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Vaibhav Sharma
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Hello, there's a slight change to the publishing date for Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers. The book is coming out on 14th August. You can pre-order from the following link, or find it at your local bookstore.

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Hello, there's a slight change to the publishing date for Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers. The book is coming out on 14th August. You can pre-order from the following link, or find it at your local bookstore.

amzn.in/d/iMO8R4j
Buy Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers: Literary Indian Short Stories | Raw & Real Tales of Power, Poverty & the Quiet Politics of Survival Book Online at Low Prices in India | Courtesans Don't Read New...
Amazon.in - Buy Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers: Literary Indian Short Stories | Raw & Real Tales of Power, Poverty & the Quiet Politics of Survival book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. ...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”

Ok well I asked Sappho and she said

…….
…….
..[b]osom
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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also a reminder that buying harry potter shite goes directly into harming trans folk and, well, everyone else
Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.
August 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.

A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.

For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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📣 Applications are OPEN for the @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social Fellowship 2025/26📣

The successful applicant will be in residence at BCLT for 8 weeks from Monday 19th January – Saturday 14th March 2026. Apply by 14 September 2025 📅

Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
August 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Hello, there's a slight change to the publishing date for Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers. The book is coming out on 14th August. You can pre-order from the following link, or find it at your local bookstore.

amzn.in/d/iMO8R4j
Buy Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers: Literary Indian Short Stories | Raw & Real Tales of Power, Poverty & the Quiet Politics of Survival Book Online at Low Prices in India | Courtesans Don't Read New...
Amazon.in - Buy Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers: Literary Indian Short Stories | Raw & Real Tales of Power, Poverty & the Quiet Politics of Survival book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. ...
amzn.in
August 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Also lucky to have new intros by Kamila Shamsie and Siddhartha Deb. Pre-order from your fave indie bookseller or bookshop.org now! Here’s the Tamas link: bookshop.org/p/books/tama...
Tamas
Check out Tamas - <b>A poignant, politically charged, and timeless novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised trnslation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell<br><br>A Penguin Class...
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May 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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These two beauties are available for pre-order now in the US. The Women’s Courtyard cover is a beautiful painting by renowned Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander and the Tamas cover is an amazing woodblock print by Indian illustrator Anagh Bannerjee.
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Take a look at this gorgeous cover! New translation by @withvai.bsky.social !
Delighted to announce that my second book in translation 'Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers' written originally in Hindi by Anil Yadav, is all set to be published by Penguin Random House India on August 28th. The cover is designed by Shadab Khan.

www.penguin.co.in/book/courtes...
August 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Delighted to announce that my second book in translation 'Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers' written originally in Hindi by Anil Yadav, is all set to be published by Penguin Random House India on August 28th. The cover is designed by Shadab Khan.

www.penguin.co.in/book/courtes...
August 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Delighted to announce that my second book in translation 'Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers' written originally in Hindi by Anil Yadav, is all set to be published by Penguin Random House India on August 28th. The cover is designed by Shadab Khan.

www.penguin.co.in/book/courtes...
August 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Hi DH&J listeners, it's me, Brooke Shotwell from the podcast credits and self-appointed keeper of DH&J lore, here to add some context to the many podcast references the Green brothers dropped in today's new episode.
June 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Ep. 415: Bombarded by Space Frogs is now available wherever you get your podcasts!
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers.
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#BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚
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April 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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“Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social.
Our City That Year
So this is the place. Our city. Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it. T…
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April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Read the first chapter of Our City that Year, my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, in @literaryhub.bsky.social
“Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social.
Our City That Year
So this is the place. Our city. Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it. T…
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April 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Enormous congrats to @shreedaisy.bsky.social on UK publication of OUR CITY THAT YEAR, her newest tr. of Geetanjali Shree, out now w @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social! ✨🌟✨💫
Read the first chapter of Our City that Year, my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, in @literaryhub.bsky.social
“Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social.
April 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Thank you, @terribleman.com, for this wonderful review of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year!
April 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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A warm welcome to @terribleman.com to the enthusiastic team of translated fiction reviewers at @irishtimes.com A fascinating selection in this month's column.

Fiction in translation: Figures in a landscape

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction in translation: Figures in a landscape
Frank Wynne reviews Our City That Year, by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell; The Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof; and The Accidentals by Guadelupe Nettel...
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April 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
April 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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A finalist for the @‌armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q
April 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We’re leaving Twitter (but you can still find us here)!
Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter
“Why I’m leaving Twitter” is, at this point, an irritating genre of post. Nonetheless, it’s important to go on record in the face of Elon Musk’s vacuous amorality and its concomitant amplification …
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May 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Congratulations to Ibrahim Fawzy for being included in @deepvellum.bsky.social Best Literary Translations 2025 for his translation of Hassan Akrm’s A Plan to Save the World. We’re thrilled to be publishing this Iraqi novel next year. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXEq...
My Life in Translation -- Conversation with Ibrahim Fawzy
YouTube video by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
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May 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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LOVE Étoile. Great show/amazing cast.
#Étoile
April 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM