Thank you to everyone who read my tribute to Bode and has offered condolences and kind words of support.

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BREAKING: Trump Finally Admits that American companies pay the tariffs!

Harvard's Sidechat. Who agrees?

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Evening strolls in this gorgeous little village never disappoint. These deep red #roses climbing up a blue trellis, set against stone walls and soft light from an old lantern — it’s like stepping into a storybook.

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Dutch windmills by night with the moon reflecting in the water

A Terrible Idea Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

Warning: American Fascism in Progress “A provision in the proposed spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders....” #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

Undercover in the Apocalypse Covert dispatches from Sam J. Miller on craft, community, and surviving nightmare times.

OK let's do this.

I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.

I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.

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Has "Cloud Atlas" Become a Genre? Thanks for reading my newsletter! If you wanna consume even more of my words, I have a novel coming out in August. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster,...

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell casts a huge shadow over the book world. I'm seeing a flood of books that borrow its genre-hopping, generation-spanning format.

So in my latest newsletter, I wonder: is Cloud Atlas becoming a bit of a genre on its own?

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A selfie with most of the books I published in 2024, as an author (on left) or translator (the stack on the right). I am still missing copies of a few titles, both written by me and translated by me.

A photo of most of the children's books written by me that were published this year around the world, including both new titles and translations of older titles. There are books in Changana, Sena, Macua, Urdu, Bulgarian, Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English, among others.

The one adult book by me published this year: A BEARD PARADOX, translated by Sandra Kingery (Rebel Satori Press), a collection of 100 erotic flashfiction stories originally written in Spanish.

A photo of many of the books I translated this year: on the left, books I translated into English, on the right, books I translated into Spanish, and in the middle, one book I translated into both English and Spanish (my first published translation from French).

2024 Overview 🧵:

In 2024, I published 42 books:

28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book

14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)

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Deconstructing Surfaces

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The full color front and greyscale back of a postcard featuring woodcut art on both sides. The color half shows a scene of dark clouds pouring rain over a landscape with a muddy flood in the foreground. People, livestock, and buildings are being swept away. The back has a grey depiction of massive hail falling over a town. The text reads, When it Rains... New works by Liv Rainey-Smith. Opening reception 5-8pm, May 16th, 2025. Artist will be in attendance at Gargoyles Statuary, 4550 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105. (206) 632-4940 www.gargoylestatuary.com Part of the U-District Art Walk www.udistrictartwalk.org Front Wunderwerck VI, Back Wunderwerck IV

"When it Rains..." will open May 16th, at Gargoyles Statuary in Seattle, WA. Featuring my newest woodcut limited editions and unique artist proofs.

A copy of apartamento magazine on the floor, showing the title "apartamento" in giant letters with small rows of contributors' names, followed by an open copy with the title in caps: "Hair washing in the Chinese boudoir." This is followed by a byline "by Yilin Wang" and the first two paragraphs of the essay.

HAIR WASHING IN THE CHINESE BOUDOIR Clouds of hot steam drift through the bathhouse. A young Chinese woman, her eyes teasing with innocence and longing, wades through a pool of bath water. She swims up to another woman, grinning as she turns away shyly, pulling a carved jade hairpin from her long black hair, letting it cascade with a dramatic flourish. Tender hair washing ensues. The gentle splashing of water onto embroidered silk undergarments. The rubbing of shampoo until it bubbles, light and comforting. The two women wrap their arms around each other, bodies intertwined. They lean in close, but their lips do not meet. I encountered this scene in a fleeting minute-long Chinese sapphic short film while browsing the video-streaming site Bilibili. As a writer and translator and genderqueer Chinese femme, I have spent years researching a long yet often forgotten lineage of queer Chinese myths and folktales, from the Rabbit God who blesses gay marriages to the genderfluid Guanyin to the gods of love He-He Er Xian. Yet it’s still exceedingly rare to see queer longing depicted in modern-day Chinese dramas and films—so rare that each such encounter, even in a short video clip online, brings flickers of surprise and delight, and a wish for more.

What do hair washing ads, Chinese sapphic films, the boudoir, and Qiu Jin have in common?

Read my newest short essay in Apartamento Magazine to find out! 💜 It is out on the shelves now as of today.

The Lantern and the Night Moths · Invisible Publishing Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China’s most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming, Qiu Jin, Zhang Qiaohui, Xiao Xi, and Dai Wangs...

Today is the day! The Lantern and the Night Moths, my debut book of translated modern Chinese poetry and essays on translation, is out from @invisibooks.bsky.social. I'm so excited to be able to share this book with all of you. (1/? thread)

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I nearly passed out from the pain when I got my first IUD placed. The (genuinely) very nice staff gave me a saltine and some water, as well as a 600mg advil. Then I drove to work. The fact that this has been allowed to continue for so long is actually evil.

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“Is there internet on your iPhone? It isn't connected, it's just a camera. I'm envious of that. I hate it. About 10 years ago, Katy Perry was talking to me about the internet armies of all the girl singers, and how cruel and rancid they were. I said, "Well, I wouldn't know because I'm not on the internet." She said, "So, who are your rivals?" I just looked at her. It was my steely look. I said, "Katy, I don't have rivals. I have friends. All the other women singers that I know are friends. Nobody's competing. Get off the internet and you won't have rivals either."

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