CJ Evans
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Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
Come nerd out with me and the rest of the original San Francisco nerds: book nerds.
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Ferroequinologist.
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😺
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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. ❤️
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8 months ago
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Seattle Supersonics.
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11 months ago
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When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”.
chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...
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Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section
https://chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2025/05/20/chicago-sun-times-response-to-may-18-special-section
12 months ago
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What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?
about 1 year ago
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Beautiful things are wasteful spending.
about 1 year ago
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Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.
about 1 year ago
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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.
about 1 year ago
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One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.
about 1 year ago
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[almost deadly birds of the soul]
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about 1 year ago
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Every angel is terrifying.
about 1 year ago
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Two Lines Press
about 1 year ago
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
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The Stevns Translation Prize
The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...
https://www.stevnstranslationprize.com/
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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.
about 1 year ago
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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.!
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about 1 year ago
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Two Lines Press
about 1 year ago
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
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The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize
THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...
https://www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize
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Two Lines Press
about 1 year ago
🎉 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...
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Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.
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over 1 year ago
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The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry
over 1 year ago
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There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from
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It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people.
uglyducklingpresse.org
over 1 year ago
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Michael Holtmann
over 1 year ago
Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in Granta. VOICES OF ADRIANNA is forthcoming from
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on February 18.
granta.com/images-of-wo...
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Images of Women | Elvira Navarro | Granta
‘In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks?’ Fiction by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
https://granta.com/images-of-women/
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Jenny Holzer.
over 1 year ago
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Richard Siken
over 1 year ago
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reposted by
CJ Evans
Two Lines Press
over 1 year ago
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
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The Stevns Translation Prize
The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...
https://www.stevnstranslationprize.com/
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over 1 year ago
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Karma’s a bitch, dude.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
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OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data
The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/technology/openai-deepseek-data-harvest.html
over 1 year ago
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Bill Knott.
over 1 year ago
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Kayleb Rae Candrilli
over 1 year ago
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Nothing illustrates the advancements in my lifetime like how far temporary tattoo technology has come.
over 1 year ago
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W.S. Merwin.
over 1 year ago
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João Gilberto Noll
over 1 year ago
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Are there publishers that pay for blurbs?
over 1 year ago
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August Kleinzahler.
over 1 year ago
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James Tate Terrance Hayes
over 1 year ago
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Jean Valentine.
over 1 year ago
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Matthew Rohrer
over 1 year ago
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Please stop remaking things.
over 1 year ago
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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
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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
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The Best Horror Fiction of 2024
We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/books/review/best-horror-books-2024.html
over 1 year ago
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if we were to lose the ruins we would be left with nothing
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over 1 year ago
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Lorine Niedecker.
over 1 year ago
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What about a social network that only lets each user post once a day?
over 1 year ago
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Eating a cookie in a dimly lit room with a purring cat.
over 1 year ago
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I want this to be a positive place. Am I hoping for too much?
over 1 year ago
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I ❤️ Maria Judite de Carvalho.
over 1 year ago
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Mary Jean Chan.
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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.
over 1 year ago
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Suzanne Buffam
over 1 year ago
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