It will never not be amazing to me that books like CURSED BUNNY or INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE (short stories and poetry, which “do not sell”) that I found myself in bookshops and had sold like two copies in Korea went into several reprints and lucrative transatlantic rights sales in my translation.

Another one of my books earned out and started paying royalties. Just got my first payment for that one. And I was told IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT went into reprint—the book is not even out yet! Ingram requested it. Almost all of my books have earned out. This is rare for translators.

“이른바 헤리티지 번역가(자신의 모국어나 민족어를 출발어로 삼는 번역가)는 흔히 ‘문자 그대로의 의미만을 옮길 뿐 예술성은 없다’는 식으로 취급되는 반면 백인 번역가는 영어에 능숙하다는 이유로 더 ‘예술적’으로 인정받는 경향이 있다는 점 때문이었다. 그리고 이러한 차별은 영어권 출판사나 편집자들뿐만 아니라 영어를 쓰지 않는 한국인, 즉 작가와 편집자, 출판인, 심지어 독자들까지도 모두가 공유하는 인식이기도 했다. 이 사실을 깨닫고 나니 내 번역이 ‘나빴다’는 증거가 없다는 걸 알게 되었다.”—자넷 홍, 계간 자음과모음 2025년 봄

Hi! I am the world's only Booker-shortlisted and National Book Award-finalist Korean literary translator. This sounds legit

"안톤 허의 번역으로 오는 6월 미국과 영국에서 첫 권 출간을 앞두고 있어 이번 후보 선정 소식은 영미권 진출에도 큰 탄력을 줄 것으로 보인다" 별로 큰 탄력 안 줘요 🥲 영미권은 워낙 문화적으로 폐쇄적이라 다른 언어권에서 상을 타든 말든 아~무런 영향 안 받습니다... 부커상과 같은 영미권 상을 타면 다른 언어권에서 한 번 더 봐주지만 그 반대는 그렇지 않아요... 그나저나 왜 후보에 오른 도서를 번역한 번역가의 이름은 언급하지 않고 프랑스어판을 번역하지 않은 제 이름을 언급하시나요...

Well, that’s just great. What could possibly go wrong with asking for lists of Jews.

Israel had passed a death penalty law which applies to Palestinians killing Israeli settlers but not Israeli settlers killing Palestinians. Now tell me Israel is not an APARTHEID state.

yay ACLS money

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

This analyst saying this says that Microsoft has to “fix copilot” as if the problem is something that simply requires more compute, versus an inherent issue with LLMs. He also buys into the (completely fake) “ai is eating software” story. I could do this job! It’s easy!

🤬🤬

the supreme court can go straight to hell

YOU CAN'T OUTRUN CASTER SEMENYA 🥇

Ok another fun thing about this particular excerpt is that 1. It is from a chapter that is a serious revision of an essay that initially appeared in @thebaffler.com 2. People who got advance review copies of The Edge of Space-Time got a completely different version of this chapter lol

but the biggest twist of all was that the author was voldemort all along

Sometimes a translator has to save an author from themselves.

“The author and translator must not have literary representation in the UK or US.” Welp that counts me out (again) but have fun you guys!

Wish there was a Marian Anderson biopic starring Audra McDonald. She’s so elegant in Guilded Age. And can you imagine the soundtrack

Years ago, my mother-in-law started reading The Exorcist. She said it was the most evil book she’d ever read, so she threw it into the sea. I bought another copy, soaked it, and left it by her bed.

THE IOC NEEDS TO EXHUME THE BODIES OF EVERY DEAD OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNER SO WE CAN SEE THEIR CHROMOSOMES.

Today in white literary opinions

Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall

It's like Squid Game, but worse.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

Since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, Israel has closed holy sites in Jerusalem, citing safety concerns.

BONJOUR

Louise Erdrich said in the NYTBR podcast that she’s switched over from Word to MacOS Pages and so have I. The lag in Word got completely unusable and nothing I do can fix it (it was always laggy to begin with but now it’s really bad). I feel vindicated!

이런 거라도 해야 함

THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT AUTHORS AND SO MANY GOOD BOOKS READ ANOTHER GODDAMN BOOK I BEG OF YOU

The fact that this happened, and the fact that they commemorated it with a statue 💜

Eventually Trump was going to run up against someone who noticed and cared that his word means nothing

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

It is more than 20 years later and I still remember how The Onion was basically the only mainstream media outlet that dared to be against the war in Iraq.

as some D-list debut poet the geography knowledge is fine but having to be aware of the price of oil? unforgivable

The 92NY canceled my appearance in late October 2023 after I signed a ceasefire letter and reiterated my support for BDS. But they're ok with having this gentleman, Ilya Shapiro, who seems to like genocide and is vocal about it.

The vaporware-industrial complex has now left the stage of promising that the product is imminent and entered the stage of insisting that the product is here

I can't believe that I, some D-list debut novelist with an MA in Victorian poetry, have to know what and where the Hormuz Strait is.

Blood to the True Crown, the third and final book of the Bleeding Empire series, is coming in November! I'm reviewing the copyedited manuscript right now. Barnes and Noble has it on pre-order sale from Mar. 24 to 26. Coupon code PREORDER25 at checkout. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-to-t...

The world can't possibly be this evil and yet

블스에서 맞팔하는 어느 익명의 교수님이 본인의 출신 학교의 학풍을 살짝 묘사하시는데 내가 나온 대학원, 전공과 너무 똑같아서 소오름… 가면 무도회에서 아는 사람 마주친 느낌 🥹 그 분을 아웃팅하고 싶지 않아서 인용 포스팅하진 않겠지만 너무 반가워요… 학풍으로 학우를 알아보다니…

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

Reparations? From America? Which won’t even pay them for its own Indigenous and Black people?

I don’t think evangelicals really believe in God. I think they just like money and seeing others suffer.

Countless Iranians have died. UK bases being targeted. Energy bills will skyrocket. The British people are against the UK involvement in this war. A vote in Parliament is needed now and it's what Starmer promised when running for leader and pretending he was progressive.

Blood of the Old Kings, by @sung-il-kim.com, trs by @antonhur.com Do you need to be of the blood of kings to become king? Could a bargain with a dragon & the longing for revenge be enough? Who is the voice in the student sorcerer's head & what does it really want? So good! #translatedlit #xl8 💙📚

A bunch of us chased an SUV full of masked thugs out of a neighborhood today, so I feel good.

If you happen to be ablebodied, the Vélib is absolutely the best way to see Paris—I love Paris, but I loved Paris 10x more when I went around it on a bike. (Do not use Boris bikes to see London).

I mean, anything sounds silly if you spell it out like that

Having a POLICY that prevents consumers from using their consumer electronic product is UNAMERICAN