Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰

New at PB, @arghpoetica.bsky.social reviews Hon Lai Chu’s “Mending Bodies,” translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social, which tells the story of an unnamed, imaginary city where the government tries to salvage its failing economy through physical conjoinment.

Want to read more about government incentivized surgical conjoinment? All of our books, including Hon Lai Chu's MENDING BODIES, translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social are 30% off (40% off if you're a member) for our CAT Days of Summer Sale! www.catranslation.org/shop/book/me...

@worldlittoday.bsky.social ‪has a fantastic review of Mending Bodies. Thank you ‪@myetcetera.bsky.social‬ for such a thoughtful reading. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

Today in the ARB: Angus Stewart reviews “Mending Bodies” by Hon Lai Chu, tr from Chinese by Jacqueline Leung @twolinespress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/mending-bodi...

“Mending Bodies is such an immersive book; Hon’s literary world is very emotional, it’s violent and contemplative, and there’s a certain rhythm to it.” @jacqlyy.bsky.social spoke to @karenklcheung.bsky.social about translating Hon Lai Chu's MENDING BODIES: www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...

TODAY: Visit us at (booth #92) at #baybookfest. Books (& deals!) from our publisher @twolinespress.bsky.social at the Bookworm Block Party & see Hon Lai Chu, author of MENDING BODIES, & translator @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬ on the Stories of Tomorrow panel. ➡️ www.catranslation.org/event/bay-ar...

"To me, Hong Kong is always a place that is disappearing and reappearing"--Hon Lai Chu Thanks to everyone who came out to the launch of MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai Chu, translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬, with ‪@seelight.bsky.social‬, co-presented by The Ruby and On Waverly!

Come meet Hon Lai Chu and me at #baybookfest and support Two Lines Press!

Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1 www.baybookfest.org/session/stor...

A dystopian novel from Hong Kong, Canadian graphic nonfiction, new poetry from Palestine, and more: Tobias Carroll on this month's notable releases in translation. Read the April Watchlist: buff.ly/f8TRkNG

Mending Bodies is out! A novel about conjoining your own body with another person, oppressive systems, and the complex relationships we form—whether saccharine admiration or bitter interdependence—with those we hold dear.

Here’s Wasafiri’s latest issue with writing about the climate, peripheral spaces, and migration, etc. Also includes my translation of three poems by Louise Law

Hello! Twitter lingerer moving over to Bluesky… (All the while, US TikTok moves to XHS somehow)