“Woodworm” by Layla Martínez, Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott [NBA 2024]
When the National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist was announced the other week, I realized that I hadn't read any of the books on the list for the first time in . . . ages. Usually it's a mix of books I've loved, some I think are overrated, and a few I've never heard of, or at least didn't stick in my brain. ...
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Dubravka Ugresic’s “A Muzzle for Witches”
To mark the release of Dubravka Ugresic's final book, A Muzzle for Witches (translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać)—order it now from our website, or your local indie bookstore!—we thought we'd share an excerpt, which you'll find below. As a bit of context, this book is a conversation between ...
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Pilar Adón Reading Tour!!
This September, Pilar Adón—author of Of Beasts and Fowls (translated by Katie Whittemore), winner of Spain's Premio Nacional de Narrativa last year—will embark on a five-city, six-stop tour hitting several of the best indie bookshops in America, and sharing this incredibly beautiful, compelling novel of a woman who, ...
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More “Montao’s Malady” (Excerpt)
Following up on yesterday's post, this excerpt from Montano's Malady is just too perfect not to share. Enjoy and preorder the forthcoming Dalkey Archive edition of Vila-Matas's brilliant, twisty book here. April 21 “I’m absolutely convinced that publishing being in the hands of businessmen is just a ...
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A Venn Diagram of Not Reading
“If I actually finish a book, I feel like I deserve a Nobel Prize.” “I can't even guess when I last read a book. But I'd watch movies all day if I could. Especially Marvel ones.” Overheard on a University of Rochester Shuttle “In the last decade, she says, history has toppled from the king of disciplines to a ...
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Eleven Books, Selected
My parents are straight-up hoarders. Not of foodstuffs or other animal attractant stuff; nothing that will quite land them on a nightmare HGTV show (one that airs right after Flipanthropy), but hoarders nonetheless. Of paper, mostly. Checklists from the early 80s show up on the regular. I currently have a gym bag ca. 1993 ...
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“Vladivostok Circus” by Elisa Shua Dusapin & Aneesa Abbas Higgins [Excerpt]
Today's #WITMonth post is a really special one—with a special offer. What you'll find below is an excerpt from the very start of Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin & Aneesa Abbas Higgins. You might remember Dusapin & Higgins as the winners of the 2021 National Book Award for Literature in Translation ...
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