Jamie Richards
@jrichards.bsky.social
translator of Italian &c. “irresistibly drawn by a web of thrilling daydreams awash on a shore of panic”. 🇮🇹 🇬🇷
Probably the best possible review?
Seeking a publisher for another of Castaldi's books. Still experimental but totally different. Hallucinatory yet controlled (punctuated but paratactic, Steinlike). Please reach out if this is you! 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Seeking a publisher for another of Castaldi's books. Still experimental but totally different. Hallucinatory yet controlled (punctuated but paratactic, Steinlike). Please reach out if this is you! 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Probably the best possible review?
Seeking a publisher for another of Castaldi's books. Still experimental but totally different. Hallucinatory yet controlled (punctuated but paratactic, Steinlike). Please reach out if this is you! 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Seeking a publisher for another of Castaldi's books. Still experimental but totally different. Hallucinatory yet controlled (punctuated but paratactic, Steinlike). Please reach out if this is you! 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
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#llegit Un llibre original, curiós, abellidor, encativador; una mirada poètica, repetitiva i hipnòtica de la vida, desitjos i passions d'una viuda italiana narrada a traves de la seva cuinar/receptes i llegendes, imatges i records del Mediterrani. Crec que no s'ha traduït al català encara.
September 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
#llegit Un llibre original, curiós, abellidor, encativador; una mirada poètica, repetitiva i hipnòtica de la vida, desitjos i passions d'una viuda italiana narrada a traves de la seva cuinar/receptes i llegendes, imatges i records del Mediterrani. Crec que no s'ha traduït al català encara.
"...figurative language had become a chimera."
Claudia Durastanti in @grantamag.bsky.social
granta.com/obituary-of-...
Claudia Durastanti in @grantamag.bsky.social
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Obituary of a Soft Porn Translator
‘Using “ostrica” for vagina sounded bad in Italian, not representative enough, so clitorises became pearls. They were gone now too. Sex had once been a jewelry store, a jewelry store built on top of a...
granta.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"...figurative language had become a chimera."
Claudia Durastanti in @grantamag.bsky.social
granta.com/obituary-of-...
Claudia Durastanti in @grantamag.bsky.social
granta.com/obituary-of-...
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you have to feel the language in your bones. the language is not a part of you, you are a part of the language, a wave in its ocean
One thing I want to think about, as a literary translator: we need a good understanding of two languages. But formal education is not the only way to get that. Delightful that people with PhDs (want to) translate—but life and writing skills are enough too.
July 18, 2025 at 5:35 AM
you have to feel the language in your bones. the language is not a part of you, you are a part of the language, a wave in its ocean
More Vitaliano Trevisan via me thanks to Daniele Pantano and the Lincoln Review!
www.lincolnreview.org/issue6
www.lincolnreview.org/issue6
Issue 6 The Lincoln Review
Issue 6 of The Lincoln Review
www.lincolnreview.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
More Vitaliano Trevisan via me thanks to Daniele Pantano and the Lincoln Review!
www.lincolnreview.org/issue6
www.lincolnreview.org/issue6
Cristina Campo, "The Unforgivable" (tr. Alex Andriesse)
June 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Cristina Campo, "The Unforgivable" (tr. Alex Andriesse)
In case you want to take a workshop with me or any of my fabulous colleagues.
Registration opens tomorrow am.
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Registration opens tomorrow am.
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2025 Summer Multilingual Translation Workshops
Multilingual Translation Workshops pair 6 literary translators with an established translator leader for a 105-minute workshop via Zoom.
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May 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In case you want to take a workshop with me or any of my fabulous colleagues.
Registration opens tomorrow am.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-summe...
Registration opens tomorrow am.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-summe...
This year’s Eisner nominations for Best Archival Project include my translation of Marcel Labrume by Attilo Micheluzzi – a fascinating writer who blends the fictional and the historical so seamlessly that the translation was truly an archival project (took years off my life).
May 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This year’s Eisner nominations for Best Archival Project include my translation of Marcel Labrume by Attilo Micheluzzi – a fascinating writer who blends the fictional and the historical so seamlessly that the translation was truly an archival project (took years off my life).
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"It's not merit, it's money. Capitalism has a very simple algorithm."
Small Press Economies: A Dialogue
By Hilary Plum and Matvei Yankelevich
www.chicagoreview.org
January 20, 2024 at 12:18 AM
"It's not merit, it's money. Capitalism has a very simple algorithm."
I'm so glad someone wrote this (I keep trying to write things but am too tired!)—Nicholas Dames in @nplusonemag.com on the exhaustion trope in Briggs' The Long Form and Samatar & Zambreno's Tone
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...
Tired as a Mother | Nicholas Dames
What is the tone of this literary-theoretical tone? Take away anything from reading these books together and it’s their similar vibe: something quietly persistent, invested in its own disinvestments, ...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I'm so glad someone wrote this (I keep trying to write things but am too tired!)—Nicholas Dames in @nplusonemag.com on the exhaustion trope in Briggs' The Long Form and Samatar & Zambreno's Tone
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...
People don't really take the translation of graphic literature seriously. They should.
March 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
People don't really take the translation of graphic literature seriously. They should.
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We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist – a feast of fiction from around the world, featuring ‘stories from everywhere, for everyone’.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes
The longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT).
thebookerprizes.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist – a feast of fiction from around the world, featuring ‘stories from everywhere, for everyone’.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Just came across this & will try to follow along. The antidote to what has elsewhere been termed “brodernism”. Thank you 🙏
Here’s our schedule for #NYRBWomen25 & page guide number one. Up first is a short one, ON THE ABOLITION OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES by Simone Weil. This one has been on my shelf for awhile & I’m starting it now!
February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just came across this & will try to follow along. The antidote to what has elsewhere been termed “brodernism”. Thank you 🙏
The aesthetics of resistance
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The aesthetics of resistance
“Reviewers also describe my work as ‘cartoonish,’ which I take as a compliment, because I love cartooning, and cartooning is very Greek." RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Reviewers also describe my work as ‘cartoonish,’ which I take as a compliment, because I love cartooning, and cartooning is very Greek." RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...
Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
Now Trending: How to Be a Fascist - Words Without Borders
These days, there could be fierce competition over who could write the book on “how to be a fascist”—if we could agree on what a fascist is. Michela Murgia’s lapidary definition, depicted in a Forrest...
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February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
Reading per questo preciso momento - Dino Buzzati (tr. Lawrence Venuti), The Bewitched Bourgeois 🐍
January 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reading per questo preciso momento - Dino Buzzati (tr. Lawrence Venuti), The Bewitched Bourgeois 🐍
Trials By Fire
Guest post by Los Angeles resident Jamie Richards
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January 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"On Tuesday when Gary Indiana's library came to Los Angeles, it rested for a while in the appointed house in Altadena. But it was the wrong day."
‘I was on deadline for a catalogue essay. I spent Wednesday evening writing. “This is how they found him,” I could imagine them saying, “writing his little sentences while LA burned.”’
Colm Tóibín writes from Los Angeles, in the next issue and online now: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín writes from Los Angeles, in the next issue and online now: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · In LA
www.lrb.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"On Tuesday when Gary Indiana's library came to Los Angeles, it rested for a while in the appointed house in Altadena. But it was the wrong day."
Catching up on book posts with this gorgeous iteration of The Passenger, where my contribution of Cristina Portolano’s mini graphic memoir “Napule” sits alongside a host of timely pieces about the city Malaparte called “the most mysterious in Europe.”
www.europaeditions.com/book/9781787...
www.europaeditions.com/book/9781787...
January 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Catching up on book posts with this gorgeous iteration of The Passenger, where my contribution of Cristina Portolano’s mini graphic memoir “Napule” sits alongside a host of timely pieces about the city Malaparte called “the most mysterious in Europe.”
www.europaeditions.com/book/9781787...
www.europaeditions.com/book/9781787...
Good company for the windstorm 🌬️ thanks to @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Good company for the windstorm 🌬️ thanks to @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
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I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own.
The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Special feature by Clarissa Botsford in the latest issue of Riveting Reviews from the European Literature Network on Marosia Castaldi's Hunger of Women.
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
#RivetingReviews: THE HUNGER OF WOMEN by Mariosa Castaldi – Jamie Richards in conversation with Clarissa Botsford | European Literature Network
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December 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Special feature by Clarissa Botsford in the latest issue of Riveting Reviews from the European Literature Network on Marosia Castaldi's Hunger of Women.
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
Interview: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
& review: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...
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Sandorf Passage 2025 Subscription – sandorfpassage.org
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December 9, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Looking for a gift that surprises and delights? How about a 2025 subscription? Sign up by 12/31 and receive 7 books for $100: 6 new titles plus a backlist title of your choice. Follow and repost this and you’ll have a chance to win a free 2025 subscription! sandorfpassage.org/product/sand...
Kate Beaton's Ducks (pub @dandq.bsky.social) is the first work of graphic literature to win the multilingual & international Jan Michalski Prize:
www.cbc.ca/books/canada...
www.cbc.ca/books/canada...
Canada Reads champion Kate Beaton wins 2024 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature | CBC Books
Kate Beaton's Ducks won the Swiss literary prize that rewards works of all literary genres regardless of the language they're written in. The graphic memoir won Canada Reads in 2023 when it was championed by Mattea Roach.
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December 8, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Kate Beaton's Ducks (pub @dandq.bsky.social) is the first work of graphic literature to win the multilingual & international Jan Michalski Prize:
www.cbc.ca/books/canada...
www.cbc.ca/books/canada...