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Translator, novelist, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia, 2024). 2025 International Booker Prize judge and Bread Loaf translation faculty. Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com
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This will go down as the Friday Night Massacre of the Military. First the Chairman of the JCS and now Adm. Franchetti, the first woman to become a member of the JCS. Next up the Air Force’s No. 2 officer & the top JAGs for each service. Martial law is coming. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

He’s preparing to declare martial law, you guys. You do see that, don’t you?

Thank you for this reading of TOWARD ETERNITY @causticcovercritic.bsky.social 💜✨ “It’s really enjoyable to see someone so talented engage with the genre in such a serious, productive way” All these books sound so good!

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Nazis don’t create Nazi salutes, Nazi salutes create Nazis. Nazi behavior creates Nazis, not the other way around.

Spent the last couple of days Zooming with friends and colleagues—which I rarely do, I’m a freelance translator—and it was just so nice to see their faces and listen to their news and just vibe 🥰 Really should do this more often

Many things demand our attention. One thing we can do is support people and orgs who have been doing the hard work. @psabortionfund.bsky.social is one. Please help them help those who need their support. donorbox.org/support-the-...

Every winter I curse my ancestors for not crossing the Bering landbridge (when it existed) and thus making me bear this freezing Korean cold instead of enabling me to be born Mexican 😒

Counting down to this event happening in 7 days! 😃 Cannot wait to finally meet & catch up w/ @antonhur.com & @leahjing.bsky.social! Feb 28, 6.30 p.m. www.wheelercentre.com/events-ticke...

Happy Black History Month

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💙📚 🏳️‍🌈📚 🌶️📚 🪐📚 🩸📚 Joie de livres : ça s’en vient ! - it’s shaping up ! 👀 Une librairie-café-bar bilingue dédiée à la romance, la fantasy, l’horreur et la science-fiction! A bilingual bookstore-cafe-bar dedicated to romance, fantasy, horror and science fiction! Printemps / Spring 2025 🗓️

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

Hot off the presses. Here is “Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus” come to take us home. Thank you, Black Square Editions. If you’d like a review copy, please let me know and I will mail it to ya! You can also preorder via blacksquareeditions.org/books/p/hocusp… Or @asterismbooks.bsky.social 💫👽🛸

Shooting my shot again: any comic journalists interested in reviewing WORK-LIFE BALANCE or interviewing @charsiewspace.bsky.social and I, please reach out. Books like ours live or die on publicity and good ol' fashioned word-of-mouth, so we would greatly appreciate the press.

Hamas has proposed to release all captives remaining in the Gaza Strip in “one go” in exchange for a lasting truce and a complete Israeli army withdrawal from the besieged enclave. 🔗: aje.io/fbb4w5

The things I would do if my elected official posted something like this 😂 He’s taking his constituents for suckers and doormats

bring back shame shame every person who gains joy from ripping families apart shame every person who gleefully shares ICE propaganda shame every person who cracks jokes about trump & steven miller's explicit plan to ethnically cleanse the US

It’s fascinating to look at readers’ predictions for the Int’l Booker longlist as an official judge. No one other than us, really, reads all the submitted books, so the most hyped and bestselling books tend to float up to the prediction lists, which is more than understandable.

Incredible journalism.

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi This should be repeated in articles, regularly

I wonder if “cisgenderism” is a better word than “transphobia” to describe, well, transphobia. “Phobia” makes me think more of “fear of” than “hate for.” And rightwingers take “cisgender” as a slur anyway. Cisgenderism is a belief that gender is innately and immutably binary. The word fits better.

feel like the running story of the 2020s is people dramatically underestimating how attached people are to what they consider their home

with gil won-ok’s passing, there are only seven living “comfort women” left, survivors of imperial japan’s system of sexual slavery

The nice pedestrians of Seoul who keep running after me with gloves I have dropped 😭🙇🏻‍♂️

Last year in Australia I ordered Vegemite on toast just to try it and was immediately repulsed thinking ‘Gawd what the hell’ and then bizarrely proceeded to eat the whole thing and you know what I could use a bit of Vegemite right now