Ezra E. Fitz
@ezrafitz1901.bsky.social
Translator. Librarian. Rap dad.
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Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup. This is what Trump should be doing.
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Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup. This is what Trump should be doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
My latest translation is available for preorder! #BookSky 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Last House Before the Sea: One Year on the Ebro Delta
One Year on the Ebro Delta
bookshop.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My latest translation is available for preorder! #BookSky 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Bad Bunny is more American than Melania Trump✌️🇵🇷 🇺🇸
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Bad Bunny is more American than Melania Trump✌️🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Watching “The Night Of” on #HBO… it’s a direct descendant of Paul Newman’s “The Verdict” and almost as good. John Turturro only gives two kinds of performances: good ones and great ones.
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Watching “The Night Of” on #HBO… it’s a direct descendant of Paul Newman’s “The Verdict” and almost as good. John Turturro only gives two kinds of performances: good ones and great ones.
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“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.”
George Carlin, 1988
George Carlin, 1988
September 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.”
George Carlin, 1988
George Carlin, 1988
Hey ABC, sound familiar?
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Hey ABC, sound familiar?
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Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!
This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work
This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!
This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work
This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work
Got galleys of the new translation! Spent over a year on this book by Gabi Martínez… love seeing it all come to fruition.
August 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Got galleys of the new translation! Spent over a year on this book by Gabi Martínez… love seeing it all come to fruition.
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Funding an activist group opposed to genocide and war crimes is not a terrorist activity. But full credit to Sally Rooney for taking on the deeply skewed political posturing of the UK government, who have done little to end a vicious war of attrition.
UK warns author Sally Rooney after pledge to fund banned Palestine Action | The National
Award-winning Irish author had pledged to donate to campaign group now banned in Britain
www.thenationalnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Funding an activist group opposed to genocide and war crimes is not a terrorist activity. But full credit to Sally Rooney for taking on the deeply skewed political posturing of the UK government, who have done little to end a vicious war of attrition.
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🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
August 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What have we become?
What have we become?
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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What have we become?
What have we become?
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We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!
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Long Beach will open up its e-book library so teens from other states can read banned books
It's part of a nationwide push to let young people access reading material that may have been thrown out of their local libraries and schools.
lbpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!
lbpost.com/news/educati...
lbpost.com/news/educati...
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reading about the controversy surrounding that movie apocalypto and thinking how the spainiards who arrive at the end and the americans who ensue have done way more human sacrifice than the mayans ever could
what is gaza but the west offering human sacrifice to their gods of consumption and capital
what is gaza but the west offering human sacrifice to their gods of consumption and capital
August 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
reading about the controversy surrounding that movie apocalypto and thinking how the spainiards who arrive at the end and the americans who ensue have done way more human sacrifice than the mayans ever could
what is gaza but the west offering human sacrifice to their gods of consumption and capital
what is gaza but the west offering human sacrifice to their gods of consumption and capital
Summer numbers: three books translated, totaling over 167,000 words. Believe it or not, I enjoyed every one of them!
August 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Summer numbers: three books translated, totaling over 167,000 words. Believe it or not, I enjoyed every one of them!
Is UNTAMED ON Netflix a play on C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett? And if so, is better than the @paramountplusbr.bsky.social show? So far I’m definitely in the yes column…
July 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Is UNTAMED ON Netflix a play on C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett? And if so, is better than the @paramountplusbr.bsky.social show? So far I’m definitely in the yes column…
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I'm very annoyed today that McSweeneys is IP-blocked at my school.
"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."
Anne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest Hemingway
Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'm very annoyed today that McSweeneys is IP-blocked at my school.
“You look tired young man… Schnapps?” #Nosferatu
July 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“You look tired young man… Schnapps?” #Nosferatu
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Women in Translation month is coming up again in August. Not sure if interest is waning as it was quieter on Twitter the past couple of years and I'm not sure if it has transferred to Bluesky.
I'm reading for a review column during August with an all female line up so far.
#witmonth to take part.
I'm reading for a review column during August with an all female line up so far.
#witmonth to take part.
July 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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de las cuatro lecturas por trabajo, sin duda alguna me quedo con Altasangre de Claudia Amador que ojaláojaláojalá se publique pronto aquí porque todos merecemos disfrutar de una historia de vampiros que bailan cumbia 🃏
May 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
de las cuatro lecturas por trabajo, sin duda alguna me quedo con Altasangre de Claudia Amador que ojaláojaláojalá se publique pronto aquí porque todos merecemos disfrutar de una historia de vampiros que bailan cumbia 🃏
Rewatching “Man of Steel” and I can’t get past the fact that Zod (played by Michael Shannon) is basically Evil Hader…
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Rewatching “Man of Steel” and I can’t get past the fact that Zod (played by Michael Shannon) is basically Evil Hader…
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My 2025 Bread Loaf lecture "Why Do I Have to Do This?: Promoting Literary Translation" is now online midd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
July 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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