Jeremy Tiang

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In upper left-hand corner, white on red background, is the National Writers Union logo: NWU with the words “National Writers Union” beneath it Lefthand side of frame, white text on red background: The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom When: Wednesday, August 13, 7:30-8:45 ET Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com Center/Righthand side of frame: Image of four arms with hands clenched into fists holding on to one another to form a diamond shape. The colors of the four arms, moving clockwise, are black, light purple, marron and orange.

In upper left-hand corner, white on red background, is the National Writers Union logo: NWU with the words “National Writers Union” beneath it Text in white on red background: We’re Doing This Because . . . We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don’t have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve! Translators Organizing Committee | translators@nwu.org

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

Voters seem to approve after Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu pushes back on GOP MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell looks at some impressive poll numbers for Boston’s mayor and why her declared challenger “might discover the hard way that the voters of Boston are the real Boston patriots....

It’d be useful to have more coverage of Michelle Wu as a progressive Democrat with good policies who is extremely popular. It isn’t just Zohran Mamdani.

Voters approve Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu pushing back on GOP

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My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19.

from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

These Two Books Spotlight Guerrilla Soldiers in Malaya’s Forgotten War - Electric Literature Writer and translator Jeremy Tiang discusses the connections between his debut novel, “State of Emergency,” and his translation of Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger”

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow and Jeremy Tiang discuss what drew him to write and translate fiction about these political movements, why women are such significant characters in his latest works, and how these stories might inform our understanding of the current political moment.

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The @americanbookseller.bsky.social booksellers weighed in and selected WOMEN, SEATED by Zhang Yueran (translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social) as an August Indie Next Pick! 🥳🥳🥳

Pick up this propulsive page-turner ‼️NEXT MONTH‼️ bit.ly/3PWKLY3

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come hang out if you're in boston next thursday

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Nine Color Deer by Kailin Duan — Levine Querido Award-winning translator Jeremy Tiang offers readers his own gift in making Kailin Duan’s interpretation sparkle in English, while Duan’s illustrations speak beautifully for themselves.

here's one I liked so much I translated it 𓃴 𓃴 www.levinequerido.com/nine-color-d...

(original here: www.xiaohuasheng.cn/book/5840ce7...)

Jeremy Tiang: Double Book Launch — Singapore Unbound KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003 Free and Open to All. Cash Bar RSVP Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org

Tomorrow at 7pm at KGB bar in NYC! @jeremytiang.bsky.social double Book launch hosted by Singapore Unbound!

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State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang book tour. Thursday 26 June, 7pm, with Yu-Mei Balasingamchow at Singapore Unbound, KGB Bar, NYC. Friday 27 June, 6pm, with Reuben Gelley Newman at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, NYC. Thursday 10 July, 7pm, with Dorothy Tse at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline MA, Saturday 12 July, 6pm, with Ye Chun at Riff Raff, Providence RI.

To Gaza: An Interview with Nasser Rabah • Protean Magazine Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hil...

Writing represents an act of resistance: it militates against all that is base and hateful, against death and annihilation. If writing is life, and life itself has turned into war, what more is left for us to write?
~Nasser Rabah, interviewed by Alex Tan

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The writer Shuang Xuetao is from the northeastern Chinese city Shenyang, a onetime industrial hub that collapsed in the 1990s after the country shifted from a planned economy to one based on marketization, causing factories to move south. Mr. Shuang’s fiction about his hometown is credited with kick-starting a movement of rust-belt realism known as the Dongbei Renaissance. His story collection “Hunter” still has plenty of gritty urban ennui, but it also now incorporates elements of magic realism and fantasy. The fusion is at its uncanny best in “Heart,” in which a young man riding with his dying father in the back of an ambulance passes into a bizarre highway limbo between life and death. The Hitchcockian title story concerns an actor cast to play a sharpshooter in a film whose disciplined preparations transform his ordinary surroundings into someplace malign and dangerous. Such eerie artistic projections are frequent. A blocked science-fiction author in “Premonition” meets the sort of alien he might dream up; a sociopathic killer in “Up at Night” seems to materialize from the psyche of a crime writer. Though there’s nothing new in the coupling of the mundane and the fantastic—see, for example, everything by Haruki Murakami—these stories feel fresh and invigorating, and Jeremy Tiang’s translation is noticeably good. At age 41—extremely young in writer years—Mr. Shuang is imaginative and versatile, someone who will be worth keeping up with.

Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in the WSJ

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Hunter – Shuang Xuetao Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.

My review of @jeremytiang.bsky.social’s fabulous translation of HUNTER, short story collection by Dongbei (Northeastern Chinese) writer Shuang Xuetao. Thank you @fullstopmag.bsky.social

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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.

Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

sometimes felt like I was reading Jesus' Son with the drugs replaced by magical realism. Still, Shuang's prose, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy TIang, is hypnotic and taut, and cultural differences aside, S----- is a familiar city, gutted by globalism, its blank-faced sleepwalkers at once idiosyncratic and instantly recognizable. "Now everyone in the ambulance had their eyes shut," Shuang writes, "and we entered a common darkness."

Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in Harper's Magazine

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He regarded the fashion for nation states as transitory, and believed it would end badly: the artificial division of people according to such feeble categoeis as the place where they were born did not suit the compleixty of the question of indentité. 'The concept of "nation" does not speak to em at all. Our emperor, yours and mine, says that only "peoples" exist, nations are an invention. The paradox lies in the fact that nation states are in desperate need of other nation states - a single nation state has no raison d'être.

Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

Can confirm — when I look out of my apartment in Flushing, I am basically the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

Survivor: The Malayan Rainforest Episode 6 of The Mynah Podcast with Jeremy Tiang

I have already forgotten what I said on this podcast and will not be listening back because I hate the sound of my own voice, but YOU might enjoy me going on about Communists in the rainforest

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The Paris Review – Out of Step with the Rest of the World: A Conversation with Zheng Zhi by Owen Park April 16, 2025 "I needed to maintain a critical distance and understand Ensign Wang as the product of a particular time and place, so as to avoid exoticizing him as simply 'a lunatic.'"

Zheng Zhi interviewed in @parisreview.bsky.social

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Tim Mohr, DJ and German Translator Who Ghostwrote Paul Stanley’s Memoir, Dies at 55 (Gift Article) An American who had lived abroad, he sought out books by up-and-coming German writers, while ghostwriting memoirs for rock stars like Paul Stanley.

RIP to a real one

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The Translators Organziing Committee is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session on Zoom, Wednesday Apr 9, 7.30-8.45pm Eastern. Email us to reserve your spot. translators@nwu.org

Delicious Hunger by Fan Hai The Malaysian Communist Party’s insurgency is rendered in vivid detail by Fan, a member of the party’s guerrilla forces from 197...

a ⟡starred⟡ review for DELICIOUS HUNGER in Publishers Weekly, this is a victory for Communism ☆☭☆

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The cover of the Spring 2025 issue of The Paris Review: a cream rectangle with the magazine name, below that a darker rectangle containing a stylized still life of white flowers in a vase that has cracked and is now leaking water

it's a good issue

The Hedgehog by Zheng Zhi, translated by Jeremy Tiang I found out only later that when my ma called Ensign Wang a lunatic, she’d meant it literally—he really was a mental patient.

my translation of The Hedgehog by Zheng Zhi 郑执 is in The Paris Review

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The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor @sanagoyal.bsky.social outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be.

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Take Action for Amanda Echanis this International Women’s Day! 📢

Unjustly detained since 2020, stand with her this #IWD25 & demand her right to a fair trial today. #FreeAmandaEchanis #InternationalWomensDay

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vigil for Pannir Selvam Pranthaman