lover of long sentences/ modern & contemporary literature PhD researcher @UniOfYork, gratefully funded by @WRoCAH/ views mine alone
York, England
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presenting SCORE, an online writing machine that writes and re-writes an infinite series of performance scores using language accrued through an ongoing performance writing and walking practice in the Yorkshire Dales. luckysoap.com/generations/SC…
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At a certain point Peggy James complained to her uncle Henry James, then entering the deep thickets of his late style, that his work was too impenetrable. His response:
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The bingo has arrived, we’ve bought some champagne - now all we need is the 4th July (come quick!)
It's often the case that avant-garde literature sacrifices emotion for formal experimentation; not so in @IneluctableQuak's American Abductions (or Aphasia for that matter) which brim with the honesty of realism while bending the sentence past its conventional limitations
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Mircea Cărtărescu says in this interview that Penguin Random House is going to publish the translation of all the three volumes of Orbitor!
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When I finished Trenque Lauquen, I was reminded of why I love slow cinema: the quotidian pushes against the formal constraints of narrative, which itself expands in unusual ways, until what we are left with is something between mythology and mundanity: real life
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And the winner is... Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter! 🏆🥳
Congratulations to all involved in bringing this incredible story to life.
Solenoid was nominated by Octavian Goga, Cluj County Library and published by @deepvellum ✨
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Anna Kornbluh’s new book, Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism, suggests a new way of understanding the rapid, ‘stylised flood’ of our present culture artreview.com/what-comes-aft…
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I don't usually talk about personal things here, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Frank Wynne @Terribleman for his kindness over the years. I had to stop translating this wonderful book because many awful things had happened in my life: my parents died, THREAD 🧵
Congratulations to Frank Wynne @Terribleman
for winning the French-American Translation Prize for Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild! I'm so happy for him ♥️ I can't imagine a lovelier, more deserving person than Frank.
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Also: Miss MacIntosh, My Darling arrived today to distract from some work on Lucy Ellmann. Never thought I'd get my hands on a copy!
Thanks to @NewDirections for the ARC of Krasznahorkai's forthcoming Herscht 07769, translated by @caringerel! My most anticipated release of the year in one already full of exciting work, both translated and not. What a time to study long sentences!
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There are rejection letters, then there are the rejection letters publishers sent to Gertrude Stein.
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We’re SO excited for this movie, based on the award-winning international sensation “Hurricane Season” by WWB contributor Fernanda Melchor & translated by WWB contributor Sophie Hughes! (1/4)
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Ducks, Newburyport has won the Swedish Kulturhuset Stadsteatern's International Literature Prize 2023 - bravo to our brilliant Lucy Ellmann! And her amazing translator, Eva Åsefeldt:
kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/k…
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🎉 WOW 🎉 We are utterly thrilled to discover that Jon Fosse has won the @NobelPrize in Literature! 🎉
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
