Stanley Crawford’s legendary ‘Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine’ just reissued as a Dalkey Archive Essential with its fantastic Afterword from Ben Marcus, reviewed in the WSJ!!!!!!

SCHATTENFROH is for EVERYONE. It’s about family and history and metaphysics and authoritarianism. It’s not a “bro book” in the slightest. Please don’t think it’s not for you because of memes or whatever else :) Give it a spin and I promise you’ll be pleasantly surprised

Truth👇

This week we are joined by translator Max Lawton to celebrate the release of Michael Lenz’s Schattenfroh from Deep Vellum . But rather than focus only on this one book, we open the conversation to a wider theme: the joy of reading books that resist.

From my first Zoom meeting with Francesco Pacifico before we hung out in Pigneto, to long editorial sessions with Walker, my editor at Deep Vellum, to final checks with the great Moresco himself. We did it! It’s delivered! Thank you, my friends, for making this possible. I am very proud

Thanks to ⁦Coach House Books⁩ for bringing this delightful book with echoes of Savage Detectives to this slide of the pond, translated by the awesome Julia Sanches.

Book mail from ⁦NYRB Classics⁩. Clear the decks.

From a fan 😅😅😅😅

Type Books in Toronto 🇨🇦 Deep Vellum 🤝 Europa Editions

Happy birthday to Will Evans — my king, my pimp, my love, my angel, my publisher, what Frida said about Diego, but better… In the first picture, we hold the books we’re planning to put out… a plan yet to come to fruition… but come to fruition it did—thanks to you! Love you!

love to see Cristina Rivera Garza on this short list

Weekend reading for Day of Translation from the wonderful folks at ⁦Center for the Art of Translation⁩ hosted by ⁦The Center for Fiction⁩. A day to celebrate!

“The hypothesis was it was just as hard to get published if you’re in Dallas as it is if you’re from, you know, Kiev, which is crazy,” he says. “And it was true, and it’s still true today…Everything is going according to plan,” he says in a wry reference to a Soviet era meme...”

Yes this is very good.

Best news ever. Monica Cure is a brilliant brilliant translator, writer, and thinker. I could not love her more. Nor could I admire her more extensively.

Highly recommended👇

An all ⁦Charco Press⁩ weekend.

I certainly need something to anticipate!

Huge congratulations to Krasznahorkai's wonderful translators, Ottilie Mulzet ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social and George Szirtes George Szirtes , and to Barbara Epler, editor extraordinaire, at New Directions !

Legend