SEA NOW is sailing to the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social! Join us and @catranslation.org for an evening with Eva Meijer and Anne Thompson Melo in conversation with Gregory Hom on August 18 at 6pm. We'd love to see you there! 👋 🌊🛶 sfpl.org/books-and-me...

Based in SF? Come work with us! 👋

Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · 6d ago

📣 We're hiring for two new in-person positions in San Francisco! @twolinespress.com is hiring a full-time Press Administrator to support the administration of the press, including maintaining the submissions management system, customer service & membership coordination, mailing & fulfillment +

I gathered all the books by women in translation from my shelves that I haven’t read yet. Next month is going to be a fun reading month! #witmonth

Calling all translators! You have until this Sunday, August 2 to submit to our Calico Series call for translations of poetry and flash fiction about S-E-X! See the full submission guidelines here: www.twolinespress.com/submissions#...

We’re excited to announce the lineup for Day of Translation 2026 💫 This year’s program celebrates the deeply human elements of the art of translation, featuring 3 free, provocative panels and a featured keynote by Emily Wilson (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social), and our community afterparty! +

Less than 2 weeks left to submit to @twolinespress.com! Our book publisher is open for both general submissions and for an upcoming Calico featuring translated poetry and flash fiction about sex. The deadline August 2! Read Senior Editor Sarah Coolidge’s interview about Calico's submissions call.

Q&A: Sarah Coolidge on Calico's latest Call for Submissions - CAT Center

This week, Calico opened a call for submissions of poems and short pieces of flash fiction on the topic of sex to be featured in its next collection. Sarah

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Books in translation!!!! (From @twolinespress.com). Thanks so much to @ttbrader.bsky.social for posting about the sale.

This book has done a lot for me the last few days. @twolinespress.com and @jeremytiang.bsky.social did wonders bringing Zechen’s fantastic novel to English. The premise: a Chinese grad student snaps under pressure & lies to his parents that he killed a man so he can leave his small town for once

My @twolinespress.com order arrived Saturday and I've been feeling the endorphins ever since.

Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · 2w ago

It's the LAST DAY to shop our CAT Days of Summer Sale! All of our books are 30% off (40% off if you're a Two Lines Press member 😎)! You have until midnight PDT to shop, including select books starting at the cool price of $8! 📚 www.twolinespress.com/books

It's the LAST DAY to shop our CAT Days of Summer Sale! All of our books are 30% off (40% off if you're a Two Lines Press member 😎)! You have until midnight PDT to shop, including select books starting at the cool price of $8! 📚 www.twolinespress.com/books

Reading my way through the heat wave. Just got these in from @twolinespress.com! What is everyone reading right now? #booksky #writesky #books

From our Summer Books section, Jess Paiz’s incomplete guide to San Francisco independent publishers, including @auntlute.bsky.social, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, @lastgaspbooks.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @twolinespress.com, and Third State Books: sf.gazetteer.co/prints-of-th...

Prints of the city

An incomplete guide to San Francisco’s independent publishers

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An enthusiastic new review of @twolinespress.com's NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES, with close attention to each story and novel excerpt in the collection. Asante sana @hachepueyo.bsky.social

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 4w ago

No Edges: Swahili Stories unites SFF stories translated from Swahili and Sheng: a secret lover, a witch town, a dystopian death sentence, and more. @hachepueyo.bsky.social discusses an anthology where every tale strikes true

Join @twolinespress.com this Saturday, 7/18, 12pm - 6pm, at the first Temescal Alley Book Festival followed by a reading party at Womb House Books (Oakland). The book festival is free and open to the public. Register for the after-party!

The First Ever Temescal Alley Book Festival

Please join us for the first ever Temescal Alley Book Festival with party to follow at Womb House Books

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Pls send me your two lines recommendations! I can endorse the Japanese story collection from their Calico series, Unusual Fragments, featuring a number of undersung 20th Century queer writers. Also Elvira Navarro: A Working Woman haunted me, and I've heard good things about the new one.

Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · 3w ago

High temps, low prices: it’s the CAT Days of Summer Sale! From now until July 20th all our books are 30% off (40% off for members). 😎 www.twolinespress.com/books

High temps, low prices: it’s the CAT Days of Summer Sale! From now until July 20th all our books are 30% off (40% off for members). 😎 www.twolinespress.com/books

Yay I got my first Isolarii book! I’ve been wanting to read more of this author’s work since her story in Unusual Fragments published by @twolinespress.com (highly recommend that collection btw and frankly everything from the Calico Series). #BookSky

“…fully embracing the nation’s joy in the name of something as explosive and fleeting and simple as a goal” (119). ⚽️🇧🇷 EXEMPLARY HUMANS by Juliana Leite (tr. Zoë Perry) @twolinespress.com

"In blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Son forces readers to pay attention and makes her everyday characters all the more compelling."

@bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social · last mo.

Son Bo-mi's Swell is the kind of book that sends you to Google every few pages to check whether something actually happened. Usually, that's a compliment. bookandfilmglobe.com/books/let-sw... @twolinespress.com #Swell #SonBoMi #TranslatedLiterature #BookSky

This week, @twolinespress.com's Calico series opened a call for submissions of poems and short pieces of flash fiction on the topic of sex to be featured in its next collection. For insights into what they’re looking for, read the Q&A with Senior Editor at Two Lines, Sarah Coolidge.

Q&A: Sarah Coolidge on Calico's latest Call for Submissions

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📰 Today in the ARB: Kateryna Shabelnyk reviews "Swell" by Son Bo-mi and translated by Janet Hong @twolinespress.com asianreviewofbooks.com/swell-by-son...

“Swell” by Son Bo-mi

A review of Son Bo-mi's "Swell", a collection of metafictional stories translated to English by Janet Hong.

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Have you read CIGARETTES UNTIL TOMORROW? 🔉 For a preview, listen to the audio project made by Cuentero Productions, adapting selections from the Romanian poetry collection in English translation published by @twolinespress.com's Calico series.

Cigarettes Until Tomorrow

Selections from Cigarettes Until Tomorrow, a collection of Romanian poetry in English translation published by Two Lines Press adapted by Cuentero Productions.

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Translators! Two Lines Press is now open for not one, but TWO submission opportunities this summer! We're looking for both general submissions and submissions for a new Calico featuring poetry and flash fiction about sex from June 15 to August 2! www.twolinespress.com/submissions

Submit Your Work to Two Lines Press

View our submission guidelines for literary translations. We seek innovative, world-class fiction and poetry from around the globe.

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In our latest Talking with Translators interview with @zoeperry.bsky.social, we discuss music, body-centred language, and Zoë's translation of Exemplary Humans by Juliana Leite (published by @twolinespress.com)

Talking with Zoë Perry

Translating Body-Centred Language, Choosing the Right Translator, and Awareness of Voice Through Code Switching

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Next week! Join our lunchtime book club at the Mechanics’ Institute in SF or online via Zoom June 17, 12 pm PST/3 pm EST 📚️. This month’s pick is SLIPPING by Mohamed Kheir translated from Arabic by Robin Moger published by @twolinespress.com and a finalist for the National Book Award. RSVP here.

Contemporary Translated Works Book Group: Slipping - CAT Center

This book group meets hybrid and monthly, on site at Mechanics’ Institute and online via Zoom, to read and discuss contemporary works originally written in

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Happy happy publication day to SWELL by Son Bo-Mi, translated from Korean by Janet Hong! www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/s...

Thursday I went to the launch of @jeremytiang.bsky.social's latest translation, Night Train, by mainland Chinese author Xu Zechen (@twolinespress.com). Jeremy's discussion with fellow author and translator YZ Chin, at Yu & Me Books in Manhattan's Chinatown, was in equal parts insightful & humorous.

TONIGHT at 7pm! Mind the gap as the NIGHT TRAIN tour arrives at Brookline Booksmith's Transnational Literature Series! Don't miss NIGHT TRAIN translator @jeremytiang.bsky.social in conversation with Eleanor Goodman. RSVP and details here: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-0... 🌕️ 🚂

Jeremy Tiang with Eleanor Goodman

Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with translator Jeremy Tiang to discuss and honor the release of Night Train by Xu Zechen. He will be in…

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Which of these intriguing #books from @twolinespress.com should I read next 🤔 #FridayReads #booksintranslation #fiction

LA! We can't wait to see you this weekend at LITLIT! Read all about it in @laist.com where Two Lines got a great shoutout as one of Emily VanKoughnett's "favorite independent publishers"! 😻 laist.com/news/los-ang...

LA's independent publishers want readers to know they're putting out plenty of great books

LITLIT brings the independent West Coast literary scene to Los Angeles for a weekend.

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