David DeGusta

So Yiyun Li is visiting here tomorrow, but the Daily Iowan decided to interview some random for its ‘Ask the Author’ feature. Highly questionable, cannot condone, would reconsider. dailyiowan.com/2022/09/20/ask…

@davidpilling @EdPaiceARI @FinancialTimes The previous translation was incomplete, and a self-published pirate edition. "John Cunningham" appears to be a pseudonym, and those involved in that edition took pains to stay anonymous, presumably because they knew they were violating copyright law.

@EdPaiceARI @FinancialTimes Ah my bad for not knowing this was not the first translation

The writer of this book paid for it with his life. My review of Oromay, an Ethiopian classic of propaganda, war and Eritrean espressos on.ft.com/4hmYfIq via @financialtimes

@EdPaiceARI That was a partial translation, a pirate edition self-published by someone who took pains to stay anonymous, presumably because they knew they were violating copyright law.

Oromay is a great and informative novel (but was already available in English back in 2021.

New on my blog: an admiration of the striking poetry collection “Green for Luck” by Margaret Yapp, published in 2024 by @eastoverpress. davidwrites.net/blog/2024/6/25…

@StephyGrossman Thank you - very kind of you!

This was so good! Everything you could ever want in a micro. “We were feral with each other on the scratchy bedsheet, desperate for marriage to feel different. Was it the same for Armstrong, waving in parade after parade, wondering if going to the moon had changed him at all?”

"We eloped the week after the moon landing, the Apollo men back on earth but still quarantined." In this week's miCRo, @davidwrites1 takes us back and forth in time and space to tell the story of a marriage. buff.ly/3VKg5gf

@righttimebomani @bomani_jones @Foxworth24 Mark down the day: after years of saying fiction was not his thing, Bomani read a novel-Erasure by the great Percival Everett. (Bomani definitely hits the books, to the point of being maybe the only sports podcast doing book club episodes, but explicitly sticks to nonfiction.)

Coming to you from Vegas! New Foxworth Friday episode with @Foxworth24 and @bomani_jones is up! youtu.be/aAywSgi7dy8

@JulianaLamy @RedHenPress You’re welcome! Thank you for the stories and all those beautiful sentences.

@DavidWrites1 @RedHenPress Thank you for this David!!

New on my blog: an admiration of the wonderful short story collection “You Were Watching from the Sand” by @JulianaLamy, published in 2023 by @RedHenPress as the winner of the Ann Petry Award. davidwrites.net/blog/2024/1/7/…

Very grateful to @MacDowell1907 for the support! I’ll be there, snowshoes on, in Jan/Feb 2024.

@tcboyle Scrub jay disregarding sign.

Bird on a wire.

Uh oh, someone lost the most expensive part of their car.

@alexanderchee And apparently nobody at Netflix said, “Hey, since we’re telling the WGA that the money just isn’t there in streaming anymore, maybe it’s not the best look to open a restaurant, what with that being a famously expensive and low-margin business?” Or, more likely, they didn’t care.

Clearly Netflix can’t afford to pay what the writers are asking for. I mean, nothing indicates austerity and tough economic times like [checks notes] expanding into the restaurant business? #WGA

@kirawontmiss @LByock Gotta have an all-you-can-eat buffet though, right? And the server keeps bringing you more plates unless you opt out?

every time you find a new favorite meal they’ll cancel that shit and take it off the menu

@jamelbrinkley The evergreen tweet of evergreen tweets.

@majalukic113 @stinamontilla Works the other way round as well.

Czesław Miłosz

@todgoldberg @LisaLoeb She thought you were naive, but you’re strong. Hope your STAY at Pelican Bay is going well. 😛

@dog_rates I feel safer just looking at these two beautiful boys.

This is Harry and Paul. Paul is Harry's bodyguard. Harry is also Paul's bodyguard, but for insects and the occasional scary-looking rock. 14/10 for both

Me, watching the final episode of Barry and realizing that the new “Max” iPad app leaves up the ‘chrome’ (time, date, wifi strength, battery strength, etc) the whole time.

@zunguzungu Also an excellent example of extreme in-fill housing.

Criminals