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Love these books like I love you like I love cats like I love good totes and all those things are one in a Two Lines membership. ❤️

Seattle Supersonics.

When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”. chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...

What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?

Beautiful things are wasteful spending.

Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.

The only way I can explain it to myself is people apparently care as much about the arts as I do about AI emoji generators.

One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.

[almost deadly birds of the soul]

Every angel is terrifying.

There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

Publishing would be in a much better spot if we were all a bit less efficient. If writers were slower, editors were slower, the cycle of new books was just slowed down.

So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

🎉 Happy pub date to Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro! 🎉 Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore or order directly from us www.catranslation.org/shop/book/th...

Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.

The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org

Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in Granta. VOICES OF ADRIANNA is forthcoming from @twolinespress.bsky.social on February 18. granta.com/images-of-wo...

Jenny Holzer.

Richard Siken

Submissions are now open for the Stevn's Prize! Two Lines Press is seeking emerging French to English translators. To learn more please visit: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

Karma’s a bitch, dude. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

Bill Knott.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Nothing illustrates the advancements in my lifetime like how far temporary tattoo technology has come.

W.S. Merwin.

João Gilberto Noll

Are there publishers that pay for blurbs?

August Kleinzahler.

James Tate Terrance Hayes

Jean Valentine.

Matthew Rohrer

Please stop remaking things.

I told you I wouldn’t complain about every year-end list… Check out Woodworm and Through the Night on this great list from the brilliant @gabino.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

if we were to lose the ruins we would be left with nothing

Lorine Niedecker.

What about a social network that only lets each user post once a day?

Eating a cookie in a dimly lit room with a purring cat.

I want this to be a positive place. Am I hoping for too much?

I ❤️ Maria Judite de Carvalho.

Mary Jean Chan.

The most impressive marketing move of the last 50 years was somehow convincing all the hikers and hippies that their clothes should be made of plastic.

Suzanne Buffam

I hate you ubiquitous early December Christmas music.

1/2 It’s quite something to watch the USA industry lay off so many first rate editors and publishers during the past few years. At the same time, so many literary journals are allowed to die. SPD was allowed to go out of business without much of a helping hand to small presses.