James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Brilliant example sentence. Dictionaries should give more like this, please: 「彼は手足もろとも縛られ車のトランクに押し込まれた。」 "He was bound hand and foot and crammed into the trunk of the car." 000
Reposted by James GarzaTristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Please don't accept this! 03118
Reposted by James GarzaDr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I'm so excited that my essay "Passionate Women, Vengeful Spirits: Female Ghosts and the Japanese Gothic Mode" has been published in Manusya: Journal of Humanities! Thank you to Kasia Ancuta for editing this special issue👻 It's open source and free to read here: brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 43510
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 25/07/2026My latest Hiyori Kojima translation has just gone live over at Asymptote. Includes a recital by the poet. Link in reply! 👇 120
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 01/07/2026open.substack.com/pub/bigreade...open.substack.com"We Always Leave Things Unfinished"William T. Vollmann is dying. In his Sacramento studio, he talks America, unfinished work, and the 3,096-page opus he finished just in time. 000
Reposted by James GarzaCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae 192939743
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I was out for a walk when I came across these orange fruiting bodies -- not that they're hard to miss. On a gray day, they seem almost neon. They look like cinnabar polypore, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I like the name. "Cinnabar." May your walks, too, be enlivened by fungus. 000
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Good news of a poem acceptance today. I'll take it! 010
Reposted by James GarzaMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.thewesternedge.media‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon FacilityA worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away. 998108936247
Reposted by James GarzaDavid Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.” 1118332
Reposted by James Garzaalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 26/02/2026[DONOTREPLY] THERE'S A SECURE MESSAGE FROM YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER. LOGIN TO VIEW MESSAGES. CLICK TO RESET PASSWORD. CONFIRM LAST FOUR DIGITS TO RESET PASSWORD. LOGIN TO VIEW MESSAGES. MSG: 5 easy-sneazy tips for allergy season 🤧🌸 620215
Reposted by James GarzaJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This painstakingly detailed account of a nightmare experience working with Google feels worth honoring with a read. So unprofessional and disrespectful of Google. news.artnet.com/art-world/ju...news.artnet.comWant a Masterclass in How Not to Work With Artists? Ask Google | Artnet NewsRenown artist Judy Chicago shares her misadventures with an ambitious public art commission for the tech giant. 623451
Reposted by James GarzaFlayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Reminder for the new year 2665271
Reposted by James Garzaariel @aritalks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in. 147152236845
Reposted by James GarzaYour daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 24/12/2025 427595
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Shout out to the airport employee who pushed both up and down on the elevator and announced, "Screenshot!" 110
Reposted by James Garzadissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 20/12/2025billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible 274150685
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Been on a social media break. But happy to report that my work on Kojima Hiyori's collection "Water's Edge" has been shortlisted for the Poetry in Translation Prize, launched this year by Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions. Extracts up at granta.com/the-poetry-i...granta.comThe Poetry in Translation Prize | 2025 | GrantaThe Poetry in Translation Prize, founded by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions and Giramondo, is a... 031
Reposted by James Garzajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/11/2025reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it." 8353551244
Reposted by James GarzaSara “Blade” Reine @smreine.bsky.social · 15/11/2025now i'm seeing authors getting pumped about AI translations - and cheap AI-assisted translations (first pass is AI, then refined by translator) i feel like these people are not valuing their own writing, or the complex work translators do. it's not really a word-for-word thing. 1366
Reposted by James GarzaMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 01/11/2025"It’s not that people actually think art is pointless. It’s that they are jealous of someone else getting paid to do it. They, too, want to be paid to make art. They find creation joyous, however small their attempts. There is art and there is work, and you only deserve money if you suffer." 518056
Reposted by James GarzaTristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 27/10/2025If you live in Japan, I recommend printing some of these out and just having them on you. Sadly, I could have really used one last night at dinner... t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit) #NoHateOsaka 59647
Reposted by James GarzaAaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025There was a time when you could describe Gaza as an "open-air prison," and people would scoff at the ludicrous hyperbole, and now we're at "Gaza is an open-air death camp" and that's just ... true. 241737715
Reposted by James GarzaSiobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Daniel Hahn: "what AI can do is not yet a threat to human translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do." observer.co.uk/news/opinion...observer.co.ukAI won’t replace us human literary translators just yetYes, it can turn French words into English ones, but true translation is so much more than that 22818
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 11/07/2025There's a piece of graffiti I see sometimes from the train. "BLACK ODEN PIZZA," it says. I try to imagine the circumstances. There are other words around it, but that's all I can ever make out. 110
Reposted by James GarzaOakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Resistance to ICE raid at Camarillo farm. 1249
Reposted by James GarzaDorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Joanna's recent piece on the short story form @literaryhub.bsky.social is great! And you can read her gorgeous short stories, which we published in 2015, here: www.nyrb.com/products/ver...nyrb.comVertigo“With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. A feat of language.” —Kirkus Reviews, ... 1188
Reposted by James GarzaJen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Just circling back to this, o muse 15920
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 08/07/2025なにこのそびえ立ち方。遠くの霞から姿を現す悪魔城に似すぎる tech-dracula skyline on a poor air quality day in Sendagaya 000
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 30/06/2025"Into the cold of aeons from a dark / Dynastic gown." Mervyn Peake, 1939 032
Reposted by James GarzaKathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social · 26/06/2025On the trail: of words, of where they lead us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXtX...youtube.comHorror Author Kathe Koja on Writing, Pain, and Transcendence | Trailmark PodcastYouTube video by Trailmark Podcast 1198
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 02/04/2025『The Other Side of Hope』は、移民による文芸誌として2021年に創刊しました。本誌は英国初の「サンクチュアリ文芸誌」という評価を受けており、世界中の難民、亡命者、移民による詩や小説を歓迎する場所となることを目指しています。現在次号の作品(小説、詩、アート)を募集中です。 【締切:2025年4月30日(水)】 詳しくは 投稿規定をご覧ください。 多くの方にシェアをお願いたします! othersideofhope.com/submissions.... 020
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Trying my hand at 'line and wash'. This one came out all right. (Reference pic was a still from Naked Lunch.) 010
James Garza @garzawords.bsky.social · 25/12/2024An older family member walked in and said this: "Tomorrow is Christmas. And it's--Theatre to the Uglies." What does it mean? Who knows! Season's greetings! 120