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Graphic announcing Exemplary Humans Book Tour April 21-24 in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Brooklyn, NY.
Announcing the EXEMPLARY HUMANS Book Tour with stops in SF, DC, and NYC! 📗 Traveling from Brazil, author Juliana Leite and translator @zoeperry.bsky.social celebrate the English-language debut out from @twolinespress.com! 💚 More info and RSVP on our website: buff.ly/Gv0L0LI
#FridayReads:
I Was Alive Here Once
a collection of #GhostStories from around the world
published by @twolinespress.com
It's never too early for spooky season 👻
#nowreading #Booksky #shortstories
Thank you so much for publishing my review of this anthology, @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org. I really loved this collection: so many great horror writers from around the world! #booksky #writersky @twolinespress.com
"Again and again, I Was Alive Here Once brings fresh life to the idea of what a ghost can be — and offers readers new ways to interpret the great beyond." 👻
"Beautifully varied and intriguing in their unique approaches to the porous border between the real and the fantastic, the stories in I Was Alive Here Once are all highly recommended." 👻
I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE "abounds with tales of the unquiet dead, written by authors from a trio of continents." 👻
"By juxtaposing ghostly tales from a wide variety of literary styles and traditions, the concept of ghost itself becomes fluid, but never trapped."
Well, @twolinespress.com just hits it out of the park with the #SFinTranslation. One excellent anthology after another. ♥️📚🌍
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Current read:
From @twolinespress.com
#SFinTranslation
Oh! A new book from @twolinespress.com arrived!
'Exemplary Humans'
by Juliana Leite
#FridayReads #Booksky #books #fiction
Sabrina Jaszi will read her translation of the story “The Loose-Haired Women,” followed by a conversation with @twolinespress.com Calico Series Editor Sarah Coolidge. The Haunted Reading Room will be open to the public, free of charge March 19–March 21, 11:00 am–5:00 pm. Join us: buff.ly/7cqVkI7
Graphic announcing the launch event for I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories, featuring The Loose-Haired Women story--A Haunted Reading Room at KALW studio in San Francisco.
Image featuring the reading and conversation with translator Sabrina Jaszi and Two Lines Press's Calico Series Editor, Sarah Coolidge, on March 19, 7pm PDT, at KAWL studio.
Graphic featuring our partners logos for this event, including Bat Witch Ghost, KALW Public Media, and Cuentero Productions, alongside the Center for the Art of Translation and Two Lines Press Calico.
Today! Don't miss our Launch Party for I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE: GHOST STORIES 👻 at an artist-made haunted reading room built into the lobby of the kalwradio.bsky.social studio, in Downtown San Francisco. RSVP at buff.ly/7cqVkI7
Sabrina Jaszi will read her translation of the story “The Loose-Haired Women,” followed by a conversation with @twolinespress.com Calico Series Editor Sarah Coolidge. The Haunted Reading Room will be open to the public, free of charge March 19–March 21, 11:00 am–5:00 pm. Join us: buff.ly/7cqVkI7
I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE: GHOST STORIES is out now from @twolinespress.com:
#SFinTranslation from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania, and Thailand
www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/c...
Graphic announcing the launch event for I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories, featuring The Loose-Haired Women story--A Haunted Reading Room at KALW studio in San Francisco.
Image featuring the reading and conversation with translator Sabrina Jaszi and Two Lines Press's Calico Series Editor, Sarah Coolidge, on March 19, 7pm PDT, at KAWL studio.
Graphic featuring our partners logos for this event, including Bat Witch Ghost, KALW Public Media, and Cuentero Productions, alongside the Center for the Art of Translation and Two Lines Press Calico.
Bay Area: You're invited to the I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE: GHOST STORIES Launch Party, Thurs., March 19! 👻 Bat Witch Ghost, Cuentero Productions, & CAT teamed up to create an artist-made haunted reading room built into the lobby of the kalwradio.bsky.social studio. RSVP at buff.ly/7cqVkI7
She will receive mentorship from acclaimed translator Nguyễn An Lý – who will support her in translating her first full-length work of fiction – and a four-week retreat in the French Pyrenees. Congratulations, Ally!
As this year’s prizewinner, Ally will translate Maik Cây’s Bảo Tàng Lông [Museum of Hair], to be published by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US) in 2027.
And thank you to all the talented folks who applied—we had 67 submissions this year, and judges Nguyễn An Lý, Vi Khi Nao, and Deborah Smith were impressed by the range of approaches to what was a challenging excerpt.
We’re pleased to announce that Ally Le is the winner of the 2026 Stevns Translation Prize! Congratulations to Ally and finalists Lukas Tuyet Tung, Nguyễn Thị Bích Trâm, and Chau Anh Nguyen.
Urszula Honek’s collection of dark stories, WHITE NIGHTS, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster & longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize, are quietly piercing – & now available to US readers from @twolinespress.com. Here’s my review in ASYMPTOTE.
asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...
I reviewed I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE: GHOST STORIES for Asymptote. The collection, from @twolinespress.com's Calico series, features ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania and Thailand. Who knew the dead could be so lively www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...
#FridayReads:
The Week of Colors
by Elena Garro
from @twolinespress.com
#Booksky #shortstories #nowreading #booksintranslation
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on Elena Garro's THE WEEK OF COLORS, tr. by Megan McDowell and Jazmina Barrera's THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, tr. by Christina MacSweeney for @southwestreview.bsky.social southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
Really happy I got a chance to write about Urszula Honek’s excellent Booker-longlisted story collection “White Nights,” translated by Kate Webster, which is now out in the US from Two Lines Press. Thanks to the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for the opportunity.
The cover of I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories
Back cover of the collection
Frontispiece for the story I translated, Jupiter (木星) by Tomoyuki Hoshino
The lovely note that came with the book, from the editor, Sarah Coolidge
Just received my contributor's copy of the new Calico collection out in March from @twolinespress.com , I Was Alive Here Once, a collection of ghost stories from around the world that includes my translation of "Jupiter" by Tomoyuki Hoshino 👻
“Nothing short of revolutionary.” 💥
S/o to @twolinespress.com for adding this double dose of Elena Garro to our must-read list 🙏
New review by Cory Oldweiler on THE WEEK OF COLORS (tr. Megana McDowell) and THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by Jazmina Barrera
southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
Poster for an AWP offsite event: Deep Vellum, Dorothy, a publishing project, Two Lines Press, and Red Emma's present: INDIE PRESS HAPPY HOUR. We love translated literature! Featuring readings by Alex Niemi, Lily Meyer, and Fatemeh Shams. Thursday, March 5, 5:30-7:30pm. Red Emma's Bookstore, 3128 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore, MD. FREE!
AWP! Off-site! Happy hour! @redemmas.org w/ us and @twolinespress.com and @deepvellum.bsky.social 🖤
Happy publication day to Urszula Honek's WHITE NIGHTS, translated from Polish by Kate Webster! Read a great review by @coryoldweiler.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/ursz...
Through the mail slot today. So much to love. Especially excited about a US edition of White Nights. @catranslation.org @twolinespress.com @andotherstories.bsky.social