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Tina Kover
@tinakover.bsky.social
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Award-winning literary translator. US/UK citizen. Coloradan. Democrat. Wearer of red lipstick. Co-founder, @translatorsaloud.bsky.social.
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social · Jul 24
SYMPHONY OF MONSTERS by @marclevyofficiel.bsky.social, the world's most-read French author: coming Jan 2026 from @harpercollins.bsky.social in my translation; available to pre-order now!
Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, this is an unforgettable story of courage, resilience, and love.
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social · 4h
OH, beautiful girl. 🧡
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 10h
We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk
Samantha Pious reads from CACTUS FLOWERS: SELECTED POEMS, Judith Teixeira (Headmistress Press, 2025)
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social · 1d
ALWAYS.
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Paul Sluggo Shelly Jr @paulsluggoshellyjr.bsky.social · 2d
Now that you mention it...
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2d
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social · 1d
He did Hardwick Hall too, didn't he? Hardwick HAS to be his work.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 1d
There's a steady stream of independently published SF and some of it is very good.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d
Woke up to trending Peter Thiel, who'd be a Hanna-Barbera Bond villain if he weren't so dangerously deluded, and Kid Rock, a John Wayne stool that's so dense it immediate sinks to the bottom of the bowl and cracks the enamel.
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 6d
Vivid, joyful, raw, tender, Andrev Walden's BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins & ends; and above all, about men. Sound interesting? Here's a taste, read by translator @iangiles.bsky.social himself! youtu.be/ruwop7t0dME?...
Ian Giles reads from Andrev Walden’s BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS (Fig Tree, 2025)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social · 7d
Hi! I'm a Fr>Eng literary translator! I've translated books by @marclevyofficiel.bsky.social, @negardjav.bsky.social, Anne Berest, Emmelie Prophète, Adélaïde Bon, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, + many more. I'm also co-founder of @translatorsaloud.bsky.social, which spotlights literary translators.
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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 7d
Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 8d
To everyone and especially MAGAs feeling betrayed by Trump's shameless lie that as president he would release the Epstein files:

Please share this video from 2017 you will NEVER see on Fox revealing how "LOCK HER UP!" in 2016 was Trump's biggest lie since "Make America Great Again".
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Christine Galea @chrisgalea.bsky.social · 8d
The fact that Elon musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon all being in the Epstein files dropped out of the news way too fast www.bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files
The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.
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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 8d
House Republicans left town rather than face accountability- for ending the shutdown or releasing the Epstein files
#TrumpShutUSDown
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 8d
I’m don’t think there’s any doubt about this.

Republicans and Trump are absolutely shitting themselves over the evidence against Trump in the Epstein files.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 8d
I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8d
This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8d
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social · 8d
SO much enjoyed last night's screening of WE WERE HERE: The Untold History of Black Africans in the Renaissance. Fred Kudjo Kuwornu is an incredibly talented filmmaker. Stunningly lovely music, as well! Thanks very much to @languagesdurham.bsky.social for making this event happen.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 16d
📌Democrats are craving bold, decisive leadership.
Instead, they have Chuck Schumer.

It would be laughable it wasn't so damn sad ...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16d
This is who Chuck Schumer thought he was going to negotiate with

I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d
This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16d
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Percy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 16d
Today I received a job with the following instruction:

"Machine (pre-)translation is not permitted"

Glad there are still clients out there who value real, human translation skills.

Happy International Translation Day!

#InternationalTranslationDay #ITD #ITD2025 #translation #xl8
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 16d
It's #ITD -- International Translation Day! The first part of our double feature celebrating translators today is the short film ON MEMOIR: A TRANSLATOR'S CRAFT featuring Dani James, an exploration of creative choices that's a must-see for anyone interested in the art of translation. buff.ly/Axb6jRj
ON MEMOIR: A TRANSLATOR'S JOURNEY featuring translator Dani James
Inside the Translation Process with Dani James This short documentary explores the translation journey behind Return to the Place I Never Left, a Holocaust survival memoir by Tobias Schiff. Writer…
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PUMPKIN SPICE SLUGGO @saintsluggo.bsky.social · 21d
Most of us actually DO wish we could afford real ass furniture instead of flat pack shit from IKEA or Amazon made out of particle board, canvas and aluminum tubes but I guess we’ll just use fucking Orange crates and chain spools an entire nation of shitty burnout college housing.
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