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Ritwij Mishra
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Writer | Poet | Penguin Random House Author | Erstwhile Founding Editor of a poetry e-zine | Polyglot
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Birthdays are the eternal pause that mourn in welcome when I come home - fractals of my non-thetical consciousness of being cleaved to the diapente of the surrendered blend of age.

#latebirthdaypost #library #author #writinglife #home
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Poets have swag!

Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar
December 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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“Warum müssen fast alle Dinge mir als ihre eigene Parodie erscheinen? Warum muß es mir vorkommen, als ob fast alle, nein, alle Mittel und Konvenienzen der Kunst heute nur noch zur Parodie taugten?”

— Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ritwijmishra.bsky.social
Birthdays are the eternal pause that mourn in welcome when I come home - fractals of my non-thetical consciousness of being cleaved to the diapente of the surrendered blend of age.

#latebirthdaypost #library #author #writinglife #home
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...
Elenco Alfabetico Fanzine Anni 80
Società per la Bonifica Multimediale delle Paludi Mentali
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December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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My personal experience of selling poetry collections in the current climate...

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My personal experience of selling poetry collections in the current climate
With no access to slots at major festivals, no wholesaler, no chance to get copies on shelves at physical bookshops, no distribution in the ...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Delighted to have some poems from SAYING YES IN RUSSIAN translated into Italian by Laura Corraducci for FARE VOCCI, edited by Giovanni Fierro (scroll down to find them):
www.farevoci.it
Screen shot from the website: Quote from poem in English and Italian 'That world was enough, you say Quel mondo era abbastanza, dici' Photo of me in winter hat and coat
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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This is how to begin a novel
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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“I write that is to say I get on board a notebook to cross abysses and be reborn from the fires.”
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Poetry advertisement
lukekennard.bsky.social Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · Oct 20
Even if you just read one word a day you can finish a whole novel in 243 years.
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ritwijmishra.bsky.social
Beautiful! Poetry and its seduction of the dust off the poet's debris feels like an affine involution of both, seducing away the orthographic for the light to settle on.
poemakontsa.bsky.social poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · Oct 19
Poetry embraces me behind the wall, she picks up
her skirt and lets me see, loving and loony.
Bad things happen, I tell her,
I, too, am a child of God
Allow me to despair
Her answer is to draw her hot tongue
across my neck;
She says rod to calm me,
she says stone, geometry

- Seduction, Adelia Prado
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these
natehoffelder.com Nate Hoffelder @natehoffelder.com · Oct 19
A new lawsuit has been filed against Salesforce over using pirated books to train its LLM.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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If you are going to be raptured tomorrow, might I recommend some rapture-reading for you by Gherasim Luca, as translated by the Semilians and introduced by Andrei Codrescu? See "the objective consequence of an objective amorous rapture" for guidelines.

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Gherasim Luca, THE INVENTOR OF LOVE AND OTHER WRITINGS.pdf
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September 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I photographed my gardens in their Monsoon plerosis on an evening when "Sobrevivir a un fusilamiento: ocho historias reales" and a Gazan preserving books cut an ontogenetic stentorian in my heart - my heart needed an epicanthic of green, a Nicht that really is a Weltinnenraum, to write that night.
September 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We’re getting closer to bringing the new @subpresspoetry.bsky.social titles to press. They’re so good.
September 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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"Llechen" ar gyfer "tablet" (h.y. iPad etc) wir yn profi bod y Gymraeg yn medru troi popeth yn gartrefol. Gwbod bod "llechau Moses" ayyb yn gywir, ond dal yn swnio i mi fel rhywbeth i roi ar y to ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog.
August 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected).

Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
Tiang: As Maureen alluded to, when we sign a contract, we get paid for our translations. But, in fact, we’re also doing a lot of other labor that is expected but not compensated. This can start way before the contract is signed. Many of us are pitching books to publishers, and to do that, we have to be reading wisely. We have to be making contact with authors and publishers to make sure that the rights are available. We have to do sample translations and synopses, for free, and we have to email them to publishers that we have taken care to build relationships with. All of this is unpaid until a publisher accepts the book, at which point you are negotiating for money after having done a lot of labor. And then there is, as Adam has pointed out, a power differential where the only power the translator has is to say, “This is what I would like.” Beyond that, all you can do is accept what you’re offered or walk away. In one sense, you’re being paid for the labor of your translation. But in another sense, you’re an all-around concierge who, in my case because many of my authors do not speak English, is expected to translate emails between the author and the publisher, to act as a kind of go-between: an agent, a rights agent, and a publicist all in one. We do what has to be done in order to get the translation to market, and often we are the only person in the equation with access to both languages and both cultures and both literary scenes, so we’re the only person who can do this work. But it’s not in our contracts, and we’re not getting paid for it. But it’s what has to happen to keep everything running. Tiang: Honestly, any kind of disruptive solution would be great. I am someone who makes the majority of my income from literary translation, even though my language isn’t particularly in demand. I do this by pitching a lot, generating a lot of my own work, never taking a day off, not sleeping. And that’s not really sustainable. The question for someone like me, who is relatively established and working constantly translating three to four books a year, is: Should I not be making a living? The fact that I am not suggests a problem with sustainability in the industry. It can’t just be people with outside sources of income. But I will say that this conversation has been hugely generative, and I’m going to suggest we start a group chat and continue it.
August 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ritwijmishra.bsky.social
This does read like a riveting speculative piece. Textual interpretation used to have inexorable possibilities for discovery - all those allographic imports and transformational adjuncts - when the media for composition and typesetting were analogue, as opposed to self-effacing digital emendations.
wildmin.bsky.social Wild Min @wildmin.bsky.social · Aug 7
#miltonwoolfparadisewaves and higher than that wall *** for MISSING WORD OR PHRASE see Edward Mendelson on The Waves in Times Literary Supplement 25th July 2025 and below--

#booksky #litsky #miltonsky #woolfsky #mashupsky #strictlysequentialsky #phraseadaysky

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August 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Tiene razón en cuanto a que las bibliotecas personifican una cinta de Möbius de la proleptic. La vanidad de la enantiodromía aún no correspondida, mi biblioteca entusiasma; el Scaliger de la vanidad no puede quejarse del Pontano de la redundancia!

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte: "Tengo 32.000 libros en casa. Mi biblioteca es mi Wikipedia" | EL PAÍS
YouTube video by EL PAÍS
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April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My writing setup for quite a few nights now with platitude and hopelessness both a bilateral protomatter - a trefoil heeding both the "pure will" of Schopenhauer and the vigalitavedyantara of words and amphibrachs across a trefoil heeding Berezovsky's legatos for Medtner.

#litsky
July 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Organ concert coming up at 18:55 BST with Arjen Leistra on the Maarschalkerweerd organ, Havenkerk, Schiedam

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Orgelconcert Havenkerk Schiedam door Arjen Leistra 15 juli 2025
YouTube video by Arjen Leistra
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July 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Jan Cockx' portrait of the writer Roger Avermaete,' (1919) can be seen as the ushering in of a new era of hope and light for painting and literature for Begium after WW1. Avermaete wrote and illustrated a book on Frans Masereel, considered to be the creator of the woodcut novel.
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I wrote something on Kant on war and peace (in German) philarchive.org/rec/SCHTST-24
Dennis Schulting, Ten strijde tegen een vijandige nabuur. Kant over oorlog en vrede / Gegen einen feindlichen Nachbarn in den Kampf ziehen. Kant über Krieg und Frieden - PhilArchive
This essay advances the thesis that, unlike what the majority of Kant scholars believe, Kant has a just war theory. In Towards Perpetual Peace and in the section Völkerrecht in the ...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Thread. There's also the issue that good, intensive journalism costs money and takes an editing/publishing infrastructure - more than many individual writers can afford and manage on their own. Single-writer newsletters can't and won't save journalism.
annaleen.bsky.social Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Jul 10
As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)
July 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack has been reinstated
his current live profile what it looked like when i tried to view his profile at 9:02pm ET
July 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM