Here's the link to "Coming Around" - atlengthmag.com/coming-around/

Hey all you translation fans out there! Here's your belated reminder to check out our November issue with Grace Najmulski's translation of Suo Er's lyric prose piece "Coming Around" (神游)- don't miss Grace's interview at the end. And get ready for our January issue, which is coming around soon!

Thank you, #1 fan! 😘

"Pioneer Summer" Translator Anne O. Fisher Shares Story Behind Gay Romance Novel Kateryna Sylvanova and Elena Malisova’s star-crossed gay romance is a #1 bestselling TikTok sensation that took readers by storm, made international news, and c

@affisher.bsky.social makes her television debut talking about Pioneer Summer. And she bloody killed it! Watch below.

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"Pioneer Summer" Translator Anne O. Fisher Shares Story Behind Gay Romance Novel Kateryna Sylvanova and Elena Malisova’s star-crossed gay romance is a #1 bestselling TikTok sensation that took readers by storm, made international news, and c

Hey y'all, I was just on the tee-vee! Many thanks to host Helen Raptis and the team at AM Northwest, the Pacific Northwest's favorite morning show, for having me on to talk about Elena Malysova and Kateryna Sylvanova's smash hit #pioneersummer! Watch it here: katu.com/amnw/am-nort...

Thank you to fellow translator @monikacassel.bsky.social for sharing this pic of #pioneersummer on the shelf at @powells.bsky.social! Can't wait for the reading at Powell's on Hawthorne this July 22nd. And here is Monika herself, adding the book to her collection! 😍 🎉

Hey folks! 🎉 Thrilled to share that poetry by @bjsoloy.bsky.social, an essay by Raymond McDaniel, and a novel excerpt by Jeremy Grimshaw are all live and ready to go on @atlengthmag.bsky.social! Drop by and be mesmerized! 🥳 🎈

And you can find one of our new poets, @bjsoloy.bsky.social, here on BlueSky

At Length's July issue is now live, with a long poem from BJ Soloy, an essay on Micronauts by Raymond McDaniel, and "The Dreams and Damnation of Bishop Koyle," a novel excerpt by Jeremy Grimshaw! 1/2

www.atlengthmag.com

Two friends wrote a gay romance — and had to flee Russia “Pioneer Summer,” by Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova, which sparked a backlash amid a government crackdown, is now available in English

Thank you to @sophianguyen.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com for her excellent interview with #pioneersummer coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova!

“Then the book went out into the big world,” Malisova said, “and we discovered things were really way worse than we thought.”

Hey Chicago! Come see me read from #pioneersummer tomorrow night at City Lit Books, in conversation with the rad and talented Ali Kinsella!

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms

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Also may be the only time we are both in the same Top 10 list as Joy Harjo! ❤️

It was totally worth it! Thank you so much to @bdralyuk.bsky.social, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Magic City books for hosting us and bringing poetry & queer lit to the OK top 10!!! 😍

Oh, this is sweet and hilarious and will never happen again: Annie and I had the #2 and #5 best-selling books in Oklahoma last week, based on four bookstores in the state.

I guess that reading in Tulsa was worth it! Thanks @bdralyuk.bsky.social.

Russia Arrests Publishers, Accuses Them of Distributing ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Russian authorities have put two current and one former employee of Eksmo—Russia’s largest publishing house—under house arrest, accusing them of distributing “LGBT propaganda.

And also, don't miss Ed Nawotka's related Publishers Weekly piece:

And all my love and thanks to the best partner I could ever ask for, @derekmong.bsky.social, for his support during my work on this important and moving (and hilarious, and occasionally harrowing) project. Thank you all! Please also check out Brendan Dowling's interview:

Much gratitude to @alexfineillos.bsky.social for his superb cover, and a deep bow of gratitude to @edoballerini.bsky.social for his gorgeous performance of the audiobook! Special thanks to friend and fellow translator Brad Damare for his help and consultation.

Thrilled for #pioneersummer pub day today! Congrats to the coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova ❤️🎉 and deepest thanks to Ruby Pucillo, Taryn Roeder, @abbymuller.bsky.social, @zackknoll.bsky.social, Jamison Stoltz, and the rest of the Abrams team for making this such a fantastic book.

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“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”

Calling All Translators! @atlengthmag.bsky.social is open for translation submissions in June and July 2025! Read up on our submission guidelines below and reach out to translations@atlengthmag.com if you have any questions. Looking forward to reading your work!

atlengthmag.com/submissions/

We're opening up submissions for translations in June and July! And we've even got a snazzy new email for you to send
'em to: translations@atlengthmag.com.

Submission guidelines below. @affisher.bsky.social is excited to read your work!

atlengthmag.com/submissions/

Hey Tulsa! Come hear me read from #Pioneersummerbook (by Kateryna Sylvanova and Elena Malisova) with @derekmong.bsky.social (reading his own poetry) hosted by @bdralyuk.bsky.social! Much gratitude to the Tulsa Artists Fellowship and Magic City Books for their support and organization.

Thank you, Lisa! 🙏

Here's the Eksmo list of books to be destroyed (source: www.rbc.ru/society/15/0...)

Publishing purges. Russian law enforcement arrests prominent book publishers in “extremism” raids Among the detained are distribution director at Eksmo as well as employees of Popcorn Books and Individuum

Longtime distribution director of Eksmo, Russia’s leading publishing house, and staff at Popcorn Books and Individuum detained in Russia after targeted raids. They face “extremist” charges over books in a literary crackdown. Here’s what you need to know:

en.zona.media/article/2025...

Police Arrest Publishing House Staff Over Alleged LGBTQ+ Books - The Moscow Times Law enforcement authorities searched the offices of Russia’s largest book publisher and arrested several employees over alleged LGBTQ+ “propaganda” and “extremism,” Russian media and rights groups rep...

Hoping the publishers and personnel who were arrested are soon released and all charges dropped... but not holding my breath. (PS. For an excellent analysis of how the RF ended up the way it is, read #sofioksanen's Same River Twice: Putin's War On Women.)

Police Arrest Publishing House Staff Over Alleged LGBTQ+ Books - The Moscow Times Law enforcement authorities searched the offices of Russia’s largest book publisher and arrested several employees over alleged LGBTQ+ “propaganda” and “extremism,” Russian media and rights groups rep...

Nearly a dozen employees of Eksmo Publishing House were reportedly arrested and questioned by the police on Wednesday.

Police Arrest Publishing House Staff Over Alleged LGBTQ+ Books - The Moscow Times Law enforcement authorities searched the offices of Russia’s largest book publisher and arrested several employees over alleged LGBTQ+ “propaganda” and “extremism,” Russian media and rights groups rep...

RF persecution of LGBTQ+ people must stop. The arrests, targeting, and repressions must stop. Hoping the publishers are soon released and all charges dropped. (PS. For an excellent analysis of how the RF ended up the way it is, read #sofioksanen's Same River Twice: Putin's War On Women.)

And by the way - if anyone from the @jprstudies.bsky.social is around in Tulsa on May 23rd, come to the reading! #pioneersummerbook will not disappoint in the romance department! 😍