We have a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview for you today! Translator Boris Dralyuk on the music of language, softening difficult messages for children, what makes Who Will Make the Snow? distinctly Ukrainian...and his creative collaboration with Jennifer Croft worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...

This book is a delight. Unlike anything you’ve read. Take it from me.

Thanks so much to Lit Hub for including my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS on this beautiful list of books to look forward to this year! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... @catapultbooks.bsky.social

Join us in just under 30 minutes!

What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

THE LOST SOLDIERS, Andrey Kurkov’s latest Kyiv mystery, has a UK cover! My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.

Tonight in Tulsa!

Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...

I’ve been a judge for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award in Translated Literature, and the NEA Translation Fellowship (RIP), and I’ve never read a translation more brilliant than this. Out in April, but you can preorder now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sidetracke...

If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth

Loved getting to review this great new novel by Helen Oyeyemi for the NYTBR! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @henricole.bsky.social… See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:

Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...

Educators, this short story about a young girl in Mexico preparing to travel to the US is paired with more reading from Mexico, literature about the theme of home, and even writing on fast food. Check it out on WWB Campus: buff.ly/DEPwBNK

Looking forward to this next month in New York! Hoping to bring together a couple of ideas I've been working on about translating time and art versus entertainment. And (perhaps needless to say) twins! Please join us if you're around! arts.columbia.edu/events/being...

Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-ru...

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@elpais.com) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@anagramaeditor.bsky.social‬) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025...

The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...

This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market. From there, it unfolded like a dream… Thank you, Vernon, for many happy hours…

Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS. In prose and verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920). www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...

NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed Jennifer Croft about her memoir, "Homesick," which is accompanied by her own Polaroids, for Memoir Nation:

Do give this extraordinary memoir of the 20th century a read. From Stravinsky to the Gershwins, Prokofiev to Ethel Waters, Duke knew them all—and the poems at the back of the book are little cures for depression, each and every one. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...

One of the funniest, weirdest, most meta books I’ve read in ages. And a beautiful cover design! What more could you ask for!

It’s a sight to behold!

Happy paperback #pubday to THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY by Jennifer Croft! Eight translators gather in the primeval forest home of the world-renowned Irena Rey. They are there to translate her magnum opus together, but within days of their arrival, Irena disappears. On sale! geni.us/extinctionof...

The beautiful paperback of Irena Rey is officially out now!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Irena Rey (out tomorrow!) is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest honor I could possibly receive!

I’ll have some news to share about my dear Alexander Voloshin and his mock epic of exile in Hollywood, SIDETRACKED, in July. In the meantime, here I am, casting anything but a cold eye on his final resting place at Hollywood Forever.

Breaking: California asks court for restraining order to block Guard, Marine deployments in L.A. (w/ @laurajnelson.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Irena Rey is out in paperback two weeks from today! I always prefer paperbacks to hardcovers—so much friendlier somehow—so if you’re like me, please consider a preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Charlie: What’s a holiday? Nina: It’s a day for smelling chocolate!

Last day of two years old

Stream the #InternationalBooker2025 winner announcement as it happens – watch live from our ceremony in London on Tuesday 20 May, from 10pm BST: youtube.com/watch?v=_OFR...

Friends from Paxos and Antipaxos

Mi homenaje a Gombrowicz (y un poco a Bolaño y otro poco, ¿cómo no?, a Borges), una novela rara (según los críticos lol) narrada por una traductora desconfiada y poco confiable, ya se publica en español, en una traducción muy original y muy confiable y muy brillante de Regina López Muñoz. Un sueño.

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].

We’re excited to announce not one, not two, but three upcoming events sponsored by WWB taking place at Pittsburgh’s @cityofasylum.bsky.social on 5/21-22! Find out about these three free events, and attend in-person or via livestream, at the link: buff.ly/Ogyzzy3

Absolute best possible choice: Christopher Merrill's international literary career truly boggles the mind. Congrats to @uiiwp.bsky.social!

I hate coming to the end of a class I love, and this semester's Advanced Fiction @utulsa.bsky.social has been one of the all-time best. Amazing thinkers, writers, community members, and I will miss our biweekly conversations so much. But hopefully we'll all be reading more from them soon!

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

Out today!!! A Extinção de Irena Rey by Sebastião B. Cerqueira and me. From Casa das Letras, Lisboa. This is the first translation of my translator’s book about translators—but many more are coming soon!! 👀👀

A beautiful meditation on boundaries and postcards by Amelia Parenteau, up now on croftwork (best website in the world)! croftwork.net/notes/guest-...

A teacher at an LA high school asked me to contribute a poem to an anthology he’s compiling with his students—“LA River Field Guide.” Each poet was to pick a species found in and around the river. Here’s my entry, with apologies to Blake and Iggy Pop.

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

this and a clean house and a sleepy tabby cat