Gregory Conway
@lonningspils.bsky.social
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chess, coffee & nordic literature in peterborough, canada.
https://lonningspils.ca/
Olga Ravn reading from The Wax Child
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Coach House Books
6 days ago
The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison has been selected for The Booksellers’ List Spring 2026! ‘An existential romp and a heartfelt cry for an international humanitarian awakening.’ – Basil Sylvester, Flying Books Out May 12:
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music that i listened to this week 🌌
7 days ago
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A stack of every book that I finished in March.
11 days ago
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New on Lønningspils. I interviewed Geoffrey D. Morrison about learning Norwegian, UFOs, long sentences, opening a branch of the Vancouver Public Library in Ontario, humour in Pynchon & Bolaño, Dag Solstad & his forthcoming novel "The Coffin Of Honey".
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She’s as cute as Nokia 3310.
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new books :)
21 days ago
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new project
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another weekly five by five
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a stack of the books i finished in february
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Íslendingafélagið í Chicago
about 2 months ago
New Article: Exploring Icelandic & US Southern Lit. Our former podcast guest Jenna Grace Sciuto discusses her book "Intersecting Worlds"
lonningspils.ca/2026/02/15/i...
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In Conversation With Jenna Grace Sciuto.
By Gregory Conway.Jenna Grace Sciuto Ph.D. is scholar focused on colonialism’s lingering impacts on identity, intimacy, and family dynamics across Icelandic, US Southern, and Caribbean literatures …
https://lonningspils.ca/2026/02/15/in-conversation-with-jenna-grace-sciuto/
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can't wait for this, "the details" by ia genberg is one of the best pieces of translated lit coming out of the nordics in recent years (high praise!)
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about 2 months ago
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A fun one from Olav H. Hauge i think about a lot: BERTOLT BRECHT A versatile fellow: playwright, actor, poet His verse was handy to step into, it stood on the door-step like a pair of wooden clogs.
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I love the last three lines of the poem Everyday from 1966's Drops in the East Wind (trans. Robin Fulton)
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five by five
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I interviewed Jenna Grace Sciuto about her book "Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures" We touch on Faulkner, Laxness, Svava Jakobsdóttir, Skriðuklaustur, McCullers & much more.
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great write up from the best site. i'm still grappling with where it stands in his oeuvre... outside of his Big 3 great works, this may be my favourite so far.
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New on the website. Noah Vølund Fechter reviews "they" by Helle Helle (trans. Martin Aitken).
@ndbooks.bsky.social
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they, Helle Helle. 2018.
Review by Noah Vølund Fechter.they by Helle Helle.Trans. by Martin Aitken.New Directions.88/100Sometimes I wake up to texts from my mom about Helle Helle. One morning she sent me a Danish governmen…
https://lonningspils.ca/2026/02/10/they-helle-helle-2018-2/
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Charlotte Mandell
2 months ago
Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...
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french lit pickups from a used bookstore visit
2 months ago
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Poesia forever. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
3 months ago
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finally making a dent in the new tove ditlevsen
3 months ago
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Auden... in Iceland?
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this piece by anne meredith barry feels exactly halfway between nikolai astrup & tove jansson, so ya i do love it so so much
3 months ago
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I love reading Tomas Tranströmer poems.
3 months ago
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I wrote about one of the best novels I encoutered last year. One Thousand & One by Kari Hukkila. (Trans. David Hackston). An essayistic novel with truly unique form. It is part wittgenstein biography, part history of natural disasters & part tempestuous love story.
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One Thousand & One, Kari Hukkila. 2016.
Review by Gregory ConwayOne Thousand & One by Kari Hukkila,Trans. by David Hackston.Contra Mundum Press95/100**** **** A lot of my winter driving this holiday season has been soundtracked by th…
https://lonningspils.ca/2026/01/03/one-thousand-one-kari-hukkila-2016/
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In a big step for the website, we sent Penelope Dieppa to the New York launch of The School Of Night, where Karl Ove Knausgaard was in conversation with Patricia Lockwood. An insightful
#KnausgaardUpdate
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On Attending Karl Ove Knausgård’s “The School Of Night” Book Launch.
By Penelope Dieppa. I overheard a woman behind me describing a Russian film, set entirely in the Hermitage, taking the viewer through centuries of Russian history, done in one shot. She bookended h…
https://lonningspils.ca/2026/01/15/on-attending-karl-ove-knausgard-the-school-of-night-launch/
3 months ago
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New on Lønningspils today. I interviewed
@mayaweeks.bsky.social
about translating the author's note for Tove Jansson's "Sun City", studying plastic pollution in Sweden from a feminist environmental justice perspective, making ambient records & so much more.
lonningspils.ca/2026/01/09/i...
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fish by nevan hinks
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I just finished Solvej Balle's 1993 book "Ifølge loven // According To The Law", truly blown away. It really mogs OTCOF and hope to see more of their work in translation in the near future.
3 months ago
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three paintings by mamma andersson
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Double Bubble, Double Tove Jansson over the past few days. My first encounter with their work. Big preference for Sun City.
3 months ago
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Íslendingafélagið í Chicago
about 1 year ago
Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality from the US South to Iceland with Dr. Sciuto (#28, English and Icelandic)
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Calum Barnes
about 1 year ago
11. Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas (tr. Bibbi Lee). One woman’s immersive monologue recounting the wounding love affair that has shaped her life brims with arresting philosophical aperçus, freighted by a keen sensitivity to the injustices of capitalist existence.
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A.V. Marraccini is a writer, based in New York who has had their essay "Mutta on toisia geometrioita" translated & published in Finland, by the press Poesia. I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
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In Conversation with A.V. Marraccini & Erkka Filander.
By Gregory Conway. A.V. Marraccini (she/her) is critic, art historian and essayist based in New York. I came across their work through their wonderful book We The Parasites (2023), out in Canada on…
https://lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/in-conversation-with-a-v-marraccini-erkka-filander/
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Per Esben Svelstad holds a Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works in the topics of ecocriticism, queer reading, literary education and more. I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"
lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...
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In Conversation With Per Esben Svelstad.
By Gregory Conway Per Esben Svelstad is a Professor at NTNU, Norway. In 2017 he completed a queer theory focused Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works around the topics of ecocritici…
https://lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/in-conversation-with-per-esben-svelstad/
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some recent nordic reads
3 months ago
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quietly put some new stuff on the website: an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum. + reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.
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