David DeGusta

Writer / fiction / @IowaWritersWksp / @MacDowell1907 // Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic // Previously a paleoanthropologist.

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So Yiyun Li is visiting here tomorrow, but the Daily Iowan decided to interview some random for its ‘Ask the Author’ feature. Highly questionable, cannot condone, would reconsider. https://t.co/kR4d0i9M9R

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@davidpilling @EdPaiceARI @FinancialTimes The previous translation was incomplete, and a self-published pirate edition. "John Cunningham" appears to be a pseudonym, and those involved in that edition took pains to stay anonymous, presumably because they knew they were violating copyright law.

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@EdPaiceARI That was a partial translation, a pirate edition self-published by someone who took pains to stay anonymous, presumably because they knew they were violating copyright law.

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New on my blog: an admiration of the striking poetry collection “Green for Luck” by Margaret Yapp, published in 2024 by @eastoverpress. https://t.co/luYv8ZIA4F

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@StephyGrossman Thank you - very kind of you!

[Cincinnati Review @CincinnReview]

"We eloped the week after the moon landing, the Apollo men back on earth but still quarantined."

In this week's miCRo, @davidwrites1 takes us back and forth in time and space to tell the story of a marriage. https://t.co/sty9WmChhn

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@righttimebomani @bomani_jones @Foxworth24 Mark down the day: after years of saying fiction was not his thing, Bomani read a novel-Erasure by the great Percival Everett.

(Bomani definitely hits the books, to the point of being maybe the only sports podcast doing book club episodes, but explicitly sticks to nonfiction.)

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@JulianaLamy @RedHenPress You’re welcome! Thank you for the stories and all those beautiful sentences.

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New on my blog: an admiration of the wonderful short story collection “You Were Watching from the Sand” by @JulianaLamy, published in 2023 by @RedHenPress as the winner of the Ann Petry Award. https://t.co/mBHz4GS1RT

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Very grateful to @MacDowell1907 for the support! I’ll be there, snowshoes on, in Jan/Feb 2024.

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We are thrilled to announce our fall-winter 2023-2024 Fellowship awardees! https://t.co/bpz6ejO1Ne

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@tcboyle Scrub jay disregarding sign.

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Uh oh, someone lost the most expensive part of their car.

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@alexanderchee And apparently nobody at Netflix said, “Hey, since we’re telling the WGA that the money just isn’t there in streaming anymore, maybe it’s not the best look to open a restaurant, what with that being a famously expensive and low-margin business?” Or, more likely, they didn’t care.

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Clearly Netflix can’t afford to pay what the writers are asking for. I mean, nothing indicates austerity and tough economic times like [checks notes] expanding into the restaurant business? #WGA

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Netflix is opening up a restaurant in Los Angeles

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@kirawontmiss @LByock Gotta have an all-you-can-eat buffet though, right? And the server keeps bringing you more plates unless you opt out?

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@jamelbrinkley The evergreen tweet of evergreen tweets.

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@majalukic113 @stinamontilla Works the other way round as well.

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@todgoldberg @LisaLoeb She thought you were naive, but you’re strong. Hope your STAY at Pelican Bay is going well. 😛

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@dog_rates I feel safer just looking at these two beautiful boys.

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Me, watching the final episode of Barry and realizing that the new “Max” iPad app leaves up the ‘chrome’ (time, date, wifi strength, battery strength, etc) the whole time.

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@zunguzungu Also an excellent example of extreme in-fill housing.