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marfish.bsky.social
@marfish.bsky.social
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Translator, Writer, Reader, Foreign Rights Agent at Browne & Miller Literary Associates. Prague, Chicago, Tampa.
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Run wild, bark loud! Perfect reading for all the nightbitches out there. #BookSky
Book cover for The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis featuring a painting of three dogs on a green meadow.
September 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Absolutely smitten by Rita Bullwinkel's original and captivating portrayal of girlhood with all its pains and longing and ferocious aspirations and delusions. I will be thinking about this one for a long time. #books, #BookSky
Book cover for the novel Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel, featuring black and white photo of two girl boxers fighting on a red background.
June 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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February reading highlights:
Book cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, featuring green yellow spiral and a brown horse in the middle of it. Book cover if I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, featuring a a minimalist colorful landscape with a narrow white ladder coming out of a rectangular hole in the ground, with a background of yellow peaks against a turquoise ski and a thin sliver of white moon. Book cover of Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin featuring the photograph of the author leaning against a brick wall. Book cover of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin featuring a black and white photograph of a table with a carafe of water, a cup of coffee and a jar of milk at a Parisian café
March 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Come for the palace intrigue, stay for the ingenious originality of Álvaro Enrigue in the gorgeous translation by Natasha Wimmer, the reclaimed vision of Tenochtitlan and yes, for the hallucinogenic tomatoes too. #BookSky
Book cover for You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue with a brown horse on the background of green blue stripes forming a whirlwind
February 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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My favorite piece of art at Art Basel in Miami. The First Reading by Frida Orupabo.
A piece of art made of collage of a woman reading
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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A bit late for this one, but what an eerie and timely read.
November 19, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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Reading with my daughter, I swear we don't color coordinate.
Two books with similar color, blue and red.
November 13, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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I was going to say a weekend palate cleanser but it is so much more. Like a full body, mind and soul scrub.
July 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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First day on Bluesky, it's nice over here.
October 6, 2023 at 8:53 PM