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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · 18d

Probably the best possible review?

Seeking a publisher for another of Castaldi's books. Still experimental but totally different. Hallucinatory yet controlled (punctuated but paratactic, Steinlike). Please reach out if this is you! 👀

www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

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Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social · Sep 2

#llegit Un llibre original, curiós, abellidor, encativador; una mirada poètica, repetitiva i hipnòtica de la vida, desitjos i passions d'una viuda italiana narrada a traves de la seva cuinar/receptes i llegendes, imatges i records del Mediterrani. Crec que no s'ha traduït al català encara.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you for reading! This is I believe the first translation of one of Marosia Castaldi’s novels in any language. Hopefully there will be more!

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Aug 8

"...figurative language had become a chimera."

Claudia Durastanti in @grantamag.bsky.social

granta.com/obituary-of-...

Obituary of a Soft Porn Translator

‘Using “ostrica” for vagina sounded bad in Italian, not representative enough, so clitorises became pearls. They were gone now too. Sex had once been a jewelry store, a jewelry store built on top of a...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jul 18

you have to feel the language in your bones. the language is not a part of you, you are a part of the language, a wave in its ocean

Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · Jul 18

One thing I want to think about, as a literary translator: we need a good understanding of two languages. But formal education is not the only way to get that. Delightful that people with PhDs (want to) translate—but life and writing skills are enough too.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Jun 27

More Vitaliano Trevisan via me thanks to Daniele Pantano and the Lincoln Review!

www.lincolnreview.org/issue6

Issue 6 The Lincoln Review

Issue 6 of The Lincoln Review

www.lincolnreview.org

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Jun 12

Cristina Campo, "The Unforgivable" (tr. Alex Andriesse)

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · May 28

In case you want to take a workshop with me or any of my fabulous colleagues.
Registration opens tomorrow am.

www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-summe...

2025 Summer Multilingual Translation Workshops

Multilingual Translation Workshops pair 6 literary translators with an established translator leader for a 105-minute workshop via Zoom.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · May 17

"The dialogue and writing is snappy and vernacular – applause to translator Jamie Richards for keeping the prose crisp and urgent." (thanks also to Nicholas Burman, in The Comics Journal, for a serious review)
www.fantagraphics.com/products/far...

The Farewell Song of Marcel Labrume

The first 21st century English language translation of Italian master Attilio Micheluzzi, a rousing adventure story that takes place in the Middle East during World War II. The first act of this thril...

www.fantagraphics.com

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · May 17

Thanks to the judges and to @fantagraphics.bsky.social not to mention Agnese Micheluzzi and the friends who helped me track down obscure quotes.
Vote for us if you are able!
www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

Eisner Awards - Comic-Con International

Nominees Announced for 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards SAN DIEGO – Comic-Con is proud to announce the nominees for the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The nominations are for works publ...

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · May 17

This year’s Eisner nominations for Best Archival Project include my translation of Marcel Labrume by Attilo Micheluzzi – a fascinating writer who blends the fictional and the historical so seamlessly that the translation was truly an archival project (took years off my life).

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · Jan 20

"It's not merit, it's money. Capitalism has a very simple algorithm."

Small Press Economies: A Dialogue

By Hilary Plum and Matvei Yankelevich

www.chicagoreview.org

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yes. For instance it’s indubitably more entertaining to an Italian reader to encounter a Neapolitan in space. But I appreciate that, the dialogue (+captions) was copious and not the easiest.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Mar 24

But both collections contain dystopic or cautionary tales the general likes of which we’ve seen before, or can seem a bit retro in a calcified way. Still I think all the stories have interesting elements and are delightful to read.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Mar 24

Maybe what you’re seeing that seems disappointing is the lesser innovativeness of the stories in the other two collections. Like HP is a wonderful genre mash-up and prescient fable. Revolt of the Wretched is famous in Italy for being the first graphic novel and is a potent class allegory.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Mar 23

I want to respond to this, but I’m biased…

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Mar 14

I'm so glad someone wrote this (I keep trying to write things but am too tired!)—Nicholas Dames in @nplusonemag.com on the exhaustion trope in Briggs' The Long Form and Samatar & Zambreno's Tone
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...

Tired as a Mother | Nicholas Dames

What is the tone of this literary-theoretical tone? Take away anything from reading these books together and it’s their similar vibe: something quietly persistent, invested in its own disinvestments, ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Mar 13

People don't really take the translation of graphic literature seriously. They should.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Feb 25

We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist – a feast of fiction from around the world, featuring ‘stories from everywhere, for everyone’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes

The longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT).

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Feb 24

Just came across this & will try to follow along. The antidote to what has elsewhere been termed “brodernism”. Thank you 🙏

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · Jan 1

Here’s our schedule for #NYRBWomen25 & page guide number one. Up first is a short one, ON THE ABOLITION OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES by Simone Weil. This one has been on my shelf for awhile & I’m starting it now!

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Feb 24

I thought this was an interesting translation. The Italian is “fatua veste,” so, fatuous, superficial, frivolous, the idea that fiction is like an invisibility cloak smuggling in the real… “lunatic garment” sounds nice but put to scrutiny I’m not sure what it means

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Feb 24

The aesthetics of resistance

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 24

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Feb 14

“Reviewers also describe my work as ‘cartoonish,’ which I take as a compliment, because I love cartooning, and cartooning is very Greek." RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92

He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

www.nytimes.com

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Feb 8

Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

These days, there could be fierce competition over who could write the book on “how to be a fascist”—if we could agree on what a fascist is. Michela Murgia’s lapidary definition, depicted in a Forrest...

wordswithoutborders.org

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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Jan 18

We call them sand dollars!

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