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Translator, novelist, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jul 3

My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is now available in paperback, *run* to your local bookstore to get a copy now!!! www.harpercollins.com/products/tow...

Front cover of Toward Eternity paperback

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 3h

Some thoughts on the freeing of Israeli hostages and on survivors of genocide in Gaza. 2/2 End

* If the ceasefire, indeed, holds, there are now several hundred thousand survivors of genocide in Gaza. Since it's estimated that as much as 80-90% of structures are either fully destroyed or damaged, there is little for survivors to return to (the same aid worker interviewed on NPR today talked about how people are in need of cleaning supplies as they try to clean up whatever parts of their homes may be standing, for those who find anything still standing). This had gone on for this long because of Netanyahu's attempt to stay in power, his and his coalition's desire to grind Gaza to dust, and because the majority of the Israeli public — even of those protesting against the war — have been concerned for the hostages while being uninterested in (or, more often, hostile) to the suffering of Palestinians. I fear that with all hostages now returned, there will be massive crackdown on the minority of the Israeli public that will continue to call for justice for genocide survivors because the war will now be deemed "over" and protesters will spoil the jubilant mood.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 12h

Vespuccia

And you would all be Vespuccians

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muneo @literaryfish.bsky.social · 15h

"2023년 10월7일 개전 이후 전쟁 733일째를 맞은 2025년 10월8일까지 이스라엘군 공격으로 가자지구 주민 6만7183명이 숨지고 16만9841명이 다쳤다."

"이스라엘군이 가자에서 물러간 뒤에도, 지난 2년여 이스라엘이 집단살해 범죄를 저질렀다는 사실은 변함이 없다. 단죄 없이는 평화도 없다."

"집단살해 방지와 처벌은 협약 체결국 모두의 의무다. 국제사법재판소의 명시적 판결이 없더라도 각 체결국은 집단살해죄가 발생했거나 발생할 가능성이 있는지 평가하고, 그 같은 행위를 예방·처벌하기 위한 의무를 다해야 한다."

한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social · 15h

“이제야 그나마 숨 좀 쉴 수 있겠다 싶을 때, 어김없이 다른 가족의 죽음이 시커먼 어둠처럼 닥쳐온다. 두려움은 더 이상 잠깐 스쳐 지나가는 감정이 아니게 됐다. 두려움은 이제 지속적으로 우리 곁에 머물며, 우리 삶의 모든 측면에 끼어들고 간섭한다. 상실은 우리 존재의 일부가 됐고, 슬픔은 일상이 됐다.”

7320가구, 모두 죽거나 1명만 살아남아… ‘절멸’의 가자지구

유엔 조사위 “집단살해 국제 규정 정의 다섯 중 넷에 해당”… 이스라엘-하마스 ‘트럼프 계획’ 1단계 합의 불구, 단죄 없인 평화도 없어

h21.hani.co.kr

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 12h

When the Human Instrumentality Project was first revealed, I was like… who would WANT that to happen? And then I met tech people

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 13h

Luckily I can read Korean literature lol

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 13h

That IS fun!!!

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Matthew @fineplan.bsky.social · 13h

How fun! Stopped in a Madrid bookstore where I ended up talking with a bookseller about the wonderful @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social and @antonhur.com books they had on display and she when she found out I am a librarian she asked for recent favorites to stock. 😍 #booksky

Kim Suhyun’s I Decided to Live as Me translated into English by Anton Hur

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 15h

I think this is actually a feature and prevents the airpods from absorbing the impact and cracking instead? My Sony earpods do the same thing

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 16h

That's a wrap on MY FATHER'S LIBERATION by Jung Ji-ah, an ironic take on the afterlife of communist partisans in postwar South Korea for HarperVia books, coming sometime in late 2026.

Screenshot of word attachment in apple mail

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Taylor Bradley @taylororo.bsky.social · 23h

I gave a speech a few weeks ago about Korean lit from the publishers perspective and one of my points was "These guys help sell books!"

Because they do!

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23h

I should be president of LTI Korea

I should be president of Korea

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

At least Henry Kissinger is still dead

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23h

I had a dream where I met RM in person and, I kid you not, the first thing I did was thank him for supporting Korean literature

IN MY DREAM

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23h

Faulkner does one thing well and Joyce does a thousand things well. But if you’re American, you’re probably preconditioned by your tradition to revere the one thing Faulkner does well.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23h

Another radio interview for my novel that devolved into a “1000 Anton Hurs Problem” spiel, what a great use of my time

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

You guys basically have martial law in almost everything but name.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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may @maysuser.name · 2d

happy international may came out to her parents day for those who celebrate

from me: can't wait to see you on monday! been having an incredible trip, it's been great to get to be myself the last two weeks. going forward, id love if i could be your daughter instead of your son [heart reacted]

Dad:
We would love that because it is what makes you you! We love you so much
Would love to hear more about it
When you get home

me: I love you too! We can talk about it when I get back

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Walked by Kramer Books on my way home and signed a copy of my book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. Go pick it up if you don’t have a copy. The staff is also great too.

The same man holding up the book, which is white and says “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.”

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

The pattern is they fire a ton of people, say they made a mistake, and then selectively rehire back only the most mediocre white men.

This is why Black women's unemployment has spiked, the federal government used to be the largest employer of Black women until these monte carlo firings

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

I noticed this too. The British read a lot of nature writing and other nonfiction in history, science, and quirky uplifting books. I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI sold a lot more in the UK than the US. Also, I suspect, INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE (I see the UK edition sold everywhere).

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated by the shelves & shelves of nature writing in British bookshops, I bought The Golden Mole, by Katherine Rundell: prose poems of fantastical didja-know, draped in the antique finery of predecessors in the animal-describing trade from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. An antidote book.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Marta Moon ⟭⟬ ⟬⟭ ⁷ 💜 ⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK @martamoon.bsky.social · 2d

They always go for the comedians first, ALWAYS.

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 3d

Humor is a powerful political tool. Humor implies satire, and satire is about sending up the politically powerful to deflate their authority by showing people how absurd they are being. Funny art is political art.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 3d

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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