The Arts Fuse chews on She Who Remains: “[A] Faulknerian intensity . . . The novel has a lurid, Grand Guignol atmosphere, shifting from narration to poetic incantation and back again." artsfuse.org/327163/book-...

Trocadero Philadelphia OCT/NOV 1994 (h/t @buzzpoole.bsky.social)

Has She Who Remains being on the International @thebookerprizes.com shortlist made you curious about Bulgarian literature? Check out The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva (tr. Angela Rodel, who won the International Booker Prize along with Georgi Gospodinov for Time Shelter). Cem is an epic classic!

All I want in my Easter basket is tapes of the Gillian Welch / Dave Rawlings Dead sets from this weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSZ...

Finally got to “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at Portland Museum of Art. I could get lost in an entire museum of her images, but this Sun Ra one is otherworldly in how it conjures a galaxy in Sun Ra’s cape. This pic doesn’t do justice to the print. Space is the place!

I get rid of all movie tie-in covers. Hate them. Except this one. I laugh every time I look at it.

Happy National Poetry Month? Why not celebrate with some exciting, critically acclaimed Croatian poetry? The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan will be out in a few weeks, but we’ve got you covered until then. #booksky

She Who Remains, written by Rene Karabash and translated by Izidora Angel, is ‘an exquisitely written, brilliantly observed story about a young woman in a contemporary Albanian tribal society’. Find out more about this #InternationalBooker2026 shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Believe it or not, more prize news: Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) is on the shortlist for the EBRD Literature Prize! www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...

loooove to see @sandorfpassage.bsky.social on here too. mention the publishers, book journalists!

Thrilling that She Who Remains has made the shortlist! #booksky

She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (tr. @izidoraangel.bsky.social) is on #internationalbookerprize2026 shortlist! “Exquisitely written, brilliantly observed.”

The Grateful Dead’s sound always evolved but listening to 3/25/72, it is mind-blowing to think how radically the band’s sound would change in a matter of weeks. These pre-Europe NYC shows sound like late ‘71, and NOTHING like what was conjured on the Continent. Really is remarkable. #deadfreaksunite

Great to see She Who Remains on this “Read with Pride” display at the 5th Avenue Barnes & Noble in Manhattan.

“Translated fiction is the most powerful and truthful evidence of ‘the other.’” That’s Rene Karabash in a new interview with @thebookerprizes.com and @izidoraangel.bsky.social. Read on! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Back from London with finished copies of our next three releases: The Book of Visits, The Minister, and A Plan to Save the World—poetry from Croatia and fiction from Montenegro and Iraq. Curious? Get in touch!

In CLOSED SEASON, translated by Marina Veverec, Monika Herceg uses hunting symbolism to “express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with.” Poetry from @sandorfpassage.bsky.social for #WomensHistoryMonth: sandorfpassage.org/product/clos...

SHE WHO REMAINS by Rene Karabash, translated by Izidora Angel, is set in a “rural Albanian village where the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of villagers.” Read it for #WomensHistoryMonth! @sandorfpassage.bsky.social sandorfpassage.org/product/she-...

I can’t remember when the London Book Fair stopped happening in April. But ever since it’s been held in March, I’ve really come to appreciate the trip being my first real dose of spring every year.

Omg I would have flown there from Italy if I’d known about that panel! What a dream to be in the same room with those three, let alone talk to them!!! Holy crap. Seriously just three writers I am in awe of. Have a great time.

If you’re attending the London Book Fair this week, perhaps you’d like to check out this panel with Aleksandar Hemon, Rumena Bužarovska, and Ivana Bodrožić, moderated by yours truly? www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer...

If you’re close to Concord, NH, tomorrow evening I’ll be @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social to talk to @sevenstories.bsky.social publisher Dan Simon about his new novel, Ashland @europaeditions.bsky.social. Join us!

What a tremendously thoughtful review of Soiled with Earth, Drunk on Air by Nicole Yurcaba: “The compact structures and couplets compress the specific imagery on which Petlevski’s poems rely, and this compression furthermore enhances each poem’s voice.” austinpoetryreview.com/soiled-with-...

“The novel feels like a fever dream narrated by someone who refuses to be oppressed into sanity. Scenes oscillate between brutal realism and fantastical hallucination.” Ibrahim Fawzy on The Competition of Unfinished Stories @worldlittoday.bsky.social. worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/c...

The longlist @thebookerprizes.com logo looking good on She Who Remains!

“Told with understated poetry, this novel perfectly captures the slippery uncertainty of painful memories.” @thebookerprizes.com on She Who Remains

Wow, wow, wow! As our friends in the UK say, we are massively chuffed about the Bulgarian queer masterpiece She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (tr. @izidoraangel.bsky.social) being on the longlist for the International Booker Prize. #booksky

now we're talkin

In November we’ll release Dogs by Dora Šustić (tr. Ena Selimović). Sexy, druggy, and distorted, this celebrated Croatian novel tracks the narrator, Dora, as she attempts to live life on her terms. We’ll have ARCs in May.

Looking for a twisted contemporary Ukrainian folktale? We have you covered in October with The Hamlet Called America. ARCs available in April. #booksky

In 2011 going viral wasn’t what it is now, but a piece I wrote for Print, in response to a piece @newyorker.com Book Bench (remember that?) got reposted by @salon.com and took off from there. What was it about? Writers who don’t read. It holds up, especially the kicker. www.salon.com/2011/09/13/w...

Groundhog shadows? Crocuses? Later sunsets? Here in Maine, the true first sign of spring is when Dairy Queen reopens for the season.

These ARCs are available. Interested? Get in touch.

Yes! @johnwilliams.bsky.social letting @robrubsam.bsky.social review Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost made a difference in sales for @sandorfpassage.bsky.social. Indies spend money on creating great books. It has become increasingly difficult to get readers to know about our books. 👇👇

Yes! @johnwilliams.bsky.social letting @robrubsam.bsky.social review Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost made a difference in sales for @sandorfpassage.bsky.social. Indies spend money on creating great books. It has become increasingly difficult to get readers to know about our books. 👇👇

@literaryhub.bsky.social has dubbed Sarah Schulte’s hypnotizing cover for She Who Remains one of the 10 Best Book Covers of January! lithub.com/the-10-best-...

In this week’s New England Literary News, Nina MacLaughlin raves about She Who Remains: “The book is torrential, it is a spell, it moves in blood and death and deepest love . . . The prose gallops, a muscled thundering horse underneath you.” ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/bostons-ne...

March will be the fifth anniversary of our first release: The President Shop by Vesna Maric, hailed by @catherinelacey.bsky.social as “a marvelous, timeless book.” As always, @bradlisti.bsky.social got to the heart of the matter when he interviewed Maric.

@izidoraangel.bsky.social’s breathtaking translation of She Who Remains by Rene Karabash is out today! “Bold and visionary” in the words of Katrina Dodson, find out for yourself why Service95 has dubbed this landmark Bulgarian queer novel one of the 21 Must-Read Books to Have on Your Radar in 2026.

A Plan to Save the World by Hassan Akram (tr. Ibrahim Fawzy) gazes out through the eyes of a child, trying to make sense of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. Surprising and beguilingly touching, an excerpt of this was included in Best Literary Translations 2025. ARCs available now!

One week until the release of She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (tr. @izidoraangel.bsky.social). And we’re not the only ones excited about readers discovering this landmark Bulgarian queer novel. Service95 has dubbed it one of the 21 Must-Read Books to Have on Your Radar in 2026! #booksky

Wow! Service95 dubs Rene Karabash’s She Who Remains (tr. @izidoraangel.bsky.social) one of the 21 Must-Read Books to Have On Your Radar In 2026. #booksky service95.com/best-books-2...

Bob Weir got to live out his dreams from the age of 16 until today. We should all be so fortunate.

Essential Bob Weir. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6g...

Two of my favorite books from 2025 were published by @sandorfpassage.bsky.social!

In yesterday's mail two from @sandorfpassage.bsky.social! The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Ozmen; translated by Nicholas Glastonbury is out now and The Minister by Stefan Boskovic; translated by Will Firth lands in May.

Thrilled to see She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (tr. Izidora Angel) as one of @autostraddle.bsky.social’s Most Anticipated Queer Books of January! www.autostraddle.com/our-most-ant...

Hot off the press here in #maine: ARCs of The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr.Will Firth). Sharp, unsettling, and bitingly relevant, it is a portrait of a society where truth is slippery, power is dangerous, and survival demands moral compromise. Let us know if you want a copy. #booksky

Spun Purple Mountains earlier today, forever in awe of Berman’s turns of phrase. And also happened to think about Ryan and some of his Berman stories. If I were in New York this weekend, I would not miss this.

This huge Europa hit, a Deep Vellum book making Obama's book list...I can't help feeling like publishing's woes could open up an opportunity for readers to understand that independent press books (by US authors and in translation) are not only vital literature but also...as good, as big 5 books?