Come nerd out with me and the rest of the original San Francisco nerds: book nerds.

Ferroequinologist.

Planning on it! Should be a good one...

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Love these books like I love you like I love cats like I love good totes and all those things are one in a Two Lines membership. ❤️

Seattle Supersonics.

Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section

When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”.

chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...

What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?

Beautiful things are wasteful spending.

Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.

The only way I can explain it to myself is people apparently care as much about the arts as I do about AI emoji generators.

It’s like people hate joy and want to kill it with exposition.

One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.

Rilke would have loved 90s TV

[almost deadly birds of the soul]

Every angel is terrifying.

The Stevns Translation Prize The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

Publishing would be in a much better spot if we were all a bit less efficient. If writers were slower, editors were slower, the cycle of new books was just slowed down.

So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!

The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

🎉 Happy pub date to Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro! 🎉 Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore or order directly from us www.catranslation.org/shop/book/th...

Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.

The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org

Images of Women | Elvira Navarro | Granta ‘In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks?’ Fiction by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in Granta.

VOICES OF ADRIANNA is forthcoming from @twolinespress.bsky.social on February 18.

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Jenny Holzer.

Richard Siken

The Stevns Translation Prize The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

Submissions are now open for the Stevn's Prize! Two Lines Press is seeking emerging French to English translators. To learn more please visit: www.stevnstranslationprize.com