This is stunning.

Thanks for the intel!

I would assume Transit is doing it here, but Fitzcarraldo is definitely doing it in the UK with Baker.

It’s great that Daniel Levin Baker is doing the translation. The Birthday Party is one of my favorite reads in the last few years, thanks greatly to the astounding translation.

“The Competition of Unfinished Stories” by Sener Ozmen Sertac Karan, a Turkish-Kurd and the protagonist of this absurdist black comedy, is a would-be writer who is alienated from society and much given to procrastination. From childhood, his exorbitant im...

Today in the ARB: Alan Ali Saeed reviews “The Competition of Unfinished Stories” by Sener Ozmen tr from Kurdish by Nicholas Glastonbury @sandorfpassage.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-competit...

She Who Remains — rites and wrongs in the Accursed Mountains Rene Karabash’s tale of a ‘sworn virgin’ in a remote corner of Albania is a worthy shortlistee for the International Booker Prize

“Rene Karabash’s hypnotic debut novel, She Who Remains, nimbly translated by Izidora Angel . . . defies neat classification . . . This propulsive read is a worthy contender for the International Booker crown." Financial Times www.ft.com/content/9248...

A set of images from “In Cold Blood: Truman Capote in Holcomb, Kansas

Is it one of these? beineckeroadshow.yale.edu/gallery/cold...

The Arts Fuse chews on She Who Remains: “[A] Faulknerian intensity . . . The novel has a lurid, Grand Guignol atmosphere, shifting from narration to poetic incantation and back again." artsfuse.org/327163/book-...

Trocadero Philadelphia OCT/NOV 1994
(h/t @buzzpoole.bsky.social)

Image of two Bulgarian novels: She Who Remains and The Case of Cem

Has She Who Remains being on the International @thebookerprizes.com shortlist made you curious about Bulgarian literature? Check out The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva (tr. Angela Rodel, who won the International Booker Prize along with Georgi Gospodinov for Time Shelter). Cem is an epic classic!

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Bird Song. Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville. 4-3-26 YouTube video by Mikey Noll

All I want in my Easter basket is tapes of the Gillian Welch / Dave Rawlings Dead sets from this weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSZ...

Picture of Ming Smith’s photograph of Sun Ra, as seen at Portland Museum of Art in Maine

Finally got to “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at Portland Museum of Art. I could get lost in an entire museum of her images, but this Sun Ra one is otherworldly in how it conjures a galaxy in Sun Ra’s cape. This pic doesn’t do justice to the print. Space is the place!

I get rid of all movie tie-in covers. Hate them. Except this one. I laugh every time I look at it.

The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan on a stack of other Sandorf Passage poetry books

Sandorf Passage’s seven poetry releases: The Book of Visits, Closed Season, Initial Coordinates, In a Sentimental Mood, Kindness Separates Night from Day, Condiments & Entrails, and Soiled with Earth, Drunk on Air

Happy National Poetry Month? Why not celebrate with some exciting, critically acclaimed Croatian poetry? The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan will be out in a few weeks, but we’ve got you covered until then. #booksky

She Who Remains, written by Rene Karabash and translated by Izidora Angel, is ‘an exquisitely written, brilliantly observed story about a young woman in a contemporary Albanian tribal society’.

Find out more about this #InternationalBooker2026 shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

EBRD Literature Prize 2026 shortlist announced Features 10 works in translation from 9 EBRD countries of operation across 3 continents

Believe it or not, more prize news: Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) is on the shortlist for the EBRD Literature Prize! www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...

Thanks, Caroline, and congrats to the whole @charcopress.com team!

loooove to see @sandorfpassage.bsky.social on here too. mention the publishers, book journalists!

Thrilling that She Who Remains has made the shortlist! #booksky

She Who Remains front cover with International Booker Prize shortlist emblem

She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (tr. @izidoraangel.bsky.social) is on #internationalbookerprize2026 shortlist! “Exquisitely written, brilliantly observed.”

The Grateful Dead’s sound always evolved but listening to 3/25/72, it is mind-blowing to think how radically the band’s sound would change in a matter of weeks. These pre-Europe NYC shows sound like late ‘71, and NOTHING like what was conjured on the Continent. Really is remarkable. #deadfreaksunite

Long time ago at Yoshi’s in Oakland, Charles Lloyd talked about sharing an apartment with Szabo in San Francisco, likely a result of them both being in Chico Hamilton’s band.

Read with Pride display at Barnes & Noble; 5th Avenue, Manhattan

Great to see She Who Remains on this “Read with Pride” display at the 5th Avenue Barnes & Noble in Manhattan.

An interview with Rene Karabash and Izidora Angel, author and translator of She Who Remains | The Booker Prizes The International Booker Prize 2026 nominated author and translator discuss the visceral conversations translation can open up, and the books that made them fall in love with reading

“Translated fiction is the most powerful and truthful evidence of ‘the other.’” That’s Rene Karabash in a new interview with @thebookerprizes.com and @izidoraangel.bsky.social. Read on! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Finished copies of the poetry collection The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan

Finished copies of The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr. Will Firth)

Finished copies of A Plan to Save the World by Hassan Akram (tr. Ibrahim Fawzy)

Back from London with finished copies of our next three releases: The Book of Visits, The Minister, and A Plan to Save the World—poetry from Croatia and fiction from Montenegro and Iraq. Curious? Get in touch!

Closed Season – sandorfpassage.org $16.95

In CLOSED SEASON, translated by Marina Veverec, Monika Herceg uses hunting symbolism to “express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with.”

Poetry from @sandorfpassage.bsky.social for #WomensHistoryMonth: sandorfpassage.org/product/clos...

She Who Remains – sandorfpassage.org $18.95

SHE WHO REMAINS by Rene Karabash, translated by Izidora Angel, is set in a “rural Albanian village where the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of villagers.”

Read it for #WomensHistoryMonth! @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
sandorfpassage.org/product/she-...

Trees in bloom near Holland Park, London

Trees in bloom near Holland Park, London

I can’t remember when the London Book Fair stopped happening in April. But ever since it’s been held in March, I’ve really come to appreciate the trip being my first real dose of spring every year.

Omg I would have flown there from Italy if I’d known about that panel! What a dream to be in the same room with those three, let alone talk to them!!! Holy crap. Seriously just three writers I am in awe of. Have a great time.

Well, Italy ain’t too shabby!