Thank you, @mollsotov.bsky.social , for including The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura, by Tierno Monénembo, translated by by Ryan Chamberlain for @schaffnerpress.bsky.social , on @crimereads.bsky.social year-end Best International Crime Fiction list! crimereads.com/the-best-int... #booksky

Pleased to share a positive new review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for Generator, Rinny Gremaud’s debut novel, to be published by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social next month. DM me or email [email protected] for an early finished copy. www.publishersweekly.com/9781639640713

Grateful to the Reading the West, the magazine of Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Assn, for an insightful review of the Lives & Deaths of Véronique Bangoura, by Tierno Monénembo and trans. by Ryan Chamberlain for Tucson-based @schaffnerpress.bsky.social readingthewest.com/the-lives-an...

Putting this here again as a reminder … six weeks away from the submission deadline! Please circulate!!

[Blake’s Tyger still up for auction. Don’t miss your chance!] www.christies.com/en/stories/t...

Polish poster for GREMLINS (1984) Directed by Joe Dante - BOTD in 1946

[Gertrude Jeannette, blacklisted Harlem playwright, star of stage and screen, licensed NYC cab driver, was born Nov. 28, 1914. During the Peekskill Riots, she and her boxing champion husband rushed on their motorcycles to rescue Paul Robeson from the Klan. She lived to be 103.]

Starting off the season with my favorite holiday-themed cover.

“Music is the mirror of what is lost.” — Pascal Quignard, Abysses (trans. Chris Turner)

Pleased to share Foreword Reviews’ forthcoming review, by Rebecca Foster for the Jan/Feb issue, of Rinny Gremaud’s debut novel, Generator, translated by Holly James, and forthcoming from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social in January. DM me for print or digital review or bookseller’s copies.

We're in Shelf Awareness! "Horseshoe crab advocates turned out in force at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, N.H., for Caroline Sutton and her new book, Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World (Schaffner Press)."

RIP Alice Wong. Your generosity offered me a fellowship and your insights and wisdom have guided so many of us to find Disability Visibility. May we continue to follow your example, but I am devastated by your loss. Flights of angels. May your memory be a revolution. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF VÉRONIQUE BANGOURA by Tierno Monénembo, translated by Ryan Chamberlain ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social) schaffnerpress.com/books/the-li... #booksky

GENERATOR, a debut novel by Rinny Gremaud, translated by Holly James ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, Jan), excerpted @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/04/24/p... #booksky

HOSTAGES: A COUNTER-HISTORY OF COLONIAL PLUNDER by Taina Tervonen (following last year’s THE BONE WHISPERERS), translated by Sara Hanaburgh, ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, Feb) bookshop.org/p/books/host... #booksky

Thank you @shelf-awareness.com for reviewing debut novel, GENERATOR by Rinny Gremaud, translated by Holly James, coming from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social on January 7. See today’s issue to read Terry Hong’s review in full: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202... Need a review copy? DM /@ #booksky

An excerpt from Rinny Gremaud’s “Generator” in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social.

Fall news from Schaffner Press (including extra-small editorial assistant Miles). Hope you all enjoy the changing seasons as much as possible and stay kind. mailchi.mp/7c36980cc502...

Today, @schaffnerpress.bsky.social released the final cover of GENERATOR, a debut novel coming in January, now with a blurb from Marie Claire: “a radiant autofiction.” Read an excerpt @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/04/24/p... Need an early review or booksellers copy? DM or @ us

Caroline Sutton, author of "Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World," talks about horseshoe crabs on Maine Public Radio:

For @thesundaylongread.bsky.social recently: The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura By Tierno Monénembo & Translated by Ryan Chamberlain From @schaffnerpress.bsky.social

Happy publication day to "EYES IN THE SOLES OF MY FEET: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" by Caroline Sutton! (And now that the finished book is out, one lucky reader will find an ARC in a Little Free Library in an undisclosed location. 🦀)

We're excited today to give a shout out Schaffner Press for sponsoring the upcoming ALTA conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ! This crucial support helps to make the conference possible. Thank you! @schaffnerpress.bsky.social schaffnerpress.com

Schaffner Press author Michael Bobelian, whose most recent book is “Battle for the Marble Palace," reviewed "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" by Jill Lepore for @washingtonpost.com:

Hurray for #WorldKidLitMonth! Seven contributors have assembled a list of thirteen children’s, middle-grade, and YA reads translated from nine languages. Whether you're looking for a book for yourself or the kids in your life, we have something for everyone! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Publishers Weekly reviews "Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" by Caroline Sutton, out next month: www.publishersweekly.com/9781639640812

You might be able to see from this shot that the cover design, a map of London from 1890, lines up across the spines of the four volumes. A little design Easter egg.

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." - Jorge Luis Borges

Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #UnravellingWomensArt

Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" (out in October!), wrote an op ed for @easthamptonstar.bsky.social about protecting horseshoe crabs. Read it here: www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

BOTD: Remembering the eternal Ray Bradbury. Here he is surrounded by his collection, and the wisest thing he ever said about collecting ( and he said a lot of wise things )

Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury, you were the king of dropping six-page stories a kid could read once in 7th grade English class and be haunted by for the rest of their life

Ray Bradbury (with scenes from the François Truffaut film adaptation of the Bradbury novel "Fahrenheit 451") - BOTD

"Real conservation means not just focusing on the plight of a single species but on the ecosystem in which it lives, supports others, and is supported." - Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet" in @easthamptonstar.bsky.social www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵 #WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚

Katie Kitamura and Jhumpa Lahiri will headline the Center for the Art of Translation’s sixth annual Day of Translation festival, slated for September 18 at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.

Just finished this wonderful book, which will stay with me for a long time. Relatedly, read everything Harare Review of Books recommends. I've been working through the recs all summer and it has made my reading life shine. ✨

Coming in October 🦀 Cover design: Jordan Wannemacher

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social. Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy! #Guinea

Review copies of The Bone Whisperers (@schaffnerpress.bsky.social, 2024) are available. Shelf Awareness said it, “demands slow and thoughtful attention. It will cause readers to reflect on how their own lives have been touched by—or spared from—the effects of war.” Email: [email protected].

Women in Translation month is coming up again in August. Not sure if interest is waning as it was quieter on Twitter the past couple of years and I'm not sure if it has transferred to Bluesky. I'm reading for a review column during August with an all female line up so far. #witmonth to take part.

Join us this October for our course at the Poetry School (@poetryschool.bsky.social): poetryschool.com/courses/tran... "In this course, we will look at ways of developing other modes of seeing – chief among them, the use of the Archive as both prompt and source material for new work."

Hello Everyone! 👋 We know you've been patiently waiting for us to reveal the proposals we've chosen from our 2025 open call. Well, we can now share the books we'll be publishing into the 33 1/3 series...

🧵 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. We would love to feature reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social in 2025. If you are interested in reading and reviewing any of these books, please send an email to [email protected]

[bravely] i wrote about cds

thank you, Andrea 💔

Schaffner Press author Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya was honored by the city of Buenos Aires, who proclaimed his novel THE SANCTUARY as the city's official book of the year in a televised award ceremony that featured authors Ana Maria Shua and Luis Gusmán as presenters. Congratulations, Gustavo!

Wrote a thing about bookworms… gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/10-things-...

“Have you heard of the lady who writes under the name Edith de Born—an Austrian-Hungarian-Jewess—married to a French banker called Bisch?” Evelyn Waugh asked Nancy Mitford, adding “She writes in English quite beautifully.” It'd be hard to find a more cosmopolitan novelist. neglectedbooks.com/?...