Thank you so much to Rebecca Foster and @shelf-awareness.com for this beautiful review of my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS, out 11/10. www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Jenny Croft
@jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | https://bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-translated-or-written
Bookseller friends! Friends of booksellers! The deadline for November’s Indie Next is Monday, and I would love for you to vote for Notes on Postcards! It’s about intimacy, distance, and languages, and it has pictures! If you have a minute, please take a look.
Fashion inspiration (donkey=best accessory) from my upcoming memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS, in case anyone is heading to the beach today!
This fall, Naomi Klein and Jon Ronson return to the page with a lot on their minds, while Roz Chast and Jennifer Croft provide dashes of whimsy—plus, the two celebrity memoirs we can’t wait to read. @@grandcentralpub.bsky.social@@stmartinspress.bsky.social
I'm really happy to read the first review of my new memoir Notes on Postcards (which comes out with @catapultbooks.bsky.social on November 10), thanks so much to M. Tiffany Messer-Bass and @libraryjournal.bsky.social! www.libraryjournal.com/review/notes...
"I know now you could not have been more right: what is the point of the extra three minutes provided by the highway, when it makes the whole journey bland?" From the LARB archives, Jennifer Croft muses on the lessons of her father: https://lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/fathers-day-letter/
A Father’s Day Letter | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jennifer Croft muses on the lessons of her father.
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Hoy en España se publica la edición más espléndida posible de mi primera novela, Serpientes y escaleras. Muchísimas gracias a Ediciones Comisura por hacer libros tan hermosos, tan perfectos, tan fascinantes... ¡Necesitamos más editoriales así! edicionescomisura.com/tienda/
We have a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview for you today! Translator Boris Dralyuk on the music of language, softening difficult messages for children, what makes Who Will Make the Snow? distinctly Ukrainian...and his creative collaboration with Jennifer Croft worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
This book is a delight. Unlike anything you’ve read. Take it from me.
Jenny Croft@jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 8mo agoThanks so much to Lit Hub for including my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS on this beautiful list of books to look forward to this year! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... @catapultbooks.bsky.social
Thanks so much to Lit Hub for including my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS on this beautiful list of books to look forward to this year! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... @catapultbooks.bsky.social
Join us in just under 30 minutes!
Nimrod Journal@nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 10mo agoPlease join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim. Zoom address in post below.
What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
THE LOST SOLDIERS, Andrey Kurkov’s latest Kyiv mystery, has a UK cover! My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · 12mo agoI agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature. *As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.
A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a c…
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I’ve been a judge for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award in Translated Literature, and the NEA Translation Fellowship (RIP), and I’ve never read a translation more brilliant than this. Out in April, but you can preorder now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sidetracke...
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood|Paperback
The first English translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic of Russian Émigré lifeWith great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin’s Sidetracked provides unique insight into one...
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If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
Loved getting to review this great new novel by Helen Oyeyemi for the NYTBR! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
She Has 7 Selves, and They All Have a Story
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They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @henricole.bsky.social… See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
Educators, this short story about a young girl in Mexico preparing to travel to the US is paired with more reading from Mexico, literature about the theme of home, and even writing on fast food. Check it out on WWB Campus: buff.ly/DEPwBNK
Looking forward to this next month in New York! Hoping to bring together a couple of ideas I've been working on about translating time and art versus entertainment. And (perhaps needless to say) twins! Please join us if you're around! arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
On Being in Between: Postcards, Pregnancy, Travel, and Translation | School of the Arts
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Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-ru...
The Russian destruction of Odesa's Pryvoz Market — croftwork
The first thing Boris and I did when we visited Odesa was walk to the house where he grew up. The next thing we did was buy fruit at Pryvoz Market.
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
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Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@elpais.com) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@anagramaeditor.bsky.social) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Una novela sobre traducciones se convierte en un cruce apasionante entre ‘Perdidos’ y Agatha Christie
Jennifer Croft, traductora de la premio Nobel Olga Tokarczuk, publica un libro sobre la importancia del que recrea la obra de otro
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