Marian Schwartz
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Tomorrow in Austin, #Texas! Translator @mbs51.bsky.social will read an excerpt of BETWEEN PRISON AND FREEDOM. This newly translated #Memoir chronicles #Journalist Alexander Podrabinek’s recollections of fearlessly opposing the injustices of the #SovietUnion.
Details: https://bit.ly/4nsvmgr
Details: https://bit.ly/4nsvmgr
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tomorrow in Austin, #Texas! Translator @mbs51.bsky.social will read an excerpt of BETWEEN PRISON AND FREEDOM. This newly translated #Memoir chronicles #Journalist Alexander Podrabinek’s recollections of fearlessly opposing the injustices of the #SovietUnion.
Details: https://bit.ly/4nsvmgr
Details: https://bit.ly/4nsvmgr
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What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation
elliottbaybook.com/events/47732
elliottbaybook.com/events/47732
Marian Schwartz w/ Gabriella Page-Fort | Elliott Bay Book Company
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elliottbaybook.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation
elliottbaybook.com/events/47732
elliottbaybook.com/events/47732
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Congratulations to Alexander Podrabinek and translator @mbs51.bsky.social on the release of BETWEEN PRISON AND FREEDOM. This #Memoir captures the spirit of the dissident movement and the #Solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward. #Soviet #Russia
Order today at: https://bit.ly/3TnZexL
Order today at: https://bit.ly/3TnZexL
August 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Congratulations to Alexander Podrabinek and translator @mbs51.bsky.social on the release of BETWEEN PRISON AND FREEDOM. This #Memoir captures the spirit of the dissident movement and the #Solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward. #Soviet #Russia
Order today at: https://bit.ly/3TnZexL
Order today at: https://bit.ly/3TnZexL
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Working with the @khoreo.bsky.social team on the production of the audio version of my translation from issue 5.1 (out as a pod soon) has been a dream experience. Talented, refreshingly diverse roster of voice actors, unparalleled attention to detail. Vote for them if you can🖤📚
The #IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast recognize excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction. Congratulations to these finalists:
June 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Working with the @khoreo.bsky.social team on the production of the audio version of my translation from issue 5.1 (out as a pod soon) has been a dream experience. Talented, refreshingly diverse roster of voice actors, unparalleled attention to detail. Vote for them if you can🖤📚
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Simultané playing cards, 1964 by Sonia Delaunay (b. 1885, Ukraine)
March 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Simultané playing cards, 1964 by Sonia Delaunay (b. 1885, Ukraine)
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If you liked "Mass Deportations Now," you're going to love $50 Chipotle burritos!
About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you liked "Mass Deportations Now," you're going to love $50 Chipotle burritos!
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"Hope is not the same thing as optimism. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope is not pleasure that things are going well, or willingness to work on what is succeeding, but the ability to work towards something because it is good."
- Václav Havel (my rewording of different translations)
- Václav Havel (my rewording of different translations)
January 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Hope is not the same thing as optimism. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope is not pleasure that things are going well, or willingness to work on what is succeeding, but the ability to work towards something because it is good."
- Václav Havel (my rewording of different translations)
- Václav Havel (my rewording of different translations)
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Our friends at #ALTA might not be on Bluesky—but they sure are making moves! The American Literary Translators Association is hiring a new Executive Director. Read about it here: literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/t...
The American Literary Translators Association is Hiring
December 4, 2024—The American Literary Translators Association seeks an Executive Director. Please see the following call: DESCRIPTION OF ALTA ALTA is a nonprofit arts membership association that p…
literarytranslators.wordpress.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Our friends at #ALTA might not be on Bluesky—but they sure are making moves! The American Literary Translators Association is hiring a new Executive Director. Read about it here: literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/t...
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From _The Fellowship of the Ring_
November 6, 2024 at 12:28 PM
From _The Fellowship of the Ring_