Slava Faybysh
slava8.bsky.social
Slava Faybysh
@slava8.bsky.social
Literary Translator
Full article is paywalled, but here’s some highlights from “The Day the Music Died” Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic June 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"You see, the thing about immigrating as an infant is that your parents’ language continues to grow inside you, but its growth is stunted."

🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game" by Slava Faybysh
On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game
I was almost two, and it was altogether a more innocent time, when my family immigrated from Kyiv to Chicago. Reagan was the president-elect, and Disco Demolition Night in Comiskey Park only a few…
buff.ly
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You’re not against fascism if you’re an obsessed Jew hater. Jew hate = fascism.
May 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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we have a teriffic 275 word story by Pablo Baler !!

'Pearl Hunter' is about an old man, dentures, & having a dream about diving for pearls.

love how reality & dream are mixed together in this one. translated from spanish by Slava Faybysh

xraylitmag.com/pearl-hunter...
PEARL HUNTER by Pablo Baler, translated from Spanish by Slava Faybysh
Before getting into bed, Gaspar Santos plopped his dentures into a glass of water. He adjusted himself into a comfortable position between the sheets, sinking into the softened mattress, and eased gen...
xraylitmag.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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It goes deeper than that even. How could Black folks, queer folks, women have made themselves free on their own? It’s not possible according to the white supremacist pov. Eric Ward, expert on white nationalism, articulates it— someone else must be behind the scenes engineering it all —>
Skin in the Game
Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other peopl...
politicalresearch.org
March 15, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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It's been a pleasure to be involved with making an English version of this brilliant book a reality! This is Elsa Drucaroff's reimagining of the last days of Rodolfo Walsh – father, writer, journalist and opponent of Argentina's Junta.
Listen to translator @slava8.bsky.social read from his work...
Slava Faybysh reads from Elsa Drucaroff’s RODOLFO WALSH'S LAST CASE (Corylus Books, 2024)
A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his ...
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February 29, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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Fresh books! Stella's one of mine, and isn't out until May. Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case is brilliant and heartbreaking – out in early March, translated by @slava8.bsky.social
January 25, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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can we discuss how good yiddish curses are. i like "may he be as rich as caesar and spend it all on doctors."
October 7, 2023 at 4:36 AM
I just watched a really cute pig video. Then during the video I realized I was eating pork. Then I realized tomorrow is Yom Kippur
September 24, 2023 at 4:26 PM
These actually say please clean the room and do not disturb 🤣
September 17, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Why the heck do I keep joining these sites?
August 23, 2023 at 11:58 AM