Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 12hIt’s International Translation Day! And to celebrate, the Cercador Prize has announced its shortlist, which includes EDEN AT DAWN written by Karim Kattan and translated by yours truly! 2102
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So @wwborders.bsky.social asked Karim and me about EDEN AT DAWN, and we answered! Read and enjoy:wordswithoutborders.orgThe National Book Award Interviews: Karim Kattan and Jeffrey Zuckerman - Words Without BordersAuthor Karim Kattan and translator Jeffrey Zuckerman discuss Eden at Dawn, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 0123
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/10/2025A way to have a good weekend is to go to a local bookstore this afternoons and buy something random and counterintuitive from the staff picks shelf, and spend the next two days reading it. 630836
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Utterly delighted that my translation of Karim Kattan's EDEN AT DAWN, a novel about two men who fall in love amid a months-long sandstorm blanketing Jerusalem and narrated by the sky itself, is longlisted for the National Book Award in Translation! www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for... 0194
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread) 91561611
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanAlec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026BRILLIANT words 15525
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026« Tu prévoyais des dangers partout. » Language was the one way Christophe Bourdin could hold together a life threatening to come apart with his HIV diagnosis, and finding an English to convey this dread and this need was a breathtaking challenge. How moving that THE THREAD will now exist in English. 153
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanMaria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026All this is to say: any translator's translation of a text, however formal, is itself a strong, long opinion. To imagine that a translator should have no opinions on the text & on the work of other translators and adaptors is pretty silly given the many year labors we all spend on our translations. 113621
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanMandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Don’t miss the first English translation of celebrated Togolese novelist Sami Tchak, by @jmz.bsky.social! Such wonderful work. My thoughts in Asymptote Journal: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06... 22010
Reposted by Jeffrey Zuckermanj a k e @jakeismaking.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I know June is meant to reorient ourselves and double down on the pride we feel to be part of the LGBTQ community but can I just say - I'm deeply grateful I'm not straight year round. 921716
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanBeeKirby @beekirby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Strong Bad after December 2010 341771131
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A heartbreaking story about Kenneth Grahame (of Wind in the Willows fame)’s son. As a child I loved WithW but Toad’s recklessness and manic energy always made me very uncomfortable. I later assumed he was patterned after Grahame’s alcoholic, neglectful father—another layer to the this story. 13811
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Did anyone have "Dua Lipa gives a shout-out to Jeffrey Zuckerman for translating Ananda Devi" on their bingo card for this year? I did not, but I'm hardly complaining! www.service95.com/best-new-boo...service95.comThe Best New Books For AprilDiscover your next new read with the Service95 Book Club’s edit of the best new book releases for April 2026. 1221
Reposted by Jeffrey Zuckermanphillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Fifty years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" was published in the pages of @newyorker.com. What a poem! 919564
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Was just shown a video of a long-dead author I translated, being interviewed on live television in France. Hard to put into words all the feelings right now. 030
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanDr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA 345362967567
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2026A painted ship upon a painted ocean ~ the sea turns to mercury in this luminous image of a fishing fleet by Californian impressionist William Ritschel (‘Boats Returning Home’ c 1915, Irvine Museum, University of California) 222134
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanAlex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Thesis #17: Translation is the closest form of reading. 1102
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Palestinian Man Recounts Brutal Sexual Assault by Israeli Settlers www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...nytimes.comPalestinian Man Recounts Brutal Sexual Assault by Israeli Settlers 131
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here. 110034
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Super touched to receive the physical Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize certificate in the mail… should I get it framed?? Allez les méduses !!! 🪼🪼🪼 2170
Reposted by Jeffrey Zuckermanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing 211152842511
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanCoral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera 14646201
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...thenation.comA Day for GazaToday, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why. 5747442548
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanK.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 16/01/2026oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer 10800282
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Wind and water raged with storms, Wave and shingle were shackled on ice Until another year appeared in the yard – Beowulf, tr. Heaney 0101
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanMilli Beau @millibeau.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing? 8773253
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... 201405583
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech... 361714657
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Of course I got Volume Three at Three Lives on November 18th Happy ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME Day to those not doomed to repeat it forever… 040
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025If Not, Winter (Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho) & Enig Marcheur (Nicholas Richard’s translation of Riddley Walker) 051
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanStan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences" Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...joanwestenberg.comWhy You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off 04210
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanThe Continent @thecontinent.org · 24/10/2025Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old. Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP 211552
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2025🇦🇺Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub volunteering in Gaza City writes: “Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide... 210992
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanOlivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2025If being anti-fascist is "antiamerican" then supporting America is __________? 215751
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/09/2025More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up 8354264
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-... 6286
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanThe Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 29/08/2025Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft. 10720579
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025"All of the translators in this conversation, for reasons of temperament and structure, seem to have a masochistic relationship to their work. But as in masochism, the pain is a kind of pleasure, too." —On Translation: Como Conversazione III (Shame, Seams, Scars) 030
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...sciencedaily.comScientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-foldScientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr... 576250687285
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 22/08/2025I'm starting a movement. Every time you, or someone you know, gives AI agency, replace it with "Big Tech". See for example: "Big Tech" is killing my job. "Big Tech" is reading my CT scan. "Big Tech" is writing my paper. I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend. Maybe that will speed up regulation. 7346108
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanBeth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Just finished ANIMA FATUA by Ana Lidia Vega Serova, tr. @robmunb.bsky.social and pub. @amaurea-press.bsky.social 🕊️ I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin! 🪆🪆🪆 3104
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 20/09/2023Do you think Medusa could stay underwater forever if she used her hair like little snake snorkels? My guess is that each hair snake would probably have its own little respiratory system and it wouldn’t be enough to oxygenate a full Medusa, but this is an important conversation to have 3645779
Reposted by Jeffrey ZuckermanFun @funkelly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025with alt text CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation 29456
