Autobiography of Cotton
[A wild wind; wind from the north] The sound of hooves beating on the sandy ground comes first. Then the breathing, strained and short-winded. Panting. A snort. The white ground splits to allow the…
“The sound of hooves beating on the sandy ground comes first. Then the breathing, strained and short-winded. Panting. A snort.” Read from @criveragarza.bsky.social’s novel Autobiography of Cotton, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
06.02.2026 21:30 —
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Images of Cristina Rivera Garza and book cover to announce her conversation with Rita Indiana, discussing Autobiography of Cotton in a hybrid event February 10, 7pm ET — at The Center for Fiction, or via livestream in San Francisco at 4pm PT.
Don’t miss Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Rita Indiana, discussing AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in a hybrid event February 10, 7 pm ET — at The Center for Fiction or via livestream. Register here: buff.ly/09dNBK4
26.01.2026 16:02 —
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17.12.2025 20:00 —
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Radio muerte
Elisa Díaz Castelo lee ‘Las chicas muertas hablan al unísono’, poemario de Danielle Pafunda traducido al español por Cristina Rivera Garza
Elisa Díaz Castelo escribe sobre el impresionante libro de Danielle Pafunda, Las chicas muertas hablan al unísono, traducido por Cristina Rivera Garza y publicado por Dharma Books + Publishing.
06.08.2025 17:20 —
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, a new novel by @criveragarza.bsky.social (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) is out Feb. 3rd 👀 Preorder today!
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24.07.2025 22:05 —
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Liliana Rivera Garza (October 4, 1969 - July 16, 1990). #JusticeForLiliana #JusticeForAll
16.07.2025 10:54 —
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Love them! You’re so talented. Thank you.
04.06.2025 01:46 —
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Gracias por tu lectura!
14.05.2025 13:07 —
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A World in Crisis: Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025
This anthology, while celebrating the best literary translations of 2025, aims to highlight writing from and about a world in crisis.
📚 Lara Vergnaud reviews “Best Literary Translations 2025” (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social), a bold anthology spotlighting 23 languages and urgent voices from crisis zones around the world. @criveragarza.bsky.social
bit.ly/a-world-in-c...
13.05.2025 14:45 —
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Gracias!
20.03.2025 03:17 —
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Few reasons to be happy these days, but, humbly, this made my day. Thank you, readers.
20.03.2025 02:05 —
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Thank you!
27.02.2025 20:13 —
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It’s pub day in the UK too! Thank you, Alexis, Steph and the Bloomsbury team for placing this #DeathTakesMe out in the wild from today. The flowers are gorgeous!
25.02.2025 22:47 —
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Today is the day. Thank you, Hogarth. Thank you, Marie Pantojan, editor extraordinaire. Thank you, translators Sarah Booker and Robin Myers. #DeathTakesMe here we go!
25.02.2025 15:56 —
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Gracias, Liliana!
25.02.2025 15:54 —
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Cover reveal: TERRESTRE. Available in bookstores in Mexico, Spain, and Colombia by mid-April (release dates for other countries soon). Cover by Inés Isaurralde. Blurb by @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social. Design by Scarlet Perea. Eloísa Nava, editor. Thank you! #SpeculativeNonFiction #Friendship #Travel
25.02.2025 00:16 —
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We are ECSTATIC to be partnering with Pulitzer on the Road for a free event happening March 5 at the Chopin Theater.
Authors Natasha Trethewey and Cristina Rivera Garza will be in conversation with @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social to discuss writing on life's "big impossible things."
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13.02.2025 19:57 —
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See you soon, Chicago!
14.02.2025 18:49 —
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🐦🔥🔐🔛
14.02.2025 15:09 —
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Friday, February 14
(from O) SINGING LESSONS On piping up.
On trying to shake some life into one’s lust for life open.substack.com/pub/poemperd... Judith Kiros, Singing Lessons
14.02.2025 15:07 —
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Dropping this February 25!
14.02.2025 00:03 —
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I’ve been thinking 🤔 😬😉 #WritingIsTouching
A whole cycle on #TACTALITY will begin this Tuesday, February 18th, 6:00 pm, Colegio Nacional. Lectures in Spanish. Livestream.
13.02.2025 23:57 —
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Revolución diamantina
I have one (1) other Grammys post in me which is enthusiasm about the fact that the Gabriela Ortiz piece that won best classical performance was a collab with Cristina Rivera Garza, for you weird-lit nerds www.laphil.com/about/watch-...
03.02.2025 00:14 —
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Revolución diamantina
Our Revolución diamantina wins its first Grammy award! Yeah! 💪🏽 Congrats, Gabriela Ortiz! www.laphil.com/about/watch-...
03.02.2025 01:49 —
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February 2025…
27.01.2025 17:59 —
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Drinking a glass of wine with my 81-year old mother while remembering voluble skies, temperamental ghosts, and a future so unfathomable that, you know, she said, it might as well be a gift.
06.01.2025 01:12 —
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Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
https://buff.ly/4gNvyns
02.01.2025 14:45 —
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1/1/2025
02.01.2025 01:36 —
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Igualmente para ti. Van abrazos.
02.01.2025 01:18 —
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