Must read #EvaBaltasar #JuliaSanches And Other Stories !
A swashbuckler Dante escapes the city for provincial life & enters the darkness of her revelry & disgust for humanhood. 
Another tour de force from one of the best writers of our generation! Her language is unbearably alive.

Jan Carson Doubleday Books Rosie loves queer, historical fiction and punchy contemporary lit. She recently really enjoyed Mammoth by Eva Baltasar for its sardonic, brusque, queer observations on rural life…

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Happening tonight in NYC: Reading and discussing Michele Mari’s (now O. Henry Prize-winning) short fiction with Daniel Saldaña París!
It’s going to have medieval knights, ogres, roses, book-gifting, and lots of translation. 🌹🏰
More info on the blog: santjordiusa.org/program

“The whole point of tech: to remove the friction meant to keep you from indulging in the worst of yourself.” The Nation in conversation with Jessi Jezewska Stevens about her new book of short stories and the data-fication of daily life.
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A Bitcoin-centric retelling of Rumpelstiltskin? A character who can't acting like it's Weimar Germany? A financier manipulating pork-belly prices? Jessi Jezewska Stevens's short stories sound excellent. thenation.com/article/cultur… A Q&A by Rose D'Amora 🍋.

How to start your day.
The Party
by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
from Ghost Pains
And Other Stories

The Nation speaks to Jessi Jezewska Stevens about her recently published book of short stories, which dramatize downward mobility, phone-based anomie, and the clash of digital and meatspace. “Well, is fiction also a kind of virtual reality?”
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.Rose D'Amora 🍋 asked me some of the best questions I've gotten about GHOST PAINS for The Nation. On the right side of history, technology's effect on fiction, and my fixation on trash.
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🎧 You can now listen to Iman Mersal, author of TRACES OF ENAYAT, as she talks to the Lost Ladies of Lit team about the life and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.

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Two out of the blue from a very close friend. It’s like they read my mind.

Hanne Ørstavik leaving even the most unflappable of booksellers reeling. We love to see it.

Alexis Wright spoke to Stella about her shortlisted book, Praiseworthy, described by the judges as a ‘canon-crushing Australian novel for the ages.’

Read the interview: stella.org.au/the-stella-int…

A conversation with author Jessi Jezewska Stevens on fiction in an age obsessed with data. “I have this fascination with trash, because it’s one of those few things that has exited the system of valuation.”
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I know a lot of you want to discuss that ending.👀 If you're in the London area this is your chance!

Congratulations to WWB contributor Iman Mersal!

Congratulations to Iman Mersal, author of TRACES OF ENAYAT, on being awarded a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. We’re very proud to publish her work in the UK. nypl.org/blog/2024/04/2…

‘Throughout the collection, there’s dread and there’s malaise, but I’d argue there really isn’t any cynicism ... In place of cynicism is unexpected grace’

Rose D'Amora 🍋 on Ghost Pains, as she speaks the collection's author, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, for The Nation 👻
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I’ve put a few prints for sale to raise a bit of dosh for one of my favourite charities MSF International annamorrison.com/shop