Now officially celebrating with my copies of VERDIGRIS—the hardest & most fun thing I’ve worked on! Michele Mari’s genius on full display. Already I’ve seen it’s impossible to engage with this book without considering the role of translation, & I’d say that in itself is a win 🐌

A reminder that preorders often arrive early 🥰

@nmbutkovich @PushkinPress @PushkinPress_US But it’s a book that’ll then last you a lifetime 🥰

@MisterJGrantham @estherlallen @leilaregister @CampMarmalade @nyrbclassics @SemiotextePress @nightboatbooks @softskull @fsgbooks @FenceBooks Love all the great translators you've been getting for the readings these day. Congrats on the anniversary!

@CamhiLeslie @PushkinPress @PushkinPress_US Thank you, Leslie! I'm going to ask them to send it to you once it's ready. Half of the book is set practically in France after all! 🗻

@octonion Ah yes, those ridiculously Italian-sounding names like Ginzburg, de Cespédes, or even Aron Hector Schmitz 🙃

My afterword to You, Bleeding Childhood is quoted in this piece on Michele Mari in the Polish press! 🤯 The Poles have been going crazy for Mari after discovering You, Bleeding (tr. Katarzyna Skórska), sign of an actually serious literary culture. Thanks Anna Arno & @tygodnik!

@bonnerjeanne @PushkinPress @PushkinPress_US Right? You can’t help but volerle bene! 🤍

@OnixOnux @PushkinPress @PushkinPress_US Thanks so much cian! I’m excited for you to read and will be curious to find out what you think (but no sweat if you don’t like it as much as the Mari)!

RT @BrianRobMoore: Here it is. This one is going to be the big test to see if people ultimately have good taste or not: If Lalla's genius d…

@veryhotmomm @daisandconfused Anyway, @veryhotmomm just revisited your piece on Ernaux in the Baffler! Romano, and this book in particular, are very Ernaux-adjacent, and often get compared in Italy, so do let me know if you'd ever like to know more about this beyond the link I shared! 💙

@daisandconfused 💙💙 thanks!

@daisandconfused Let's make it happen! 🙌 (Let me know if I can pass on a contact to the publisher?)

@daisandconfused Me reading over proofs of a book by an Italian woman who really loves her husband: I think Daisy Alioto will like this book

@PersonalRecords @PushkinPress @PushkinPress_US 🤍🤍🤍

@ktmayonnaise @PushkinPress @PushkinPress_US I think you'll enjoy it! (Though maybe "enjoy" isn't the right word for a book as devastating as this)

A week from today there'll be the @Soc_of_Authors Translation Prizes ceremony at @britishlibrary, for anyone who'd like to attend in person or online. With lots of great translations in the running, including Lalla Romano's A SILENCE SHARED for the John Florio Prize! 🙈

@LaurenElkin Reading over proofs and reminded to say that I did in fact opt for "laid waste" in the end - thanks @LaurenElkin! Also added an end note for another L'Amant quote in the book.