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Annie McDermott

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peep who's taking the stage in our music issue this fall & grab your copy stat 🎶 Feat. @wmboyle4.bsky.social  @annielmcd.bsky.social @cementeriocc.bsky.social  @willvanderhyden.bsky.social  @paranoiacs.bsky.social  @saderotica.bsky.social & more southwestreview.com/subscribe/
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today is Día de les Lletres Asturianes - Asturian Literature Day! Why not plonk yourself down beneath the nearest horru and have a read of Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias, at @wwborders.bsky.social #lletresasturianes #lleernasturianu2026 wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...
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Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias Archives - Words Without Borders
Guest editors Robin Munby and Will Howard present a selection of new Asturian prose and poetry.
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Rahul Bery @rahulbery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I wrote an article about the exquisite torture of translating Centroeuropa that Vicente has said is novelesque: it begins as a mystery and ends as a confession.
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Annie McDermott @annielmcd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I wrote about Isabel Waidner's new novel and the ways of literary doubles for this week's @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
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Two actors switch roles in a dazzling hall of mirrors
Literary doppelgängers like to pay house calls. Mr Hyde is discovered in Dr Jekyll’s private study; the protagonist of Dostoevsky’s The Double returns to
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My grandmother’s home, the family home, the home I spent nearly every Sunday in for over 3 decades, the home I lived in as a teenager, that my grandparents bought in 1965 when Ghobeiri still had orchards, the house my aunt inherited & in which my cousins grew up, is gone. No one was home, thank god
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below. Application deadline: 15 February, 2026 buff.ly/yibsATf
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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
They've made an AI capable of performing the role of Privy Councillor (тайный советник). I saw the AI yesterday wearing tasseled epaulettes, walking arm in arm with your eldest daughter along Nevsky Prospekt. It ignored my polite greeting
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Annie McDermott @annielmcd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sophie Hughes and I spoke to Yale about translating Vila-Matas' MONTEVIDEO, a globe-trotting hall-of-mirrors novel full of spiders and frogs, and haunted by the ghost of Cortázar yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/18/m...
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Montevideo: A Conversation with Sophie Hughes and Anne McDermott - Yale University Press
Montevideo is a metafictional tale, by premier Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas, that explores the limits and possibilities of literature. In this Q&A, translators Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott d...
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Annie McDermott @annielmcd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Finished reading this yesterday and it was so up my street I thought I'd dreamed it
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Annie McDermott @annielmcd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Slinking onto Bluesky because it turns out I miss knowing what everyone's up to
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