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"Hats off to Alexander Booth for this fine translation."

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In conversation with poet Ellen Hinsey at the New American Studies Journal

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Fiction Review: Ria Dhull Reads Walter Serner’s Curious Love Story The Tigress Some years after Walter Serner helped bring Dadaism to Zurich, he broke away from the movement. The Tigress, perhaps Serner’s most famous work, emerged in the period after Serner’s detachment from …

Ria Dhull at Heavy Feather Review: on The Tigress: "Serner’s Dada roots peek through the darkness of The Tigress; there is something of the absurd within its chaos."
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Condolences Alex, and sweet dreams to Kluge.

Latest in my Czech marathon: Emil Hakl's of Kids and Parents about a father & son drinking around Prague & discussing everything shorturl.at/h1XEz tr Marek Tomin from@twistedspoon.bsky.social

A tribute to Adam J. Sorkin, a prolific translator of Romanian poetry who passed away a couple of months ago (as we just found out). We were fortunate to collaborate with him on the collection Memory Glyphs.
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‘Erotikon’: Controversial Czech classic returns to Prague cinemas in newly restored version Digitally restored silent classic by Gustav Machatý has returned to Czech cinemas, offering modern audiences a rare look at one of the most provocative films of the interwar era.

www.praguereporter.com/home/2026/2/...

"The variety in the folded clock is almost astonishingly great. If all conceived somehow around numbers, Rühm does much more than simply offer a few variations on a few themes -- of either subject matter or approach."

Wishing everyone the very best for the new year, and a big thanks to all who did us right this past year.

The cover of The Tigress, by Walter Serner. It's a cubist-style painting of a woman in dark grey tones

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33!

... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...

www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-sern...

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Cheers!

Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025) I dug/was perplexed by Gerhard Rühm’s Cake and Prostheses a few years ago, so when I got my soft pink hands on The Folded Clock, (translated like C & P by Alexander Booth), I was intrigued. Pub…

Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/12/12/g...

The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth) time poem a note on recitationrecited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year: were you to begin on january 1st, you would recite only a single line a day until december 31st, then,…

"a note on recitation
recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..."

The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social )

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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…

ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...

Tomorrow, Nov. 26 downstairs at Café Club Míšeňská (Míšenska 3, Malá Strana) Alexander Booth will be presenting his translations of Gerhard Rühm. All Welcome. Doors open at 19:00, we'll start some time later.

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Yes, thank you both.

"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"

"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."

Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada.
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...

Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social

Interview with Alexander Booth | PDF An interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.

Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon.
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In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....

Lovely to revisit Bookart bookshop near Old St tube 🚇 post-renovation - like my new bag and bought something intriguing from the @twistedspoon.bsky.social list

Possibilities in Transformation: A Review of Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová - Asymptote Blog [Ceilings] and its setting dwell in a place where play and terror occur simultaneously. . .

Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote:
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
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A Prague Flâneur – Vítězslav Nezval Prague surpasses its “practical necessity” and expands into a dynamic host for memories

James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social

"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."

www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...

This @twistedspoon.bsky.social novel is deeply intriguing, unsettling and funny. The tale of the narrative voice becomes a palimpsest of characters, times and places.

A nice review of Gerhard Rühm's "cake & prostheses" (in my translation)

www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...

"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."