hope is not the same thing as optimism. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope is not pleasure that things are going well, or willingness to work on what is succeeding, but the ability to work towards something because it is good." - Václav Havel (my rewording of different translations)

Our friends at #ALTA might not be on Bluesky—but they sure are making moves! The American Literary Translators Association is hiring a new Executive Director. Read about it here: literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/t...

From _The Fellowship of the Ring_