Annie McDermott

My grandmother’s home, the family home, the home I spent nearly every Sunday in for over 3 decades, the home I lived in as a teenager, that my grandparents bought in 1965 when Ghobeiri still had orchards, the house my aunt inherited & in which my cousins grew up, is gone.
No one was home, thank god

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They've made an AI capable of performing the role of Privy Councillor (тайный советник). I saw the AI yesterday wearing tasseled epaulettes, walking arm in arm with your eldest daughter along Nevsky Prospekt. It ignored my polite greeting

Montevideo: A Conversation with Sophie Hughes and Anne McDermott - Yale University Press Montevideo is a metafictional tale, by premier Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas, that explores the limits and possibilities of literature. In this Q&A, translators Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott d...

Sophie Hughes and I spoke to Yale about translating Vila-Matas' MONTEVIDEO, a globe-trotting hall-of-mirrors novel full of spiders and frogs, and haunted by the ghost of Cortázar yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/18/m...

frantically googling 'bofa sofa seuss changes'

Finished reading this yesterday and it was so up my street I thought I'd dreamed it

i am living on the edge

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Slinking onto Bluesky because it turns out I miss knowing what everyone's up to