#bookstr “Sholeh Wolpé: I translate from Persian. Iran has a long and rich literary tradition. Poetry, which until the mid- to late-twentieth century was always written in verse, has always occupied an important place in the lives of kings, scholars, and regular people alike.”

Words Without Borders

Women Translating the Classics: An Interview with Emily Wilson, Sholeh Wolpé, and Arshia Sattar - Words Without Borders

Translator and cofounder of the Women in Translation tumblr Alta L. Price spoke with three women translators of classical literature—Emily Wi...

I can’t wait for the new translation.” “Each of these translations — along with dozens more — suggests a different understanding of the central themes of courage, marriage, fate and death.” ~Emily Wilson

Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew (Published 2023)

Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different appr...

Snow wasn’t enough to save her sister— education might have. Love this movie.

Is it strange I still have my first “hotmail” account operating? Call me sentimental.

“Roy’s subject and obsession is, throughout, power: who has it (and why), how it is used (and abused), the ways in which those with little power turn on those with less—and, importantly, how to find beauty and joy amid these struggles. The God of Small Things is a novel focused on one family, while The Ministry of Utmost Happiness has a larger scale, but in the questions they ask and the themes they explore, both novels are as “political” as any of her essays. Her essays, in turn, are as powerfully and lovingly written as her fiction, with the same suspicion of purity, perfection, and simple stories.”

The Paris Review

Arundhati Roy, The Art of Fiction No. 249

“I love immersing myself in the universe of a novel for years. There is never a time when I am more alive.”

I wasn’t valedictorian of my Catholic High School, but I was awarded the “Religion Award” my senior year. I also worked in my church’s rectory throughout high school. Another type of “education.” Lessons learned.

I loved this so much 😭 — I bookmarked the Nostr version — can’t find it because I lost my bookmarks when I deleted & downloaded a Client app.

@DLDUB — Here are pics from my mom’s humble “greenhouse.” I tried to reply to our convo about a week ago— but I can’t find it.

#proofofwalk 💙

#bookstr OUTLINE by Rachel Cusk “There was a certain self-consciousness in the set of his shoulders: this was, then, a performance, a piece of showing off. He didn't once glance back at me, for people are at their least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.”

Always loved this piece by Adam Gopnik “Aphorisms come at us in so many forms and from so many periods that one might think an academic study of aphorisms would aim to give them a family tree—tracing the emergence of the humanistic aphorism from its solemn white-bearded grandfather, the proverb; the descent of the clever, provocative epigram from its sly guerrilla progenitor, the parable (the form that allowed Jesus to spread subversion while seeming merely obscurely elegant). And then we might learn how those later forms have spawned such contemporary commercial descendants as the one-liner and the meme.” The Art of Aphorism

The New Yorker

The Art of Aphorism

Why are these fragments of wisdom—empirical or mystical, funny or profound—such an enduring form?