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Lit Hub
4 months ago
“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.
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Autobiography of Cotton
[A wild wind; wind from the north] The sound of hooves beating on the sandy ground comes first. Then the breathing, strained and short-winded. Panting. A snort. The white ground splits to allow the…
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)
4 months ago
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:
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6 months ago
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.
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Happy about this starred review.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON | Kirkus Reviews
An author in search of a history that’s been all but erased.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cristina-rivera-garza/autobiography-of-cotton/
7 months ago
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Cristina Rivera Garza
10 months ago
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.
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Elisa Díaz Castelo lee ‘Las chicas muertas hablan al unísono’, poemario de Danielle Pafunda traducido al español por Cristina Rivera Garza
https://www.latempestad.mx/danielle-pafunda-las-chicas-muertas-hablan-al-unisono-dharma-books/
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Graywolf Press
10 months ago
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...
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Liliana Rivera Garza (October 4, 1969 - July 16, 1990).
#JusticeForLiliana
#JusticeForAll
11 months ago
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Cristina Rivera Garza
The Markaz Review مجلة المركز
about 1 year ago
📚 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
bit.ly/a-world-in-c...
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A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025
This anthology, while celebrating the best literary translations of 2025, aims to highlight writing from and about a world in crisis.
https://bit.ly/a-world-in-crisis-deep-vellums-best-literary-translations-2025
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Few reasons to be happy these days, but, humbly, this made my day. Thank you, readers.
about 1 year ago
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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!
over 1 year ago
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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!
over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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Cristina Rivera Garza
StoryStudio Chicago
over 1 year ago
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
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See you soon, Chicago!
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
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On trying to shake some life into one’s lust for life
open.substack.com/pub/poemperd...
Judith Kiros, Singing Lessons
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Friday, February 14
(from O) SINGING LESSONS On piping up.
https://open.substack.com/pub/poemperdiem/p/friday-february-14?r=1mk84d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
over 1 year ago
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Dropping this February 25!
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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Rachel Hands
over 1 year ago
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
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Revolución diamantina
https://www.laphil.com/about/watch-listen/la-phil-recordings/revolucion-diamantina
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Our Revolución diamantina wins its first Grammy award! Yeah! 💪🏽 Congrats, Gabriela Ortiz!
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Revolución diamantina
https://www.laphil.com/about/watch-listen/la-phil-recordings/revolucion-diamantina
over 1 year ago
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February 2025…
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Duke University Press
over 1 year ago
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.
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1/1/2025
over 1 year ago
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2025, here we go!
over 1 year ago
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Nothing like having no time to write and then having some time to write to write all the time.
#TongueTwisterOfTheSoul
over 1 year ago
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Jorge Téllez
over 1 year ago
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
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Alberto Chimal
over 1 year ago
Now, when it's too late, the US corporate media shows concern about law-abiding undocumented immigrants. [gift link article]
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His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him. (Gift Article)
His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
https://buff.ly/4gEKJ2t
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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?...
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Revolución diamantina, Act I. The sounds cats make
YouTube video by LA Phil - Topic
https://youtu.be/qlUTTB5J9Ng?si=hNnuk_9jkV9q24Kq
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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Este jueves 5, 4:30 pm, salón 3:
#NadieMeVeráLlorar
@filguadalajara.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Gonzalo Jiménez
over 1 year ago
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
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