Sharing because I contributed—and Helen Vassallo is someone whose work I value and respect. With @willforrest.bsky.social, Nicholas Glastonbury, Daniel Hahn, Sawad Hussein, Sophie Lewis, Ros Schwartz, Nichola Smalley, Corine Tachtiris & @tiffanytsao.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Getting-Star...

Pearl S. Buck said this in 1958. I would note today that the spike in ridiculously detailed and intensive advice on what makes a “good” mother gives a woman only two options: burying herself or being monstrous.

Really happy it arrived safely, as sending objects of gold touched by God the Son by regular post is always a little risky. Hope the story is worth it, Ross ♥️✨

I drew a cover for 'Olenka' by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao. It's out in July but you can preorder it now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760272/olenka-by-budi-darma-translated-with-an-introduction-and-notes-by-tiffany-tsao/

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This article on then recent Indonesian literary history from a June 1956 issue of The Atlantic, written by Asrul Sani, translated by John M Echols: "To what extent will the next phase of our literature be international, influenced by the work of foreign writers?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I wrote one of my dissertation chapters on Mo’s Redundancy of Courage, and my research influenced me when writing The Majesties . Every now and then I wonder what Mo is doing now, and now I know I’m not alone.

Check out @tiffanytsao.bsky.social’s piece in @pensydney.bsky.social’s magazine (p. 6-7) on peasant activist Amanda Echanis’ work to translate assassinated poet and activist Kerima Lorena Tariman. Amanda is currently a political prisoner, doing all this behind bars. pen.org.au/wp-content/u...

We are honoured to receive the 2025 NSW Literary Awards "Special Award", offered in recognition of an exceptional contribution to the literary life of Australia, to a literary work not covered by the existing categories. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-l...

War and Peace, but make it Bogan Australian: ‘Heaps of posh wankers were at Anna’s place by now. It was getting full as.’

FULL LINEUP for our little festival of Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand literature in Berlin on May 24th!! Come see professors, poets, artists, & novelists (& me); come hear about Weiss & Bismarck's bastards & Sebald in the desert & multidirectional war memory >> stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...

How to brush your teeth in space:

Exceedingly pleased to be on this @englishpen.bsky.social x @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist! I’ll be translating a sample from Indonesian, from a novel by Grace Tioso. Working title in English: The Born Out of Wedlock Club 🌶️🥳🎊

A photo of Kazuo Ishiguro in 1977, in a singlet and beard, playing the guitar: www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

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The award for Best Use of 'Scintillated' in the Wild goes to this article on tardigrades from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience website. imb.uq.edu.au/just-add-wat...

Writing an essay on motherhood and the grave. Or undead mothering. Something like that. This 2018 New Yorker essay by Jill Lepore observes Shelley was nursing, giving birth, and pregnant throughout the writing of Frankenstein.

Was reading the intro to a 1891 edition of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. And came across a line that is music to my ears and will probably never see anywhere else: "he was chiefly a translator, and made much money"

Extremely excited to share this piece of good news: a two-book deal with HarperVia, with the first book (But Won't I Miss Me) coming out in 2026! More deets and deep reflections on my blog: tiffanytsao.com/2025/01/13/a...

Joko Pinurbo as a young, brooding poet, from the October 1985 issue of BASIS magazine. (For those outside Indonesian lit, Joko Pinurbo passed away earlier this year.)

When the author you're translating casually mentions in the afterword to his Bloomington-set novel that he developed a keen interest in hot-air balloons. And when you then find out there is a company called Balloons Over Bloomington 🎈 balloonsoverbloomington.com

When revising the very, very last little bit of your manuscript somehow feels like this song (one of my favs): www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Nf...

The novel I'm writing leads me to interesting articles, including this one on the kidnapping of a premature baby in the Bronx in 1950, and how the kidnapper (someone who yearned to have a baby) created a makeshift incubator: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

While researching for Oddfits 3, I came across this great video of kimzua (chinese paper offerings) craftsman Lai Yew Onn. “I am not afraid of ghosts. Rather, they are afraid of me. They’re afraid I’ll stop working. They come here to window shop because I do beautiful work.”

“The real vulnerability of a modern toaster: the electronics”

Missed having an easy way to share cool things about others w/ others. Here is an article I came across on the ethnic Chinese in New Guinea (PNG) being abandoned to their fate before the Japanese invaded in WWII