Michael Lucey

@michaellucey.bsky.social

Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.

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In other excellent Representations news, Carlos Alonso Nugent's article "Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War" from issue 166 just won the annual essay prize from the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB). online.ucpress.edu/representati...

Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War

This article advances an argument about two “imagined environments”—my term for the frameworks that human groups use to depict and dwell in more-than-human worlds. The first of these imagined environm...

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Always important to spend time with friends and acquaintances in Paris, even if them being locked up at night makes close communication challenging. Something also poignant in the way that the Grisette de 1830 and Frédérick Lemaître are forever separated by the unforgiving Rue du Faubourg du Temple.

A nighttime picture of the outdoor statue called La grisette de 1830 in Paris, a young working class woman. The statue is in a park surrounded by greenery and trees.A nighttime picture of the bust of the nineteenth-century actor Frédérick Lemaître in Paris outside in a park with a fence around it.
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Coming on March 25 from Allen Lane in the UK and Semiotext(e) in the US — a book by Didier Eribon committed to the struggle for a better world than this one! Just got my translator’s copies today.

Photo of the jacket copy of the English translation of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class woman. Photo of the front cover of The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
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I know it's hard not to be preoccupied with other things, but if you need a distraction, here's a fun forum in the American Book Review on "Listening" organized by Bryan Counter that I contributed to -- a seed planted for an upcoming project... americanbookreview.org/focus-listen...

Focus: Listening -- Fall 2024 • American Book Review

Focus: Listening Volume 45, Number 3 Fall 2024 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Worlding Literature by Jeffrey Di Leo Fo...

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