Twisted Spoon Press
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Independent press based in Prague publishing English translations of Central & Eastern European writing.
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Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...
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... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33!
... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...
www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-sern...
... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...
www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-sern...
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My review of a new translation of Walter Serner's fantastic and controversial novel THE TIGRESS has published at @thetemzreview.bsky.social!
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Yurcaba Serner 33
Reviewed by Nicole Yurcaba
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December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/12/12/g...
Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025)
I dug/was perplexed by Gerhard Rühm’s Cake and Prostheses a few years ago, so when I got my soft pink hands on The Folded Clock, (translated like C & P by Alexander Booth), I was intrigued. Pub…
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December 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/12/12/g...
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"a note on recitation
recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..."
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social )
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recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..."
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social )
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The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth)
time poem a note on recitationrecited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year: were you to begin on january 1st, you would recite only a single line a day until december 31st, then,…
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December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"a note on recitation
recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..."
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social )
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recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..."
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social )
@twistedspoon.bsky.social
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ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two – one two – three! . two one two three – four . two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...
Tomorrow, Nov. 26 downstairs at Café Club Míšeňská (Míšenska 3, Malá Strana) Alexander Booth will be presenting his translations of Gerhard Rühm. All Welcome. Doors open at 19:00, we'll start some time later.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tomorrow, Nov. 26 downstairs at Café Club Míšeňská (Míšenska 3, Malá Strana) Alexander Booth will be presenting his translations of Gerhard Rühm. All Welcome. Doors open at 19:00, we'll start some time later.
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
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"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"
On the Ramblings today, my second book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social this week - a stunning poetry collection from Gerhard Ruhm, in a wonderful translation by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social. And it fits for #GLM2025! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...
“…I was never younger or older…” #twistedspoonpress
The second Twisted Spoon Press book I want to share this week is very different from “The Tigress”, but equally as fascinating! The author is Gerhard Rühm, an author, composer and visua…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"
"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."
For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!
On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."
Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada.
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada.
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
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Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon.
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Interview with Alexander Booth | PDF
An interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon.
www.scribd.com/document/929...
www.scribd.com/document/929...
In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
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Lovely to revisit Bookart bookshop near Old St tube 🚇 post-renovation - like my new bag and bought something intriguing from the @twistedspoon.bsky.social list
September 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Lovely to revisit Bookart bookshop near Old St tube 🚇 post-renovation - like my new bag and bought something intriguing from the @twistedspoon.bsky.social list
Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote:
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
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"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
Possibilities in Transformation: A Review of Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová - Asymptote Blog
[Ceilings] and its setting dwell in a place where play and terror occur simultaneously. . .
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August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote:
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
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"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
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A Prague Flâneur – Vítězslav Nezval
Prague surpasses its “practical necessity” and expands into a dynamic host for memories
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August 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
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This @twistedspoon.bsky.social novel is deeply intriguing, unsettling and funny. The tale of the narrative voice becomes a palimpsest of characters, times and places.
August 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This @twistedspoon.bsky.social novel is deeply intriguing, unsettling and funny. The tale of the narrative voice becomes a palimpsest of characters, times and places.
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A nice review of Gerhard Rühm's "cake & prostheses" (in my translation)
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cake & prostheses - Gerhard Rühm
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of cake & prostheses by Gerhard Rühm.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A nice review of Gerhard Rühm's "cake & prostheses" (in my translation)
www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...
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"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."
July 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."
In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."
July 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."
Thanks JS : "Its raw, unapologetic narrative slips seamlessly between voice and perspective, continually cross-referencing itself, to create a world—one woman’s world, past and present—that for all its surreal elements is cohesive, sympathetic and real."
ICYMI I wrote about this lyrical, dream-filled journey through drug rehab. Loved it! @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová
Drink them up, swallow those clouds, gulp them down with all your might, because all you’ve got to look forward to now are ceilings. As Ema, the fifty year-old protagonist of Zuzana Brabcová’s Ceil…
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July 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Thanks JS : "Its raw, unapologetic narrative slips seamlessly between voice and perspective, continually cross-referencing itself, to create a world—one woman’s world, past and present—that for all its surreal elements is cohesive, sympathetic and real."
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Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social
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Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová
Drink them up, swallow those clouds, gulp them down with all your might, because all you’ve got to look forward to now are ceilings. As Ema, the fifty year-old protagonist of Zuzana Brabcová’s Ceil…
roughghosts.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social
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In bookshops this November, back from the printers in summer.
For more info and individual orders:
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#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
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#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In bookshops this November, back from the printers in summer.
For more info and individual orders:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
For more info and individual orders:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris