“The sound of hooves beating on the sandy ground comes first. Then the breathing, strained and short-winded. Panting. A snort.” Read from @criveragarza.bsky.social’s novel Autobiography of Cotton, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

Don’t miss Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Rita Indiana, discussing AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in a hybrid event February 10, 7 pm ET — at The Center for Fiction or via livestream. Register here: buff.ly/09dNBK4

There's still time to gift a Brick subscription this holiday season! Start with gorgeous Brick 116, featuring Lydia Davis, Cristina Rivera Garza, Solvej Balle, Rinaldo Walcott, Madeleine Thien, Diane Seuss, and so many more! Save $5 with code THEGIFTOFBRICK. brickmag.com/subscribe/

Happy about this starred review. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Elisa Díaz Castelo escribe sobre el impresionante libro de Danielle Pafunda, Las chicas muertas hablan al unísono, traducido por Cristina Rivera Garza y publicado por Dharma Books + Publishing.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, a new novel by @criveragarza.bsky.social (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) is out Feb. 3rd 👀 Preorder today! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Liliana Rivera Garza (October 4, 1969 - July 16, 1990). #JusticeForLiliana #JusticeForAll

📚 Lara Vergnaud reviews “Best Literary Translations 2025” (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social), a bold anthology spotlighting 23 languages and urgent voices from crisis zones around the world. @criveragarza.bsky.social 
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Few reasons to be happy these days, but, humbly, this made my day. Thank you, readers.

It’s pub day in the UK too! Thank you, Alexis, Steph and the Bloomsbury team for placing this #DeathTakesMe out in the wild from today. The flowers are gorgeous!

Today is the day. Thank you, Hogarth. Thank you, Marie Pantojan, editor extraordinaire. Thank you, translators Sarah Booker and Robin Myers. #DeathTakesMe here we go!

Cover reveal: TERRESTRE. Available in bookstores in Mexico, Spain, and Colombia by mid-April (release dates for other countries soon). Cover by Inés Isaurralde. Blurb by @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social. Design by Scarlet Perea. Eloísa Nava, editor. Thank you! #SpeculativeNonFiction #Friendship #Travel

We are ECSTATIC to be partnering with Pulitzer on the Road for a free event happening March 5 at the Chopin Theater. Authors Natasha Trethewey and Cristina Rivera Garza will be in conversation with @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social to discuss writing on life's "big impossible things." buff.ly/4hVUERP

See you soon, Chicago!

On trying to shake some life into one’s lust for life open.substack.com/pub/poemperd... Judith Kiros, Singing Lessons

Dropping this February 25!

I’ve been thinking 🤔 😬😉 #WritingIsTouching A whole cycle on #TACTALITY will begin this Tuesday, February 18th, 6:00 pm, Colegio Nacional. Lectures in Spanish. Livestream.

I have one (1) other Grammys post in me which is enthusiasm about the fact that the Gabriela Ortiz piece that won best classical performance was a collab with Cristina Rivera Garza, for you weird-lit nerds www.laphil.com/about/watch-...

Our Revolución diamantina wins its first Grammy award! Yeah! 💪🏽 Congrats, Gabriela Ortiz! www.laphil.com/about/watch-...

February 2025…

Drinking a glass of wine with my 81-year old mother while remembering voluble skies, temperamental ghosts, and a future so unfathomable that, you know, she said, it might as well be a gift.

One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. https://buff.ly/4gNvyns

1/1/2025

2025, here we go!

Nothing like having no time to write and then having some time to write to write all the time. #TongueTwisterOfTheSoul

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

Now, when it's too late, the US corporate media shows concern about law-abiding undocumented immigrants. [gift link article]

Colaboré con la dramaturgia de esta obra de Gabriela Ortiz, dirigida por Gustavo Dudamel, y ahora nominada a 4 Grammys. REVOLUCIÓN DIAMANTINA youtu.be/qlUTTB5J9Ng?...

La respuesta es SÍ, pero vayamos por partes. Acompáñenme esta tarde a las 6:00 pm en la transmisión en vivo de la Cátedra Carlos Fuentes de la UNAM. Traigan un hacha y un vaso de agua porque vamos a desmantelar algunas creencias y a trabajar juntas.

La mañana de un 8 de diciembre murió Susana San Juan en las tierras de la Media Luna. Habitante de las minas abandonadas de La Andrómeda, viuda de Florencio, esposa renuente de Pedro Páramo. #SiempreLibre #RestInPower

Este jueves 5, 4:30 pm, salón 3: #NadieMeVeráLlorar @filguadalajara.bsky.social

El bello poema de hoy es de @criveragarza.bsky.social tomado de su edición de poesía completa “Me llamo cuerpo que no está” (2024) publicada por Lumen #unpoemaaldía