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Writer, translater, emitter of exhalations burdened with meaning

Here and now.
Joined October 2008
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Wonderful to present the latest edition of Marc Zegan’s exciting ON THE CUTTING EDGE 3 – on liberatedwords.com on Peter Wortsman’s extraordinary work The Laboratory of Time and Other Cut-Up Poems Bamboo Dart Press, 2025
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Just had a bit of good news. My translation of The Golden Pot and Other Tales of the Uncanny, by E.T.A. Hoffmann just made the short list for the Helene and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/bks/…
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Join us & @lbinyc on 4/8 at 6 PM for a reading and conversation on "I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me, Selected Letters and Reflections of Rahel Levin Varnhagen" (@seagullbooks, 2024) with the editor and translator @Wortsman and @tesslewis94 RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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FINAL DAYS! We’re so close to our goal for <Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary),> brilliant observations on city creatures by the father-daughter team of Peter Wortsman and Aurelie Bernard Wortsman. Help us get there: igg.me/at/tpp-bestiary/x#/ #animallovers #giftbooks
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It's a BEAST...iary! With city creatures from around the world like you've never imagined them before. This beauty, by Peter Wortsman @Wortsman and @AurelieWortsman, is in the works for 2024. Visit our Indiegogo and help bring it to life! bit.ly/47vYNqq
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Please support the publication of Odd Birds & Fat Cats (an urban bestiary), a book of the creatures that surround us, by a father and daughter team. To pitch in, click on the link below. indiegogo.com/projects/an-ur…
It's a BEAST...iary! With city creatures from around the world like you've never imagined them before. This beauty, by Peter Wortsman @Wortsman and @AurelieWortsman, is in the works for 2024. Visit our Indiegogo and help bring it to life! bit.ly/47vYNqq
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Thrilled to tweet this first in a series of new collaborations with my daughter, Aurelie Bernard Wortsman, my texts, her illustrations, just up on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood mrbellersneighborhood.com/20…
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Thrilled to post Maria Del Castillo Sucerquia's superb Spanish translation of a few of my prose poems revpalabrerias.com/2021/07/0…
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LEND ME YOUR EARS! Remember the pleasure of being read to as a child? I am pleased to report that Penguin Classics recently issued an audiobook version of my anthology, TALES OF THE GERMAN IMAGINATION, FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM TO INGEBORG BACHMANN audible.com/pd/Tales-of-the-…
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Dear friends in the UK, Sign up to view the upcoming screening, February 1-3, of my stage play, "The Tattooed Man Tells All," under the auspices of the Austrian Cultural Forum in London acflondon.org/events/tatooed…
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YouTube Interview with Christian Martin re my book STIMME UND ATEM / OUT OF BREATH, OUT OF MIND, at NYU Deutsches House youtube.com/watch?v=_8sRj17t…
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Tickets still available for tonight and tomorrow night, Fri. and Sat., Nov. 13 and 14, at 7:30 PM for the screening of my stage play "The Tattooed Man Tells All," inspired by interviews with survivors of the camps. See link below. silverthornetheater.org/spec…