Lisa C. Hayden
@lizoksbooks.bsky.social
Translator of Russophone literature. Reader. Feeder of Cats
I deactivated my FB account in late August and wish I'd done so much earlier! I don't miss it one bit: their ludicrous algorithms filled my feed with tons of sponsored junk and clips I had no interest in. Good riddance: It just made me cranky!
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I deactivated my FB account in late August and wish I'd done so much earlier! I don't miss it one bit: their ludicrous algorithms filled my feed with tons of sponsored junk and clips I had no interest in. Good riddance: It just made me cranky!
Bakhtin! More than ever.
"The new edition’s exacting attention to the author’s language is illuminating."
@hyperallergic.com recommends Sergeiy Sandler's translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic study of carnival, "Rabelais and His World," in a round-up of new art books:
@hyperallergic.com recommends Sergeiy Sandler's translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic study of carnival, "Rabelais and His World," in a round-up of new art books:
10 Art Books to Read This Month
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
hyperallergic.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Bakhtin! More than ever.
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With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible.
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
ivacheung.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible.
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
I'm excited to see that my translation of Egana Djabbarova's "My Dreadful Body," on the way from New Vessel Press in spring 2026, is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair!
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm excited to see that my translation of Egana Djabbarova's "My Dreadful Body," on the way from New Vessel Press in spring 2026, is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair!
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...
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Another beautiful Maine blueberry field.
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Another beautiful Maine blueberry field.
Sauteed, souped, sliced and diced for cole slaw
cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas
September 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Sauteed, souped, sliced and diced for cole slaw
This brief and moving piece, by Patrick Bringley, about a painting by Bruegel the Elder made my day. (Bringley wrote a whole book that I may just have to read.)
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
The World, and That’s All - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“During my ten years of working as a guard at The Met, no picture rewarded my attention as consistently.”
www.metmuseum.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This brief and moving piece, by Patrick Bringley, about a painting by Bruegel the Elder made my day. (Bringley wrote a whole book that I may just have to read.)
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
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Edward Hopper, Lighthouse at Two Lights - 1929
August 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Edward Hopper, Lighthouse at Two Lights - 1929
This brings back memories of one of my very first jobs, circa 1990. I sometimes had to take a little stack of punch cards to a programmer and ask him to run them so my department could receive a report.
In other information retrieval news, punch cards are also very good bookmarks.
August 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This brings back memories of one of my very first jobs, circa 1990. I sometimes had to take a little stack of punch cards to a programmer and ask him to run them so my department could receive a report.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
Loving this, particularly given @christina500.bsky.social's Shakespeare marathon and the fact that Polonius popped up in other reading last night.
I know I shouldn't respond to phishing texts, but I hardly ever get to officially use my English degree these days.
July 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Loving this, particularly given @christina500.bsky.social's Shakespeare marathon and the fact that Polonius popped up in other reading last night.
Enjoying this for the art of it, because the tower has always fascinated me, and because there will be celery (chopped, not sculpted) in tonight's hot-weather dinner.
Also, @willevans.bsky.social, this makes me think of you!
Also, @willevans.bsky.social, this makes me think of you!
July 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Enjoying this for the art of it, because the tower has always fascinated me, and because there will be celery (chopped, not sculpted) in tonight's hot-weather dinner.
Also, @willevans.bsky.social, this makes me think of you!
Also, @willevans.bsky.social, this makes me think of you!
It looks like I need to reread The Sheltering Sky, particularly given that it was decades ago that I had something of a Bowles binge, reading both Jane and Paul.
Paul Bowles finished The Sheltering Sky eight months after he had begun it. Doubleday rejected it, asserting that it was not a novel and he had to return the advance they had given him.
paulbowles.org
#theshelteringsky #americanwriters
paulbowles.org
#theshelteringsky #americanwriters
July 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It looks like I need to reread The Sheltering Sky, particularly given that it was decades ago that I had something of a Bowles binge, reading both Jane and Paul.
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Hey Chicago! Come see me read from #pioneersummer tomorrow night at City Lit Books, in conversation with the rad and talented Ali Kinsella!
June 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hey Chicago! Come see me read from #pioneersummer tomorrow night at City Lit Books, in conversation with the rad and talented Ali Kinsella!
We're now officially on a fox streak: two days in a row now we've seen a fox (the fox? how many are there?) trotting through our front yard carrying a snack in its mouth.
May 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We're now officially on a fox streak: two days in a row now we've seen a fox (the fox? how many are there?) trotting through our front yard carrying a snack in its mouth.
Exciting Breaking Update:
A technician is now replacing our torsion spring and all sorts of stuff that goes with it! I got the feeling he may have heard similar stories involving farm jacks.
A technician is now replacing our torsion spring and all sorts of stuff that goes with it! I got the feeling he may have heard similar stories involving farm jacks.
Today's top news story from our house:
Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood
Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood
Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
en.wikipedia.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Exciting Breaking Update:
A technician is now replacing our torsion spring and all sorts of stuff that goes with it! I got the feeling he may have heard similar stories involving farm jacks.
A technician is now replacing our torsion spring and all sorts of stuff that goes with it! I got the feeling he may have heard similar stories involving farm jacks.
If you're looking for a book event in Tulsa on Friday, May 23rd, look no further than this! I know Annie, Derek, and @bdralyuk.bsky.social won't disappoint, plus there will be tea and sweets.
Hi Tulsa! I'm reading from Pioneer Summer #pioneersummerbook and Derek is reading from When The Earth Flies Into the Sun on May 23rd at #GITWIT. Thanks to the #tulsaartistfellowship and Boris Dralyuk for inviting us! Love to read in my hometown!
May 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you're looking for a book event in Tulsa on Friday, May 23rd, look no further than this! I know Annie, Derek, and @bdralyuk.bsky.social won't disappoint, plus there will be tea and sweets.
Today's top news story from our house:
Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood
Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood
Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
en.wikipedia.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today's top news story from our house:
Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood
Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
Suburban Couple Manually Opens Garage Door With Broken Torsion Spring Using Farm Jack, Come-Along Winch, Table Saw, and Scrap Wood
Opening the door, driving a vehicle out, and closing the door took roughly 1 hour.
Yard work has been called off for now because a large, fluffy, and very comfortable fox is taking a nap in a pile of wood chips. Apologies for the blurry photo!
May 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Yard work has been called off for now because a large, fluffy, and very comfortable fox is taking a nap in a pile of wood chips. Apologies for the blurry photo!
My office mate Edwina is shirking her editorial duties again, but she's thoroughly enjoying a blanket and warm sun in my nap room.
May 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My office mate Edwina is shirking her editorial duties again, but she's thoroughly enjoying a blanket and warm sun in my nap room.
Thank you! (I think Day 57 is actually May 15 though I do like the idea of time travel here...)
May 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thank you! (I think Day 57 is actually May 15 though I do like the idea of time travel here...)
And so I turn around, glance out the window, and it's snowing again, a thick shroud
April 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And so I turn around, glance out the window, and it's snowing again, a thick shroud
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April 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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