Boris Dralyuk
Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.
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“I Felt I’d Paid Fat Cupid Plenty”: Vernon Duke Falls in Love
A new year has begun and, despite the many tragedies unfolding across the globe, I cannot help but be hopeful. One future prospect buoying my spirits is the publication of Vernon Duke‘s Passport to Paris …
Wuthering Expectations
A Distinguished Crankologist.
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Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025
What did I read in 2024? The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE). Best books, really, in translations by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin. My “best book of the year” …
By Amateur Reader (Tom), 641 words
XIX век
Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose.
By Erik McDonald.
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Links
Boris Dralyuk has tracked down a clip from a 1937 B-movie where Alexander Voloshin—whose Russian poetry Dralyuk has translated—speaks Ukrainian instead of (as usual) being silent and uncredited. In that post he links to the …
By Erik McDonald, 563 words
Russian Dinosaur
A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur.
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Thank you for the radishes: Edmund Wilson in dialogue with Helen Muchnic
In 1942, the literary critic and Princeton graduate, Edmund Wilson, then forty-seven, made friends with a scholar of Russian literature slightly younger than himself, Helen Muchnic. Born in Baku in 1902, Helen emigrated to the …
By Russian Dinosaur, 1,889 words
Poemas del río Wang
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Lizok's Bookshelf
Reading ideas from Russian classic and contemporary fiction.
By Lisa C. Hayden.
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New Russian-to-English Translations Published in 2024
And so, another year, another list of translations! I’m doing something a bit different this year: I’m posting the entries that I have today – and wishing you a happy (still-not-quite-here-in-my-time-zone) 2025 – but I’ll …
Far Outliers
Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times.
By Joel.
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Micronesia and the North Pacific Gyre
From Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, by Andrés Reséndez (HarperCollins, 2021), Kindle pp. 120-121: The second arrow shot across the Pacific, the Villalobos expedition …
the cassandra pages
An artist, graphic designer, writer and publisher.
By Elizabeth Adams.
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How to Survive
Ambroglo Lorenzetti, Madonna del Latte (Nursing Virgin), tempera and gold leaf on panel, c. 1325 On the bus today, I watched a little boy in a stroller, whose mother was ruffling his abundant black hair. …
librarian.net
putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999.
By Jessamyn West.
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2024 in work and money
I haven’t written a post like this in a while. The last one was in 2016. My work life got fractured, not entirely in a bad way, and harder to describe. I was speaking to …
DC Rainmaker | Blog
I’m just a triathlete and runner like you: I run, I bike, and I do something resembling swimming. And at the end of the day…I blog about it.
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Ironman Sells FulGaz to Rouvy, and Plenty More
In a move that will probably surprise nobody within the industry, Ironman has decided that owning an indoor cycling platform wasn’t really their jam. As a result, Ironman has sold off FulGaz to Rouvy. Meanwhile, …
By Ray Maker, 1,664 words
Travel Photographer - Austin Mann — Journal
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iPhone 16 Pro Camera Review: Kenya
mambo vipi from kenya!Last week at the Apple keynote event, the iPhone camera features that stood out the most to me were the new Camera Control button, upgraded 48-megapixel Ultra Wide sensor, improved audio recording …
By Austin Mann, 3,539 words
Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity
Erica Verrillo has written seven books and published five. She doesn't know why anyone with an ounce of self-preservation would ever want to publish….
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8 New Agents Seeking Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thrillers, Literary Fiction, YA, Memoir, Nonfiction and more
Here are eight new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and will go the extra mile for their clients.All of these agents work …
By Erica Verrillo, 1,738 words
Jem – UK blogger - Developer - Entrepeneur
Web developer & work at home mama Jem’s personal UK lifestyle blog on family, fitness & work.
By Jem Turner.
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Day in the life of an autistic CEO
Alright, simmer down, I know I’m not really a “CEO” because I don’t have a board of directors or a c-suite or anything like that, but “day in the life of an autistic freelance web …
Spectre Collie
The Journal of Poorly-Explained Phenomena.
By Chuck Jordan.
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One Thing I Like About Skeleton Crew
There were a few moments in Skeleton Crew where it seemed like Jude Law was the only human actor in a Muppet movie. I don’t mean that to suggest he was somehow “above” the material, …
Makoism
An experiment of interesting finds. So it goes.
By Steve Makofsky.
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Espresso Shots 1-17-25
Here's my weekly update with a few interesting random findings that I came across the last week or two. I am going to try to make sure they're here in time for you to enjoy …
By Steve Makofsky, 742 words