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Beniamino Ambrosi
@benambrosi.bsky.social
Foreign Rights Director and Agent @ The Cheney Agency. Once and always a translator. He/him.

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file under: 📚 projects that give me a little hope for the future
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
big spring plans
April 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
weekend
December 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM
🎈
December 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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I was going to put the bat down and step away from the dead horse, but now that we've been quoted in the Guardian talking about the AI dingbats, I want to just say a couple of things about self-publishing and the value of $5,000.
November 26, 2024 at 10:55 PM
now also a Financial Times book of the Year! bravi @kateconger.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social and everyone at Hutchinson
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
it’s strangely comforting that the 📚 industry changes over time but the bullshit artists who peddle magical one-shot fixes to problems that don’t exist in the first place stay pretty much the same
November 25, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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‘Delmore Schwartz was pivotal in getting John Berryman published (though he maintained that his friend was an “ontological contradiction” since Berryman was “stupid” but wrote great poems).’

Joanne O’Leary on Schwartz’s life and work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Joanne O’Leary · I eat it up: Delmore Schwartz’s Decline
After the publication of Schwartz’s first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, in 1938, Allen Tate proclaimed his...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 1:14 PM
very major 👀. forthcoming also in 🇬🇧 🇧🇷 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 (for now)
So excited to say that GIRL ON GIRL is out April 29! I've been working on this book since 2022, trying to untangle what growing up against the cultural backdrop of the '90s and 2000s did to women. The research has been wild, enraging, and clarifying. And cathartic!
November 21, 2024 at 5:35 PM
beautiful and quite timely delivery from Brazil - cc: @kateconger.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
was trying to craft an argument for not ceding Twitter to hard right and no-context memes but failed, so from now on my frozen-solid takes and w/context memes will be here.
November 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM