More than 100 writers quit French publisher in protest against rightwing owner Vincent Bolloré Tycoon’s media empire accused of pushing far-right ideas, as writers say: ‘We refuse to be hostages in ideological war’

whoa! big shakeup in French publishing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Haunted swimming pool on greens and golds

ANMLY is looking to add new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff w/ us! Roles = 1-3 hrs/wk

- Translation Co-Editor
- Translation Readers
- Fiction Readers
- Poetry Readers

Email editor@anomalouspress.org w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply

Deadline: 5/1

Try @ericnguyenisok.bsky.social's Things We Lost to the Water if you're like our patron looking for "Vietnamese fiction novel that isn't about the war." #AskALibrarian

Helen DeWitt's experience with the Windham Campbell Prize really shows they were looking for a PR spokesperson more than they were interested in awarding good literature.

paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

let’s make bell hooks’s “Communion” a bestseller!

National Poetry Month Sale In honor of National Poetry Month, we are pleased to offer a 40% discount on poetry books! Books included are in the African Poetry series, the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, and the Backwaters Prize in Poetry. The poetry published by the University of Nebraska Press has delighted readers with literature of enduring value and consequence for decades. Offer expires April 30, 2026 and is good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Shop now!

To celebrate National Poetry Month, all of our poetry books are 40% off! Including titles from the @apbf.bsky.social series and the Raz/Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Book Prize in Poetry winners.

Submissions Open We are reading all genres through April 15th. Send us your best!

Submissions Open

We are reading all genres through April 15th. Send us your best!

Overlaid on a light blue background are images of the book covers for X IS WHERE I AM, WHO KILLED BAMBI, THE DOG MEOWS, THE CAT BARKS, NOTHING AT ALL, AND METADOGGOZ. To the left of black text that reads: The March Watchlist, by Tobias Carroll, Fiction from Indonesia, Spain and Sweden, a dystopian graphic novel and collection of poetic essays translated from French.

@tobiascarroll.bsky.social is back with another Watchlist! This March he recommends fiction from Indonesia, Spain, and Sweden, plus a dystopian graphic novel and collection of poetic essays from French. Scroll to learn more!

The International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, translated from German by Ruth Martin She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from German by Ross Benjamin On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King

Presenting the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.

Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

purple background with jellyfish and the message OPEN CALL FOR MULTIGENRE MANUSCRIPTS, reading period April 1 through June 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social!

Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

if you're a writer, just don't touch AI. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

This image is a promotional flyer for "An Evening of DC Literary Voices" hosted by DC Reads. It features photos of three writers: K.T. Nguyen, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Nikki Payne, with moderator Lupita Aquino. The event is scheduled for Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. ASL interpretation will be provided. Logos for DC Public Library, DC Public Library Foundation, and the Literary Hill BookFest are also displayed.

DC Reads finale brings some of DC’s most exciting literary voices together.

Authors K. T. Nguyen, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Nikki Payne take the stage for a conversation on writing, storytelling, and DC’s literary scene.

📅 March 26
📍 MLK Library
RSVP: https://bit.ly/4dl2XHJ

Le Guin knew exactly the kind of person Rowling was www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...

diaCRITICS Books to Review diaCRITICS Book Review Wishlist Thank you for your interest in reviewing books for diaCRITICS. Below are the books we would love to be reviewed! If you’re interested in reviewing any of these titles ...

just updated @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social's books to review list! am i missing anything? want to review something? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Rumpus - El Alboroto El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

I Am Not Mad - diaCRITICS “I Am Not Mad” is a translation of the Vietnamese poem, “Tôi Không Giận” by poet Lê Sông Văn, poignantly inspired by the life of Renée Nicole Good, an award-winning poet and mother who was fatally sho...

"The sun should have set
when the bullet grazed by
like a stray bird
singing its morning song,
a sharp metallic note"

Read Lê Sông Văn's "I Am Not Mad," translated by Đặng Thơ Thơ.

diacritics.org/2026/02/i-am...

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

Bà Nội’s Ghost - diaCRITICS mother and father thoughtthey escaped the whistling missilesbut found it hitched a ridea parasiteclawing out of their stomachs and into their throatsbursting through their mouthsto roar at each other ...

Read a new poem by attic moon. diacritics.org/2026/01/poet...

The Dirty Issue — Barrelhouse For this special online issue, we asked for your dirtiest work: scandalous rivalries, dirty jobs, meditations on the muck and mire of everyday life, plain old sediment, and musings on humanity’s more ...

We have a new online issue! Selected and edited by students at Temple University, under the guidance of @mikeingram.bsky.social
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/t...

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us.

Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs.

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A wonderful graf in ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ by Niu Sengru, a writer from 9th century China (Tang Dynasty). Translated & commentated by Maxwell Massa, 356pp

A nobleman attended by faerie children with fly whisk & scepter of rhinoceros horn

Out in May. asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...

Dangerous Games - diaCRITICS Parallels by Vũ Đình Giang (English translation by Khải Q. Nguyễn), the first Vietnamese queer novel to be translated into another language (the French translation by Yves Bouille in 2014), is not a n...

Vũ Đình Giang’s “Parallels” is not for the faint-hearted. diacritics.org/2026/01/book...

As we take our yearly December break, a reminder that we’re open to submissions! Visit diacritics.org/submit/ for more info.

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Click here to start shopping today: kansaspress.ku.edu.

#BookSale #holidaysale #upkansas #universitypress #HolidayGiftIdeas

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2 versions of Jay Wright's Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Penguin Press, 2025), the 1st edition & the galley version.

I admit to being a 1-person PR spox for #JayWright but I'm glad to see his *Transfigurations* (aka Collected Poems Pt 1) is finally out now in the UK. Though he's 1 of the greatest living poets in the English language/greatest living Black poets this didn't happen until he'd reached 91 years of age!

Byung-Chul Han, philosopher: ‘A lot of people read me, but I’m not a millionaire’ The famous thinker spoke to EL PAÍS to clarify that he is not the ostentatious figure that he believes some articles have made him out to be

“You don’t get rich with philosophy.” english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Bowie father denied bond after ICE arrest Man arrested by ICE in front of children may be transferred to West Coast detention center

more info here: www.wusa9.com/article/news...