"Taking out some of the hyphens means disconnecting from who I am."
@vladateper.bsky.social beautiful and to many of us highly relatable essay on Mărțișor, Moldova, complicated identities, and our ties to the places we come from after we've left them.
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A delight to have Egana Djabbarova in the U.S. to present MY DREADFUL BODY, translated @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. Thank you The Harriman Institute at Columbia, U of Pennsylvania, @thenewschool.bsky.social, Amherst College + @rhondakg.bsky.social for hosting.
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We are farther from Office Romance (1977) than Novoseltsev was from Pasternak's poem "Loving some people is a heavy cross" (1931) when he tried to pass it off as his own.
A white woman in glasses holding a book with purple cover. Background: a bougainvillea amidst backyard landscape
Happy pub date to BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 from @deepvellum.bsky.social. I’m very proud to have a translation in this volume, a poem by a Kyiv-based poet Olga Bragina, first published in @consequencef.bsky.social.
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Happy to report that the recording of Dr Michael Marsh-Soloway's recent talk - “When Earthly Minds Contemplate Infinity” - is now available on our YouTube channel!
Check it out:
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In the Winter 2025 issue of #SlavicReview, Paolo Sartori writes, "Slavic Settlers and Conversion to Islam in Russian Central Asia," as part of the Cluster: Towards a History of Russian Colonialism.
Read now on Cambridge Core: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Proud to have my translation of a poem by Olga Bragina, first published in Consequence Forum, in this volume.
Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, is available now!
This is such an exciting prospect. I really enjoyed reading Djabbarova and am very happy anglophone readers will get to know her work in Lisa’s translations.
that the Russian version has an afterword that mentions Helene Cixous and Luce Irigraray, two French feminist theorists who originated writing the body and which were our first readings in the course. Admittedly, I'm biased, but it's also one of the best novels I've read in a long time.
I was teaching it last quarter, as always in his memory, at the same time as Olga, Lisa, and I started talking about this extraordinary book. I read it in Russian and the publisher kindly sent me Lisa's English translation, which I passed around to my students, while also telling them
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As some of you know, my dissertation was on writing the body in the works of Russian women writers and I have been teaching this course, in various iterations, even before I'd finished, thanks to Michael Heim going to bat to get this class onto the Slavic department schedule.
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Today is the publication day of the English translation of Egana Djabbarova's novel My Dreadful Body, translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social; massive thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social for putting an excerpt on Punctured Lines.
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@lizoksbooks.bsky.social -- take a look at this opportunity! Love to see this translator-centered space.
I love this book! The offer to translate My Dreadful Body for New Vessel has always felt like a wonderful gift (especially since it came during the holiday season!), and I'm glad that gift is now making its way into the world to other readers. Thank you for being part of that effort Punctured Lines!
Thank you for translating, Lisa! Your attention and care to this work is such a gift to us all. So grateful!
Thank you very much to Punctured Lines for running this excerpt from my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body! I'm happy to add that today's our publication day, thanks to @newvesselpress.bsky.social!
You really do carry the best books!
Ooh love that cover and title. Exciting!
Reading this now, needed more
YES! And so unique in terms of its subject matter and narrative structure!
Wonderful book
The protagonist of My Dreadful Body suffers a debilitating neurological illness that compromises her movement & communication. In search for treatment, the protagonist finds an unexpected source of strength. Translated by the one and only @lizoksbooks.bsky.social
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We’re celebrating today the arrival of an eagerly anticipated novel by Egana Djabbarova that portrays the life of a young woman from a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. Read an excerpt on Punctured Lines and buy the book from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
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One fun coincidence about this event is that all three authors featured here were students of Svetlana Boym, a cultural theorist most famous for her book THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA. When we talk about memory in relationship to culture and immigration, we talk in part about her work.
Coming up in Oakland.
Join us tomorrow in Baltimore! It's going to be an incredible night.
Today! I'll be at UCLA's writing workshop, but if you're in Baltimore, you should be here. Listen to phenomenal writers, like @olgaz.bsky.social, @vladateper.bsky.social, et al. and support Ukraine. (Registration link in the event description.)
Tomorrow!! Don't forget to register!
