Ian J. Battaglia
New Initiatives Director & Editor at Chicago Review of Books
Writer • Rōnin • Philomath | Words in @InputMag, @LAReviewofBooks, @Chicago_Reader, @KenyonReview | Editor @ChicagoRevBooks, fmr @tofugu | #merveilles | 日本語OK！
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1 week ago |
chireviewofbooks.com | Ian J. Battaglia
The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-reading audience. Subscribe to his newsletter to get notified of new editions as well as other notes on writing, art, and more. None of us asked to be born. When we come into being, it’s into circumstances beyond our control, yet it’s still us who’s most responsible for the trajectory of our lives.
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2 months ago |
mnchrm.co | Ian J. Battaglia
“It’s not a perfect camera, but it’s perfect for me.”That was how I’d describe Fujifilm’s X-Pro3 when asked; and surprisingly, I was asked a lot. This is a camera that catches your eye. It stands out. And it makes some pretty good images, too. When Fujifilm announced the camera in October 2019, it immediately became a topic of conversation. No directional pad, no in-body image stabilization, and no flippy screen? What was Fujifilm thinking??
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Feb 7, 2025 |
mnchrm.co | Ian J. Battaglia
My visa came in early. After everyone we’d been in contact with, seemingly everyone we’d met tell us that acquiring a visa was a process that would take three, maybe four months, I received the certificate to collect my visa form the Japanese government in a month and a half. Ostensibly, this is good news—you don’t want to be waiting for months and months to figure out when you’re going to be able to go—but it sent us into a panic.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
mnchrm.co | Ian J. Battaglia
As we plan more and more for our move, something that’s coming into focus is how much (or rather, how little) we’ll be able to bring. Shipping things overseas is expensive, and even bringing checked bags adds up quick. From the beginning, we’ve been planning to save just a handful of items we love (our mid-century couch and coffee table, for example), shipping only the essentials to our new home in Japan. But I’ve started to realize how little that actually is.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
mnchrm.co | Ian J. Battaglia
Writing is hard. In the intervening years between when I first started and when I returned, i.e., when I wasn’t writing, I read a lot of books on writing. I guess I was looking for some sort of secret, or at least, a sort of framework that would make it all click into place for me, make it seem more manageable. Of course, this never came. The secret to writing turns out to be simply that it’s hard; you only improve by doing it.
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RT @IanJBattaglia: Here it is! The longest piece I've written on Monochromatic Aberration, a five-year in-depth review of the Fujifilm X-Pr…
RT @letkma: the x-pro3 is also "my" camera - it feels deeply made for me and my needs - and this review nails exactly why also, tangential…
Here it is! The longest piece I've written on Monochromatic Aberration, a five-year in-depth review of the Fujifilm X-Pro3, a camera I think even now is almost completely singular: https://t.co/50Ef9PL6aD