"James [...] had experienced the saddest experience of all--forgetfulness of what it was like to be in love." And then a double forgetting: "he had forgotten even that he had forgotten." Pathetic. #ForsyteSaga26

I would be willing to bet that this song gets stuck in your head. It just has that kind of sound. 🥰 Since not a lot of people talk about Yazoo, I'm choosing "Only You" as today's theme song. Do you have one in mind? #Yazoo #music #songs #80s youtu.be/dt9gn7R683k?...

Were women not allowed at funerals at the time? "Soames, who was sole executor, took charge of all the arrangements, and in due course sent out the following invitation to every male member of the family" #ForsyteSaga26

Let's start with this book, translated by our friend @katherineeyoung.bsky.social. As a nominee for the International Booker said this year - if it weren't for translators, we would only know our own stories. bergstrompressbooks.com/en/fiction/1...

The Men's Decameron.

Slightly diminish a book: The Apprentice and Margaritochka

Anyone in NY who is free tomorrow afternoon (5/4, 2 pm), Sharon Clark and I will be presenting our paper with N Andreeva, "The Sunny Side of Essentialism: Race & Jazz in Russia" at Harriman Institute at Columbia. harriman.columbia.edu/event/the-su...

Gives a whole new (old) meaning to this first book's title, "The Man of Property." Women are men's property, naturally (and until a certain point, couldn't own any actual property themselves). #ForsyteSaga26

"Breakfast Fail" by Salvatore Difalco, in case you missed it

Share the Fair is the giving program that supports students at my school who need help buying books. No one should leave the Book Fair empty-handed! #ScholasticBookFairs Follow this link for more information and to donate! Let’s bring the book joy! shop.scholastic.com/stf/fund?org...

Natalya Sukhonos interviewed by Valerie Bandura on poetry, being an immigrant, Ukraine, and more.

"What’s at stake in my work is a reckoning with the ways in which, through the prisms of memory, art can be a way to confront the often traumatic losses of the past — both an individual’s past and the past of a nation." puncturedlines.com/2026/04/29/p...

It's the weekend and what are you going to read? Something escapist? Fiction? Poetry? Or maybe tackle a book in a different language? Use the code 5MZ1KUEC and save 15% all weekend! You can even order the perfect tote bag! bergstrompressbooks.com/en/

Here's where Russian* comes in handy (it has no "th"), although today I had to question myself about the spelling because of English interference. *(For those who missed the discussion w/ @lizoksbooks.bsky.social, this novel was huge in the Soviet Union). #ForsyteSaga26

Since you posted Yelena's review, here's my blog post from, well, about eight years ago! This is one of those unusual books that still makes me smile when I recall the experience of reading it. lizoksbooks.blogspot.com/2018/05/lite...

Day 4, "Projection of the House": "and, pervading all, was a soft, insensible hum, like the murmur of bright minutes holding revel between earth and heaven." #ForsyteSaga26

#forsytesaga26 seems to have put me in a 19th century frame of mind as I'm also thoroughly enjoying Nora Favorov's new translation of City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoschinskaya.

"Birthday Flowers" by Louise Kuhlman, in case you missed it

Natalya Sukhonos's third collection of poems, SUNLIGHT TRAPPED IN STONE (@greenwriterspress.bsky.social) is the subject of her conversation with fellow immigrant poet from Odesa, Ukraine @valeriebandura.bsky.social. Read on PuncturedLines.com.

In the midst of editing student thesis drafts, trying to keep up w/the reading and find this page discrepancy. Luckily, the person who had this library book previously helpfully noted where to find the disordered pages, which I wouldn't have w/o. First time for everything. #ForsyteSaga26

A few things: -I pinned the schedule -I'll post daily about readings -Read at your own pace if you'd like! -Do let us know if this pace is off -- it's easy to adjust -I'm looking forward to reading your posts about the book -Thank you for joining me and @yelenafurman.bsky.social! #ForsyteSaga26

Here's week #1 reading for John Galsworthy's #ForsyteSaga26! Mo, Apr 27 I “At Home” at Old Jolyon’s Tue, Apr 28 II Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera Wed, Apr 29 III Dinner at Swithin’s Thu, Apr 30 IV Projection of the House Fri, May 1 V A Forsyte Ménage Sat, May 2 VI James at Large Sun, May 3 Day Off

Morgen geht's los! Buchbummel und Bier! Tomorrow's the day and Kensington is the place to be! #indiebookstoreday #DCbookcrawl #buchbummel followed up by the Day of the Beer at Babycat Brewery @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social

I wrote this book, which is about a writer but not a literary biography. It's published by a university press, but it's not an academic book. It's just a good story about an interesting life — and I keep hoping that someday someone else will mention that. Sigh.

A reminder that we'll start on Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga next Monday, April 27! I'll post a (flexible) reading schedule for the first week over the coming weekend. I'm looking forward to reading with you! #ForsyteSaga26 Here's Galsworthy on The Nobel Prize site: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

It's coming this weekend! #IndieBookstoreDay and the #DCbookstorecrawl! Mark your calendars! Check out this page for more details and to print out a map of the bookstores! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-dc-in... You can help indie bookstores here @bookshop.org or @americanbookseller.bsky.social

Annual pilgrimage to LA Festival of Books + pain of missing the play ins. As I walked away from the "who's your fictional crush" board (Chekhov, even though that's the answer to a different ?), a woman said to her friend, "Let's leave before someone sees who I wrote down," and I'm now intrigued.

"Taking out some of the hyphens means disconnecting from who I am." @vladateper.bsky.social beautiful and to many of us highly relatable essay on Mărțișor, Moldova, complicated identities, and our ties to the places we come from after we've left them. www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

We are farther from Office Romance (1977) than Novoseltsev was from Pasternak's poem "Loving some people is a heavy cross" (1931) when he tried to pass it off as his own.

A delight to have Egana Djabbarova in the U.S. to present MY DREADFUL BODY, translated @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. Thank you The Harriman Institute at Columbia, U of Pennsylvania, @thenewschool.bsky.social, Amherst College + @rhondakg.bsky.social for hosting. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

A long-ago gift from a very close friend and possibly my first Australian read.

New on the blog today, I've written about INSPECTOR IMANISHI INVESTIGATES by Seichō Matsumoto (tr. Jesse Kirkwood). An absorbing, slow-burning mystery from the author of TOKYO EXPRESS. Some fascinating insights into 1960s Japan here! #1961Club #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/i...

'It’s strange. I don’t remember anything about the cases that were solved, but I can recall clearly the faces of each of the victims of the unsolved cases. Well, now there’s one more to give me bad dreams.’ #1961Club #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/i...

I'm writing #PostcardsToVoters for Chedrick Greene, running for US State Senate in a May 5th Special Election. Join me linktr.ee/postcardstov...

In the Winter 2025 issue of #SlavicReview, Paolo Sartori writes, "Slavic Settlers and Conversion to Islam in Russian Central Asia," as part of the Cluster: Towards a History of Russian Colonialism. Read now on Cambridge Core: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy pub date to BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 from @deepvellum.bsky.social. I’m very proud to have a translation in this volume, a poem by a Kyiv-based poet Olga Bragina, first published in @consequencef.bsky.social. Buy the book: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes... #booksky #translation

"Nocturne" by Xing Zhang, a population health professor who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She enjoys playing piano from the Romantic era, figure skating, and dancing.

Final push for Ohio State Day of Giving! Every gift matters—help me raise money to protect the oldest Romanian language program in the US. #BuckeyesGive dayofgiving.osu.edu/giving-day/1... Select "College of Arts and Sciences"==>Other==>Rodica C. Botoman Romanian Studies Fund (Fund number 318740)

Available open access as part of the Cluster: Towards a History of Russian Colonialism in the Winter 2025 issue of #SlavicReview, Ulrich Hofmeister writes, "Colonialism or kolonizatsiia? Why the Difference between Ukraine and Central Asia Matters." Read now on Cambridge Core:

"The world was changing..." #1961Club #Simenon #AgathaChristie kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/t...

Happy (eastern) Easter to those who celebrate and happy one dictator down, several more to go to those who celebrate, too. 🇭🇺

For after I finish the book- a review by @olgaz.bsky.social !! zilberbourg.com/2020/04/17/m...

"And it was also unclear what would follow after sorting that out. I'd turn out to be who-the-hell-knows-what kind of woman...." #Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin, translated by Lisa Hayden #Ukraine A young, lively, resilient Jewish woman forays through her life after WWII. #NowReading

Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-d...

I've watched Midsomer Murders, including this pilot episode, a million times, including a recent rewatch of most of the 20+ seasons available for free. Never read any of the books, though, and this might be the first time reading a murder mystery where I know who did it, but it's still good so far.

Today is the publication day of the English translation of Egana Djabbarova's novel My Dreadful Body, translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social; massive thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social for putting an excerpt on Punctured Lines. 1/

This is such an exciting prospect. I really enjoyed reading Djabbarova and am very happy anglophone readers will get to know her work in Lisa’s translations.

Thank you very much to Punctured Lines for running this excerpt from my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body! I'm happy to add that today's our publication day, thanks to @newvesselpress.bsky.social!

Reading this now, needed more

Wonderful book