Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 20hEvery courtroom in America has an „active sh**ter” poster next to the Declaration of Independence. 220
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 29/09/2026New #dragname: Helvetica Obviously. (In honor of Brent David Freaney.) 020
Reposted by Frank GarrettErratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Daniela 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.socialeventbrite.ieLittle Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen DillonIn this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications. 0136
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026Spent the afternoon with Yukinori Yanagi at The Warehouse. 0102
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026„…Modernism as an effete and decadent outgrowth of European literature's decline.” No errors detected. 120
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026Flesh was the original GUI, the original AI. #makefleshreal 000
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/09/2026I thought I had copied a URL but when I pasted: "transfigured like light." 020
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/09/2026Sunday I saw Tricky at Trees, and tonight it’s an ABBA cover band at the lake. I contain #multitudes. 021
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 24/09/2026"Love is a game, and you should play to win." —me talking to my cat 081
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 23/09/2026Maybe it's my age, but I have a pretty weak stream these days. 020
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 23/09/2026Last night I would’ve turned 100% Queer—if I wasn’t already—all because of Lieutenant Josephs. #swoon 050
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 23/09/2026In 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. 110
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 21/09/2026I think Stephen Tobolowsky and Wallace Shawn should've worked more together. Maybe cowritten some screenplays. 000
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026A "theoretical" punk band called The Ethical Billionaires, but after they're introduced by the announcer the stage remains empty. 031
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026Disculpas 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. 110
Reposted by Frank GarrettNeal T Walsh @mosshall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have a show opening this evening in Providence at the Chazan Gallery with Kai Franz. 041
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026Somewhat 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. 020
Reposted by Frank GarrettFiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Stop looking at me like I’m data. 4141
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 16/09/2026Is 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. 120
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. 010
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 14/09/2026One of the rare few writers whose work deftly dances along the brink of desire and repulsion like a pleasurable paper cut. 022
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 14/09/2026Gentle reader, this is precisely the kind of nonsense I do know. 160
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 11/09/2026Check 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. 010
Reposted by Frank GarrettXina @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 065
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026Just registered for a lecture entitled „The Last Aurochs: Zoopolitics, Memorialization, and Early Modern Extinction” bc I’m 100% that bad bitch. #aurochcore 130
Reposted by Frank GarrettAndrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Introducing WORD MOUTH with a deep cut on Gary Indiana that fell off the internet. wordmouth.substack.com/p/louche-lifewordmouth.substack.comLouche LifeThe Literary Crimes of Gary Indiana 022
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026When your councilmember says things like „We live in a police state, a police city,” you know it’s time to get tf out. 020
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026The Devil was never more the Devil than when he convinced otherwise sensible people that digital humanities was a thing. 010
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 09/09/2026In 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… 110
Reposted by Frank GarrettEric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026man, i don't believe a lot of people are conscious, intelligent beings...why the fuck would i believe a fuckin' program is? 092
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. 010
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 01/09/2026My 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.irishtimes.comFrom Dublin to Lublin: the haunting pleasures of eastern PolandZamość and Lublin are full of thought-provoking historical monuments and quietly charming moments 011
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 31/08/2026Ach, German declensions! (Translating Celan in my "down" time.) 010
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 31/08/2026If I were anywhere near this time zone I'd make this event. 121
Reposted by Frank GarrettStephen Harding @shmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Edith Keeler must live. I need an alternative timeline. This one sucks. 011
Reposted by Frank Garrettdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the english language is pretty disgusting but at least we don't say cars are boys and bicycles are girls 11336
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/08/2026This exquisite collection by @mattjakubowski.bsky.social kept me company over the past few days. What a lovely way to spend my evenings. 150
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 21/08/2026It’s probably okay to be a little dehydrated sometimes. 000
Reposted by Frank Garrettdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 18/08/2026mozart's advice 0566117
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/08/2026Only 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...frankgarrett.onlineModern Jewish Thought - Frank Garrett OnlineA series of informal, online seminars on some of the most significant & influential Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century. 064
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. 085
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.heavyfeatherreview.org“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank GarrettFrank 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 … 22714
Reposted by Frank Garrett≠matthew←kinlin●●◯♜ @matthewkinlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Derrida. 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...heavyfeatherreview.org“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank GarrettFrank 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 … 075
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 02/08/2026This morning we’re serving up waffles and a bad attitude. 011