Since so many people are adopting Schattenfroh as a new standard unit of measure, I decided to whip out my Penguin.

New arrivals: all brow levels accepted. @fantagraphics.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social #literatureintranslation

Summer Big Books reading challenge: Finished (R) vs. unfinished. #literatureintranslation

New arrivals from Winter Editions @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social

This looks interesting. Thoughts?

Added two new translations to my @murtyclassics.bsky.social library. #literatureintranslation

Three new poetry collections from the first-rate @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation

The cicada has escaped!

New arrivals from @strangeportspressbsky.social specializing in weird #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

Hard to argue against weather like this.

Today’s double header from @deepvellum.bksy.social and @plutopress.bsky.social

New arrivals from @zonebooksbooks.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social

Looking forward to this history of #worldmusic from @ze__books.bsky.social

New #literatureintranslation from @astrahousebooks.bsky.social

New arrivals from @softskullpress.bsky.social and @mcsweeneys.net @bookbeat.bsky.social

Homicidal lesbian terrorist coming your way @nyrcomics.bsky.social

Upcoming poetry and prose in translation by women writers and translators, from @twolinespress.bsky.social

Late Summer Fun Reading! Mostly Everything, plus Loosened Death Rays! Walking with the Wind! The Ways of Paradise! Machine Poetry! @mcsweeneys.net @fantagraphics.bsky.social @rgvasicek.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Summer reading update #4: 6 read (R), 6 to go!

Women in Translation: Annie Ernaux, Fang Fang, Hye-Young Pyun, Martina Vidaić + More @sevenstories.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @2dcloud.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social #WomenInTranslationMonth www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

New arrivals from ⁦‪@hanumaneds‬⁩.bsky.social ⁦‪@nyrbclassics‬⁩.bsky.social ⁦‪@NYRcomics.bsky.social ‬⁩ and ⁦‪@FitzcarraldoEds‬⁩.bsky.social

Upcoming titles from @arcade_publishing.bsky.social @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social and @quantumprosebooks.bsky.social

@dummyzine.bsky.social has arrived!

New arrivals from @mcswys I’m waiting to dig into.

It's a "Good Lord! Leopard Women on Giant Saurians!" kind of day.

A few fall list titles from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social arrived today.

In the Backroom of @bookbeat.bsky.social I run into a review by Tom Bowden (@motnedwob.bsky.social) of the translations to english of GAMONEDA'S “CASTILIAN BLUES“, published a few years ago by Quantum Prose (quantumprose.org). Appreciated it! www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Back to the big books.

New arrival from a new publisher @panamericabooks.bsky.social

New arrival: Blank Forms #10: Elaine Radigue —the latest and last BF anthology. @blankformseditions.bandcamp.com

Beautiful new work in progress by Anders Nilsen @pantheonbooks.bsky.social

Upcoming literature in translation from @sevenstories.bsky.social

At my usual work station.

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too. Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

14 reviews: Schattenfroh • Attila • Unruly Books • Lo-Fi Fiction • Precious Rubbish & More • Interviews with with Claudia Zoe Bedrick and René Vašíček www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Upcoming titles from those fabulous Canadians at ⁦‪@biblioasis‬⁩.bsky.social

Upcoming novels in translation from ⁦‪@Sandorfpassage.bsky.social and ⁦‪@Ndbooks.bsky.social #books

Figured out this morning why the shower head wasn’t leaking anymore. Burst through the ceiling tiles and on to the books below. #books

One of 100 denatured samples of the bacterium D. radiodurans hosting Christian Bök’s poems “Orpheus” and “Eurydice” in its genome. D. radiodurans can survive all known temperature extremes, and not known caustic environment has been able to dissolve it. It will outlive our planet, sun, & Milky Way.

Random shelf action: From the letter O.

New arrivals from @incunabulamedia.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social

Help me redefine the kind of books that become popular. @louisarmand.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @tomcomitta.bsky.social

New addition to my summer reading list: Tom’s Crossing by @markzdanielski.bsky.social from @pantheonbooks.bsky.social

Summer reading update #3: Four down, seven to go. #books

New arrivals from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social and @50wattsbooks.bsky.social

Summer Reading! THE FURTHER READING LIBRARY • LA CRÈME DE CRUMB! New works from Craig Thompson, Noah Van Sciver, Jason E. Rolfe @pantheonbooks.bsky.social @dzgallery.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @blackscatbooks.bsky.social ScatBooks.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Summer Reading, Part 1! Column 58: THE FURTHER READING LIBRARY • LA CRÈME DE CRUMB! Plus Q&A w/ Dan Nadel • Craig Thompson• Noah Van Sciver • Jason E. Rolfe @scribnerbooks.bsky.social #books @blackscatbooks.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Two down, nine to go on my summer reading list.