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Mordecai Martin
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He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 11
Fuck I did my #introduction post and I forgot to put a link to my website that has all my publications and my blog and my contact form. Fuck. Fuck me. Shit. Shit balls. Fuck a duck. Fuck a rama ding dong. Shit and piss. Fuck, shit, and assholes. Assholes and piss. Fuck a dog.
Jesus fucked. Dang.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 8h
I wound up translating up to a cliffhanger in the pulp fiction murder mystery I'm working on. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!?! I'm on the edge of my seat
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 9h
I kinda needed this today. Thanks Hank, thanks Alina
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 9h
Oh heeeeeeeeey, I have seen that around and it did seem cool!
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 9h
I object to neither spice nor wholesomeness, so I think I'm neutral on that. I mean, I suppose the natural bridge is literary romance, no? Like, stuff you'd recommend on the prose, but is also technically a romance all around?
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 10h
I'm so glad! It's a genre I've underexplored. Some of that is residual snobbishness I need to crush, but some of it is not knowing where to start! Recs?
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 10h
How's that going for ya?
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 10h
Laszlo Krasnahorkai fan vs. Ann Carson fan is the hot new false binary I summoned into being, but it doesn't really exist
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 10h
I have a couple of things online that I hope are worth checking out, you can find them on my website. Here's one I've been thinking about revisiting too
Mordecai Martin, The Writer Goes To School: A Translation and Overidentification Between Translator and Translated in 54 Footnotes
Original Yiddish by Lamed Shapiro 1 , Translation and notes by Mordecai Martin 2 Toward the end of 1896, when I was almost still a child, I...
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 10h
I'm a translator of Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, prose and scripture, and I'm easing my way back into my long form projects, which are books by the New York humorist Yosel Cutler, the Mexico City poet Jacobo Glantz, and a work that hybridizes a detective story from Der Forverts with my own writing.
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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 20h
Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

alt text please
an icon showing a circular translation from one language to another
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 11h
Happy Laszlo Krasznahorkai day for all celebrating, condolences on Anne Carson wuz robbed again day to everyone else!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 11h
Reminder! Tonight, @alinaetc.bsky.social and I will be reading and talking about poetry and prose collections. 🥰

Free, but RSVP for the link!

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Virtual Craft Chat w/ Hannah Grieco & Alina Stefanescu - The Writer's Center
The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of writing! We’re joined by fiction writer Hannah Grieco and poet Alina Stefanescu for a cross-genre discussion about their new collect...
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 1d
Impossible sausage
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 1d
Bookshop is having a sale to counter Prime Day! What a great opportunity to buy this cool new book I heard about.

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First Kicking, Then Not
Check out First Kicking, Then Not - <p>A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another aban...
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 1d
Omg
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 1d
This is a really interesting question. I don’t have a great reasoned answer, but my personal instinct is if it’s a philosophy text, as I suppose it is, it deserves more universalism, while otherwise literary prose should be about evoking the feel you’re going for, the era. Does that make sense?
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
My favorite moments of this fascist hell scape is when these fucks turn against each other in ever increasing hysterics of performing toxic masculinity or some other fascist trait. It reminds me of those episodes of GI Joe where Cobra Commander and Destro can’t get along, so like, it all falls apart
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
I am trying to trust myself and my work in that soft middle ground, of being evaluated and appraised and weighed. I think my work has the goods. I think it's what these people, these middle men, my collaborators, I think it's what they want and need. I think my readers are out there. But it is hard
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
Agents, Editors, Copy-Editors, Fact Checkers, Publishers. They insert themselves between us and being read and they are the people we want and need to collaborate with. it makes a difficult interim between writing the last word and the completion of the work, in front of the eyes of the reader.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
Writing is an odd art; because of time constraints (and opportunities! To slow down and be read slowly! What a gift!) involved, and because of the history of publication and of editing, we have a lot of what might impolitely and incorrectly be called "Middle men" in between us and our audience.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
The work has to be read to be finished, by a real reader, who comes across it doing something else or seeks it out or just is a fan. Too often in my case, that reader becomes a person in my life, and it's hard to get them back to being a reader. But all the same, that's who needs to finish the work.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
I think a lot about how part of the completion of the work, is being read. And not just by your dad or your wife or someone who's sitting there while you anxiously stare at them, waiting for a long enough pause to say "What'd you think of the twist?!"
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 4d
What are you waiting for?
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 7d
You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!?

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A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer
A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer. Hosted by Jared Beloff.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 4d
We’ve all had a boss like this
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d
pull down and pulverize that subaltern’s tower, and make a little heap of dust of it
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 4d
Loved this
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Kristina Tabor Saccone @kristinatabor.bsky.social · 4d
New post up on Blue Violet, my Substack. It’s not just about Barbie tho “Barbie was one of my earliest influences, her plastic proportioned body dressed and undressed in my hands, where I learned what arms, breasts, stomach, and thighs were supposed to look like.”

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The Weight of Dolls
On Body Image and the Stories We Inherit
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 4d
Reading social media and feeling the usual feelings, I should say more, I should say it now, I should not wait to build an audience, I have to build an audience. But countering it with the delicious slowness of my process. It takes time to do what I am doing. It takes time to write, to translate.
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