Jenny Croft
@jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | https://bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-translated-or-written
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Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?
October 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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THE LOST SOLDIERS, Andrey Kurkov’s latest Kyiv mystery, has a UK cover!
My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
THE LOST SOLDIERS, Andrey Kurkov’s latest Kyiv mystery, has a UK cover!
My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
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Tonight in Tulsa!
I’m looking forward to reading some new poems at Heirloom Rustic Ales in Tulsa at the end of the month!
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Tonight in Tulsa!
Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
September 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
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getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature.
*As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.
*As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
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A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a c…
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September 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
I’ve been a judge for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award in Translated Literature, and the NEA Translation Fellowship (RIP), and I’ve never read a translation more brilliant than this. Out in April, but you can preorder now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sidetracke...
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood|Paperback
The first English translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic of Russian Émigré lifeWith great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin’s Sidetracked provides unique insight into one...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’ve been a judge for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award in Translated Literature, and the NEA Translation Fellowship (RIP), and I’ve never read a translation more brilliant than this. Out in April, but you can preorder now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sidetracke...
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If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
August 31, 2025 at 5:37 AM
If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
Loved getting to review this great new novel by Helen Oyeyemi for the NYTBR! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
She Has 7 Selves, and They All Have a Story
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August 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Loved getting to review this great new novel by Helen Oyeyemi for the NYTBR! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
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They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @henricole.bsky.social…
See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
August 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @henricole.bsky.social…
See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
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Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only.
arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
August 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only.
arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
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Educators, this short story about a young girl in Mexico preparing to travel to the US is paired with more reading from Mexico, literature about the theme of home, and even writing on fast food. Check it out on WWB Campus: buff.ly/DEPwBNK
August 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Educators, this short story about a young girl in Mexico preparing to travel to the US is paired with more reading from Mexico, literature about the theme of home, and even writing on fast food. Check it out on WWB Campus: buff.ly/DEPwBNK
Looking forward to this next month in New York! Hoping to bring together a couple of ideas I've been working on about translating time and art versus entertainment. And (perhaps needless to say) twins! Please join us if you're around! arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
On Being in Between: Postcards, Pregnancy, Travel, and Translation | School of the Arts
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August 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Looking forward to this next month in New York! Hoping to bring together a couple of ideas I've been working on about translating time and art versus entertainment. And (perhaps needless to say) twins! Please join us if you're around! arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-ru...
The Russian destruction of Odesa's Pryvoz Market — croftwork
The first thing Boris and I did when we visited Odesa was walk to the house where he grew up. The next thing we did was buy fruit at Pryvoz Market.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-ru...
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@elpais.com) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@anagramaeditor.bsky.social) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Una novela sobre traducciones se convierte en un cruce apasionante entre ‘Perdidos’ y Agatha Christie
Jennifer Croft, traductora de la premio Nobel Olga Tokarczuk, publica un libro sobre la importancia del que recrea la obra de otro
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July 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@elpais.com) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@anagramaeditor.bsky.social) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025...
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The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...
How an Exiled Russian Noble Became a Great American Songwriter
His story spans everything from Belarus to Balanchine to Bacharach
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July 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...
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This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market. From there, it unfolded like a dream… Thank you, Vernon, for many happy hours…
July 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market. From there, it unfolded like a dream… Thank you, Vernon, for many happy hours…
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Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS. In prose and verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920). www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
July 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS. In prose and verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920). www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
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NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed Jennifer Croft about her memoir, "Homesick," which is accompanied by her own Polaroids, for Memoir Nation:
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July 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed Jennifer Croft about her memoir, "Homesick," which is accompanied by her own Polaroids, for Memoir Nation:
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Do give this extraordinary memoir of the 20th century a read. From Stravinsky to the Gershwins, Prokofiev to Ethel Waters, Duke knew them all—and the poems at the back of the book are little cures for depression, each and every one. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
July 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Do give this extraordinary memoir of the 20th century a read. From Stravinsky to the Gershwins, Prokofiev to Ethel Waters, Duke knew them all—and the poems at the back of the book are little cures for depression, each and every one. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
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One of the funniest, weirdest, most meta books I’ve read in ages. And a beautiful cover design! What more could you ask for!
The beautiful paperback of Irena Rey is officially out now!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
June 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of the funniest, weirdest, most meta books I’ve read in ages. And a beautiful cover design! What more could you ask for!