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Editor-in-Chief @LiverightPub . Everywhere else: just some guy.
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I'm not usually an impatient person, but I CANNOT WAIT for this brilliant and compellingly entertaining novel to make its debut on the literary stage!
@LiverightPub
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Anyone enjoying the nightlife in NYC tonight, skip Uber; hail a yellow cab instead. Those drivers are voluntarily losing their best fares.
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I’m just an editor, standing in front of a writer, asking them to tell me what they’re telling me slightly differently.
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Quite possibly the most delightful flap copy ever written.
#books
@randomhouse
http://t.co/wq0rfb07zQ
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This is an important moment in that NYer piece about the decline of the humanities.
#iwasanenglishmajor
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A classic by Clive James. Posting for no particular reason…
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Here's an (unoriginal) thought: instead of another fucking war, how about we give refuge to the war's victims?
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On sale next Tuesday, 12/7: Charles Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil" (Les Fleurs du mal), translated by Aaron Poochigian!
Book trailer here:
via
@YouTube
@LiverightPub
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“Is this a book for adults? Or a book for young readers?”
“Yes, it is.”
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@footballqueen52
@lovedog7
@FountainBkstore
Yes, you're right. But Brian's general point--that the price advantage is at least partly the result of exploitative labor practices--still stands.
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@tonyposnanski
@Kris_Sacrebleu
Accompanied by Michelle in a little sleeveless number. They could even give each other a fist-bump at some point.
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I was reminded this week of one of my favorite publishing whoopsies of all time. Had to share, for any of my book friends who aren’t aware that this happened (in the first printing, which was apparently 40k copies):
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“Sometimes people give the impression that translation is about learning the language/culture perfectly — i.e. mastery. But I think it’s more about learning how to translate with the part of your brain that writes poetry.”
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Some news.
We thank the brilliant Bob Weil for his devoted excellence in leading our imprint since its relaunch, congratulate him on his new position here at Liveright, and as of 7/1/22 welcome our stellar colleague
@Pete__Simon
into his new role as editor-in-chief!
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Bingo. There are people alive today who are more optimistic about humanity’s prospects of settling Mars than about our ability to curb carbon emissions here on Earth. Staggering.
The idea of terraforming a hellhole like Mars is funny to me. On Earth, basically a perfect planet already, 4-6°C warming = civilization-threatening catastrophe, & one we might go thru w anyway. What are chances we’re competent enough to warm up Martian atmo by 75C & hit bullseye
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You know Emily Wilson--the one who translated Homer's Odyssey? She's now on Twitter. Follow and pass it on.
@EmilyRCWilson
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The first three of twenty-six (!!) new Norton Library editions publishing throughout this year. For more information about the series, visit or follow
@TNL_WWN
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A great short interview by
@JeffreyBrown
with
@EmilyRCWilson
for
@NewsHour
: "How a translation of 'The Iliad' into modern language reinforces its relevance"
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The jackass who more or less admits that he hasn't paid any federal taxes complaining about terrible infrastructure. Perfect.
#DebateNight
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Oh my lord--just look at this beautiful thing that landed on my desk this morning! (It'll be available in bookstores November 6th.)
#Homer
#Odyssey
@EmilyRCWilson
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Psst, booksellers, want more magic in your store? Here’s an idea: place ample stacks of this trio of new books (from 3 unaffiliated publishers) on your front table, and you’ll see copies fly out the door as fast as quicksilver Hermes.
#HomerfortheHolidays
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“An amazing achievement, a thrill to read, and the best English translation. Hers is the Odyssey my students will read from now on.”
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review tackles Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey:
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So very happy to see
@EmilyRCWilson
's translation of Homer's Odyssey on this list. Congratulations to her and to all the finalists!
#ProudEditor
The National Translation Award in Poetry & Prose shortlists are HERE! Congrats to all those on our shortlists -- translators, authors, and publishers! And be sure to come to
#ALTA41
to see the winners crowned!
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Happy reading to everyone who preordered (or who picks up, after doing their civic duty)
@EmilyRCWilson
’s Odyssey, out today in paperback!
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“The words are short, mostly monosyllables...their force comes from their juxtaposition with one another — pat pat pat, like raindrops on a metal roof.”
A brilliant review by
@aristofontes
that captures the unique poetry of Emily Wilson’s Odyssey.
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.
@NatashaBertrand
@SteveKingIA
Irony. (Search for "Americans in 2050" & "NatGeo" for more info.)
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As I approach my 10-year anniversary on this website, and as a fan of so many of you, I humbly offer this request: if you are an absolute NERD about some arcane subject, *please* don't hide that fact under a bushel. We need you now more than ever.
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One week from today, I'm going to spend several hours listening to Claire Danes read
@EmilyRCWilson
's translation of Homer's Odyssey. If you want to join me, it's available here:
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Brilliant rhetorical move, OGE.
Ethics Office Praises Donald Trump for a Move He Hasn’t Committed To, via
@nytimes
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🎉🎉Happy Pub Day to
@Poochigian
, who spent much of 2020 wrestling with the ghost of Charles Baudelaire. The result, this beautiful beast--with an introduction by
@DanaGioiaPoet
and an afterword by
@DanielHandler
--is available now! 🎉🎉
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"Reading the Odyssey to My Four-Month-Old"
@Steven_Draws
sets out to read
@EmilyRCWilson
's new translation of Homer's epic poem to his infant daughter. Delightful!
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Philip Pullman on teachers of poetry who don’t themselves appreciate rhythm & sound, and who thus fail to help their students appreciate it. (From the collection, DAEMON VOICES (2017); introduction to Paradise Lost)
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!! NYC event, Weds Nov 8th !!: Emily Wilson in conversation with
@parisreview
's Lorin Stein at
@mcnallyjackson
:
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Hard to believe we're reaching the end of this ten-year-long journey together,
@EmilyRCWilson
. Can't wait to see the thing itself, and to share it with readers everywhere. Congratulations!
This is the glorious cover design for my forthcoming Iliad translation, featuring Victory. Everybody wants to be a winner.
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Today’s Daily Double on
@Jeopardy
would have been a piece of cake for citizens of Book Twitter.
#Homer
#Odyssey
@EmilyRCWilson
@wwnorton
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To “Conservative” Economists: NEVER, EVER THREATEN PUBLIC LIBRARIES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF LIBERTARIAN FANTASY. BE CAUTIOUS!
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Robin Williams was one of the "helpers" that Fred Rogers told children to look for when scared, sad, or lonely.
http://t.co/gz4gWXny4R
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“If a female intelligence can work such achingly subtle, humanizing adjustments on our testosterone-fuelled classics, surely there is hope for “a new vanguard” of literature, one with women at the helm.”
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What's the free-speech status of burning a 20-ft tall effigy of Herr Drumpf while dressed as Uncle Sam?
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Kinda makes you wonder what fresh hell Don endures just prior to cooking up the "Where's the beef?" campaign.
#MadMen
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Well look at that! Three
@LiverightPub
books on the NYT's 100 Notables of 2023! Congrats to Selby Wynn Schwartz (After Sappho),
@yunte
(Daughter of the Dragon), and Harvey Sachs (Schoenberg)--and to my colleagues,
@ginabiaquinta
and the inestimable Bob Weil!
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Two of the books I’m publishing in 2024 will go out into the world without blurbs—one because of the author’s preference (and reputation), the other because the category (arguably) doesn’t require them. Trying to do my part!
New today at
@esquire
:
@svershbow
reports on the problematic "favor economy" we call book blurbs.
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A forthcoming new novel by Georgi Gospodinov, TIME SHELTER (publishing 5/10 from
@LiverightPub
) provides a great opportunity to reread (or read for the first time) this fantastic short
@NewYorker
profile by
@GarthGreenwell
:
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Joe Walsh & Ann Coulter are pissed, the Office of Governmental Ethics is trolling the PEOTUS, and Mitt Romney is hating himself. Good times.
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Every Trump tweet contains a kernel of truth that has nothing to do with the rest of it. In this case, it's the last sentence.
Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!
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Do yourself a favor and listen to Lucie Brock-Broido read her poem, “Giraffe.” You can thank me (and
@dchiasso
to whom the h/t goes) later for this tip.
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This poem* by Alice Oswald is everything to me today.
(*from the book, Falling Awake: Poems, 2018,
@wwnorton
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@blgtylr
I’m staring at it now, my fifth try looming, with first, fourth, and fifth squares all green, wondering what I’m missing. Is today’s puzzle the first Times-branded one?
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This sad, forlorn space was my office for 20 years. I’m moving one floor down but also a world away on Monday.
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A dear friend—brilliant, erudite, & a great reader & teacher—told me recently that although he understands why
@EmilyRCWilson
’s translation of the Odyssey is being celebrated as a feminist milestone, his (favorable) impression is that it’s the most “macho” version he has read.(!)
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This is very good.
About 10 years ago I worked in Ted Kennedy’s foreign affairs/immigration constituent office.
I REGULARLY fielded calls from panicked mothers who came home to missing family members.
ICE was created in 2003 along w/ the Patriot Act. It was a weapon waiting for a tyrant.
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The edge of the cliff was Bush v Gore. We’ve been in that physics-defying hover ever since.
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@noetic_emetic
Is that the board-book version of Discipline & Punish? My kids LOVED Eric Carle's rendering of the panopticon!
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My dear dad, a retired agricultural engineer and committed conservationist, has never been more excited about a book published by my employer than he is about this one. His one sentence review: “It’s like SILENT SPRING for our farmland.”
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Huge congratulations to my wonderful colleague,
@dan_gerstle
! It’s terrific news for
@wwnorton
overall, and all of us at
@LiverightPub
couldn’t be prouder!
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DID YOU KNOW that there is a paperback edition of
@EmilyRCWilson
’s stunning translation of
@Homer_the_Bard
’s ODYSSEY that is less than $10??? Now you do!
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The Odyssey, translated by
@EmilyRCWilson
, keeping some very good company on Flavorwire's Best Books of 2018 list! :
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When you read Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, read its lines aloud whenever possible. Play the bard—don’t be shy!
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@tedsmall
Yes, we could. But I won't. Still, I won't stop retweeting reminders that the orange fuck didn't win more votes & has no mandate.
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"[F]or the last ten years at least, hardly a day has passed on which Greek poetry has not occupied a large part of my thoughts, hardly one deep or valuable emotion has come into my life which has not been either caused, or interpreted, or bettered by Greek poetry."
"...such knowledge of Greek literature as I possess has been of enormous value and interest to me." via
@sentantiq
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In just a few minutes,
@NPRWeekend
will be interviewing
@EmilyRCWilson
to discuss her new translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Tune in!
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This "delightfully morbid" (
@mikeduncan
) little book by Jason Novak, coming in June from
@wwnorton
(and a
@MattWeiland
production), recounts all the gruesome, horrific ways the Roman emperors expired or were dispatched. One blessed exception stands out.
#stoicism4eva
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The last time the Cubs won it all, women couldn't vote. Will they win the World Series the same year we elect the first female POTUS?
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Same.
Eric Trump: My father's life became "exponentially worse" when he decided to run for president
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@JohnHMaher
Yep—more or less! From Bennett Cerf’s delightful (at times) book of reminiscences, AT RANDOM:
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I still find myself re-reading a page or two each evening. It both calms & unsettles me. I ❤️ this book.
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Great fun hearing
@TheLincoln
and
@kirstenbakis
talk shop about craft, creepiness, and the uncanny.
#KingNyx
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The title page gives a little taste of the beauty and whimsy of Keith Houston's THE BOOK, available this Aug.
#books
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@colindickey
This little fella has had enough with the rockets red glare & bombs bursting in air.
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@Noahpinion
Massive increase to the top Federal income-tax rate, removal of the mortgage-interest deduction. Both would be v. painful.
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The best content by far on Twitter are the threads in which an expert on a certain subject takes us down a rabbit hole. My mind is seldom blown by 'takes' (valuable as these are) but almost always is by fact-filled threads on under-explored topics. Keep nerding, nerds!
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I know everyone bristles at simple solutions, but this one is simple: PHONICS!
(I highly recommend BOB BOOKS.)
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To all the dog people. 💔
(Poem: Linda Pastan; illustration: Elsa Senner; from the book, A Dog Runs Through It, 2018,
@wwnorton
)
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