The sun appeared briefly in skies turned grey from the wildfires in Canada

Why do we have to suffer through John Smoltz every All Star game 😭

The starting lineup for the All Star game is signing the roster with a quill 😂

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Warm weather on the way

Had a lovely lunch with a friend at Le Canard Enchaîné in Kingston today

Clip of Whitman reading from America: whitmanarchive.org/media/audio/whitman-multimedia/America.mp3 share.google/jHdAQTjiIj8d...

Reading Robert Kelly #smallpoemsunday

Reading Robert Kelly 2 #smallpoemsunday

Reading Robert Kelly #smallpoemsunday

Stephanie, are you reading Remembrance as in the first CK Scott Moncrieff translation? Either way, vol 2 is my favorite and if you ever return to it I highly recommend Charlotte Mandell's @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social wondrous translation which I believe will become the standard.

As well as being Proust's birthday, today is also Saul Bellow's birthday-- The Adventures of Augie March was a life-changing book for me at the age of 13. I wrote him a fan letter from France which he never answered :(

Happy birthday #Proust

Happy, happy birthday, Marcel #Proust! (Quote below from In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, tr. @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social.)

Lots of photos from the French-American Foundation Translation Awards Ceremony at the Hearst Tower on June 17 here: frenchamericanfoundation.pixieset.com/2026frencham...

I made a tomato tarte with straciatella ❤️

I wrote about AI use in literary--specifically Proust--translation for @literaryhub.bsky.social. Featuring interviews with translators Andrew Rothwell and Sam Taylor. lithub.com/can-chatgpt-... #proust #booksky

A probing article from @bryanacharles.bsky.social. Long thread incoming. References are to the Oxford Proust. Sodom and Gomorrah just came out and Bryan writes about The Captive. (1/x)

Could AI have rendered "aux agités et aux brouillons" as "to the muddlers and meddlers" on p. 24 for @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social? No. How do I know? Because I giggle every time I recall that phrase. Could it have translated the following passage for her? No. Because I cry every time I read it. (7/x)

Male & juvenile red-bellied woodpeckers (+bonus cardinal appearance on the railing, & female cowbird) 🪶

Stormy skies over the Hudson

The Hudson was very oceany today

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Cooler today, after the storm

We lost power last night after a terrific thunderstorm-- apparently many others did in the region-- I was supposed to be interviewed by someone from the Financial Times tomorrow about my Proust translation but I don't think that's happening now...

Paused by the river today

Reading Robert Kelly

From the French American Foundation Translation Awards Ceremony on June 17

Missing the ocean on this hot day. We can't go to Cuttyhunk this year for various reasons so I'll have to make do with wading in the Sawkill...

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New issue of semiosis literary journal, with new work by Robert Kelly: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sailboats on the Hudson on a hot & humid day

Yesterday's juvenile red-tailed hawk with squirrel:( 🪶

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The lovely rose-breasted grosbeak is still here, it's the longest he's stayed since I can remember 🪶

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Just in from @contramundumpress.bsky.social 🔥

Juvenile red-tailed hawk and dead squirrel :( 🪶

This juvenile red-tailed hawk just caught one of my squirrels :(

Stanley 🧡

They're going to take down these lovely stairs soon :(