Thomas Mira y Lopez
@TMiYL
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essays, translations, mets, in some order. The Book of Resting Places (@CounterpointLLC) // editor (@themapisnot & @eldiagram)
Iowa City, IA
Joined August 2015
“For just a moment, I remembered how he’d fished that gun barrel from the river…” @TMiYL translates Brazilian writer José J. Veiga in @wwborders: https://t.co/ZWJVX3O2Y4
wordswithoutborders.org
A military officer’s mysterious visit unsettles a small town in this surreal story by Brazil’s José J. Veiga.
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Americans — this is what billions of your tax dollars are going to, unconditionally:
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Continuing our look ahead to this weekend's ALTA 47 event, we're very excited to have @bdantaslobato as one of our readers, whose excellent novel Blue Light Hours is just out from Grove Atlantic: https://t.co/3WVWKgKOxt
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Nearing the Quick, a new digital storytelling project by and about translators, is proud to partner w/ @TCTC_Chicago to launch our new initiative offsite at ALTA 47. Join us for stories from the writing lives of translators!
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This Saturday, I'm going to polar plunge and read a very personal essay-translation that I've secretly worked on for ten years! ALTA translators and Milwaukee folks come through! I'm [terrified but also] genuinely excited to hear every person in this lineup.
Sooo excited for this! We're having a @LitTranslate offsite event at the Daily Bird in MKE on Sat, in partnership with @nearingthequick, a brand new digital storytelling project that collects translators’ lived experiences & oral histories. Join @juliardenconrad, @jasongrunebaum,
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Calling all translators — Exchanges is now reading for our Spring 2024 issue, titled Becoming! Send us translations by March 1! More info at the link below:
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I wrote about the midwest, hold music, and neoliberal delays for the winter issue of the @kenyonreview, which landed the day Iowa got its first big snow! The whole thing (w/@emilystoddard and @mapofmyself!) is free to read w/registration. "On Waiting":
kenyonreview.org
The Kenyon Review · “On Waiting” by Sarah Minor At first, I waited to get older. I waited for summer, then I waited for summer to run out. I waited […]
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3\ Refaat's words were always so powerful, poignant & spot on. Listen carefully to this interview he did in the first weeks of the war. https://t.co/SxiFF7NKOK
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Wrote about Katrina Dodgson’s rollicking and inventive translation of Mario de Andrade’s classic Macunaíma; many thanks to @zerkperkem for his editorial fangs & CRB for publishing it
"If the act of translation is often reduced to a dichotomy of foreignization and domestication, Dodson’s work is an interrogation: of national identity, of what constitutes the foreign and domestic in the first place." @TMiYL on Macunaíma @NewDirections
https://t.co/25FbCpcazJ
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We are so excited to announce that our Fall 23 issue, Endurance, is out now!!! https://t.co/AyHDyq098Z
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v excited, and a little bit shy, to have one of my favorite José J. Veiga stories, about a professor staging a protest at the bottom of a well, featured in LALT. Veiga is a treasure, plz give him a read!
“We returned home with our heads lowered, feeling ourselves vilely tricked…” Thomas Mira y Lopez (@TMiYL) translates renowned Brazilian author José J. Veiga in our latest issue. Read the story: https://t.co/3qq12FpaJ2 Donate to LALT:
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The punctuation in Blood Meridian versus the punctuation in Absalom, Absalom!
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Teaching some summer nonfiction! Using an ancient headshot! A few spots still available so plz spread the word or come write some essays w/ me: https://t.co/GuqsXjQQdv
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How anti-worker is Iowa's republican government? So much that they made it ILLEGAL for public sector employees to strike in Iowa! Thanks @presscitizen for featuring me and @TMiYL on why @uiowa must locate its values and give grad students a fair contract. https://t.co/WrtXMZlbdo
press-citizen.com
Opinion: "There’s a ripple effect to unsustainable wages at the University of Iowa — we’ve seen it," write Thomas Mira y Lopez and Jenny Singer.
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PREDATOR is "unlike anything I’ve ever read. . . . How dare Monson remind me of something I had gone to great lengths to repress: how much I loved action movies." Wyatt Mason on @angermonsoon's memoir, Schwarzenegger, and much, much more for @Harpers. https://t.co/V2pciz6QIp
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How not to write an action movie
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Friends, near and far. Today is the release date of this important volume, an essential-read by a giant of modern Turkish literature. Thank you NYRB-Classics for publishing it. original. #Turkishliterature, #translation, #literarytranslation, #flashfiction, #contemporaryfiction
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