Frances Evangelista
@nonsuchbook.bsky.social
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
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#NYRBWomen26 I’m making dinner & relistening to this excellent episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social on LOLLY WILLOWES. If you haven’t listened, highly recommend. onebrightbook.com/2022/06/25/e...
Episode 5: Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss LOLLY WILLOWES by Sylvia Townsend Warner and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will …
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February 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM
#NYRBWomen26 I’m making dinner & relistening to this excellent episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social on LOLLY WILLOWES. If you haven’t listened, highly recommend. onebrightbook.com/2022/06/25/e...
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If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
A Tribute to Book World
- Jonathan Yardley — author, book critic, Book World, 1983-2015
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February 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
Through the front door today. The Murder Game: Plays, Puzzles & the Golden Age by John Curran. I’ve always enjoyed Golden Age mysteries and am interested in a conversation about their resurgence in this century.
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Through the front door today. The Murder Game: Plays, Puzzles & the Golden Age by John Curran. I’ve always enjoyed Golden Age mysteries and am interested in a conversation about their resurgence in this century.
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"One of the year’s best books.... Just as James Joyce’s Ulysses is a love letter to Dublin written in exile, so too is Effingers an ode to the [Berlin] of Tergit’s youth...."
‘Effingers,’ a Towering Tale of German Jewry Between Bismarck and Hitler, Is a Masterpiece That Was Hiding in Plain Sight | The New York Sun
A new translation captures the heyday — and devastating end — of the unrequited love affair between Berlin and Jerusalem.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
"One of the year’s best books.... Just as James Joyce’s Ulysses is a love letter to Dublin written in exile, so too is Effingers an ode to the [Berlin] of Tergit’s youth...."
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What can't Frank Wynne do! We're proud to have some of his work in our archive: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
Mazel tov to @terribleman.com for a double hitter:
He won the runner up prize for best #translation from both Spanish AND French in the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation awards announced yesterday!
👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉
#xl8 #langsky #booksky
He won the runner up prize for best #translation from both Spanish AND French in the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation awards announced yesterday!
👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉
#xl8 #langsky #booksky
February 11, 2026 at 3:28 PM
What can't Frank Wynne do! We're proud to have some of his work in our archive: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
Penelope Fitzgerald reviews Muriel Spark’s Reality and Dreams in the NYT, May 1997.
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Penelope Fitzgerald reviews Muriel Spark’s Reality and Dreams in the NYT, May 1997.
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"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN
Very excited for this one.
Hello - just a quick message to US writers: early copies of my book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, will be available soon! Please message me if you’re interested in reading it, and I’ll let my publisher know 🐈⬛
February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Very excited for this one.
Some dedications are just better than others
February 9, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Some dedications are just better than others
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
February 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
“We are very dependent on language to have feelings at all. If you have an impoverished language, you have less emotion. And if you have less emotion, you understand less about your fellow human beings." - Birgitta Trotzig
Reading Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
Reading Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
February 8, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“We are very dependent on language to have feelings at all. If you have an impoverished language, you have less emotion. And if you have less emotion, you understand less about your fellow human beings." - Birgitta Trotzig
Reading Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
Reading Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
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Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books.
Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...
Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...
February 3, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books.
Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...
Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...
Through the mail slot today. The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Through the mail slot today. The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
Fellini and Pasolini’s favourite costume designer was a movie hero in his own right, says the novelist.
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Olivia Laing on Danilo Donati, ‘the secret magician of Italian cinema’
Fellini and Pasolini’s favourite costume designer was a movie hero in his own right, says the novelist
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February 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Fellini and Pasolini’s favourite costume designer was a movie hero in his own right, says the novelist.
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“My friend, Pasolini says, we are demonstrating that facts are immaterial in fascism, that truth is dead, that meaning is on a permanent migration. I think we are engaged in honorable work.”
February 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
“My friend, Pasolini says, we are demonstrating that facts are immaterial in fascism, that truth is dead, that meaning is on a permanent migration. I think we are engaged in honorable work.”
To Begin at the Beginning, Javier Marías, 2016. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
February 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
To Begin at the Beginning, Javier Marías, 2016. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
“This was precisely the sort of idiocy one would expect from someone who wore white patent-leather shoes.”
February 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
“This was precisely the sort of idiocy one would expect from someone who wore white patent-leather shoes.”
“She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.”
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
“She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.”
“When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
February 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM
“When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
February 5, 2026 at 10:06 PM
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.” A perfect sentence, a perfect reflection of Bowen’s work.
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.” A perfect sentence, a perfect reflection of Bowen’s work.