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You know it’s going to be a hot night when your date says, “You had me at ‘Jackie Gleason’s Library of the Paranormal.’” #weirdlit @furtherreadinglibrary.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social #iarrogantlyrecommend

The way I feel now.

The boys are all smiles after their second walk of the day.

Headed to @bookbeat.bsky.social yesterday to satisfy my jones for Seth’s latest progress report. @drawnandquarterly.bsky.social

10 New Reviews! Words & Pictures for Adults, Teens, and Kids, from Naive to Naughty! @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social @paradisesystems.bsky.social #childrensliteratureintranslation #poetryintranslation www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

i arrogantly recommend #73 by Tom Bowden

Small Press book reviews of important books and graphic novels.

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New translation of Basho’s The Narrow Road of Oku by Meredith McKinney from @ndbooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

For #indiebookstoreday I stopped at @bookbeatdetroit and bought a couple of titles from @fairlightbooks and @wakefield_press

Double-fisted cowboy poesy from the Argentine pampas. Conscription, murder, flight, and a singing contest! @oxunipress.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation #iarrogantlyrecommend

The darling buds of [adjusting for global warming] April.

Vietnamese literature in translation from a publisher new to me, @majorbooks.uk #literatureintranslation #vietnameseliteraturintranslation

Strictly high-tone aesthetic praxis from R Crumb! @fantagraphics.bsky.social

The Red Wind Howls is about the aftermath a Tibetan community, called Amdo, where Mao sent troops in 1958 and massacred 120,000+ civilians in one day and sent another 50,000+ to labor camps, where most of them died. #literatureintranslation

Translation of wages earned by package-delivery workers in Beijing, per package: 32 cents (contract workers without benefits) and 26 cents (company employees with benefits).

Beautiful afternoon for a read. #literatureintranslation

New poetry from Xuela Zhang and reprinted first three books by Eileen Myles in one volume from @fonografeditions.bsky.social

The earliest known novel in Arabic by a woman, Sa’iba (1891) by Alis al-Bustani, in a new translation by Marilyn Booth, from @oxfordworldsclassics #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

New arrival in the ⁦‪@LibraryArabLit.bsky.social‬⁩ #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation

Anybody know how to cancel a Dropbox subscription? As far as I can tell, it's a criminal organization that has *nothing* on its website or call center that allows for canceling. "Instructions" for doing so match *nothing* at the website. Please spread the word that they are a criminal organization.

Current state of the collection, authors M - O. #bookporn

New translations of Dostoevsky and Machado de Assis from @liveright.bsky.social #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social #iarrogantlyrecommend

Two new installments in the @Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, published by @oxunipress.bsky.social Bi-lingual editions (Mandarin/English on facing pages) covering 3,000 years of Sinitic literatures. #literatureintranslation #chineseliteratureintranslation

Upcoming works in translation from @princetonupress.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

The Monroe Girls by the heteronymed Antoine Volodine from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

Now that I have figured the four books comprising Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917, it’s time to start The Tunnel by that master of poetic rhetoric, William Gass. @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social

@mcsweeneys.net #81! Ever since Chris Ware edited issue #13, I’ve been buying it.