Brian Robert Moore
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Translating š®š¹: Michele Mariās VERDIGRIS and YOU, BLEEDING CHILDHOOD, Lalla Romano's A SILENCE SHARED and IN FARTHEST SEAS, Walter Siti moorebrianrobert @ gāļø
Joined July 2020
A sea of Lallas šš.Working on this was not like translating a book, but like translating a whole human heart. Out Aug 26 in the US & Sept 11 in the UK. Feel free to get in touch if youād like to read it for a review! Fans include Jhumpa Lahiri, AyÅegĆ¼l SavaÅ, Catherine Laceyš
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Thank you to @RhianSasseen for reading and recommending Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas! Ginzburg fans take note. š.Rhian's full reading list for the month here:
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RT @ZIssenberg: It's Women in Translation month, which means I have authors to recommend! . Reading provides us the opportunity to wear masā¦.
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RT @BrianRobMoore: Ok, now for something I am incredibly excited about. On Thurs Sept 4, I'll be talking about Lalla Romano's In Farthestā¦.
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RT @adalva: NYCers - come join me and the brilliant Daniel SaldaƱa Paris at Books are Magic Montague on August 12th as we discuss his terriā¦.
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"Daniel SaldaƱa Paris is an extraordinary talent, and his novel feels both urgent and true." āLauren Groff
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Ok, now for something I am incredibly excited about. On Thurs Sept 4, I'll be talking about Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas with Jhumpa Lahiri! Yes, that Jhumpa Lahiri. At Rizzoli in NYC. Do come celebrate one of the most devastating books ever with us:
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Now 6 weeks away from the US publication of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas and I'm still quite starstruck to read these generous words of early praise! Hoping others will enjoy just as much š.
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RT @glitterpricked: okay just gonna end it now, lacerating's gotten a lot more votes. the books were:.- all that's left unsaid (tracey lienā¦.
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RT @shainreads: The 28 physical books I've read in the first half of 2025, ordered by structural integrity.
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"In art, it is essential to stop in time; in life, death does it for us." .Today marks 24 years since Lalla sailed out into the farthest seas.
This is your call to read Lalla Romano before she really blows up and her books get published with different parts of her face or becomes synonymous with tote bags, etc. Because once the secret gets outā¦ š.
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Nice to find Walter Siti's "My Poor Parents" highlighted on the Memoir Land substack in this week's Memoir Monday roundup! š (I admit I didn't know if this piece would be pub'ed in fiction or memoir in @GrantaMag & just kept it as a surprise for myself)
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RT @PublicBooks: āWhat would we do in the face of an active disappearanceāof people, memory, history? ā¦ What would we do, if we were to beā¦.
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āLaborā forces us to ask: Who has power? āHorrorā forces us to ask: Who is the monster? And the combination of the two, āLabor-as-Horror,ā tells us to beware the uncomfortable fractures in our...
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A thoughtful, surprise piece on labor, fascism & horror in Verdigris and Clean! š. I know I talk a lot about wordplay, but Verdigris also "draws direct conclusions between oppressive political systems and the act of disappearing memories, histories, and people." @andothertweets.
New at PB, @kaitlanbui reviews Alia Trabucco ZerĆ”nās āCleanā (tr. Sophie Hughes) and Michele Mariās āVerdigrisā (tr. @BrianRobMoore) two post-fascist novels set in Chile and Italy, respectively, that exemplify the genre Bui calls Labor-as-Horror.
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Had a nice chat about translating from the Italian and the general translation scene with @FedericaMalinv1 for the website New Italian Books. Mari, Romano, Siti - what else? Originally in Italian but also translated into English and French (mais oui):
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(Translated from the Italian) Were your experiences in the publishing field in Italy useful for your career as a translator? Working in publishing allows
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Havenāt been this happy to have a translation out in a while, so once more for the weekend crowd: .Some truly iconic autofiction from Walter Siti, on his poor, bitter, no good parents, in @GrantaMag:
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āTheyāre no good, and if theyāre no good I donāt see why I should have to love them simply because theyāre my parents.ā Fiction by Walter Siti, on filial duty and shame.
Big news: my translation of Walter Siti's novel PARADISE OVERLOAD will be published by @archipelagobks, and you can now read a heartbreakingly funny excerpt, "My Poor Parents," in @GrantaMag! . So thrilled for Siti's work to be arriving in the Anglosphere:
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