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Simon Leser retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Alex Clapp’s forthcoming book on the political economy of the global garbage trade, Waste Wars, is phenomenal. Forthcoming February 25.
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Simon Leser retweeted
16 Aug 2024
Come out Friday, 8/23 to help us celebrate Issue 12!
Readings by: @Tiddlebits, @mayadamayadamay, Emma Lloyd, Julieta Vittore, and @nsglastonbury for @kiracecilia_
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Simon Leser retweeted
26 Jul 2024
One of the best pieces of criticism I've read this year, particularly for its subtheme of marketing-driven moralizing discourse on the 'low-effort' end of the litgame spectrum. thedriftmag.com/time-and-tim…
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Simon Leser retweeted
23 Jul 2024
What motivates the seemingly endless quest to translate Proust? @Tiddlebits on C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Lydia Davis, Benjamin Moser, and “the state of translation.”
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Simon Leser retweeted
12 Sep 2022
“Taken as a whole, it may be that Louis’s oeuvre offers the narrative not so much of his life but of his ongoing efforts at understanding it.”
Read @Tiddlebits on @edouard_louis’s brutal self-creation: bit.ly/3RJZ0yw
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7 Sep 2022
For @bookforum, I wrote about interpretation, not writing what you want to write, and Édouard Louis's latest, which I love bookforum.com/print/2903/a-f…
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Simon Leser retweeted
23 Feb 2021
Happy pub day to Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras, translated from French by Simon Leser.
Based on the true story of a young man named Fernand Iveton and set during the Algerian War, it won the Prix Goncourt for First Novel.
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Simon Leser retweeted
23 Feb 2021
Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits) has translated into English Joseph Andras' Goncourt-winning novel De nos frères blessés (2016) about the life of Fernand Iveton, the only pied noir executed for fighting in the FLN. Out with @VersoBooks this week: versobooks.com/books/3806-to…
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Simon Leser retweeted
4 Nov 2019
Very exciting to find this spirited review of my book today from Pankaj Mishra, in @newyorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
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Simon Leser retweeted
29 Apr 2019
1. Some notes on influences on this essay, which has been in the works for several months. I profited from the work of @adam_tooze on the Eurocrisis and @zeithistoriker on neoliberalism, to which I try to add a political-historical angle. bit.ly/2L8yhxP
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Simon Leser retweeted
25 Feb 2019
Jesus Christ, I think we might just have won a campaign.
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Simon Leser retweeted
29 Nov 2018
Congratulations to Hope Campbell Gustafson, Bruna Dantas Lobato (@bdantaslobato), Stephen Epstein, Misha Hoekstra (@mishap13), Lucas Klein, Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits), Emma Lloyd, Ottilie Mulzet (@caringerel), Catherine Nelson, Julia Powers, and Lara Vergnaud (@laravergnaud)!
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27 Nov 2018
Oh, it's nothing... just a bit sad @GWCUAW voted to endorse a deal negotiated behind their backs and clearly designed to disempower them, that's all
27 Nov 2018
"... contrary to Columbia's efforts to divide GWC, this experience has demonstrated the strength of our unit and our determination to achieve a just contract that improves the working conditions for all graduate workers."
Read more here: columbiagradunion.org/2018/1…
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Simon Leser retweeted
10 Jun 2018
History is a cycle in Turkey. When I was her age I interviewed the tortured kids and now it is my dear @CagilKasapoglu ‘s turn. With each new generation we keep hoping this pattern will be broken. Listen to these young people, maybe this time they will put an end to this cycle. x.com/cagilkasapoglu/status/…
10 Jun 2018
High school students protesting the govt's education system in Istanbul are beaten by police detained then released. They are defiant and defend their right to be on the streets "This all means that they are afraid of us the youth" they told to @bbcturkce
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Simon Leser retweeted
8 Jun 2018
Reading Bill Clinton’s novel. Literally a page after a tense confrontation about a terrorist plot, the fictional president Will Winsom thinks this to himself.
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Simon Leser retweeted
24 May 2018
Virginia Woolf wanted to "challenge preconceptions of image, to make other ways of seeing possible, and to break down simplistic divides" Ali Smith's v personal response to the @Tate_StIves/@PallantGallery/@FitzMuseum_UK exhibition inspired by Woolf - in today's @NewStatesman
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Simon Leser retweeted
20 May 2018
I learned so much from the late Bernard Lewis. All my research into Western culture is based on his work.
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15 May 2018
"So when you gaze at planet earth from outer space? / Does it wipe that stupid look off of your face?"
So happy he's back (and great review @jazz_monroe) pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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