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Cristina Rivera Garza

@criveragarza.bsky.social

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, a new novel by @criveragarza.bsky.social (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) is out Feb. 3rd πŸ‘€ Preorder today!

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24.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Liliana Rivera Garza (October 4, 1969 - July 16, 1990). #JusticeForLiliana #JusticeForAll

16.07.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love them! You’re so talented. Thank you.

04.06.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gracias por tu lectura!

14.05.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

πŸ“š Lara Vergnaud reviews β€œBest Literary Translations 2025” (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social), a bold anthology spotlighting 23 languages and urgent voices from crisis zones around the world. @criveragarza.bsky.social 


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13.05.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gracias!

20.03.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

27.02.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

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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 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gracias, Liliana!

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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 InΓ©s Isaurralde. Blurb by @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social. Design by Scarlet Perea. EloΓ­sa Nava, editor. Thank you! #SpeculativeNonFiction #Friendship #Travel

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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."

buff.ly/4hVUERP

13.02.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

See you soon, Chicago!

14.02.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ¦β€πŸ”₯πŸ”πŸ”›

14.02.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

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Dropping this February 25!

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I’ve been thinking πŸ€” πŸ˜¬πŸ˜‰ #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 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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RevoluciΓ³n 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-...

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RevoluciΓ³n diamantina

Our RevoluciΓ³n diamantina wins its first Grammy award! Yeah! πŸ’ͺ🏽 Congrats, Gabriela Ortiz! www.laphil.com/about/watch-...

03.02.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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February 2025…

27.01.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

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Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, JanaΓ­na 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.

Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, JanaΓ­na 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

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1/1/2025

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Igualmente para ti. Van abrazos.

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2025, here we go!

01.01.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for your reading!

01.01.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing like having no time to write and then having some time to write to write all the time. #TongueTwisterOfTheSoul

30.12.2024 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

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'Kids Climbing a Fence in an Abandoned Lot, Lower East Side,' Martha Cooper, 1978

'Kids Climbing a Fence in an Abandoned Lot, Lower East Side,' Martha Cooper, 1978

Anarchism is an ethical horizon that appears in each and every situation, a horizon which ceaselessly calls all of existence towards the refusal to dominate and the refusal to be dominated, a horizon which will remain present so long as something remains living.

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