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reader, traveler, dog lover, wine drinker, spanish professor, film critic, 4xhoo
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Charco Press
about 2 hours ago
Our 2026 Bundle lineup. CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go... Subscribe now:
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I’m loving the subscription to
@catranslation.org
!! Two brand new books with translators’ names on the covers were waiting in the mailbox today 🎉
#WomenInTranslation
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Current selection for
#NovellaNovember
is La ciudad invencible by Fernanda Trías 🌃🇺🇾📚
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Charco Press
11 days ago
From Argentina to Edinburgh to Hollywood. The movie adaptation of our own DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Sarah Moses/Carolina Orloff) is out in UK/US cinemas tomorrow!
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Going to read some Latin American women for
#NovellaNovember
! First up is Lina Meruane’s Cercada 🇨🇱📚
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
24 days ago
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
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Henry Líu
3 months ago
🤝 The theme for
#InternationalTranslationDay
2025 celebrates
#translation
, peace and trust: "Translation, shaping a future you can trust"
#ITD2025
en.fit-ift.org/internationa...
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Two Lines Press
2 months ago
Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT
@catranslation.org
tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us!
www.catranslation.org/books-member...
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Alexander Chee
2 months ago
Carmen Maria Machado's new introduction to "I Who Have Never Known Men," excerpted at the New Yorker.
www.newyorker.com/newyorkercom...
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“I Who Have Never Known Men” Is a Warning
The slim, disquieting novel, which has become a sensation on TikTok, imagines a child who finds herself at the end of the world.
https://www.newyorker.com/newyorkercom/books/second-read/i-who-have-never-known-men-jacqueline-harpman-excerpt
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2 months ago
The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.
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Last official read of
#WITMonth
2025: The Forgery by Ave Barrera 🇲🇽📚 I’m enjoying the original Spanish and the translation by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers 👏🏻 👏🏻
#WomenInTranslation
@charcopress.com
3 months ago
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jamelle
3 months ago
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people
www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
https://www.advocate.com/politics/demetre-daskalakis-cdc-resignation-interview
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Winding down
#WITMonth
with a fan favorite: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (translated by Thomas Teal) 🇫🇮🇸🇪📖📚
#WomenInTranslation
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Roxane Gay
3 months ago
We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to
[email protected]
by Tuesday, September 2nd!
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Anna Kornbluh
3 months ago
"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents." a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
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The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/us-typical-college-student.html
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.
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Ancillary Review of Books
3 months ago
The Transmutation of Death into Light:
@willmcmahon36.bsky.social
reviews Natalia García Freire’s A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES (
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...
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The Transmutation of Death into Light: Review of Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities
Will McMahon Under Review:A Carnival of Atrocities. Natalia García Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft. World Editions, April 2025. In the town of Cocuán, people are shedding their clothes and…
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/the-transmutation-of-death-into-light/
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Rereading Dolores Reyes’ Cometierra to prep for the new Amazon series 🇦🇷📚 📺 This time I’m reading Julia Sanches’ vibrant translation, Eartheater 👏🏻👏🏻
#WITMonth
#WomenInTranslation
3 months ago
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
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The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-administration-propaganda/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Raven Crime Reads
3 months ago
It's here! The longlisted books for the
#PetronaAward25
and what a cracking line up from Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland. Congratulations to all the authors and translators.... 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇫🇮
#PetronaAward25
#BookSky
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ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/p...
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Petrona Award 2025- Best Scandinavian Crime Novel Of The Year- The Longlist #PetronaAward25
OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PETRONA AWARD Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the…
https://ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/petrona-award-2025-best-scandinavian-crime-novel-of-the-year-the-longlist-petronaaward25/
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John Warner
3 months ago
This from
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Listening to Darkenbloom for
#WITMonth
🇦🇹🇩🇪 Written by Eva Menasse and translated by
@cctranslates.bsky.social
📚 Small towns, secrets, and lots of historical insight. Pro tip: make yourself a character list to follow along 📋
#WomenInTranslation
3 months ago
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Jason "Red5" Lyall
3 months ago
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ... That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
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Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html
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Weekend reading for
#WITMonth
: La plaza del diamante by Mercé Rodoreda 💎🕊️ Translated from Catalán to Spanish by Enrique Sordo 🇪🇸 Also checking out David Rosenthal’s excellent translation to English, The Time of the Doves 📚
#WomenInTranslation
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Charco Press
3 months ago
We'd be remiss to not mention LA LUCHA this Women in Translation month! Coming in October but available to pre-order now, this anthology covers the patriarchy, femicide, the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, indigenous cultures & more.
#WITmonth
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La Lucha (Preorder) — Charco Press
In recent years Latin America has become a global flashpoint in the feminist struggle within many different key areas: environmentalism, anti-colonialism, human rights, with striking, game-changing re...
https://charcopress.com/bookstore/la-lucha
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Surprise gift today from my husband, who found this at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC 📚 We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 🇦🇷 Translated by Robin Myers
#WITMonth
#RegulatorBooks
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Cita Press
3 months ago
Polish writer and Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk on how she views literary translators as her co-creators in her work. From a 2019 interview with the Nobel Foundation
@nobelprize.bsky.social
#womenintranslation
#WITMonth
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Seven Stories Press
3 months ago
Happy Women in Translation Month to all who celebrate 💞 Explore some of our favorite works by women in translation, including books by Annie Ernaux, Jacqueline Harpman, Neige Sinno, Nadia Terranova, Ivana Bodrozić, Liliana Corobca, and more.
www.sevenstories.com/blogs/385-ce...
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
3 months ago
Looking for more
#WITMonth
inspiration? We've collected links to bloggers, bookshops, magazines who have made their own lists:
tinyurl.com/3sx8bnbh
Thank you
@annabookbel.bsky.social
@arablit.bsky.social
@clmporg.bsky.social
@tonysreadinglist.bsky.social
@radzpandit.bsky.social
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Women in Translation News
An archive of Women in Translation in the news
https://tinyurl.com/3sx8bnbh
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Today’s selection for
#WITMonth
is Loop by Brenda Lozano, translated by the brilliant Annie McDermott 🇲🇽📚
@charcopress.com
#WomenInTranslation
3 months ago
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Prospect Magazine
4 months ago
Japanese fiction now outsells all other translated languages in the UK—and it’s not just Murakami anymore. From cats to cannibalism, @susiemesure.bsky.social explores the literary boom that began with CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and shows no signs of slowing down.
www.prospectmagazine...
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Rising sun: why Japanese fiction is booming in the west
Translated Japanese fiction is suddenly booming in the west. We spoke to publishers, editors and translators to discover why
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/books/70469/rising-sun-why-japanese-fiction-is-booming-in-the-west-sayaka-murata-yu-miri-mieko-kawakami-uketsu
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Translators Aloud
4 months ago
August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing.
#WITmonth
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Women in Translation #WIT #Read_WIT
Women in Translation playlist. Translations of women authors read by their literary translators. #Women #WIT #WITMonth #womenintranslation #womenwriters #IWD...
https://buff.ly/DVVpEyp
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Indivisible ❌👑
4 months ago
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Day 2 of
#WITMonth
! Just finished All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos (trans. by Alice Whitmore). Great for anyone with a little wanderlust 🇦🇷 📚
4 months ago
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Read Japanese Literature
4 months ago
Hope some of y'all will read along with me for
#WITMonth
! I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda... Starts Friday!
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31 Short Stories for Women in Translation Month
I had so much fun reading along with RJL supporters for January in Japan, that I hope you’ll join me again for #WomeninTranslation Month. #WITMonth an annual event each August that has played its o…
https://readjapaneseliterature.com/2025/07/30/31-short-stories-for-women-in-translation-month/
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Other gems I read as the world burned this summer
#WITMonth
#WomenInTranslation
. Excited to see others’ selections for this year! 📚🌍
4 months ago
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Best book I read this summer in preparation for
#WITMonth
! Reeling by Lola Lafon (trans. Hildergarde Serle). 🇫🇷📚 Devastatingly timeless.
4 months ago
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Center for the Art of Translation
4 months ago
August is Women in Translation Month
#WITMonth
and we're happy to see 3
@twolinespress.bsky.social
titles "Mending Bodies," "Backlight," and "The Queen of Swords" on
@clmporg.bsky.social
's reading list! 👀📚
www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
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A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the lite...
https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-women-in-translation-month-2025/
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Liz Neeley
4 months ago
A while ago, we started a
#FixItFriday
tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together. Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users:
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
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Joseph Cox
4 months ago
We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here:
www.404media.co/were-publish...
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Clint Smith
5 months ago
But for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could be living in poverty, dependent upon assistance to put food on the table, to take our children to the doctor, and to pull ourselves out of debt. The lack of empathy, the pure callousness on display in this bill, is infuriating.
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Sascha Trippe 🛰️ 사샤 트리페
5 months ago
"Large language models do not, cannot, and will not 'understand' anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word." 🧪🤖 [gift link]
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What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/06/artificial-intelligence-illiteracy/683021/?gift=y89gd-inJwMJpjlW_xxh5oGu-10ADfOPrXzyW3v7XFQ
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Joanne Harris
6 months ago
Gentle reminder to anyone who needs it today: The more you use technology to replace the things you used to do for for yourself, the less you will be able to do them. That goes for writing, walking, thinking, communicating, making things, and all the things humans used to be pretty good at.
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Página|12
6 months ago
Lamento latinoamericano por la muerte de Pepe Mujica
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Lamento latinoamericano por la muerte de Pepe Mujica
Diversos presidentes y expresidentes recordaron con cariño a Mujica, haciendo hincapié en la importancia de la unidad de América Latina como una de sus grandes enseñanzas.
http://dlvr.it/TKlN3T
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DE ESTRENO
6 months ago
#Netflix
anunció oficialmente en redes que habrá una segunda temporada de
#ElEternauta
. Falta que se confirme la fecha de estreno. Mientras tanto la primera temporada no para de batir records de audiencia a nivel mundial 💪🇦🇷
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Teen Vogue
6 months ago
While the university has ended the group's special status designation, with the support of the student body, student guides are doubling down on their commitment to share their campus’ history.
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UVA Tried To Shut Down Its Historical Tours Discussing Slavery. These Students Resisted.
A conservative alumni group took issue with the discussion of difficult parts of UVA’s history.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/uva-historical-tours-slavery-students
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NPR
7 months ago
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5381150/pulitzer-prizes-2025
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Roxane Gay
7 months ago
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
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ExpendableMudge (he/him)
8 months ago
A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES, things going wrong? blame a woman!, via
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
in
@furiousleeper.bsky.social
's translation.
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-ca...
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A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES, things going wrong? blame a woman!
A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES NATALIA CARCÍA FREIRE (tr. Victor Meadowcroft) World Editions $14.99 ebook, available now Rating: 5* of fiv...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-carnival-of-atrocities-things-going.html
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