Read an extract from 'Why Does the Cat?', a short story from Bora Chung's latest collection, THE MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE (Dialogue Books), translated by @antonhur.com. In this terrifying – and sometimes wry – story, a man finds himself haunted by the ghost of his murder victim. buff.ly/EwoND80

Wait, did effing South Park just say "Free Palestine"?

i’ve nothing to add to this tweet other than to admire its usage of “prigozhin” as a verb

✨ I curated an event in honor of a new Octavia Butler biography w/ author Susana M. Morris and Ibi Zoboi on 09/30 at the Center for Bklyn History at 6:30 pm. There will be convo AND stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association! ✨ RSVP here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

Rebecca stays winning 🏆 note to self: whine less, write more

i'm so angry. what does it mean when your job makes you angry all the time? when you do crucial work, award-winning work, and the people whose careers you built for them still treat you like dirt, like you're replaceable. it is SO SHITTY being a translator

"팔레스타인 국가 승인은 하마스에 대한 보상이니 안된다"와 "나중에"는 죽어가는 팔레스타인인들을 그냥 보고 있겠다는 점에서 똑같다.

또 "나중에" 하고 있네 www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic...

as i keep saying, we have the technology but we don’t have the data the 1000 anton hurs problem

as someone who has both run with ostriches (i lived in Ethiopia as a kid) and been a booker prize judge (154 books) this thread strikes terror in me

in which i have sold some books & now must write them

If Trump says this, then hopefully many of the people who listened to him today will understand that this is a racist, cruel, and ultimately self-destructive policy for so many countries that actually benefit from the cultures, values, and labor that immigrants bring.

my parents still think i pay for my own tours and every time i go overseas i pay for everything, they don’t believe i even have audiences at my talks when i tell you my parents are psychotic, this is what i mean. they still consider me unemployed they like my husband tho so that’s something

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Reminder to everybody in this administration that you only have a couple hours left to release the Epstein Files if you still want to get Raptured to Heaven.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

하나만 차별할 것 같지?

this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!

my novel predicted - chatgpt - prigozhin’s troll farm - nanotherapy and now - the rapture

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

What is YA fiction & how do we pitch it? 📚 Join Sawad Hussain for a journey through The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani, from pitch to publication, with hands-on exercises introducing the art of translating YA fiction. Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

quite a feat for Honford Star!

Tonight! 🙏🏼 One of the most exciting things abt writing a prose debut that smuggles in poetry at various turns is that I’ve met ppl at signings saying ‘Poetry’s not for me… But I might try it now.’ #Poetry #TryItNow

sitting in jfk. cant WAIT to have a korean fried chicken

Alaa has been pardoned! So happy for him and his family apnews.com/article/egyp...

luff you brooklyn! see you again soon

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

이로써 193개국 가운데 팔레스타인을 국가로 승인하지 않는 나라는 42개국밖에 남지 않았다. 캐나다·호주·영국·포르투갈에 이어 곧 프랑스·몰타·룩셈부르크·벨기에도 팔레스타인 국가 인정을 공식화하면, 팔레스타인을 국가로 승인하지 않는 UN 회원국은 고작 38개국밖에 남지 않게 된다. 한국은 이 수치스러운 38개국 가운데 유일한 1세계 후식민지 국가다. 팔레스타인 국가 승인을 언제까지 미룰 건가?

계속 이러면 내가 다음 총선에 조국혁신당 찍는다.

Carol Shields Prize winner Canisia Lubrin (CODE NOIR) and I took this selfie to show @hystericalblkns.bsky.social!

Starmer is expected to announce that the United Kingdom has recognized the State of Palestine later today (Sunday, the 21st) according to the BBC

Macron says ten nations are preparing to recognize a State of Palestine based on the 1967 borders.

Vincenzo Latronico interview: ‘Little Eyes reveals the ways our lives are both harmed and enriched by digital innovation’ ⤵️ https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/k9tp0ujhki

i’m at the strand in new york. did not realize until now that if you shelve my book in the science fiction section, i end up next to l ron hubbard

"Emerging literary translators often come up and tell me how much they want to be like me. They mean well, and more power to them, but I do find myself thinking: Are you sure about that?" I wrote an article about burnout for KLN:

it is absolutely fair to say that hakeem jeffries has, in the last year, shown more support for charlie kirk's life work than he has for the democratic nominee for mayor in his city, the largest city in the country

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

i visited hachette’s nyc office for the first time today our publisher (algonquin) merged with little, brown so i jokingly asked the algonquin team if they’d ever met james patterson and they totally had 😂 i then jokingly asked if they called him “jim” and apparently his team totally does 😂

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

"When criticised for chngng his mind, Keynes famously replied 'when the facts change, I change my opinions. What do you do?' The implied ego-damage involved wld be unacceptable today. Rather than chgnng our 🧠, we search... until we find someone who will tell us that what we believe is still true."

BREAKING: The terrorism counts against Luigi Mangione have been dismissed as "legally insufficient" by a New York judge. Mr. Mangione, 27, is still charged with second-degree murder and that case is expected to proceed.

One Black man hanging from a tree in Mississippi is a shame. Two is a pattern.

<sigh>

The paperback edition of Blood of the Old Kings by @sung-il-kim.com and translated by @antonhur.com is out today, so we are re-releasing our interview with them from last year. The cast loved the first book and found this interview to be a delight. geeklyinc.com/off-the-book...

People who say there's no good use for AI need to think harder. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-16 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

poet AND TRANSLATOR

Mask up and get your vaccines if you can, friends.

Anecdotal, but at least some doctors' offices in NYC have started getting the new COVID vaccine. (Previously only pharmacies had it.) Get vaxed THIS WEEK if you can, friends! Seriously, do it now! RFK's CDC ACIP is meeting this Friday and could limit access. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...