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Book launch - State of Emergency. Jeremy Tiang in conversation with Sunisa Manning at Making Worlds Bookstore in Philadelphia. 210 South 45th Street, Philadelphia, 5pm on Friday October 17
October 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Philadelphia: worldeditions.org/event/jeremy...

Pittsburgh: cityofasylum.org/litfest-2025/

Vancouver: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

Toronto: festivalofauthors.ca/festival-202...
17 Oct, 5pm Making Worlds, Philadelphia 19 Oct, 2.30pm City of Asylum, Pittsburgh 24-26 Oct Vancouver Writers Fest 31 Oct-2 Nov Toronto International Festival of Authors
September 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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new translator aspiration just dropped

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Michael Emmerich, a professor of Japanese literature at U.C.L.A. and a translator of the eleventh-century novel “The Tale of Genji,” co-authored the LifeWear messaging for Uniqlo. He admitted that it was deliberately enigmatic, saying that he wanted customers to “stop a moment and engage with language.”
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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In upper left-hand corner, white on red background, is the National Writers Union logo: NWU with the words “National Writers Union” beneath it Lefthand side of frame, white text on red background: The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom When: Wednesday, October 8, 7:30-8:45 ET Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com Center/Righthand side of frame: Image of four arms with hands clenched into fists holding on to one another to form a diamond shape. The colors of the four arms, moving clockwise, are black, light purple, maroon and orange. We’re Doing This Because . . . We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don’t have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve! Translators Organizing Committee | translators@nwu.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Shuang Xuetao's HUNTER in The Guardian

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Hunter by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Granta, £12.99) Set largely in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenyang, these diverse stories share a blend of urban grittiness and surreal strangeness. In one, a man accompanies his father in an ambulance to hospital, but finds everyone else – including the driver – is asleep. In another, a man goes from stalking women to shooting squirrels; elsewhere, we encounter a remake of The Tempest, and a man who claims to be the last survivor from another planet. Motifs recur – actors, parents, people needing urgently to pee – bringing a sense of unity, however warped. The frequent surprises in these stories, which are darkly charming and hard to shake off, suggest Xuetao may have followed the advice of one of his own characters on writing: “Just sit there, smack your head and let the words flow out.”
August 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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applications now open for the 2025 Translating Taiwan Literature workshop, a (free!) literary translaltion workshop by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan/ Taitung

apply by Sept 7

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Call for emerging translators: A symphony of island and literature, 2025 workshop for translating Taiwan literature. Intensive and immersive training program for emerging translators of Taiwan literature into English, with Jeremy Tiang as mentor, joined by writers from Taiwan, senior translators, scholars, publishing representatives and curators from the Czech republic, Japan, Poland, South Korea and the UK. 20 participants will be selected. Anyone aged 18 or over, including non-Taiwanese citizens, may apply. Organizer will cover courses, accommodation, insurance and partial transportaiton costs during the workshop. Apply by Sept 7
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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next week

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Yu & Me books presents Women Seated by Zhang Yueran, translated by Jeremy Tiang. Book launch with Jeremy Tiang, Han Zhang and Weike Wang on Aug 12 2025, 7-8pm, 44 Mulberry Street
August 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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In upper left-hand corner, white on red background, is the National Writers Union logo: NWU with the words “National Writers Union” beneath it Lefthand side of frame, white text on red background: The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom When: Wednesday, August 13, 7:30-8:45 ET Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com Center/Righthand side of frame: Image of four arms with hands clenched into fists holding on to one another to form a diamond shape. The colors of the four arms, moving clockwise, are black, light purple, marron and orange. In upper left-hand corner, white on red background, is the National Writers Union logo: NWU with the words “National Writers Union” beneath it Text in white on red background: We’re Doing This Because . . . We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don’t have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve! Translators Organizing Committee | translators@nwu.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang book tour. Thursday 26 June, 7pm, with Yu-Mei Balasingamchow at Singapore Unbound, KGB Bar, NYC. Friday 27 June, 6pm, with Reuben Gelley Newman at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, NYC. Thursday 10 July, 7pm, with Dorothy Tse at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline MA, Saturday 12 July, 6pm, with Ye Chun at Riff Raff, Providence RI.
June 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in the WSJ

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
The writer Shuang Xuetao is from the northeastern Chinese city Shenyang, a onetime industrial hub that collapsed in the 1990s after the country shifted from a planned economy to one based on marketization, causing factories to move south. Mr. Shuang’s fiction about his hometown is credited with kick-starting a movement of rust-belt realism known as the Dongbei Renaissance. His story collection “Hunter” still has plenty of gritty urban ennui, but it also now incorporates elements of magic realism and fantasy. The fusion is at its uncanny best in “Heart,” in which a young man riding with his dying father in the back of an ambulance passes into a bizarre highway limbo between life and death. The Hitchcockian title story concerns an actor cast to play a sharpshooter in a film whose disciplined preparations transform his ordinary surroundings into someplace malign and dangerous. Such eerie artistic projections are frequent. A blocked science-fiction author in “Premonition” meets the sort of alien he might dream up; a sociopathic killer in “Up at Night” seems to materialize from the psyche of a crime writer. Though there’s nothing new in the coupling of the mundane and the fantastic—see, for example, everything by Haruki Murakami—these stories feel fresh and invigorating, and Jeremy Tiang’s translation is noticeably good. At age 41—extremely young in writer years—Mr. Shuang is imaginative and versatile, someone who will be worth keeping up with.
June 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in Harper's Magazine

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sometimes felt like I was reading Jesus' Son with the drugs replaced by magical realism. Still, Shuang's prose, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy TIang, is hypnotic and taut, and cultural differences aside, S----- is a familiar city, gutted by globalism, its blank-faced sleepwalkers at once idiosyncratic and instantly recognizable. "Now everyone in the ambulance had their eyes shut," Shuang writes, "and we entered a common darkness."
May 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
He regarded the fashion for nation states as transitory, and believed it would end badly: the artificial division of people according to such feeble categoeis as the place where they were born did not suit the compleixty of the question of indentité. 'The concept of "nation" does not speak to em at all. Our emperor, yours and mine, says that only "peoples" exist, nations are an invention. The paradox lies in the fact that nation states are in desperate need of other nation states - a single nation state has no raison d'être.
May 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The Translators Organziing Committee is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session on Zoom, Wednesday Apr 9, 7.30-8.45pm Eastern. Email us to reserve your spot. translators@nwu.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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it's a good issue
The cover of the Spring 2025 issue of The Paris Review: a cream rectangle with the magazine name, below that a darker rectangle containing a stylized still life of white flowers in a vase that has cracked and is now leaking water
March 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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an excellent start to the Year of the Snake ~~

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Obie Award for Outstanding New Play: Jeremy Tiang for Salesman之死 (pronounced zhi si, the Chinese words for "death of"). Produced by Yangtze Repertory Theatre and Gung Ho Projects. Images of Jeremy Tiang (long hair, white shirt) and Jo Mei (red cardigan over a blue jumpsuit; playing Shen Huihui) and Sonnie Brown (white jacket over a red sweater vest and grey trousers; playing Arthur Miller).
February 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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aside from being a luminous novelist and poet, Anna is also an International Booker Prize winner for her translation of David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black
To translate is never simpler. To translate is to betray at the borders, it's to cheat, it's to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple, or quintuple. To tranlsate is to distance oneself from God's truth, which, as everyone knows or believes, is single.
November 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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sneak preview of tonight
a book page that is mostly blank except for the line "Is this true, or does it only _feel_ true?"
November 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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good news everyone, the New Yorker has unbanned the word “gotten”
screenshot of a proof page of which the word “got” has been circled with the proofreader’s note “-ten? Now permitted”
November 16, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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my translation of “Heart” by Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 is out in The New Yorker

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Print copy of the New Yorker open to Heart by Shuang Xuetao, with an illustration by Sally Deng of a boxer’s bare torso, with the shadow of someone’s head across where his heart would be Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
October 5, 2023 at 4:26 PM
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hope to see you there! tickets are selling fast yzrep.org/salesman
poster for Salesman zhisi, by jeremy tiang and directed by Michael Leibenluft, at the Connelly Theater October 10-28, tickets at yzrep.org - image of six performers, all Asian women, dressed in blues and greys, looking at the camera
September 28, 2023 at 2:52 PM
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POV you've just finished reading 150 books for a book prize you're judging, and also your apartment is being used as prop storage for a play you translated
many stacks of books on a window sill, spines facing away, and on the ground a lion, tortoise and tapir made out of cardboard
September 7, 2023 at 6:27 PM