Science. Would be nice if the US govt believed in it.
11.03.2026 20:04
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Science. Would be nice if the US govt believed in it.
Congrats!! Can’t wait to read this (when I finishing reading the book I was supposed to read yesterday hahah).
I already had blocked the person who blocked you so seemingly not the first time they acted like a jerk. (I admittedly do have a very quick block finger here and sometimes find it hard to figure out why I blocked someone hahah.)
I was so confused by this that I clicked the link and now am somehow even more annoyed. Why did they do this? Why do “journalists” suddenly think their job is to acclimate people to garbage, whether a war or a paragraph of poetry “regardless of how it may have been written.” Not everything is vibes!
GTFO with this embarrasing crap.
Yeah, I’ve started trying to include at least one example in every review I write (word count permitting) of something a translator does that is context based and therefore will NEVER be able to be replicated by a machine. This “quiz” sounds extremely missing-the-freaking-point.
I don’t use gifs because I’m old, but this one is perfect!
Hvala vam, Jasmin!
Can you please post the RSS link somewhere? The name Balkanomnicon is not finding anything in my podcast app.
Current events have again pushed Ukraine off the front pages, but for @wwborders.bsky.social I wrote about Ukrainian author and current enlistee Artem Chapeye’s novel THE WEATHERING, trans. by Daisy Gibbons. Among its many timely themes is humanity’s destructive compulsion to always have an enemy.
Talk hard. What a great film (and soundtrack)!
Oh, it’s great, but also someday I’d love to talk with a translator or author since I ostensibly have a job in books and could likely learn a lot from them. Do any of those three have a new book coming out???
Omg I would have flown there from Italy if I’d known about that panel! What a dream to be in the same room with those three, let alone talk to them!!! Holy crap. Seriously just three writers I am in awe of. Have a great time.
Have had this same thought, and really the only argument against it is that Deadwood is so well written and acted that it makes me resent everything else I watch (or indeed try to write). Only wish it could have ended on its own terms (pre-film).
I kept waiting for people to post a fuller version of the clip (particularly since the one that circulated literally began with “…and”).
The context concerns keeping movies viable organically before the audience erodes and you have to go out hat in hand and beg the Kochs and Geffens for it.
They’re not wrong.
There are plenty (plenty!) of flaws in the US’s current system of government, but the only reason we are where we are today is because the Republican Party chose to completely abdicate its responsibilities to the country and, at this point, the planet. Every one of them is to blame.
Truly a pox on journalism, given the whole f-ing point of reading the newspaper used to be because what was in it mattered. (See also “Here’s what we know”)
Grew up going to the old one in the 70s and 80s, but still haven’t gotten to the new one when I’ve been back in Colorado. (My brother was not impressed, though he is often much more averse to change than I am.)
Yeah this week was the first time my therapist didn’t really even try to push back when I said my mental health was being adversely affected by the news.
Democrats should reintroduce War Powers Resolution ASAP in Congress. Could at least force Republicans to explain why they're not open to putting any limitations at all on a megalomaniacal war leader.
Really deft review of the Enrigue. So well written it seems like it must have been easy, but I find reviews with that tone so hard to write. (And I have one coming out next week, so will see what my editor thinks about my attempt ha!)
Yeeee. Ikes. That is…definitely a thing someone wrote.
Honestly, I was hoping “whole” was intentional rather than an apt, if utterly depressing, malaprop.
Scrap that earlier post. I see what I was confused about. Still extremely impressive result from you today!
Now do the guy attacking Dunkin, among the 10000 other much worse things. Thx.
“Maciel’s novel also reads like a scrapbook or family album of a Brazilian city, in this case Rio de Janeiro.”
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel 💥
Out now via @newvesselpress.bsky.social
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For @southwestreview.bsky.social I wrote about Francisco Maciel’s THERE’S NO POINT IN DYING, trans. by Bruna Dantas Lobato, a novel that reminded me a bit of the work of another Brazilian, Kleber Mendonça Filho, in its depiction of a city through an agglomeration of the lives of its characters.
Suffering the consequences of having done that right now!
Hey, some of us can only continue to dream of being a good enough critic that we get emails from fake bestselling author bots.
