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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 1d

💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!

Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 16d

As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough rooftops to scream that from. Thank you, Kira!🥹🖤

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI🐻🖤

Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 16d

As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 7d

Still a few spots left 🙂📚

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 9d

Happy International Translation Day! And if your celebration includes reading some of my translations, I wouldn’t be mad📚🖤

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations! Can’t wait to dig in

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 9d

🎉 Happy pub day to PLAYING WOLF! @catapultbooks.bsky.social

To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night.

🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously!

www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...

Brookline Booksmith is live! Transnational Series: Zuzana Říhová and Alex Zucker

YouTube video by Brookline Booksmith

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 14d

Boosting one of my favorite pieces, out this week from @kenyonreview.bsky.social , on the life of a human cub who knows more about literature than people. I hope you find some time to spend with this piece, written by Evgenia Nekrasova and inspired by an old folk tale from Perm Krai.🐻📚🖤

Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 16d

As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 16d

“Can you change the minds of pro-Russian conspiracy theorists? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine and filming the outcome.”

This is really worth a read.

www.dw.com/en/czech-fil...

Czech film highlights Ukraine war conspiracy theories – DW – 08/23/2025

Can you change the minds of pro-Russian conspiracy theorists? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine and filming the outcome. The resulting documentary has proved controve...

www.dw.com

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 16d

As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 16d

👀🖤📚excited to read this one!

ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 16d

@fsgbooks.bsky.social published Tash Aw's latest, THE SOUTH, a 2025 Booker-Prize longlisted (shortlist on Tuesday) first queer love story set in Malaysia, against the backdrop of rising Sinophobia and unrest. #Booksky 🌈📚
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THE SOUTH, Booker-Prize longlisted first queer love in Malaysia

THE SOUTH TASH AW Farrar, Straus and Giroux ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now Longlisted for the 2025 ...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 18d

"Emerging literary translators often come up and tell me how much they want to be like me. They mean well, and more power to them, but I do find myself thinking: Are you sure about that?"

I wrote an article about burnout for KLN:

KLWAVE - Magazines | Korean Literature Now | Articles | Articles View

KLWAVE brings together Korean literature information about rights, publishers, authors, titles, and translators all on a single website.

klwave.or.kr

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Translators, you too can join the @alcs.co.uk and get paid for having your books checked out of the library.

A lifetime membership costs just £36. They take it out of your first payment, so you don’t pay a penny up front.

Since I joined in 2020, I have received £515.45! What are you waiting for?

ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-di...

Your distribution questions answered

This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572. Get answers to your most pressing questions about our latest distribution.

www.alcs.co.uk

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 18d

Who else will join me in making this happen?

Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 18d

You guys are making this SUSPENSEFUL

95% funded

3 days to go

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales

Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 21d

"Words DO things. And naming is what gods do with language ..."

@alinaetc.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...

“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with Alina Stefanescu—Cristina Politano

Alina Stefanescu is a Romanian-born poet who resides in Alabama. Her recent poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande Press. Her poetry shifts geographical and chronological spaces…

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 21d

Wrote a photo essay for @puncturedlines.bsky.social about nostalgia, Soviet-era children’s books, speculative fiction, and a recent trip to the country of Georgia. Come for the picture of baby-me talking into a mall phone. Stay for Svetlana Boym 💗

➡️ puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 21d

A read worth your time⏳

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 21d

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 21d

“Each act of translation performs a kind of alchemy on the translator, changing her way of seeing and thinking, opening new horizons...”

2025 ALTA Awards Judge Elizabeth Lowe shares her perspective on translation and the importance of it in troubling times at PELTA:

“Translation is a form of resistance.” An Interview with Elizabeth Lowe

By Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey Lowe, a renowned literary translator from the Portuguese, is the founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch…

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 28d

The audio version of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova is finally live! This story was translated by Marianna Suleymanova & edited by Kanika Agrawal. The audio was narrated by Georgia Mckenzie & produced by Grayson Norman. Listen to the full audio story or read it here: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

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I prefer the term Artificial Person myself @maddavenport.bsky.social · 23d

HELL YEAH translation is the juice English literature desperately needs

Poets & Writers @pw.org · 24d

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 23d

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com

This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 24d

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 24d

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

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