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Sandorf Passage publishes work that creates a prismatic perspective on what it means to live in a globalized world. It is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency.
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This is what close to 4 years of hard, but rewarding, work looks like when it comes to indie publishing. Thanks to our authors, translators, designers, editors, proofreaders, and sales people—and BIG UPS to all our readers and the indie bookstore folks who champion these books! Get ready for 2025!
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social includes Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) on the @wwborders.bsky.social November Watchlist! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Watchlist: November 2025 - Words Without Borders
Nonfiction, comics, poems, and fiction in translation: Tobias Carroll recommends a little of everything in this month's Watchlist.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social includes Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) on the @wwborders.bsky.social November Watchlist! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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Looking for translators with cats! Please help me find my people.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Looking for translators with cats! Please help me find my people.
The UN General Assembly has designated today, November 25, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Monika Herceg’s Closed Season is a clarion call to not look away from or ignore the suffering of women throughout the world.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The UN General Assembly has designated today, November 25, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Monika Herceg’s Closed Season is a clarion call to not look away from or ignore the suffering of women throughout the world.
Last week’s Monika Herceg events in support of Closed Season were a delight: inspiring, challenging, surprising, and beautiful. Get a taste by watching this video from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6d...
Brookline Booksmith is live! Transnational Series: Monika Herceg with Ellen Elias-Bursać
YouTube video by Brookline Booksmith
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Last week’s Monika Herceg events in support of Closed Season were a delight: inspiring, challenging, surprising, and beautiful. Get a taste by watching this video from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6d...
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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ALWAYS judge a book by the cover! Book design essentially tells you a story of the story in the actual text & can convey tone, vibes, etc all to help you know if the book you're holding might be right for you! (After it's gotten you to pick up the book in the 1st place.)
Kindly wax poetically about the role of the book designer.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
ALWAYS judge a book by the cover! Book design essentially tells you a story of the story in the actual text & can convey tone, vibes, etc all to help you know if the book you're holding might be right for you! (After it's gotten you to pick up the book in the 1st place.)
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well earned!
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
well earned!
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As it should be! This is such a wonderful book
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As it should be! This is such a wonderful book
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
Well look at that, Jonathan Reeder’s translation of Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is one of this year’s most notable novels! “Niedekker presents us with a mosaic that is a pure delight on the page, packed full of sly jokes and inventive surprises.”
Our list of 50 notable works of fiction from 2025. Gift link: wapo.st/4849FNZ (10 best books will arrive in the a.m.)
50 notable works of fiction from 2025
Highlights among the year’s novels and short-story collections, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Well look at that, Jonathan Reeder’s translation of Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is one of this year’s most notable novels! “Niedekker presents us with a mosaic that is a pure delight on the page, packed full of sly jokes and inventive surprises.”
NYC: Monika Herceg is a force and tonight she will be joined by Underground Barbie author Maša Kolanović at the gallery Brief Histories in Manhattan. You don’t want to miss this.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NYC: Monika Herceg is a force and tonight she will be joined by Underground Barbie author Maša Kolanović at the gallery Brief Histories in Manhattan. You don’t want to miss this.
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If you're looking for books in translation to read... check out Josh Cook's selects! He'll send you three paperbacks in translation, ranging in genre, and press. A great gift for the holidays or for anyone looking to switch up what they normally read.
For all you weirdos (you know who you are!) there is the classic Josh Sends You Three Paperbacks in which, well...Josh sends you three paperbacks. (And they'll all be incredible and only as weird as you want them. 2/7
Josh Sends You 3 Paperbacks
They'll be a range of genres, but you'll probably get books from small presses, something in a translation, probably something weird, and they'll usually be relatively new releases. If you have a strong genre preferrence let us know in the order comments, but Josh will also try to surprise you.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you're looking for books in translation to read... check out Josh Cook's selects! He'll send you three paperbacks in translation, ranging in genre, and press. A great gift for the holidays or for anyone looking to switch up what they normally read.
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In the Portland, #Maine, area? Want to spend your Monday evening basking in poetry? Then get yourself to Lambs in South Portland tomorrow, November 17. This is a special opportunity to hear Monika Herceg read her exceptional work.
We’re thrilled to be bringing Monika Herceg to #Maine. Join us at the mighty Lambs in South Portland on November 17. "Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew." —Olga Tokarczuk
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In the Portland, #Maine, area? Want to spend your Monday evening basking in poetry? Then get yourself to Lambs in South Portland tomorrow, November 17. This is a special opportunity to hear Monika Herceg read her exceptional work.
In the Portland, #Maine, area? Want to spend your Monday evening basking in poetry? Then get yourself to Lambs in South Portland tomorrow, November 17. This is a special opportunity to hear Monika Herceg read her exceptional work.
We’re thrilled to be bringing Monika Herceg to #Maine. Join us at the mighty Lambs in South Portland on November 17. "Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew." —Olga Tokarczuk
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In the Portland, #Maine, area? Want to spend your Monday evening basking in poetry? Then get yourself to Lambs in South Portland tomorrow, November 17. This is a special opportunity to hear Monika Herceg read her exceptional work.
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What fiction are you reading to cope with current events? Švejk or Yossarian? Any other favorites? Swing by our bookstore or your local indie bookstore for some therapeutic reading!
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
What fiction are you reading to cope with current events? Švejk or Yossarian? Any other favorites? Swing by our bookstore or your local indie bookstore for some therapeutic reading!
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“Hard to categorize” from Sandorf Passage is an instant to-read marker
Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. Discover this Croatian poet in April.
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“Hard to categorize” from Sandorf Passage is an instant to-read marker
Boston: You have two chances to hear Monika Herceg read from and discuss Closed Season, a fusion of physics and politics that conjures righteously angry and alarmingly memorable work. See her at BU this evening, starting at 5:15, and tomorrow at Brookline Booksmith, starting at 7:00 PM.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Boston: You have two chances to hear Monika Herceg read from and discuss Closed Season, a fusion of physics and politics that conjures righteously angry and alarmingly memorable work. See her at BU this evening, starting at 5:15, and tomorrow at Brookline Booksmith, starting at 7:00 PM.
Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. Discover this Croatian poet in April.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. Discover this Croatian poet in April.
Ahead of the Closed Season events @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social and Lambs in Maine, @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social chews on the new collection: “Monika Herceg writes with a controlled ferocity, alert to the sick ironies and absurdities of this world.” ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/poetry-of-...
Poetry of the void, Derek Walcott Prize winners, the beauty of science in photographs
New England Literary News
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November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ahead of the Closed Season events @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social and Lambs in Maine, @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social chews on the new collection: “Monika Herceg writes with a controlled ferocity, alert to the sick ironies and absurdities of this world.” ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/poetry-of-...
Boston, South Portland, New York: prepare for Monika Herceg’s forthcoming appearances by reading the title poem from her latest collection to appear in English @lithub.com.web.brid.gy. And then join us on November 13, 14, 17, and 18. lithub.com/closed-seaso...
“Closed Season,” a Poem by Monika Herceg
After climbing two hundred and twenty stairs hips come loose like hinges and a child’s hiccup echoes through the pelvis as if the belly button ate the hypocenter My downstairs neighbor spent months…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Boston, South Portland, New York: prepare for Monika Herceg’s forthcoming appearances by reading the title poem from her latest collection to appear in English @lithub.com.web.brid.gy. And then join us on November 13, 14, 17, and 18. lithub.com/closed-seaso...
Don’t anger Nick’s cat.
my sabo-tabby will place a 40 year curse on you if you don’t buy THE COMPETITION OF UNFINISHED STORIES, out today with @sandorfpassage.bsky.social 🖤
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Don’t anger Nick’s cat.
Today’s to-do list: 1. VOTE, 2. Get yourself a copy of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social. It’s an unforgettable, wild ride! sandorfpassage.org/product/the-...
The Competition of Unfinished Stories – sandorfpassage.org
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today’s to-do list: 1. VOTE, 2. Get yourself a copy of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social. It’s an unforgettable, wild ride! sandorfpassage.org/product/the-...
Need help w/ this @maris.bsky.social challenge? Don’t sleep on Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated from Kurdish by @gayadorno.bsky.social. @lydiakiesling.bsky.social hails it as a “breathtaking, virtuosic, dark, funny, furious, sad, and genuinely strange work of fiction.”
Today is the last big new release day of 2025, and there's so much good stuff. Many, many famous authors and celebrities have books out today, but I challenge you to read a book by an author you've never heard of... www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 79
It's the last big new release day of 2025
What I read this week
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Hartman, translated by Ros Schwartz
Tomorrow night I'll be discussing I Who Have Never Know...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Need help w/ this @maris.bsky.social challenge? Don’t sleep on Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated from Kurdish by @gayadorno.bsky.social. @lydiakiesling.bsky.social hails it as a “breathtaking, virtuosic, dark, funny, furious, sad, and genuinely strange work of fiction.”
Attention, New York City: Looking to take the pulse on Croatian literature today? Then don’t miss Monika Herceg and Maša Kolanović reading, and in discussion with Dijana Jelača, at the gallery Brief Histories on November 18.
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Attention, New York City: Looking to take the pulse on Croatian literature today? Then don’t miss Monika Herceg and Maša Kolanović reading, and in discussion with Dijana Jelača, at the gallery Brief Histories on November 18.
Boo! Great to see Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (tr. Jonathan Reeder) on this Yale Climate Connections list. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/clim...
Climate fiction that will haunt you! » Yale Climate Connections
These spooky reads will keep you awake long after midnight.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Boo! Great to see Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (tr. Jonathan Reeder) on this Yale Climate Connections list. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/clim...