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translator of Italian &c. “irresistibly drawn by a web of thrilling daydreams awash on a shore of panic”. 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 @jrichards.bsky.social 🦋

Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2009
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Jamie Richards
2 years
If this book is my undoing as a translator, so be it. Marosia Castaldi coming soon from @andothertweets.
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“to tell the truth, I love being slapped like this by guys like Mattioli” don’t we all ❤️ @ValerioStive @fantagraphics @a_nathanwest.
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THE COMICS JOURNAL
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you looking at me, looking at you! Joe Galaxy by Massimo Mattiol (Fantagraphics, 2025) reviewed by Valerio Stivé
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More Vitaliano Trevisan via me thanks to @danielepantano and @lincoln_review.
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The Lincoln Review
12 days
🎙 ISSUE 6 IS NOW LIVE.Bold voices. Fresh perspectives. Timeless art. Explore new poetry, fiction, and visual work in our June 2025 issue. 🔗 Read now: •••.#poetry #prose #art #journal #magazine
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RT @a_nathanwest: The author who has meant most to me as a translator is Hermann Burger. Here, in @thebafflermag, is his story "The Orchest….
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RT @alexsakalis: "i asked grok" "i asked chat gpt" well i asked hank williams how lonely does it get.
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Cristina Campo, "The Unforgivable" (tr. Alex Andriesse)
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RT @ContraPoints: It sickens me to hear Spanish spoken on the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Santa Ana, San J….
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: This is a fever dream. The city is not under occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense oper….
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RT @ReginaJefferies: If you're trying to follow what's happening in L.A., @LATACO lives and breathes street-level news stories that often c….
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IYKYK but you don’t wanna
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If we ignore AI will it just go away? It's so boring.
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RT @parisreview: “They wanted to know why the work of ‘the greatest Italian author after Pasolini’s death’ was no longer available in Engli….
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In case you want to take a workshop with me or any of my fabulous colleagues. Registration opens tomorrow am.
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RT @asymptotejrnl: “Taking care of working-class histories also means reclaiming the transformative power of writing…”. Veronica Gisondi re….
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"The dialogue and writing is snappy and vernacular – applause to translator Jamie Richards for keeping the prose crisp and urgent." (thanks also to Nicholas Burman, in The Comics Journal, for a serious review).
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2 months
Thanks to @Comic_Con and @fantagraphics, not to mention Agnese Micheluzzi and the friends who helped me track down obscure quotes. Vote for us if you are able!
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Jamie Richards
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This year’s Eisner nominations for Best Archival Project include my translation of Marcel Labrume by Attilo Micheluzzi – a fascinating writer who blends the fictional and the historical so seamlessly that the translation was truly an archival project (took years off my life).
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LAish people, I'll be leading this generalist translation workshop at #litfestinthedena next weekend.
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RT @FadyJoudah: "And it drove them insane that they couldn't turn off time, and they went crazy that they had colonized a time in which the….
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RT @swissinfo_en: Peter Bichsel, one of the most important voices in Swiss literature with international appeal, has died just short of his….
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