Mel
@nichollsm86.bsky.social
I post about queer and translated fiction, small press, manga, and pretty books 📚✨
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
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#NYRBWomen25 Tomorrow, we start MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley). “…a genre-bending & stream-of-consciousness meditation that is not an act of mourning so much as an expression of curiosity.” Here’s our page guide. clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
#NYRBWomen25 Tomorrow, we start MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley). “…a genre-bending & stream-of-consciousness meditation that is not an act of mourning so much as an expression of curiosity.” Here’s our page guide. clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
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"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.”
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
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Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
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Interview with an Editor: Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics - Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.”
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
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upcoming books in English translation I found online
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
upcoming books in English translation I found online
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.
first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books
I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.
October 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.
book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚
book mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
book mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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ICYMI I wrote about a novel that traces how easy it is for one man, a certain type of man, to be drawn toward far right ideology.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, translated by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, translated by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula
I’m growing old. Where have all those beautiful years gone, when I hung out with my mates and we roamed the pool halls and sleazy bars on Paission or the cafes in Saint Andrew Square like cowboys, …
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October 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICYMI I wrote about a novel that traces how easy it is for one man, a certain type of man, to be drawn toward far right ideology.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, translated by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, translated by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...
new releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚✨
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
new releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚✨
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"How could a weak, perverse woman like me, someone who dreams of a knife in her hand, be the mother and wife of those two individuals? What was I going to do? I burrowed deeper into the ground, hiding my body." #BookSky 💙📚 #DieMyLove #TranslationThurs
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Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff)
First published in Spanish in 2012 and then in English in 2017, Die, My Love was one of the first books issued by the innovative, independent publisher Charco Press, which remains committed to brin…
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October 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"How could a weak, perverse woman like me, someone who dreams of a knife in her hand, be the mother and wife of those two individuals? What was I going to do? I burrowed deeper into the ground, hiding my body." #BookSky 💙📚 #DieMyLove #TranslationThurs
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some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨
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This looks promising:
scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books
lonningspils.ca
scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books
lonningspils.ca
lønningspils
scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage.
lonningspils.ca
October 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This looks promising:
scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books
lonningspils.ca
scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books
lonningspils.ca
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Dawn Powell will be published in the UK for the first time in decades starting next June, when Pushkin Press (which acquired her publisher Steerforth Press) publishes her 1942 novel A Time to be Born.
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Dawn Powell will be published in the UK for the first time in decades starting next June, when Pushkin Press (which acquired her publisher Steerforth Press) publishes her 1942 novel A Time to be Born.
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Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.
Nobel Laureates Archives - Words Without Borders
A collection of writing by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Words Without Borders archive, including László Krasznahorkai and Han Kang.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.