"It’s bad enough when historians read Benjamin!" Watch me, as the kids say, go off: heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f.... Thanks to the lovely & talented @matthewkinlin.bsky.social for asking me hard questions and making me think, and to @hfr.bsky.social for publishing our conversation.

“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett

Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …

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Derrida. Blanchot. The city of Lublin. ❤️‍🔥 I got to interview independent scholar, writer & literary translator @frankgarrett.online for @hfr.bsky.social about philosophy, his wider project of translation, & queer Polish poet Czechowicz @sublunary.bsky.social 🔥 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f...

“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett

Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …

heavyfeatherreview.org

»In the kitchen the breakfast stove ejected eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. “Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes…«

Yuri Herrera@yuriherrera.bsky.social · yesterday

En 1950 Ray Bradbury publicó un poema titulado "There Will Come Soft Rains", que sucede el día de HOY, 4 de agosto de 2026, sobre una casa, no sus ocupantes, que ha sobrevivido a une explosión nuclear, para finalmente sucumbir al fuego. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

I remember taking that “are you living in a bubble” quiz all those years ago, and the result was yes—because I had gone to college & grad school and had lived overseas for several years. Guess I would’ve been more well rounded had I stayed on my family farm in rural Texas.

ād-lama, m.n: (of devils) one maimed by fire. (AHD-la-ma / ˈaːd-la-ma) #OldEnglish #WOTD

This morning we’re serving up waffles and a bad attitude.

Happy Warsaw Uprising Day. Always resist.

Marcel Krueger@marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 4d ago

I wrote about the weapons of the Warsaw Uprising which started today in 1944. “The Polish Home Army used a weapon made from scrap metal and hope: the Błyskawica or 'Lightning'.” topographyofmemory.substack.com/p/lightning-...

“What was going on was that people were dying and our society did not give a shit about the fact that they were dying.” Gloriously direct words. Can’t wait to read this book.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d ago

In his new book, “The Perfect Moment,” Isaac Butler maps how the National Endowment for the Arts’ undoing got us to this moment.

Happy Warsaw Uprising Day (also my anniversary with @shmonkey.bsky.social).

Just read this, and I know now that I will savor it for years to come: ⚠️ Sensible content: The show touches on difficult subjects…. We advise caution if you find these topics too sensible. May even add this disclaimer to my c.v.

“Husband of missing woman says he believes 'no foul play' involved.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Final word for now is really, why should anyone expect epic translators to be polite & soft spoken? Politeness has little place here. This is a career in which you hold hands with the dead, share a mouth with ghosts, & try to imagine the impossible, all day long. It's messy work, folks.

These are the transitions We should resist: From tolerance to rage, Open to closed, Live to deadened. The people who Danced in the street Threatened you with love.

Just diagnosed a play we watched (or tried to watch: we walked out at intermission) as having great potential … to be workshopped.

My new flex is whispering, “Eres porno,” when I pass a hot shirtless dude at the lake. #eresporno #hotmesssummer

The only real information we need is what was her cut from those million copies sold? The usual ~10% even though it was in the public domain? And does she get anything from the film since Nolan “consulted” her translation as a source? (A resounding no.) www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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Update: on my run this morning a woman tried to bond with me because we both were wearing blue shirts. Gentle reader, they were two completely different blues. #no

Frank Garrett@frankgarrett.online · 2w ago

FYI/FWIW: błękitny—blue, azure, sky-blue niebieski—blue, heavenly blue siny—livid, gray-blue, glaucous, storm-blue granatowy—navy, deep blue lazurowy—azure seledynowy—celadon #chromatics #chromatism

In some other universe, that evil person you're thinking about is actually immortal. Language can conceive of a world that's even worse than this one. We're not in it. Have courage.

Emily Dickinson, quiet rebel.

What if I were to translate niebieski, błękitny, lazurowy, siny, and granatowy as "blue"? (My head would explode. That's what.)

Today's research brought me back to one of my most adored sculptors: Johann Georg Pinzel. Seeing his work in person was one of the first times I really loved baroque art, but mostly because he seemed to foreshadow cubism: www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?...

"each world drinking the shadow of the other" @scyflynn.bsky.social writing lovely things (or somehow magically channeling the work I've been translating lately)

S.C. Flynn@scyflynn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Threshold The homesickness you felt when still at home is disappearing from the outside in and from the inside out, each world drinking the shadow of the other. Enchanted nihilism, misplaced sincerity; the night of their eyelids falls across you. 1/2 www.newfeathersanthology.com/threshold.ht...

us government still sending teenagers overseas to be killed just so 80-year-old cunts can feel tough.

@poemakontsa.bsky.social You up?

Russian skinhead socialist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was BOTD in 1893 & probably committed suicide but was possibly killed by the secret police in 1930 at 36. Apparently he played Russian Roulette 2x & won, but finally lost on April 14th, or maybe someone else pulled the trigger

Rest in peace, my little friend who made me toast for almost 35 years. It’s more than most people have done for me.

I got mine years ago…

Ron Athey@ron-athey.bsky.social · 3w ago

bringing back the Bloody Disgrace t-shirt ;) $25 for hard times, put these to rest a few years ago but its time to for this reverse piss take from a Glasgow exploitation headline. Thank you for the support and please take my challenge to post a scandalous pic in your tee, chop it up!

Herbert Marcuse, influential 20th Century philosopher & political theorist of the Frankfurt School, was BOTD in 1898 & died in 1979 at 81. His most famous works are "Eros and Civilization" & "One-Dimensional Man." As a Marxist he influenced protest movements of the 60's & 70's

An endless supply of money for Sec. Sexpest to have every man in the military jerk-off in a cup, annually? every 6 wks?, for bogus medical tests and gender-affirming care.

How interesting.* An antifascist translation journal that lists its editing goals: „to confirm the linguistic accuracy of the translation, to clarify and shape the text to publication standard…, and to bring the manuscript into conformity with our style guide.” Seems kinda fascist. *not interesting