Twisted Spoon Press
@twistedspoon.bsky.social
Independent press based in Prague publishing English translations of Central & Eastern European writing. https://linktr.ee/twistedspoonpress
For the afternoon crowd, on the blog today another stunning new release from the wonderful @twistedspoon.bsky.social 📚💙
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings@kaggsy59.bsky.social · last wk."...a bewildering tapestry of myth and lore..." #twistedspoonpress #20BOS26 Book 18 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/a...
The book's not a bad read either. www.praguereporter.com/home/2026/7/...
New restoration of Czech cult classic ‘Valerie and Her Week of Wonders’ to compete at Venice film fest
A newly digitized version of Jaromil Jireš’ cult classic will compete in Venice Classics, highlighting Czech film restoration efforts.
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Visions & Apparitions by Ladislav Klíma (artwork by @wordkunst.bsky.social) is now available in the UK, will be in the US in fall. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/visions-appa... #horror #ghoststories #czechfiction #gothic #poe #hallucination #translation #absurdism #nietzsche
In the mail: a nice-looking 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑦𝑐ℎ by Johannes Urzidil, from @twistedspoon.bsky.social twistedspoon.com/prague-tript...
Johannes Urzidil : Prague Triptych
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"I quit studying medicine and took a position as a clerk where my time was wholly occupied with adding and subtracting, all my nobler aspirations brutally bottled up inside me." @twistedspoon.bsky.social Me and My Uncle — Ladislav Klíma (tr. Jed Slast) minorliteratures.com/2026/06/30/m...
Me and My Uncle — Ladislav Klíma (tr. Jed Slast)
My uncle and I had a visceral loathing for one another … In my childhood when he came to visit, he would chide my parents incessantly for spoiling me, accusing them of instilling in me nothin…
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"Yet I didn’t flee my inner ghost. My soul continued to be menaced by the thought, “I am inseparably bound to that loathsome corpse” …" Me and My Uncle — Ladislav Klíma (tr. Jed Slast) @twistedspoon.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/06/30/m...
Me and My Uncle — Ladislav Klíma (tr. Jed Slast)
My uncle and I had a visceral loathing for one another … In my childhood when he came to visit, he would chide my parents incessantly for spoiling me, accusing them of instilling in me nothin…
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Back from the printer and available for order here: www.twistedspoon.com/visions-appa...
Ladislav Klíma : Visions & Apparitions
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wordkunst@wordkunst.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother beautiful book from Prague's Twisted Spoon Press @twistedspoon.bsky.social : Visions & Apparitions, Selected Tales of the Uncanny by Ladislav Klíma (1878-1928) (tr. Jed Slast) -- & rather special for me, as it features some of my artwork on & inside twistedspoon.com/visions-appa...
"Hats off to Alexander Booth for this fine translation." www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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A new post was just added to the Book Beat website and newsletter.
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In conversation with poet Ellen Hinsey at the New American Studies Journal nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...
Ria Dhull at Heavy Feather Review: on The Tigress: "Serner’s Dada roots peek through the darkness of The Tigress; there is something of the absurd within its chaos." heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/07/t...
Fiction Review: Ria Dhull Reads Walter Serner’s Curious Love Story The Tigress
Some years after Walter Serner helped bring Dadaism to Zurich, he broke away from the movement. The Tigress, perhaps Serner’s most famous work, emerged in the period after Serner’s detachment from …
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Emil Hakl's of Kids and Parents about a father & son drinking around Prague & discussing everything shorturl.at/h1XEz tr Marek Tomin from@twistedspoon.bsky.social
A tribute to Adam J. Sorkin, a prolific translator of Romanian poetry who passed away a couple of months ago (as we just found out). We were fortunate to collaborate with him on the collection Memory Glyphs. plumepoetry.com/tribute-to-a...
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‘Erotikon’: Controversial Czech classic returns to Prague cinemas in newly restored version
Digitally restored silent classic by Gustav Machatý has returned to Czech cinemas, offering modern audiences a rare look at one of the most provocative films of the interwar era.
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"The variety in the folded clock is almost astonishingly great. If all conceived somehow around numbers, Rühm does much more than simply offer a few variations on a few themes -- of either subject matter or approach."
M.A.Orthofer@maorthofer.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew review: "100 number poems" by Gerhard Rühm, in 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...
Wishing everyone the very best for the new year, and a big thanks to all who did us right this past year.
Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33! ... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ... www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-sern...
Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/12/12/g...
Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025)
I dug/was perplexed by Gerhard Rühm’s Cake and Prostheses a few years ago, so when I got my soft pink hands on The Folded Clock, (translated like C & P by Alexander Booth), I was intrigued. Pub…
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"a note on recitation recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..." The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social ) @twistedspoon.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth)
time poem a note on recitationrecited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year: were you to begin on january 1st, you would recite only a single line a day until december 31st, then,…
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ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two – one two – three! . two one two three – four . two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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Tomorrow, Nov. 26 downstairs at Café Club Míšeňská (Míšenska 3, Malá Strana) Alexander Booth will be presenting his translations of Gerhard Rühm. All Welcome. Doors open at 19:00, we'll start some time later. www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock... www.twistedspoon.com/cake-and-pro...
"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings@kaggsy59.bsky.social · 9mo agoOn the Ramblings today, my second book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social this week - a stunning poetry collection from Gerhard Ruhm, in a wonderful translation by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social. And it fits for #GLM2025! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...
"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings@kaggsy59.bsky.social · 9mo agoFor #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!
Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon. www.scribd.com/document/929...
Interview with Alexander Booth | PDF
An interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.
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In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
