Tonight’s research watch is the National Theatre Live “All About Eve” with Gillian Anderson because it’s thematically relevant to the book I’m revising (not just because of the toxic MILF also that’s. Definitely part of it.)

TONIGHT! I'll be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social with the brilliant @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social to talk about WINTER WHITE, retellings, love and hope in the face of trauma, the writing process, and how libraries are essential for our communities. Join us!

Ohohoho ARCS have landed! BEING ARO, my next book co edited with Madeline Dyer, releases in May from Page Street! I’m so hyped to share this collection with y’all and celebrate aromantic stories!

NO WTF

giggling and kicking my feet at the edits from @ardyce.bsky.social in my inbox because my toxic gothic lesbians are about to get SO MUCH WORSE.

me getting back into Spring Awakening, I fear.

my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.

We’ve all seen the “In the dark times will there be singing” poem by Brecht (tr. John Willett) but I wanted to take time today on Substack to highlight his other poem about work in dark times: open.substack.com/pub/nitatynd...

Applications are open until February 28th!

One of those all-too rare things; a column about literary translation in a regular writing publication!

“Well, what shall we hang—the holly, or each other?” Lion in Winter aka THEE Christmas movie of all time

This is so terrible! outlets stop mining fanworks for clicks!! Terrible idea!!!

A lot of recent adult romances are actually dramas with jokes and bright lights. They aren’t soft, romantic or horny enough. Heated Rivalry gets it right.

Who else is watching the Hallmark Mr. Christmas competition because my friends and I have Opinions

“There are these rarer, powerful moments where, through a quirk of phrasing or word order, you can feel language being actively patterned by a specific body.” Kate Briggs talks about translating Hélène Bessette’s LILI IS CRYING. At BOMB Magazine: buff.ly/lXxHsqr @bombmag.bsky.social

K&W has a special place in my heart. www.axios.com/local/raleig...

Nonfiction, comics, poems, and fiction in translation: Tobias Carroll recommends a little of everything in last month's Watchlist. Read it here:

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

After gathering input from many, Mary Robinette is sharing a great list of works featuring / focusing on people who use wheelchairs. The list starts here, but scroll down for more works and up for the original request (and the replies thereto).

Give the gift of literary translation with our 1 week Holiday Sale! 🎁 For one-week-only we're offering 30% off all our books (40% off for Two Lines Press members), special $12 hardcovers, and free shipping on U.S. orders over $50! 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me. Yes, stole it. I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME. 🖕

Am Freitag erscheint unser Romantasy-Roman über eine Seilerin, die auf Seile steht, und wenn ihr auch auf Seile, Romantasy oder Romane steht, solltet ihr ihn unbedingt kaufen! Wer noch Artwork-Karten dazu möchte, kann das Buch z.B. in unserem Etsy-Store vorbestellen, ansonsten im lokalen Buchhandel!

Take a look at this conversation with ALTA member Robin Myers about translating the music of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s novel WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING, shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. At @wwborders.bsky.social:

Last day!

RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.

first book banners told us it was just about what was in schools then they came for books in the public libraries then they started getting book stores for carrying certain stock now I'm hearing about little free libraries being shut down also a reminder that Utah still has a book destruction law.

Great stuff from some young readers in Iowa with lessons for us all! Start where you are, build your community, keep pushing on policy, & have fun! And for any grown-ups in the room, sometimes the best action you can take is supporting the action of the young people in your community

PA chapter leader Katherine Locke talks with PEN American about banned books, email harassment, & more. Thread includes a link to PEN's toolkit for dealing with email harassment

We’re thrilled to announce that on October 28th at 4 PM ET, PPABB will present its first event, "Book Bans and the Art of Protecting Authors" with guests Jas Perry, Angie Thomas, and Philomena Polefrone. Registration link here: www.publishingprofessionalsagainstbookbans.com/events

Heads-up that Chirp's got a great list of LGBTQ YA audiobooks on sale this month: www.chirpbooks.com/audiobook-li...

We interviewed author Jazmina Barrera and translator Christina MacSweeney about their National Book Award-longlisted novel, THE QUEEN OF SWORDS. Read the interview: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @twolinespress.com

Book pals, help out a bookseller in need. My friend Colleen has been in painful chemo and the cancer has recently spread. Cancer (and capitalism) have taken her job as Books Inc ended her remote marketing job when BN took over. Please boost and/or donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...

WHO I WAS WITH HER, my debut YA, has ended up on another ban list 🙃 Libro.fm was nice enough to partner with me for an audiobook giveaway and I’d love to get this bisexual YA book about grief into the hands of people who need it if y’all could help me spread the word. (Like or repost for an entry)

Does anyone have a copy of The Art of Joy (the English translation of L'arte della gioia) by Goliarda Sapienza? I’m looking for a quote for a translation I’m working on. Thanks!

Translator Polly Barton discusses the process of translating HUNCHBACK by Saou Ichikawa, which has been longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature. Read the interview here, as well as all our other interviews in this series: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

What was the most #bannedbook in U.S. schools in the 2024-25 school year? Topping the list, after being banned in 23 school districts, is a 1962 novel that Time magazine named one of 100 best books of all time in 2010. These are the 15 most-banned books in America: pen.org/banned-books...

The hardest action to take is often the first one. So this #BannedBooksWeek don't worry about what you do as long as you DO SOMETHING. We'll win this together with millions of little actions building to big changes & millions of people working together & taking care of each other.

“I treated the translation of this novel like a poem, in that I let the strangeness wash over me and didn’t try to think too hard about making things ‘make sense.’” ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you: 1 Event or 1 Organization or 1 Person Here's what we mean...

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

Teaser of the gothic novel I have coming out next year because it’s time to start talking about it!! Have some fucked up psychosexual lesbian horror 😌 as a treat 😌

New Releases: October 7, 2025 Middle Grade Splinter & Ash 2: City of Secrets by Marieke Nijkamp The second book in New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp’s immersive medieval fantasy trilogy! A shadowy conspiracy threatens the city, and two determined misfits must uncover the secret…

as part of their anti-Prime sale @bookshop.org has free shipping for the next couple days. you can support your local bookstore by buying from their bookshop page. or a favorite author! We get a lil kickback from any sales we drive. Here's my link w lots of book recs if that is of interest

📣 Translators! Don't miss your chance - VSC's open call will offer 2, 3, and 4-week residencies in 2026, and ✨translators are eligible for them.✨ Get in your application by the end of the day today! 👇

New Releases: September 30, 2025 Middle Grade A Little Too Haunted by Justine Pucella Winans The only thing worse than having ghost hunters for parents is having fake ghost hunters for parents. Luna Catalano would know. Her moms are haunted house flippers who use their home reno skills and pretend…

Wow. Honored 🥹🖤 chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/29/7...

AT MIDNIGHT is out in paperback today from @flatironbooks.bsky.social! This is such a beautiful anthology, and while I am absolutely biased, the publications quoted here are not, so trust them even if you don't trust me! www.dahliaadler.com/at-midnight

Where are people finding bookish community these days? (My heart will break if you say discord because my attention span cannot handle another server. And I have yet to be swayed to threads.)

Want to expand your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previous have guessed at? Join as a Two Lines Press member by 9/21 and receive a brand new tote bag and a year's worth of books that come highly praised by @themountaingoats.bsky.social! www.catranslation.org/books/member...