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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · 3d

My latest translation is available for preorder! #BookSky 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Last House Before the Sea: One Year on the Ebro Delta

One Year on the Ebro Delta

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · 5d

Bad Bunny is more American than Melania Trump✌️🇵🇷 🇺🇸

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · 6d

Watching “The Night Of” on #HBO… it’s a direct descendant of Paul Newman’s “The Verdict” and almost as good. John Turturro only gives two kinds of performances: good ones and great ones.

Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · 20d

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 20d

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.”

George Carlin, 1988

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · 20d

Hey ABC, sound familiar?

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!

This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · Aug 23

Got galleys of the new translation! Spent over a year on this book by Gabi Martínez… love seeing it all come to fruition.

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · Aug 18

Funding an activist group opposed to genocide and war crimes is not a terrorist activity. But full credit to Sally Rooney for taking on the deeply skewed political posturing of the UK government, who have done little to end a vicious war of attrition.

UK warns author Sally Rooney after pledge to fund banned Palestine Action | The National

Award-winning Irish author had pledged to donate to campaign group now banned in Britain

www.thenationalnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 17

🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽

@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · Aug 15

Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye

The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Merrill @clmerrill.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What have we become?

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights

State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Aug 8

We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!

lbpost.com/news/educati...

Long Beach will open up its e-book library so teens from other states can read banned books

It's part of a nationwide push to let young people access reading material that may have been thrown out of their local libraries and schools.

lbpost.com

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Aug 7

reading about the controversy surrounding that movie apocalypto and thinking how the spainiards who arrive at the end and the americans who ensue have done way more human sacrifice than the mayans ever could

what is gaza but the west offering human sacrifice to their gods of consumption and capital

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · Aug 6

Summer numbers: three books translated, totaling over 167,000 words. Believe it or not, I enjoyed every one of them!

Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · Jul 29

Is UNTAMED ON Netflix a play on C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett? And if so, is better than the @paramountplusbr.bsky.social show? So far I’m definitely in the yes column…

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm very annoyed today that McSweeneys is IP-blocked at my school.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jul 24

"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."

Anne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest Hemingway

Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with...

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · Jul 21

“You look tired young man… Schnapps?” #Nosferatu

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Jul 20

#xl8 #translation

Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · Jul 20

Women in Translation month is coming up again in August. Not sure if interest is waning as it was quieter on Twitter the past couple of years and I'm not sure if it has transferred to Bluesky.

I'm reading for a review column during August with an all female line up so far.

#witmonth to take part.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · Jul 18

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

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Elena Carmona @elenacarmona.bsky.social · May 9

de las cuatro lecturas por trabajo, sin duda alguna me quedo con Altasangre de Claudia Amador que ojaláojaláojalá se publique pronto aquí porque todos merecemos disfrutar de una historia de vampiros que bailan cumbia 🃏

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Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rewatching “Man of Steel” and I can’t get past the fact that Zod (played by Michael Shannon) is basically Evil Hader…

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Jul 16

#xl8

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jul 16

My 2025 Bread Loaf lecture "Why Do I Have to Do This?: Promoting Literary Translation" is now online midd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

Anton delivering a lecture at a podium in a barn

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · Jul 15

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 13

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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