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Frank Garrett

@frankgarrett.online
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"Meaningless to heaven, and of no interest to hell." | literary translator | feral philosopher | becoming inimical | Fulbright Scholar 🇵🇱 | FLAS Fellow 🇺🇦 | BDS | LGBTQIA+

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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 20h
Every courtroom in America has an „active sh**ter” poster next to the Declaration of Independence.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 29/09/2026
New #dragname: Helvetica Obviously. (In honor of Brent David Freaney.)
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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daniela Cascella will be sharing an evening with Ellen Dillon on Friday 9 October to discuss their latest work. >> Hundred Years Gallery, London. Admission free, register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-books-long-titles-daniela-cascella-ellen-dillon-tickets-1997833455646 @drnollid.bsky.social
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Little Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon
In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026
Spent the afternoon with Yukinori Yanagi at The Warehouse.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026
„…Modernism as an effete and decadent outgrowth of European literature's decline.” No errors detected.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026
Flesh was the original GUI, the original AI. #makefleshreal
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/09/2026
I thought I had copied a URL but when I pasted: "transfigured like light."
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/09/2026
Sunday I saw Tricky at Trees, and tonight it’s an ABBA cover band at the lake. I contain #multitudes.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 24/09/2026
"Love is a game, and you should play to win." —me talking to my cat
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 23/09/2026
Maybe it's my age, but I have a pretty weak stream these days.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 23/09/2026
Last night I would’ve turned 100% Queer—if I wasn’t already—all because of Lieutenant Josephs. #swoon
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 23/09/2026
In 2000 I was working in telecom before the bubble burst. One day along came a vc who was thinking about poaching li’l ol’ me. I was curious, so I agreed to meet. Before he would share his get-richer scheme with me I had to sign an nda.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 21/09/2026
I think Stephen Tobolowsky and Wallace Shawn should've worked more together. Maybe cowritten some screenplays.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026
A "theoretical" punk band called The Ethical Billionaires, but after they're introduced by the announcer the stage remains empty.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026
Disculpas al the worker painting my garage for slipping into Polish every time I couldn’t think of the Spanish word. It never occurs to my brain to use an English word while speaking a foreign language.
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Neal T Walsh @mosshall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have a show opening this evening in Providence at the Chazan Gallery with Kai Franz.
small rectangular textured abstract painting made of five horizontal bands canvas painted a dirty maroon with hints of oranges and umber. A slicing green ish gold triangle cuts from the right edge down to the bottom edge.Gallery wall with vinyl lettering on the left and a small blue horizontal banded painting. The vinyl says Day And Night , below Kai Franz Neal T Walsh. A pedestal holds a binder, postcards and a vase with yellow and red flowers.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026
Somewhat related: I remember distinctly, after watching yet another terrible and disturbing film, loudly complaining to a friend that there were no Dogme 95 films about bunny rabbits and kittens.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stop looking at me like I’m data.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 16/09/2026
Is there a Brooklyn in Europe? Not a Breukelen, but a *literal* B-R-O-O-K-L-Y-N. Not "European neighborhoods that are the 'Brooklyn' of their cities." Maybe in/near Paris even, since it's between a reference to Paris and Notre Dame (in a work I'm translating). G••gle is g•rbage.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 16/09/2026
„…literature in translation is a state-sponsored art.” Couldn’t agree more. Excerpt when it’s not: the Polish Book Institute under PiS basically banned all funding for anything with a whiff of Queerness. It was much like the NEA/NEH under any Republican administration.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 14/09/2026
One of the rare few writers whose work deftly dances along the brink of desire and repulsion like a pleasurable paper cut.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 14/09/2026
Gentle reader, this is precisely the kind of nonsense I do know.
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 11/09/2026
Check out this blast from the past. And watch long enough to hear the famous phrase „homosexual doctrine.” It’s like the Monroe Doctrine except that it never existed.
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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“[I]ndeterminacy, what we might call irresolution, might be our only befitting fate as beings of language. Hiding right there on the surface of the poem is the very concrete, literal effacement of surface meaning, but that surface meaning is the only thing that is there.” @frankgarrett.online
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026
Just registered for a lecture entitled „The Last Aurochs: Zoopolitics, Memorialization, and Early Modern Extinction” bc I’m 100% that bad bitch. #aurochcore
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026
Rusty Undercarriage is my geriatric porn name.
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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Introducing WORD MOUTH with a deep cut on Gary Indiana that fell off the internet. wordmouth.substack.com/p/louche-life
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Louche Life
The Literary Crimes of Gary Indiana
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026
When your councilmember says things like „We live in a police state, a police city,” you know it’s time to get tf out.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026
The Devil was never more the Devil than when he convinced otherwise sensible people that digital humanities was a thing.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 09/09/2026
In the early days of WWII, Józef Czechowicz was evacuated from Warsaw along with his friend Czesław Miłosz. On the outskirts of Lublin, they separated. Miłosz continued on to Lviv/Lwów, and Czechowicz continued to his hometown of Lublin, where he went to a barbershop for a haircut. The Luftwaffe…
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 08/09/2026
London/UK pals
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
man, i don't believe a lot of people are conscious, intelligent beings...why the fuck would i believe a fuckin' program is?
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 08/09/2026
New Primadonna just dropped. #joy
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 05/09/2026
This could be us, but we’re too basic.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 01/09/2026
„apparently the end of history is not a time for the inner life” I was not disappointed with this essay.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 01/09/2026
My old, and even older, haunts of the Polish provinces. Funnily, just yesterday I had proposed a new tour to my colleague Pan Tomasz, who founded and still runs teatrnn.pl, based on my latest translation project.
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From Dublin to Lublin: the haunting pleasures of eastern Poland
Zamość and Lublin are full of thought-provoking historical monuments and quietly charming moments
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 31/08/2026
Ach, German declensions! (Translating Celan in my "down" time.)
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 31/08/2026
If I were anywhere near this time zone I'd make this event.
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Stephen Harding @shmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Edith Keeler must live. I need an alternative timeline. This one sucks.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the english language is pretty disgusting but at least we don't say cars are boys and bicycles are girls
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/08/2026
This exquisite collection by @mattjakubowski.bsky.social kept me company over the past few days. What a lovely way to spend my evenings.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 21/08/2026
It’s probably okay to be a little dehydrated sometimes.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
mozart's advice
Wait, y’all got drum
machines, but you
still listen to
people play my
old sheet music?
No offense, but
did you ever hear
an 808 clap? You
don’t even need a
real 808. Just use
the one in Ableton
Live. It’s fine. That’s
what we do in heaven.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/08/2026
Only 3 more weeks before the next Modern Jewish Thought seminar begins. This fall we're looking at post-Holocaust poetics, esp in Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès. You can register here: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/j...
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Modern Jewish Thought - Frank Garrett Online
A series of informal, online seminars on some of the most significant & influential Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 08/08/2026
“…language, in refusing transparency, only ever shows itself as the possibility, and not the guarantee, of communication and of truth.” Read some of my thoughts on a couple of my obsessions: Václav Havel and Wim Wender’s Until the End of the World.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 04/08/2026
"It’s bad enough when historians read Benjamin!" Watch me, as the kids say, go off: heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f.... Thanks to the lovely & talented @matthewkinlin.bsky.social for asking me hard questions and making me think, and to @hfr.bsky.social for publishing our conversation.
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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett
Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …
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≠matthew←kinlin●●◯♜ @matthewkinlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Derrida. Blanchot. The city of Lublin. ❤️‍🔥 I got to interview independent scholar, writer & literary translator @frankgarrett.online for @hfr.bsky.social about philosophy, his wider project of translation, & queer Polish poet Czechowicz @sublunary.bsky.social 🔥 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f...
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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett
Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 02/08/2026
This morning we’re serving up waffles and a bad attitude.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 01/08/2026
Happy Warsaw Uprising Day. Always resist.
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