The missing catalogue – Why finding books in translation is still so hard - LSE Impact Finding a work in translation is harder than you think. Whilst a technical challenge, the benefits of creating a record for works in translation would be worth it.

Avui publico un article a @lseimpactblog.bsky.social sobre una obsessió: per què trobar traduccions és tan difícil.

Un exemple: el valencià/català ocupa el vuité lloc a Zenòdot per nombre d'edicions, per davant del xinés i el rus. No perquè tinguem més producció, sinó perquè he connectat les fonts.

New piece on the LSE Impact Blog on why finding books in translation is still so hard — and why the problem isn't content but infrastructure.

Nearly 90% of the ISBN-verified editions in Zenòdot appear in only one of its 23 sources.

Stigmata A man finds a wound where you'd expect a nail. He finds answers where you'd expect God.

A man develops a wound where you’d expect a nail. He doesn’t pray. He gets a filleting knife.
“Stigmata” — new story, up now.
When did you stop expecting miracles?
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Stigmata A man finds a wound where you'd expect a nail. He finds answers where you'd expect God.

It happens to be Good Friday, and some timing you don't argue with.
A man who doesn't believe in God but needs to know why his wrist bleeds on Fridays. "Stigmata" — new on Mediterranean Gothic.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/stigmata

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- Stoker/Locus nominee
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- Magic!
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Per favor, tota la vida berenant pastissets de tomaca i tonyina, ací al nord.

Mediterranean Gothic fiction and essays at ausiastsel.substack.com — horror under bright sun, Catholic ritual, villages that keep secrets in plain sight. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Neon & Smoke, Pithead Chapel. #HorrorWritersChat

What Is Mediterranean Gothic? — Ausiàs Tsel A literary manifesto: Mediterranean Gothic is horror under hard light. Corroded theology, domestic silence, and the architecture of concealment. By Ausiàs Tsel.

That's exactly my kind of thing. I tried to explain it here www.ausiastsel.com/manifesto

Working on Mediterranean Gothic flash — Catholic ritual, village silence, things that stay buried under civic politeness. Just had a piece in Pithead Chapel and another forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine. Spring is for processions and submission deadlines. #HorrorWritersChat

By the third day of spring, the garden had started asking for names. The old woman next door said that was normal. “Give it the names of people who owe you something,” she said, pulling weeds bare-handed. “It settles faster that way.” #HorrorWritersChat

Flowers on graves. In València, spring means cemetery visits, fresh paint on niches, families arguing over lunch while the dead listen. Everything blooms and everything rots at the same pace. #HorrorWritersChat

Ausiàs Tsel, from the Valencian Country. Mediterranean Gothic: horror under bright sun, Catholic guilt as architecture, villages that remember everything. I love writing the moment before someone understands what they’ve seen. #HorrorWritersChat

Apparently I'll be published in the London School of Economics Impact Blog in a couple of weeks. So much for not changing careers at forty.

INVENTORY A forensic technician catalogs fourteen boxes in a church basement. The form has a field for observations. He leaves it blank.

New story up. "Inventory." The coldest thing I've written in a while.

Ja ens han arribat les 25 còpies de la segona tirada de “Per un grapat de joies”, la traducció en català d’un parell de contes de Lord Dunsany, feta a base de vi i amor. 🍇

Podeu encarregar-lo per DM o a pegana.cat@gmail.com (12€), i llegir-ne el text (gratuït, creative commons!) a www.pegana.cat

Thank you; and thank you for the 6 Ukrainian ISBNs you contributed! They’ve already been processed and added to the database. Next time you search, those editions will show up with a small badge crediting the community contribution.

This kind of input is incredibly valuable!

Update: should work better now. Not perfect, but better.

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This is actively being worked on. Appreciate the detailed report; it's exactly the kind of feedback that helps us prioritize.

I’m going to try to fix it today.

Thanks again!

The misattribution of a Russian edition as Ukrainian for Fahrenheit 451 is a known issue with some upstream data sources confusing ru/uk.

We do have Ukrainian editions in our accumulated data for all three books, including the correct "451 за Фаренгейтом" and "Гіперіон" — but our frontend doesn't yet pull from that local store.

Thanks for testing these, all three cases are real gaps we're aware of.
Ukrainian (and other non-Western languages) are underrepresented in the databases we currently query in real time.

Oh, you are too kind. Thanks!

That would be a first. If you spot me there, take a photo. I need proof I exist outside Substack.

I might have a few of those. Dusty, Mediterranean, with a faint smell of incense and old stone. Consider me nudged.

Nop. Only existencial dread and haunting memories.

Yours truly will be on Flash Fiction Magazine June 21, 2026.

A liitle Mediterranean Gothic Vampire tale.

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Visits Thirty-eight minutes. Longer than most of my dates.

How did you sleep today? Alone? That’s a shame. I had company.

Insígnia oficial adaptada dels 25 anys de Viquipèdia, amb una V negra i una peça de trencaclosques blava amb el número 25. Fundació Wikimedia / Stefangrotz (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

Avui fem un quart de segle.

25 anys de coneixement lliure, promogut per voluntaris, obert a tothom i en català-valencià.

La Viquipèdia avui és més necessària que mai. I que excel·leixi en la nostra llengua ho és encara més.

Gràcies per llegir-la i enriquir-la!
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Treballant en un nou #ConteEstrany.

Escrit per Lovecraft fa 100 anys, amb referències als Països Catalans i inèdit en català.