“Listening to us [Black people] means that they have to agree and believe that white supremacy first and foremost exists, that it’s a danger to all of us, and then they have to do something about it.” Patrisse Cullors laying it down @thenation.com May issue #booksky - WE MAKE THE WORLD out winter 27
Touched upon this beautiful word today
"Surely the artists are not expected to stand there osculating for two minutes!" - Opera Canada
7am internal AI tool training making 9:30am feel like quitting time, the machine has this anyway, right?
“Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift,” Barnes once said. “Art is not a brassiere.” Then: “Happiness doesn’t make me happy.”
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One of the best there is
"a vessel within which to understand yourself as a continuation of everything that has happened and everything that *will* happen." - Molly B. Nash on Laura Restrepo's SONG OF ANCIENT LOVERS @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
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I miss the dusty files of publishing yesteryears so I appreciate the Wiley Agency for having the 1950 original agreement for Thomas Merton's NO MAN IS AN ISLAND close at hand - a bit of lore for you, working title at contract stage was the somehow less iconic "The Life of St Allred."
AO Scott’s deep poem readings @nytimes.com don’t always get me but this (swoon), on “Early December in Croton-on-Hudson”:
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Join me in supporting literary translators @littranslate.bsky.social this #givingtuesday
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Editing No New Ideas by art historian Matthew Israel and had cause to take a moment with the Graces, mirth, elegance & beauty. Glad mirth has a place within grace. #editorsandediting
In case you need this, it's "make sure you're right" Monday. #editorsandediting
It was a treat to be in NY just ahead of this encouraging political moment. Thanks to all who voted Mamdani and here's to all the other young visionaries I trust will run for office in the future!
We're all feeling poetry these days, unsurprisingly, since it's the answer. Perhaps you'd like to join me in supporting the poets with a donation to the Academy of American Poets.
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Lalah Delia has a new book in the works - gorgeous and poetic, this is meditative reading to keep us true to ourselves, our deepest well. @harperonebooks.bsky.social
"She visited refugee camps, where women...handed her notes, asking for help with escaping or finding loved ones. 'This novel is a form of translating those small handwritten notes for the rest of the world,' Restrepo explains."
“Editors asked, Is this literature or journalism? I have a tendency to break borders between genres.”
Elaine Szewczyk's profile of Laura Restrepo and her SONG OF ANCIENT SPIRITS gets into the story of Laura's exile from Colombia in the 80s "Many got killed. I was lucky.”
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yes and out now!!
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(Jacketed paperback. Illustration by Vladimir Ilievski, design by Stephen Brayda.)
Looking for a novel that feels as good in your hands as it does in your heart? Here's a very special Japanese-paperback-inspired look for this lovely read about a taxi ride to change your life tr @tnieda.bsky.social
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I love it too.
Swoon. We can all please Jane by carrying on her work and her loving engagement.
Register for translator and poet Sholeh Wolpé's Attar seminar series (10/9, 10/16, 10/23)with the Academy of American Poets! #poetrysky #poets #literarytranslation
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Little me was so grateful to find Jane's work when we were sent to the library to choose idols for worship, she hasn't left my side since.
"do something nice for your nervous system, revisit that Sarah Louise album that felt so close to your spine..."
She offered a beautiful guitar learning suggestion that has stayed with me: "play as slow as possible, learn it, then speed up"
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The Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series is spotlighting translations take a breath with this one:
“disagreement” by Venezuelan poet María Auxiliadora Álvarez, translated from Spanish by Andrés Fernández
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First review a 🌟 for Laura Restrepo's "sweeping and lyrical" SONG OF ANCIENT LOVERS (tr Caro De Robertis) @publisherswkly.bsky.social - out Dec 31! I've been obsessed with Restrepo for 20+ years and her books have helped pave my career path... #booksky #literarytranslation #editorsandediting