Brian Robert Moore

A sea of Lallas 🌊🌊 Working on this was not like translating a book, but like translating a whole human heart. Out Aug 26 in the US & Sept 11 in the UK. Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to read it for a review! Fans include Jhumpa Lahiri, Ayşegül Savaş, Catherine Lacey💙

@AnneMilanoAppel Very much a Borges-inspired tweet :)

@BrianRobMoore Reminiscent of Borges' Pierre Menard...

Translator wins top literary award for "daring" and "pitch-perfect" translation that leaves entire book in source language. "Maintains all the original flavor" praised the judges.

@PersonalRecords For questions of readability in the Anglophone market, most semicolons and comma splices were however replaced with em dashes.

@BrianRobMoore So fluid!

And right after me will be reading the one and only @PersonalRecords! Going to be a good time: stjordi.nyc/program

I’ll be reading at this @stjordinyc party at 3pm tomorrow in the West Village. They’re celebrating soccer a bit this year so naturally I’ll be reading from Michele Mari’s O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz” from You, Bleeding Childhood. Come hang out! ⚽️

Once Ben Lerner opens an autofictional novel by declaring how much he hates his poor parents, and then tries to kill one of them to get some extra cash to pay for a bodybuilding coke-addict gigolo, then we can talk. granta.com/my-poor-parent…

category is: i love italian literature

"Senta, un libro è un libro, non va letto per controllare. In un libro tutto è vero, niente è vero."

@lettorediore Sì, ma anche abbastanza tragico alla fine

@BrianRobMoore Sì, il modo con cui l’ha costruita ti rimane impresa. E poi: che fastidioso quel fidanzato

Oggi un paio di persone mi hanno gustato l’umore. E ho ripensato a questa citazione. Mi sembra, sempre più spesso, che Lalla Romano abbia ragione su molte cose della vita.

@CamhiLeslie Thank *you* for reading, Leslie! Really appreciate it.

@BrianRobMoore Thank you for introducing me to her work! (Mostly staying away from X these days, for the obvious reasons.)

My personal take on the week's discourse is that it was kinda weird last year trying to get people interested in a book where every line is pure and spare, essential poetry at the same time that much of the posting here centered around "books big". At least I felt original 🤷

@HamiltonCain Thanks Hamilton, don't feel particularly capable of change anyway!

@BrianRobMoore Keep doing what you do.

@lettorediore That's for sure – we'll see. I'll be curious to know what you think of Tetto. I enjoyed writing about that one too for the translation. I don't think it's online but the whole piece / intro can be read in the book preview from online stores: amazon.co.uk/Silence-Shared…

@BrianRobMoore 😍 I think that translation will be challenging. Hope you’ll do it

@lettorediore Tetto's a masterpiece. And oh yeah, the various incarnations of Romanzo di figure are so important! I want to write about them next, if not indeed translate them.

@BrianRobMoore Tetto murato is one the book I have to read. It could be the next one. Le parole my second fav. But also “nuovo romanzo di figure” is one of her best books.

@lettorediore Oh nice! I think I've read everything at this point – maybe not every story in La villeggiante. Other favorites of mine are Tetto Murato and Le parole tra noi leggere.

@BrianRobMoore I know. I did the opposite: before Inseparabile, after l’ospite 😂. I still need to read 3 books from her.

@lettorediore Thank you, very glad to hear it! La penombra is the only one that had already been translated into Eng (decades earlier) before I started working on her books; the translation isn't great, sadly. I'd definitely recommend Inseparabile after L'ospite! Again focuses on her grandson

@BrianRobMoore I loved that article. As I love Lalla Romano. Just finished “the guest”. and I agree: Romano’s books are essential, and poetry; very difficult though. My fav still remains “La penombra che abbiamo attraversato”, have you translated it?

For anyone who wanted to attend but couldn't, a recording of this panel on interlinguistic dialogue in Italian lit is now online. Naturally, I talked about Michele Mari, the Aristocats, and then more Mari 🐈‍⬛ youtube.com/watch?v=bWOE7O…

Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April. andotherstories.org/2026/04/08/and…

Immediately told Ann I was going to make this my profile pic