Livia Franchini
@twoseriousladies.bsky.social
It's pronounced like Frankenstein.
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Will have new additional essays & reflections @twoseriousladies.bsky.social & me stoked about this, also ofc we will have a fun launch party
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Will have new additional essays & reflections @twoseriousladies.bsky.social & me stoked about this, also ofc we will have a fun launch party
Reposted by Livia Franchini
Exciting news ~ TL/TH in book
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
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form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
2026 subscription
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exciting news ~ TL/TH in book
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
Are you even a translator if you haven’t partaken in a Found in Translation panel discussion.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Are you even a translator if you haven’t partaken in a Found in Translation panel discussion.
Caught Francesco addressing the baby as Slavoj Zizek.
This is getting out of hand.
This is getting out of hand.
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Caught Francesco addressing the baby as Slavoj Zizek.
This is getting out of hand.
This is getting out of hand.
Down n out in Pisa and Livorno.
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Down n out in Pisa and Livorno.
Two of the nicknames we have found ourselves using for the baby are Google and Vevo.
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Two of the nicknames we have found ourselves using for the baby are Google and Vevo.
Made a start on the baby’s Halloween costume.
October 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Made a start on the baby’s Halloween costume.
Arcane Millennial motherhood is soothing your son to the Duck Tales theme tune.
October 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Arcane Millennial motherhood is soothing your son to the Duck Tales theme tune.
Had not foreseen the baby would be such a Sinatra stan.
October 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Had not foreseen the baby would be such a Sinatra stan.
The Bible warns you about bringing forth children in pain, but mentions nothing about having to suck the snot out of their nose with a thin tube.
October 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The Bible warns you about bringing forth children in pain, but mentions nothing about having to suck the snot out of their nose with a thin tube.
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
The more ungenerous a contemporary novelist is the better the reviews.
September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The more ungenerous a contemporary novelist is the better the reviews.
Partner says the baby looks like Pope Leo XIV.
September 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Partner says the baby looks like Pope Leo XIV.
My son’s hunger cue is Beavis laugh.
August 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My son’s hunger cue is Beavis laugh.
Logged back into Facebook for a hot second and I’m getting friendship suggestions for both Faris from The Cribs and Gad Lerner.
August 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Logged back into Facebook for a hot second and I’m getting friendship suggestions for both Faris from The Cribs and Gad Lerner.
Dream that Eddie Vedder was playing saxophone in a mall in Canada but the stair system was really complicated so when I got there his slot has ended but he told me everything about this ‘star wrap’ he was imminently planning to order from KFC.
July 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Dream that Eddie Vedder was playing saxophone in a mall in Canada but the stair system was really complicated so when I got there his slot has ended but he told me everything about this ‘star wrap’ he was imminently planning to order from KFC.
Between Oasis stans and Lana fans I’m no longer sure I have any true friends.
July 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Between Oasis stans and Lana fans I’m no longer sure I have any true friends.
Nobody talks about how Gilles Deleuze and Christopher Lloyd are played by the same actor.
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Nobody talks about how Gilles Deleuze and Christopher Lloyd are played by the same actor.
The British urge to misspell ‘definitely’ as ‘defiantly’.
May 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The British urge to misspell ‘definitely’ as ‘defiantly’.
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The man got back home
by breaking the glass with his elbow.
He tidied the tables made a coffee
for the women asleep in the corner.
⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑
circumferencemag.com/five-apartme...
by breaking the glass with his elbow.
He tidied the tables made a coffee
for the women asleep in the corner.
⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑
circumferencemag.com/five-apartme...
five apartments
Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini
circumferencemag.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The man got back home
by breaking the glass with his elbow.
He tidied the tables made a coffee
for the women asleep in the corner.
⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑
circumferencemag.com/five-apartme...
by breaking the glass with his elbow.
He tidied the tables made a coffee
for the women asleep in the corner.
⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑
circumferencemag.com/five-apartme...
Dream I dated Mark E. Smith and he made me peaches and cream and set alight a bottle of sage green nail polish inside an empty packet of pickled onion Monster Munch in an underground parking lot to impress me.
April 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Dream I dated Mark E. Smith and he made me peaches and cream and set alight a bottle of sage green nail polish inside an empty packet of pickled onion Monster Munch in an underground parking lot to impress me.
To think we’re sending Katy Perry to space but couldn’t come up with a better invention against rain than the humble umbrella.
April 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
To think we’re sending Katy Perry to space but couldn’t come up with a better invention against rain than the humble umbrella.
Well I must simply bulk buy.
March 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Well I must simply bulk buy.
Nothing riles me up more than a native speaker’s incapacity for tense coordination.
March 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Nothing riles me up more than a native speaker’s incapacity for tense coordination.
To the tune of ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.
OS-TEO-P-ATH
OS-TEO-P-ATH
OS-TEO-P-ATH
OS-TEO-P-ATH
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
To the tune of ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.
OS-TEO-P-ATH
OS-TEO-P-ATH
OS-TEO-P-ATH
OS-TEO-P-ATH