constantly pushing against a media ecosystem that promotes and rewards narrow discourses around latine identity + "community" is...exhausting

When I first read Pedro Lemebel, I was blown away by his sensuous lyricism, the powerful searing honesty of his crónicas. Gwendolyn Harper’s translation is flawlessly inventive - her English is a ravishingly transgressive tango with the original. Utterly brilliant. Pushkin Press

Lemebel tr by the brilliant Gwen Harper in The Paris Review daily!! theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/0…

"A wildflower petal drifting forgotten on the dance floor when the sunrise cuts off the music and their laughter, in a pale return to the city’s routines"... more Pedro Lemebel in Gwen Harper's translation up at The Paris Review !! Penguin Books USA Pushkin Press theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/1…

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Thank you Book Post for featuring this long overdue work in translation. Lemebel's anthology of crónicas in Gwen Harper's translation will be available in bookstores May 28th!

Presenting the winner of the #InternationalBooker2024: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann. 🎉 Here's everything you need to know about this year's winning book. ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Pedro Lemebel in Literary Hub ! Get your copy of the Selected Crónicas in Gwen Harper's translation from Penguin Classics in the US and Pushkin Press in the UK today!! lithub.com/a-queer-carniv…

"This intoxicating and profane selection has been rendered into English with eye-bulging frankness by Gwendolyn Harper." Spot-on review of Lemebel's crónica anthology by Charles Arrowsmith in The Washington Post!! Penguin Classics Pushkin Press Post Book World washingtonpost.com/books/2024/06/…

"Each brief “crónica” (reportage, basically, though with a Capote-ish flair for embellishment) is a mini-revelation. Sexy, political and deeply humane, these coiled essays demonstrate clearly the perennial importance of radical speech acts." Charles Arrowsmith nailed it!

Roberto Bolaño called Pedro Lemebel the greatest poet of his generation who didn't have to write poetry but whose life should be a model for poets. You can now read Lemebel's selected crónicas in Gwen Harper's remarkable English translation from Penguin Classics + Pushkin Press

Reading a much lauded book that is so terrible, I feel disconnected from my life and everyone in it. How is it possible that I am surrounded by people who can enjoy something so false, hollow and self-involved? I want to fake my own death and leave New York, it's so bad.

Thank god someone said it….

Don’t tell me Miranda July was the first to write the sexual desires of post-menopausal women….

Brava!!! Yvette Siegert long listed for the National Book Award for her translation of Fernando Vallejo’s The Abyss.

Garth Greenwell gives Pedro Lemebel and the recently published Penguin Classics anthology some love in his excellent By the Book feature in New York Times Books : nytimes.com/2024/09/05/boo…

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Fantastic interview w/ Boris Dralyuk about Ukrainian literature and translation. Many thanks for the shout-out to Artem Chekh's ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE, forthcoming in English translation by Olena Jennings and Oksana Rosenblum next yr from Seven Stories Press chytomo.com/en/people-who-…

Lemebel al mundo

Beyond gratifying to see The New Yorker recognize the importance of Pedro Lemebel's work. Brava, as ever, to translator Gwen Harper, and to the entire team at Penguin Classics and Pushkin Press . Crossing fingers for the National Book Critics Circle Awards tonight...