Clearly whoever borrowed this last didn't read 'How to Behave Around Books'...

🎉 WOW 🎉 We are utterly thrilled to discover that Jon Fosse has won the The Nobel Prize in Literature! 🎉

Ducks, Newburyport has won the Swedish Kulturhuset Stadsteatern's International Literature Prize 2023 - bravo to our brilliant Lucy Ellmann! And her amazing translator, Eva Åsefeldt: kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/kulturhuset-st…

We’re SO excited for this movie, based on the award-winning international sensation “Hurricane Season” by WWB contributor Fernanda Melchor & translated by WWB contributor Sophie Hughes! (1/4)

There are rejection letters, then there are the rejection letters publishers sent to Gertrude Stein.

I don't usually talk about personal things here, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Frank Wynne frank wynne 🏳️‍🌈 for his kindness over the years. I had to stop translating this wonderful book because many awful things had happened in my life: my parents died, THREAD 🧵

Thanks to New Directions for the ARC of Krasznahorkai's forthcoming Herscht 07769, translated by ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social! My most anticipated release of the year in one already full of exciting work, both translated and not. What a time to study long sentences!

Also: Miss MacIntosh, My Darling arrived today to distract from some work on Lucy Ellmann. Never thought I'd get my hands on a copy!

Anna Kornbluh’s new book, Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism, suggests a new way of understanding the rapid, ‘stylised flood’ of our present culture artreview.com/what-comes-aft…

There have always been thematic links between William H. Gass and Laszlo Krasznahorkai, but K's newest novel (the wonderful Herscht 07769) prominently features a character called Herr Köhler. Could be a coincidence, but does anyone know if they read one another?

And the winner is... Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter! 🏆🥳 Congratulations to all involved in bringing this incredible story to life. Solenoid was nominated by Octavian Goga, Cluj County Library and published by @deepvellum ✨

Been waiting on this one by Morow Jävis Kærdenax - can't wait to get started!

Mircea Cărtărescu says in this interview that Penguin Random House is going to publish the translation of all the three volumes of Orbitor! youtube.com/watch?v=Nb51OR…

Finished! Just sent it to Mathias for review :)

It's often the case that avant-garde literature sacrifices emotion for formal experimentation; not so in Morow Jävis Kærdenax's American Abductions (or Aphasia for that matter) which brim with the honesty of realism while bending the sentence past its conventional limitations

The bingo has arrived, we’ve bought some champagne - now all we need is the 4th July (come quick!)

At a certain point Peggy James complained to her uncle Henry James, then entering the deep thickets of his late style, that his work was too impenetrable. His response:

presenting SCORE, an online writing machine that writes and re-writes an infinite series of performance scores using language accrued through an ongoing performance writing and walking practice in the Yorkshire Dales. luckysoap.com/generations/SC…