Daisy Rockwell
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
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My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...
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Did the annual *White Christmas* rewatch, time to reup this take (which I know I've posted before but bsky seems to have eaten):
*White Christmas* is an extended riff on *The Waste Land*. A land no longer productive (of snow) can only be restored when a once-great ruler is restored to honor.
*White Christmas* is an extended riff on *The Waste Land*. A land no longer productive (of snow) can only be restored when a once-great ruler is restored to honor.
December 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Did the annual *White Christmas* rewatch, time to reup this take (which I know I've posted before but bsky seems to have eaten):
*White Christmas* is an extended riff on *The Waste Land*. A land no longer productive (of snow) can only be restored when a once-great ruler is restored to honor.
*White Christmas* is an extended riff on *The Waste Land*. A land no longer productive (of snow) can only be restored when a once-great ruler is restored to honor.
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From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, @saudaminideo.bsky.social explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Postcolonial Translations and the Reception of Indian Literature in the West - Words Without Borders
From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, Deo explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western…
wordswithoutborders.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, @saudaminideo.bsky.social explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
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A rare series of watercolors by Hilma af Klint,
The Tree of Knowledge c.1913-15 #WomensArt
The Tree of Knowledge c.1913-15 #WomensArt
December 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A rare series of watercolors by Hilma af Klint,
The Tree of Knowledge c.1913-15 #WomensArt
The Tree of Knowledge c.1913-15 #WomensArt
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
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The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled
Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility, Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.
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Oh hell YES.
I've long maintained that based on the result of ink recipes, the word "azraq" couldn't mean "blue" in early Arabic texts but seems instead to be yellowish. Now I have textual proof: "Take red arsenic [realgar] or if you wish, azraq"—no such thing as blue arsenic, this means yellow!
I've long maintained that based on the result of ink recipes, the word "azraq" couldn't mean "blue" in early Arabic texts but seems instead to be yellowish. Now I have textual proof: "Take red arsenic [realgar] or if you wish, azraq"—no such thing as blue arsenic, this means yellow!
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Oh hell YES.
I've long maintained that based on the result of ink recipes, the word "azraq" couldn't mean "blue" in early Arabic texts but seems instead to be yellowish. Now I have textual proof: "Take red arsenic [realgar] or if you wish, azraq"—no such thing as blue arsenic, this means yellow!
I've long maintained that based on the result of ink recipes, the word "azraq" couldn't mean "blue" in early Arabic texts but seems instead to be yellowish. Now I have textual proof: "Take red arsenic [realgar] or if you wish, azraq"—no such thing as blue arsenic, this means yellow!
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Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt
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"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief."
Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
7 Questions for Ibrahim Fawzy - The Massachusetts Review
Not just one death,one victim tells another:they killed me by the roadside. —from Ibrahim Fawzy’s translation of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “Not Just One Death” (Volume 65, issue 4) What role does language ...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief."
Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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My novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, will be published in the US by Galiot Press in October 2026! 🎄🎄🎄
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, will be published in the US by Galiot Press in October 2026! 🎄🎄🎄
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"In this tug of war between tongue and tail, what got bruised, and what wavered, was the spine..."
Read Geetanjali Shree's story (translated by Daisy Rockwell) "And I Saw Myself Running" in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3MFC5Xy
Read Geetanjali Shree's story (translated by Daisy Rockwell) "And I Saw Myself Running" in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3MFC5Xy
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"In this tug of war between tongue and tail, what got bruised, and what wavered, was the spine..."
Read Geetanjali Shree's story (translated by Daisy Rockwell) "And I Saw Myself Running" in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3MFC5Xy
Read Geetanjali Shree's story (translated by Daisy Rockwell) "And I Saw Myself Running" in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3MFC5Xy
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By Geetanjali Shree. A brief magnificent story in a translation by Daisy Rockwell.
#booksky 💝
granta.com/all-at-once/
#booksky 💝
granta.com/all-at-once/
All at Once
‘On the surface, everything had continued as it always had, so why would it occur to anyone to pay any special attention?’
granta.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
By Geetanjali Shree. A brief magnificent story in a translation by Daisy Rockwell.
#booksky 💝
granta.com/all-at-once/
#booksky 💝
granta.com/all-at-once/
My novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, will be published in the US by Galiot Press in October 2026! 🎄🎄🎄
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, will be published in the US by Galiot Press in October 2026! 🎄🎄🎄
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THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
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Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
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And from experience, 'revising' AI translation is more demanding and less rewarding, so there are enormous incentives to doing it quickly and badly beyond being paid less and needing more contracts.
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
And from experience, 'revising' AI translation is more demanding and less rewarding, so there are enormous incentives to doing it quickly and badly beyond being paid less and needing more contracts.
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"Autonomous" academy of letters letting fascist govt's minister of culture dictate who and how it awards writers.
An unidentified official in the culture ministry told The Hindu that the note was necessitated as the press conference had been called without the ministry’s knowledge, and without the approval of the due process for the selection of the awardees.
Read: scroll.in/latest/10894...
Read: scroll.in/latest/10894...
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Autonomous" academy of letters letting fascist govt's minister of culture dictate who and how it awards writers.
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"A new study has found that eating 50g or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia. That means all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content, including brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...
Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.
www.sciencealert.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Translating literature is itself a form of art. No algorithm could render into English Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" with anything like the beauty that William Weaver did.
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Translating literature is itself a form of art. No algorithm could render into English Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" with anything like the beauty that William Weaver did.
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Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize