Great to attend the Global Progressive Mobilisation today in Barcelona - an inspiring gathering just a short bus ride from my home - a few photos with (clockwise) @sanchezcastejon, @ellyesse , @carlos_cuerpo , & @IsabellaMWeber, who all gave wonderful remarks
American participants included @NYCMayor , @Tim_Walz , @ChrisMurphyCT , @neeratanden - encouraging remarks from them all, and Walz mentioned the 60 Minnesotans who were part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War
I really enjoyed my conversation about Hannah Arendt's poems and the publication of What Remains with @Etanetan23 for @haaretzcom
Inside: My favorite poem, the poem I return to the most, and some biographical notes about Arendt's poems and her private life
"Así, Los hechos de Key Biscayne se convierte en una novela pensante, que pone la prosa al servicio de la reflexión filosófica".
@antoranz_sergio reseña la novela de Xita Rubert. @AnagramaEditor https://t.co/WEyys5gaxy
"Lo atractivo del sistema de premios en España es que ofrece una vía clara para que los autores presenten obras inéditas a una editorial, tengan o no representación formal de un agente"
–@wangiverson en @zendalibros sobre @AnagramaEditor's Premio Herralde
https://t.co/py8cEuqpA3
"Esta estrategia —es decir, que las editoriales premien manuscritos inéditos— contrasta con el sistema de premios de Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido y otros países europeos".
Un artículo de Jeremy Wang-Iverson. https://t.co/Ty8kF4ROMN
"In much of the world, it is becoming clear that politics are happening to us anyway, all over again. Wills’s personal and political memoir is a reminder of how deeply, and sometimes secretly, this can transform our families and countries, and ourselves"
–Emily McBride @fsgbooks
In "Missing Persons," Clair Wills's intimate story of institutionalized Irish women and children, shows how a family's history and a nation’s history run in parallel.
https://t.co/nQoOtdmsaj
"In Arendt’s poems, darkness and the night aren’t bad—they’re the terrain of thinking, the plain of existence, the place we live." Katie Peterson reviews "What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt." https://t.co/9Yn24ihElw
Tomorrow in Barcelona!
Translator, author, & activist @JulieWark will speak with @juditcarrera, director of @cececebe on human rights at Backstory Bookshop at 18h. Registration is free at link below:
https://t.co/u5pbgdpNW8
Many thanks to PW's @smswrites for suggesting that I write this piece & also to Pierre Georges @livreshebdo for publishing it in French, translated by Julia Steiner: https://t.co/pBnxvhI2lU
I wrote about Anagrama's Herralde Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards for fiction given by a Spanish publisher, which "undoubtedly puts the books on the radar of international publishers who may be interested in their translation,” (@SilviaSese, editorial director)
Since 1983, @AnagramaEditor's Herralde Prize has recognized many of the leading Spanish and Latin American novelists. This year, @XitaRubert & Cynthia Rimsky shared the award.
@wangiverson's article for @PublishersWkly:
https://t.co/occaeXIQbk
How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life become a portal to discuss the world entire—from Moby Dick to Bolaño to Bob Dylan to Borges to vampires to "infinite novels" & more? Join us to find out!
Audio📻🐳: https://t.co/jcx8gTolfB
I’m honored to help @Samantharhill launch WHAT REMAINS, the first English translation of Hannah Arendt’s collected poems. (!!!) Join us on Dec. 11 at 7pm in NYC at the iconic @strandbookstore. More info: https://t.co/lDHo8iyn7Q
Short thread
I started using Twitter in the fall of 2016. I had always been reticent to try social media, but I had just finished putting together a full draft of Hannah Arendt's poems, and was working on an introduction as I prepared to pitch the book to publishers. And then...
Eighteen months after leaving my job, the decision I’m happiest with is not starting a new publishing house. I’m flattered that a few colleagues suggested it, but what independent publishing really needs, I think, is support for existing small presses. Buy from them this season.