FG
@frankgarrett.online
"Meaningless to heaven, and of no interest to hell." | literary translator | feral philosopher | becoming inimical | Fulbright Scholar 🇵🇱 2001-02 | FLAS Fellow 🇺🇦 2000 | BDS | LGBTQIA+
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FG
@frankgarrett.online
· Jul 5
Nobody in graduate school warned you that “the long 19th century” just meant we’d still be doing race science and miasma theory well into the 21st century.
On the k*rwa tram you don’t punch your ticket; the ticket punches you.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On the k*rwa tram you don’t punch your ticket; the ticket punches you.
„I kissed a few Neanderthals in my day.”
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
„I kissed a few Neanderthals in my day.”
I often think about that time in the 80s when singers like Shannon & Teena Marie were huge and singers like Madonna were not. There's something almost mystical about that space that hadn't been filled yet with what now seems weirdly inevitable, even though I don't believe in mystical or inevitable.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I often think about that time in the 80s when singers like Shannon & Teena Marie were huge and singers like Madonna were not. There's something almost mystical about that space that hadn't been filled yet with what now seems weirdly inevitable, even though I don't believe in mystical or inevitable.
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Cannot wait to read your work!
2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Cannot wait to read your work!
Did Princeton get rid of its Translator-in-Residence positions?
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Did Princeton get rid of its Translator-in-Residence positions?
Leave it to whiny-ass white men to rebrand “adulthood” as THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY™️.
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Leave it to whiny-ass white men to rebrand “adulthood” as THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY™️.
One of the few good things in this world right now.
Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
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Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab | The Quietus
Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering H...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
One of the few good things in this world right now.
Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑
Anyone organizing/participating in a Queer theory reading group? If not, then what's wrong with you?!
Anyone know of a reading group on Queer Theory? I believe my thinking on this subject is far too idiosyncratic. Could benefit from engaging with more perspectives.
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Anyone organizing/participating in a Queer theory reading group? If not, then what's wrong with you?!
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Today is Small Business Saturday. Join me in celebrating District 114’s small businesses by heading over to Leila Bakery & Cafe at 6041 Oram St, Dallas, TX 75206.
November 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today is Small Business Saturday. Join me in celebrating District 114’s small businesses by heading over to Leila Bakery & Cafe at 6041 Oram St, Dallas, TX 75206.
I keep running into Przybyszewski everywhere I go. @jamesjconway.bsky.social
en.conradfestival.pl/event/przyby...
en.conradfestival.pl/event/przyby...
Przybyszewski returns. Why do we need a meteor from a century ago today? Discussion Gabriela Matuszek-Stec, Ryszard Nycz - Conrad Festival
Hosted by: Marcin Wilk
Performative reading: Radosław Krzyżowski
In the context of this year's Conrad Festival, the figure of Przybyszewski is...
en.conradfestival.pl
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I keep running into Przybyszewski everywhere I go. @jamesjconway.bsky.social
en.conradfestival.pl/event/przyby...
en.conradfestival.pl/event/przyby...
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LA: if you can handle screenings and lecture about my 1990s pre-Protease AIDS work, please join! It's feeling more and more abstract knowing people born in the time or prep and pep but this era of the pandemic demanded this work.
Torture Trilogy: Reflecting on Two Decades of Infamy with Ron Athey - Circa
This program is curated as a part of the Circa: Queer Histories Festival Exhibition The Sky is Always Falling: HIV/AIDS Activists Unleashing Power in Los Angeles Then and Now! on view from September 2...
www.circafestival.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
LA: if you can handle screenings and lecture about my 1990s pre-Protease AIDS work, please join! It's feeling more and more abstract knowing people born in the time or prep and pep but this era of the pandemic demanded this work.
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"Choose Your Prayers Wisely": Today on Substack, I meditate on what it means for millions to recite a bad #translation of the Lord's Prayer for 414 years. #Palestine #fascism #sin #religion #Gaza
dpsnyder.substack.com/p/in-times-o...
dpsnyder.substack.com/p/in-times-o...
In Times of Genocide, Choose Your Prayers Wisely
In times of fascism, perhaps it's time to stop reciting a Lord's Prayer that's an inaccurate translation.
dpsnyder.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Choose Your Prayers Wisely": Today on Substack, I meditate on what it means for millions to recite a bad #translation of the Lord's Prayer for 414 years. #Palestine #fascism #sin #religion #Gaza
dpsnyder.substack.com/p/in-times-o...
dpsnyder.substack.com/p/in-times-o...
One of the glorious people I miss most from Twitter is Joey Arias, who is still being magical: www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...
Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years old'
Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.
www.npr.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
One of the glorious people I miss most from Twitter is Joey Arias, who is still being magical: www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...
I’m dressing up for Halloween as slutty Stepford Wives Girlboss.
&(like with tradwife stuff) we'll get arguments abt how books with normative hetero relationships that double down on 1950s gender roles are actually very feminist because women write them &like reading them. They'll sell Stepford Wives as girlboss goals
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’m dressing up for Halloween as slutty Stepford Wives Girlboss.
Ah language—only ever the possibility, and not the guarantee, of communication and truth.
October 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Ah language—only ever the possibility, and not the guarantee, of communication and truth.
I foolishly thought that by following a policy of only translating the long dead that my work would be less stressful, less filled w conflict but then you’re sucked into family/heir drama w even more lawyers & academic territorial pissing contests.
i'm so angry. what does it mean when your job makes you angry all the time? when you do crucial work, award-winning work, and the people whose careers you built for them still treat you like dirt, like you're replaceable. it is SO SHITTY being a translator
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I foolishly thought that by following a policy of only translating the long dead that my work would be less stressful, less filled w conflict but then you’re sucked into family/heir drama w even more lawyers & academic territorial pissing contests.
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"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."
If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!
If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!
Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel
The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.
www.kalw.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."
If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!
If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!
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Great to see these translations of Maria Janion into English: "A queer woman and survivor of World War II, a leftist who resisted Soviet orthodoxy, Janion lends a uniquely disruptive voice to contemporary discussions of fascism, and her insights resonate far beyond her Eastern European roots."
The Bad Child
Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...
www.upress.umn.edu
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Great to see these translations of Maria Janion into English: "A queer woman and survivor of World War II, a leftist who resisted Soviet orthodoxy, Janion lends a uniquely disruptive voice to contemporary discussions of fascism, and her insights resonate far beyond her Eastern European roots."
Rereading bits of Pitol ten years later and all the more convinced that the English translation by @unpoetaloco.bsky.social really was a transformational event in world literature … if only the English-speaking/reading world were interested in and ready for transformation.
September 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Rereading bits of Pitol ten years later and all the more convinced that the English translation by @unpoetaloco.bsky.social really was a transformational event in world literature … if only the English-speaking/reading world were interested in and ready for transformation.
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👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
September 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
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Cultivar el silencio no es lo mismo que ignorar el mundo o quedarse callado, es aprender a escuchar para no dejarse distraer por los sinvergüenzas.
September 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Cultivar el silencio no es lo mismo que ignorar el mundo o quedarse callado, es aprender a escuchar para no dejarse distraer por los sinvergüenzas.
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"The Levinasian face that commands infinite responsibility and the Sufi experience of divine manifestation in all beings point toward a reality where transcendence erupts within immanence, where the infinite makes demands through the finite,
September 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"The Levinasian face that commands infinite responsibility and the Sufi experience of divine manifestation in all beings point toward a reality where transcendence erupts within immanence, where the infinite makes demands through the finite,
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La tecnología: el hijo idiota de la ciencia, un mono con un machete, la "inteligencia" artificial. La técnica que "sabe" de todo menos de moral.
August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
La tecnología: el hijo idiota de la ciencia, un mono con un machete, la "inteligencia" artificial. La técnica que "sabe" de todo menos de moral.