I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Editing No New Ideas by art historian Matthew Israel and had cause to take a moment with the Graces, mirth, elegance & beauty. Glad mirth has a place within grace. #editorsandediting

In case you need this, it's "make sure you're right" Monday. #editorsandediting

It was a treat to be in NY just ahead of this encouraging political moment. Thanks to all who voted Mamdani and here's to all the other young visionaries I trust will run for office in the future!

We're all feeling poetry these days, unsurprisingly, since it's the answer. Perhaps you'd like to join me in supporting the poets with a donation to the Academy of American Poets. poets.org/donate?bbFor...

Lalah Delia has a new book in the works - gorgeous and poetic, this is meditative reading to keep us true to ourselves, our deepest well. @harperonebooks.bsky.social

Elaine Szewczyk's profile of Laura Restrepo and her SONG OF ANCIENT SPIRITS gets into the story of Laura's exile from Colombia in the 80s "Many got killed. I was lucky.” #booksky #literarytranslation #editorsandediting @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Looking for a novel that feels as good in your hands as it does in your heart? Here's a very special Japanese-paperback-inspired look for this lovely read about a taxi ride to change your life tr @tnieda.bsky.social #pubnews #worldliterature #booksky #japanesefiction @harperonebooks.bsky.social

Register for translator and poet Sholeh Wolpé's Attar seminar series (10/9, 10/16, 10/23)with the Academy of American Poets! #poetrysky #poets #literarytranslation poets.org/academy-amer...

Little me was so grateful to find Jane's work when we were sent to the library to choose idols for worship, she hasn't left my side since.

"do something nice for your nervous system, revisit that Sarah Louise album that felt so close to your spine..." She offered a beautiful guitar learning suggestion that has stayed with me: "play as slow as possible, learn it, then speed up" sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/album/earth-...

The Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series is spotlighting translations take a breath with this one: “disagreement” by Venezuelan poet María Auxiliadora Álvarez, translated from Spanish by Andrés Fernández poets.org/poem/disagre...

First review a 🌟 for Laura Restrepo's "sweeping and lyrical" SONG OF ANCIENT LOVERS (tr Caro De Robertis) @publisherswkly.bsky.social - out Dec 31! I've been obsessed with Restrepo for 20+ years and her books have helped pave my career path... #booksky #literarytranslation #editorsandediting

Equanimity can help us. Margaret Cullen introduces this vital skill @greatergoodmag.bsky.social : greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Underestimate Washington - and Seattle - as a hub of brilliant authorial activity at your own peril. Congrats to @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social on the Washington Book Award for Nonfiction for BE A REVOLUTION, read & get inspired by activism all around us. Cheers!! #booksky #pubnews

NY job opportunity to work with the illustrious Academy of American Poets as Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications. #booksky #publishing #poetry poets.org/academy-amer...

This is tonight - bring your questions and your feelings!

So my love of chants is rooted in the multiculti moment of my united colors of Benetton 90s upbringing

It’s really the best newsletter. No one sends me off toward more deeper readings.

Great @wwborders.bsky.social issue just landed ft a juicy review of Shelley Fairweather-Vega's translation of We Computers by Hamid Ismailov AND Kim Bok Hui's God of Petals tr @daybreakjung.bsky.social "I wash my worn-out towels to clean up God’s vomit and clean up all the stuff all over the place."

Some two years ago, poet/translator Sholeh Wolpe and her agent Anna Gosh pitched me on a gifty introduction to Attar's spiritual poetry, translated by someone who actually knows Persian (unlike the beloved Coleman Barks Rumi translations) and today that gift is ready for you:

I finished I Who Have Never Known Men a full week before book club and I simply can’t wait to discuss. Thoughts? @booksky @translation

What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation elliottbaybook.com/events/47732

"Every interaction has the weight of a move in a multidimensional chess game... Elegantly translated by Kasia Beresford, “Inner Space” is by turns lyrical, claustrophobic and terrifying." @nytimes.com on Jakub Szamalek's novel www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...

Want to see my #witmonth #womenintranslation takeover @ Hex Enduction Records & Books in Seattle? #booksky #worldliterature #translation

Essential advice for translators from Lara Vergnaud @wwborders.bsky.social "Do be patient, especially now, and maybe get yourself a side gig, especially now, and keep throwing books at the evil machines..." wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Spent a moment investigating my library privileges as an NYU adjunct based in Seattle and discovered that Interlibrary Loan is available TO ALL SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD HOLDERS!! I love you, #libraries #librarians #spl - folks, get on the WorldCat and bask with me in the access we share.

jobs.philanthropy.com/job/49491/pr... President and Executive Director job with Academy of American Poets | 49491

Blue angels zooming straight toward my window as practice for a g-darn parade is especially unwelcome in this world full of wars. #seafair #seattle

My favorite thing the computer can do is play my favorite radio station 😂 @wfmu.bsky.social

Pottery sale prescription for at desk dehydration #deskstilllife #editing

One of the funniest and most radical novels I've read in years, THE BEAR HUNTER'S DAUGHTER by Anneli Jordahl, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley, is one of Lila Denning @ala-booklist.bsky.social's Read ‘n’ Rave picks. Out in March 2026 with HarperVia #literatureintranslation #worldliterature

INNER SPACE by Jakub Szamalek tr Kasia Beresford is a July editors' pick at Spotify, warning, it's tough to put down, summer escape to the claustrophobia of the International Space Station...with an ammonia leak. #booksky #audiobooks #transtion open.spotify.com/genre/sectio...

New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:

"Toni Morrison loved being an editor. She fought for her writers and with them when necessary....She cajoled, she praised, she made better, she got her hands covered with ink and buried deep in the words." #booksky #editorsandediting www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

“What’s known and ignored takes its revenge.” #booksky disturbing and grand lunchtime reading - found this in a thrift store and fell all the way in.

Grant opportunity for Seattle-based artists, literary, media/film and visual! #pubnews #editorsandediting #writingandbooks #seattlearts Seattlehttps://www.seattle.gov/arts/programs/grants/cityartist-grant

Love seeing your Hungerstone cover in this riveting boneless woman with flashy type trend piece @nytimes.com , @aliciatatone.bsky.social #swoon #bookcoverdesign #publishing www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...

"We get to set the zeitgeist" #heardatwork #editorsandediting #pubnews 🤮

If you're interested in a beach read that pokes at climate change denial & the grotesquerie of the ultra-rich, with a blow-fish plot point & 2 hilarious sisters: SALTY by Kate Myers, she's touring east coast cities next week, say hi. www.harpercollins.com/products/sal... #harpervia

DJ Jessica has her grandparents on the air right now @wfmu.bsky.social and it is wonderful

So glad Susan Choi found “A River in Darkness,” one of the most harrowing books I’ve edited. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

Been reading lots of Cavafy since visiting Greece then found this gem translated by Robin Coste Lewis for #poemoftheday #aap @worldkidlit.bsky.social @poetry.bsky.social "We kept talking about the handkerchiefs, but" poets.org/poem/cavafy-...

Edmund White helped so many writers - writing in so many languages - find courage and a path to being read, such a generous and hard working leader. @worldkidlit.bsky.social

@peterblackstock.bsky.social ooh @publisherslunch.bsky.social tells me there's a new Douglas Stuart coming, can't wait!

Congrats to @theryanamato.bsky.social on today's publication of his first acquisition for HarperVia, Aram Mrjoian's debut novel WATERLINE, which Denise S. Robbins @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social called "stunning." chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/03/a...

PUTINOIKA, "delivers some of the most urgent literature imaginable...—the here and now of wordplay, the release of hilarious dialogues, a slow reveal of literature as a treatise of epistemology to oppose the banality of evil." @worldlittoday.bsky.social @gianninabraschi.bsky.social

This is cool, HarperVia author Kate Myers will see her novel EXCAVATIONS adapted for TV by Amy Poehler as DIG on Peacock. In case you didn't know, Poehler studied archaeology. www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/...

Even glossies like Vogue are facing our need to talk grief - love this shine on Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor's THE GRIEVING BODY & THE GRIEVING BRAIN. www.vogue.com/article/grie...

Some of our favorite May Day graphics from @tamimentlibrary.bsky.social 🧵