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Thank you so much to everyone who supported Neige Sinno and Natasha Lehrer’s SAD TIGER on its incredible @nationalbookfoundation run! Sharing this powerful narrative with American audiences has been a joy, and we’re so proud of Neige’s “quiet revolution”.
National Book Award Finalist medal with the woman and tiger from the cover of SAD TIGER in silver foil Natasha Lehrer reading from SAD TIGER at the National Book Awards Reading
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A Triangle Square Book Club subscription is the perfect holiday gift for young readers. And this year we’re offering a free Triangle Square tote with every subscription, adorned with beautiful woodcut artwork by J. Borges from José Saramago’s picture book The Lizard
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November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”
― Kurt Vonnegut #botd

For more about Vonnegut's environmentalism, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Vonnegut scholar Christina Jarvis. #books #booksky @sevenstories.bsky.social
466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)
When novelist Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, the planet lost one of its most creative and compelling voices. In this episode, Jacke talks to Vonnegut scholar Christina…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Brooke Palmieri's Bargain Witch (@semiotexte.bsky.social): dopaminebooks.org/books/bargai... & Enemy of the Sun eds. Naseer Aruri & Edmund Ghareeb (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.sevenstories.com/books/4703-e... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity
Book cover for Brooke Palmieri's Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation (DOPAMINE/Semiotext(e)): An occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life. https://dopaminebooks.org/books/bargain-witch Book cover for Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb (Seven Stories Press): An updated edition of the 1970 collection of Palestinian poetry that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4703-enemy-of-the-sun
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The latest round of @nymag.com's Best Books of 2025 includes SAD TIGER! Thanks to @islemcelroy.bsky.social for their thoughtful writeup.
nymag.com New York Magazine @nymag.com · Apr 1
The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, nonfiction that will change how you think about the color blue, a sexy memoir, and a vampire story that just may be horror’s ‘Moby-Dick.’
The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, nonfiction that will change how you think about the color blue, a sexy memoir, and a vampire story that just may be horror’s ‘Moby-Dick.’
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November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Sometimes good things happen, but not without the hard work of people fighting for a better world. To celebrate this hard-won victory, and all the people who've worked so diligently to make it happen, here are some stories of hope and resistance that feel right for the current moment, all 30% off.
Stories of Hope and Resistance
Sometimes good things happen, but not without the hard work of people fighting for a better world. To celebrate this hard-won victory, and all the people who've worked so diligently to ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The Rolling Library's next queer book club pick is THE CALL-OUT by @catfitzpatrick.net! another title that i read & loved so i'm now making everyone else read it, too. you can buy it from Astoria Bookshop or yr local indie (if money is tight, DM & we'll gift you a copy). meeting 12/7 in astoria!
queer book club november selection: the call-out by cat fitzpatrick dec 7 3pm at astoria food pantry (**MASKS REQUIRED**)
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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newly posted: Hugh Blanton : A Romp Through Poetry's History: On Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse / @sevenstories.bsky.social ;
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Hugh Blanton : A Romp Through Poetry's History: On Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse
In the razo to Context Collapse Ryan Ruby explains the reasons he wrote this verse essay and defines his terms. Like a lot of poe...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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it’s an extremely spooky read 🎃
acmedarryl.bsky.social Darryl Cunningham @acmedarryl.bsky.social · 23d
Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Out now from all good book shops. @sevenstories.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Out now from all good book shops. @sevenstories.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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@jmalcolmgarcia.bsky.social documents life, death, and poverty in the neighborhood of Alabama Village: “The idea that someone would shoot him made no sense. Everyone liked him.”
Life and Death in the Impoverished Neighborhood of Alabama Village
For a short time, a photograph of Tony “TJ” Brisker hung alone above a white wood door at Light of the Village, a church in Alabama Village, a destitute neighborhood in the Mobile suburb of Prichar…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"He wandered around the Village like nothing else mattered, stopping at the church to shoot baskets on a court behind it. When guys got together for a game, TJ would join them without asking, without a word of any kind, and no one challenged him. He rarely moved at all." lithub.com/life-and-dea...
Life and Death in the Impoverished Neighborhood of Alabama Village
For a short time, a photograph of Tony “TJ” Brisker hung alone above a white wood door at Light of the Village, a church in Alabama Village, a destitute neighborhood in the Mobile suburb of Prichar…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This month, @sevenstories.bsky.social released Krisztina Tóth’s dystopian novel EYE OF THE MONKEY in @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social 's translation. In this excerpt, a psychiatrist has an uncomfortable encounter with his wife, from whom he has recently separated: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Eye of the Monkey - Words Without Borders
In this excerpt from Krisztina Tóth’s novel, a psychiatrist has an uncomfortable encounter with his wife, from whom he has separated.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!
womenintranslation.bsky.social Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 29d
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
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A photograph of the 14 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The books are stood on a wooden table against a brick wall with their spines facing the camera.
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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A year ago today, we lost Gary Indiana. He was quick and brilliant, biting and tender. Gary was determined to not let anyone get too comfortable in their assumptions about him, about literature, about writing as a whole. We miss him dearly.
Gary Indiana, photographed by Hedi El Kholti
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Publishers Hedi El Kholti and Dan Simon remember their friend Gary Indiana on the anniversary of his death: “I took Horse Crazy home with me and read it over the weekend, and I was amazed. It felt like a major personal discovery.”
“You’ll See, a Lot Will Happen When I Die.” Remembering Gary Indiana
At the time of Gary Indiana’s death on October 23rd, 2024, the writer was at work on several new projects with both his current publishers, Semiotext(e) and Seven Stories. Here Hedi El Kholti of Se…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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TONIGHT: head to @bklynlibrary.bsky.social to hear about the novel László Krasznahorkai called “magnificent”, Krisztina Tóth’s EYE OF THE MONKEY
BOOK LAUNCH: EYE OF THE MONKEY KRISTINA TOTH IN CONVERSATION WITH KEN CHEN OCTOBER 21, 2025 @ 7PM BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY 10 GRAND ARMY PLAZA BROOKLYN, NY 11238
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“The dilemma was where the monkey’s soul [...] resided, if it resided anywhere at all.” Read an excerpt of Krisztina Tóth’s new novel EYE OF THE MONKEY ( @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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FIRST READ “Ever since he moved out, Petra viewed every question concerning her schedule or her work as an interrogation, an intervention into her personal life, and in her rage, she tried to draw boundaries, indicating that she had her own private life now that had nothing to do with him. Most recently, she had flung an old film camera from his collection onto the ground; it didn’t work anyway, but it had stood for decades in his room and had become very dear to him.” “Eye of the Monkey" by Krisztina Tóth translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet. Image: A painting of a monkey underneath the cover of EYE OF THE MONKEY, with an excerpt from the novel.
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Today on @nytimes.com, @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social jumps down EYE OF THE MONKEY's dystopian rabbit holes
"Remarkably, Toth manages to hold our focus as the story forks in controlled, if mysterious, ways. A book that can be snaking and labyrinthine without sprawling aimlessly is — like an author who can handle elusiveness without opacity or coyness — quite a rare thing."
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"I feel no sense of caution or restraint, nor do I have any doubts, finally. Something has come full circle. I commit the same errors as in the past but they are no longer errors. There is only beauty, passion, desire."

-Annie Ernaux, "Getting Lost" (tr. A. Strayer)
October 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I’m fully on board with any Mulzet project.
sevenstories.bsky.social Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · Oct 14
EYE OF THE MONKEY is out today wherever good books are sold!
“Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!” —Elfriede Jelinek “Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel [Eye of the Monkey] . . . Krisztina Tóth is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.” —László Krasznahorkai
October 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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EYE OF THE MONKEY is out today wherever good books are sold!
“Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!” —Elfriede Jelinek “Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel [Eye of the Monkey] . . . Krisztina Tóth is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.” —László Krasznahorkai
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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electricliterature.com/8-books-that... i wrote this booklist of queer vampire recs for anyone who feels like reading more queer vamps 🧛‍♀️
8 Books That Queer the Vampire - Electric Literature
These authors find creativity and liberation in hunger, desire, and depravity.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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It’s official! ORLANDA “arrives like a bucket of ice water to the face — it’s a clarifying shock to the system…a roaring jaunt that boldly leaps over the charged lines of gender.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
The ’90s Gender Swap Novel You Need to Read Now
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October 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM