Bringing the Mediterranea Publishing Fellowship to Bluesky - a space where we explore Mediterranean literature beyond markets. Join us for reflections on literary connections, cultural mediation, and glimpses into our fellowship experience in Cagliari. #MediterraneanLiterature

🧵 La disinformazione nell’era dei social media: dal consenso al tribalismo | @brunosaetta.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/disinformazi... via @valigiablu.it

School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines.

Un podcast [...] che prova a raccontare la Resistenza italiana a fascisti e nazisti nell’ultima fase della Seconda guerra mondiale. www.ilpost.it/2025/04/25/u...

Wir zählen Vergewaltigungen, wir zählen Taten, wir zählen Täter. Niemand zählt die Jahre, die die betroffenen Frauen und Mädchen brauchen, um wieder ins Leben zu finden. Niemand zählt die Beziehungen, die deshalb zerbrechen, oder die Traumata, die ganze Familien belasten.

Buon 25 aprile ma senza esagerare eh non vorrei offendere il papa

I just finished translating Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. A book I’ve wanted to publish since 2018. I first came across it by chance, near a book swap, as happens with the best reads. It’s a book that turns pain into a poetic meditation on the complexity of modern life. Can’t wait to see it out in Italy.

Back from the Chennai Book Fair, and what a revelation the Tamil language has been, where letters are soul and body (uyir and mei), forming "embodied letters" (uyirmei). It was a beautiful encounter with a different way of dwelling in words.

Italian newspaper urges Iran to free journalist held in notorious jail

Don‘t post on X. Don‘t be on X. Don‘t share from X.

Gregory Day's "The Bell of the World" (Transit Lounge, 2023) interrogates spatial phenomenology through a polyvocal narrative, mapping embodied consciousness against the Australian landscape's transitional topographies. Formal fragmentation enacts phenomenological rupture and regeneration.

In the past two years alone I have translated 13 novels, all by terrific authors. But while completing Carolina Bello's El resto del mundo rima, I truly felt like a literary translator for the first time. I focused entirely on the text, setting aside concerns about my or the author's (amazing) voice

Hey @supernotes.app, are there any plans to include widgets in the macOS/iOS apps?

Just found out about Bookfusion, and I'm wondering how I missed it until now!

Poets & Writers is now on Bluesky! Announcing our new issue, featuring eight authors’ insights into the sources of illumination in their creative lives, our 20th annual debut poets spotlight, a retrospective celebrating the debut poets we’ve featured since 2005, and more. at.pw.org/JanFeb2025

Nadie se vio venir que al final serían las inteligencias artificiales las que se dedicarían a los trabajos creativos y las personas las que nos encargaríamos de los curros físicos pochos y mal pagados 🤙

Deepak Unnikrishnan's Temporary People (Restless Books) skillfully deconstructs migrant labor through magical realism, transforming linguistic boundaries into a radical map of displacement and bureaucratic erasure. Its innovative narrative challenges conventional immigrant stories. #JustRead

One protester said his jaw was broken as masked men threw him to the ground, stood on his face and jumped. Some, trying to document the violence, said they had their cameras smashed or stolen, before being beaten themselves. edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/e...

L'invidia è un'empatia negativa. L'invidia è empatia al posto sbagliato e nel momento sbagliato.

... cuando las grandes aves se derrumben y las nubes nos indiquen que la vida se nos fue entre los dedos guárdame todavía en ti en la brizna de aire que aún ocupe tu voz dura y remota como los cauces glaciares en que la primavera desciende. - Guárdame en ti, Raúl Zurita

Mohabir's "Antiman" (Restless Books, 2021) brilliantly deploys translingual poetics to theorize diasporic queerness, challenging Western memoir conventions through strategic code-switching & formal hybridity. A masterclass in decolonial life writing. #JustRead

Congrats to everyone shortlisted for the Translators’ Association translation prizes 👑 societyofauthors.org/2024/12/02/a...

The thing about pre-orders: If you pre-order thru an indie bookstore (which generally doesn't cost you up-front!) it is HUGE for the lifeblood of the book, it is a boost to authors, the publisher, and the booksellers who steward this life. It's a little thing but it's meaningful should this inspire!

Jeovanna Vieira's "Virgínia mordida" (@cialetras.bsky.social) skillfully deploys fragmented narrative temporality to examine intimate partner violence, challenging linear trauma narratives through strategic discontinuity. #JustRead

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

Bohman's Sanningsberget (@norstedts.bsky.social) examines absence through geological metaphor. Layers personal/collective memory like sedimentary rock, interrogating how trauma shapes both physical/psychic landscapes. Masterful meditation on time's simultaneous erosion/accumulation. #JustRead

Germany has fallen.

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books

Che, porque nadie me avisó que @mismapersona.bsky.social también andaba por acá 💜

Igual el error de principio ha sido pretender que estábamos dando algún tipo de batalla en las redes sociales cuando solo estábamos intentando entender algo de lo que pasa.

Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section? `npm install bluesky-comments` Built by @coryzue.com

Jessie Tu's The honeyeater (Allen & Unwin) brilliantly deploys unreliable translation as metaphor for cultural & emotional mediation. Interrogates authenticity in both linguistic & interpersonal exchanges through nested frames of betrayal. #JustRead

Prodotti dagli anni 70 i chioschi modulari come il K67 sloveno, il polacco Kami, il macedone KC190 e il sovietico "Bathyscaphe", si trovavano nei Paesi dell'ex blocco orientale e dell'ex Jugoslavia. Servivano da rosticceria, negozi di fiori , edicole, cabine altro ancora.

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?

I’ve been invited to Iruñea to talk about the challenges publishers face with minoritized languages. I'm excited to hear what my colleagues think, but I still need to figure out what I think about it 😅

Ho fatto uno starter pack un po’ a casaccio di gente che si può seguire se si arriva su Bluesky così, di botto, senza senso.

Also, I cannot stress enough how impactful the Undelivered Lectures by @transitbooks.bsky.social have been for my nonfiction reading. This great collection has served as a major inspiration for the Sillabari collection I’m curating for Ischire 📚✨

In The Wilderness (@transitbooks.bsky.social), Ayşegül Savaş weaves anthropological theory with intimate memoir to explore postpartum liminality. Her examination of wilderness as both metaphor and embodied space creates a rich theoretical framework for discussing maternal experience. #JustRead

Emerging Translators: Apply for the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Program. Mentorships offered in 18 languages. I will be serving as the Japanese mentor. Deadline November 30. Apply here 👇 www.literarytranslators.org/2025-mentors...

I'm trying to build a feed that highlights the diverse voices in the literary world, particularly those involved in literary translation (all language combinations). So, #literarytranslators out there, help me complete this #starterpack and let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/SurjbAj

…il nuovo tipo di politico ha da realizzare quest’opera: un salto oltre se stesso, al di là della riluttanza, toccando l’umano sensibilmente, addirittura con il proprio corpo, se non quello fisico almeno quello emotivo, a latitudini interiori che non gli o le sono proprie per formazione storica

The Silurian Hypothesis: A brilliant scientific method of using a speculative scenario to improve research techniques www.perplexity.ai/page/the-sil...

Interesting issue of The Dial with a language / translation focus. www.thedial.world?utm_term=0_-...

18M! And @theo.io‘s user tracker threw up confetti! 🎉 bsky-users.theo.io

Liliana Blum's 'Pandora' challenges traditional fat-body narratives by giving agency to its plus-size protagonist, yet ultimately falls into familiar tropes of fetishization and punishment. A complex exploration of societal body norms that both subverts and reinforces literary conventions #JustRead

Okay, I have done it! I have made a Canadian BIPOC Poets Starter Pack. I'm definitely missing folks, so feel free to share! ✨️🌻 go.bsky.app/Jugnv9d