Abby Dockter

Writing & research. This is the overflow of my enthusiasm.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

For years I honestly just kept forgetting to put up a Twitter picture, and now it seems wrong to change that.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

"...You lie down on your back and watch the missiles battling it out, zipping across the sky overhead in every direction. ... What you discover is that they're all the same."

[The Common @commonmag]

ICYMI, TC Online has new Arabic fiction:

Katharine Halls' translation of Mohammad Ibrahim Nawaya's "Missile Sequence" submerges readers in a dreamscape of violence. https://t.co/T9cgn0SaZG

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

The traces that shelter us. This was an Open Tab long enough that I can't remember who posted it, but thanks. More incentive to someday be able to read in Spanish.
https://t.co/gXvZ1Tr5rF

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Plucked The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos randomly off the library shelf, and what a mensch of a book. Just returned it to @pimalibrary so have at it, y'all.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Got to hear @sawakonakayasu read and I'm enchanted.✨🐜✨

[American Literary Translators Association @LitTranslate]

Don't miss the reading from #ALTA46 keynote speaker @sawakonakayasu at the @uapoetrycenter starting at 7pm!

ALTA Executive Director @lissiejaquette agrees:

SAY TRANSLATION IS ART

With thanks to the @urbanpoetrypollinators for this chalking!

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Bringin' it back to the Borderlands for this year's #monsoonreads, since it's officially here. <3

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

@LeeanneGal Whenever I have a long drive I always get Luis Alberto Urrea novels. Heavy stuff with a goofy sense of humor, and that guy is the best audiobook reader. I've almost run out so thank goodness there's a new one coming!

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Adding to the weirdly high proportion of favorite memories that involve freezing my tail off at the @UAPoetryCenter:

[Ander Monson @angermonsoon]

Tonight at the @UAPoetryCenter it's Bojan Louis, Ander Monson, and Manuel Muñoz. There will be broadsides by @el_diagram for the first 100 folks there. 7pm. Bring a coat or a blanket because it's Tucson-cold out there.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Latest gold of the research rabbit hole, Newton's notes to self: https://t.co/ar878lOftK

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

A+ inconvenient commute with @ElTucsonMonsoon:
💦 making friends with everyone else biking home
💦 person in car yelling to ask if I'm okay/need a ride while the street's running knee deep
💦 yelling "whooooo!" with total stranger as we go through same puddle

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

A modest but no less exciting #monsoonreads plan this year ⛈️

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

I am a sucker and will definitely click on that https://t.co/oaF7F13JU0

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Different borders, different vistas, and still every bit the airplane read I was hoping for.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Probs shouldn't complain about this considering how little "news" per se that I actually read...I just want in-depth stories about ongoing things rather than the up-to-the-minute stuff.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Friends, help me out: Where might one go for reliably good long-form, in-depth international coverage (of life outside the U.S.)? I've read great one-off articles but it's not really what any of these pubs do consistently. I'm looking for, like, Nat Geo of ten years ago.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Love love love @YaleE360, but their coverage is only environmental: https://t.co/hrJ83oG1fY

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

Reading Borges for the first time and constantly reminded of @SamRafBarber stories. As opposed, I now realize, to everyone else, who had the reverse experience. But I think Sr. Borges would approve of backwards timelines.

[Abby Dockter @ardockter]

@WrenAwry The algorithm has trouble with that distinction!😂