Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.
A two-year position for a postdoctoral fellow in Italian Studies (#Petrarch in Global #Translation) starting September 2024 is available at the University of Vienna.
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
So here's a little taste of the marvellous #ShortStories from Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz for #Spring 2024.
Urgent #translation job: looking for someone who can translate ~200 words of Steam page copy from English into #Chinese, before 15:00 CEST on Thursday 9th May. Paid at a good rate, obviously.
Does your laptop have a mind of its own? Robert Neuwirth shares a file that booted up on his screen and wrote itself to the hard drive in The Disambiguation.
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Does your laptop have a mind of its own? Robert Neuwirth shares a file that booted up on his screen and wrote itself to the hard drive in The Disambiguation.
Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Neuwirth explain why he filled it with computer code at https://fictionable.world
A moment of inspiration in a café sparks a memory in Karóly Bálint's Metaphor by @SmythBooks
Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Smyth talking about otherness and reading from his short story at https://fictionable.world