I grew up in rural KY in the eighties, the same place where my dad grew up in the fifties, and my grandpa grew up in the twenties, where most people own guns for hunting and there is a school riflery club and NO ONE was ever allowed to bring a gun to school. This is an insane thing for him to say.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

I want “AI” to know no peace

I get that it's become a kind of shorthand for respect, but just because a publisher puts a translator's name on the *front cover* (Fitzcarraldo does name translators on the back cover) doesn't mean they pay well/on time/negotiate in good faith/are honest/act like professionals (the list goes on).

Naming the translator is admirable, but worth remembering that it can also be used to hide myriad sins behind the scenes.

After you establish that niche, please write that Lexington narcotic farm novel.

When we negotiate fair terms for ourselves, we negotiate fair terms for all translators. Be wary of work-for-hire, and of working with editors/authors/agents who don't believe translators are part of a book's success.

Every. Single. One. 🤬

Also, editors: if we ever talked about Nihonjin, that was probably long enough ago that you’re now at a new job, so I’m happy to start fresh 🫠

You clearly don’t know anything about North Carolina.