Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉

Thanks for sharing @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social ☺️☺️

Photo of a letter that reads: “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.” Sincerely, Shirley Jackson

If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree

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You’ll be missed, Jen!

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Huge congratulations ✨✨✨

Do you have a prickly translation problem, a quirky query, a confounding conundrum?

BCLT Translators in Residence Rosalind Harvey & Charlotte Whittle will host an open translation clinic to discuss any translation challenges you may have encountered in your practice👉 www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Mood

Translator math is starting another translation to take a break from the first one...

...then starting a third translation to take a break from the second one, and so on in a never-ending Möbius strip.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

For me it’s a tiger voguing.

When Prince sings “animals strike curious poses” what is the first animal you think of and what pose is it striking? For me it’s a lemur up on its hind legs looking around in mild alarm.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Absolutely honoured that Lília Momplé’s ‘Stress’, in my translation from Mozambican Portuguese, features in Wasafiri 125. Available now!

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Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,

I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all.

Thanks,
Zack Polanski

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How do Translators Find the Right Words? As Favorita by Michelle Steinbeck is published in hardback, the book's translator Jen Calleja shares notes on her process.

Faber asked me to write about translating Favorita by Michelle Steinbeck for their blog, so I wrote about translating 4 sentences www.faber.co.uk/journal/how-... @faberbooks.bsky.social

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

So the Telegraph is taking this well

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Detail from 'Beheaded St. Donnino walks away from his Martyrdom Place' by Matteo Rosselli, featuring a man in a sort of loincloth and with his head cut off, walking towards the viewer holding his detached head up in the air, with various other figures in distress in the background

Staff meeting day:

New great review for Favorita in the Financial Times!

www.ft.com/content/9758...

Still time to #VoteGreen in Gorton and Denton!

Polls open until 10pm in Gorton and Denton. It's Greens vs. Reform - every single vote counts. 🗳️ 💚

Thanks so much Jen! 👹

Can’t wait to read these. Am especially psyched for my wonderful friend and talented colleague Antonella Lettieri for her long listing for THE DUKE, pub Foundry Editions. Go and get your copy, folks!

Haha yep this was a long game 😂🤪

It’s definitely a Ramadan tradition… I’d never thought of the health benefits before, but it’s probably better for your gut to have a date before diving into a döner 😅😂

A white book with two red flowers on, on a teak table. To the left are a ceramic mug with a frothy coffee in it and two red pencils.

Excited to share that I’m starting work on Aline Bei’s A DELICATE COLLECTION OF ABSENCES, forthcoming from Summit Books in 2027.

Aline’s form-defying, sensitive prose has been a huge success in Brazil for years now. Looking forward to sharing it with English language readers!

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It’s Ramadan: maybe the guy wanted to break his fast? It’s common to do so with a date!