Laura's THE RIVER means so much to me. To see it on the 2026 PEN Translation Prize longlist, and in such good company, is thrilling—and the cherry on top of this year!

Drinking game for the president's live address: throw a can at the TV each time you catch yourself saying "this motherfucker..."

Turned on the radio to hear NPR news mid-sentence talking about how "Rudolph has been hit hard by tariffs on China" and, for more seconds than I am comfortable with, legitimately wondered how fucked things are that even reindeer are getting economically railroaded.

Kicking off a deep dive into @openletterbooks.bsky.social’s backlist with this post about publishing strategies, looking at backlist trends, and Ingrid Winterbach’s TO HELL WITH CRONJÉ.

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I̶ ̵d̶o̶n̶'t̶ ̵k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̵w̶h̶o̶ ̵n̶e̶e̶d̶s̶ ̵t̶o̶ ̵h̶e̶a̶r̶ ̵t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̵b̶u̶t̶ you really should be proofreading your public-facing shit.

Great chat with @chadwpost.bsky.social about this book and its author. And what to do with artists that do terrible things. And the time I conned my way into meeting Jeanette Winterson. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-ikon-m...

Scam me on a sunny day but in THIS weather?

Wherein I hope William Gass's German pronunciation in THE TUNNEL is just a bit and 100% Kohler. open.substack.com/pub/threeper...

Giving Mark Nowak's . . . AGAIN a final proof and it is so hard to remember/believe he is writing about things that happened in 2021 and not 2025. coffeehousepress.org/products/aga...

We're sad to hear of the death of David Bellos, a wonderfully witty writer, professor, translator and judge of the 2016 International Booker Prize.

My Translator Triptych has released 2 of its 3 books! Who's ready for next week's gem? threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/kicking-of...

Our 6yo: So you know how everything is made of atoms? That means everything is always moving and we're never actually touching anything and that KINDA FREAKS ME OUT.

I miss the days when it was just about monsters under the bed 😵‍💫

And then we released the second episode of this season of the Two Month Review about Melville’s THE CONFIDENCE-MAN.

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And finally, I posted a piece on Dalkey Essentials and Eimar O’Duffy (mostly forgotten Irish satirist) and parody. Took me MONTHS to finally get this down. So much struggle and procrastination . . .

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