Adam
@adamcoulter.bsky.social
Associate Director of Digital Content at a Boston-area engineering college. Proud father. Books, especially translated fiction. Reader and collector.
Wow! The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature has been awarded to the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” @nobelprize.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wow! The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature has been awarded to the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” @nobelprize.bsky.social
I can report that Michael Lentz’s Schattenfroh gets REALLY good at about the 149p mark. I still have lots to traverse, but this book and translation is superb. @deepvellum.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I can report that Michael Lentz’s Schattenfroh gets REALLY good at about the 149p mark. I still have lots to traverse, but this book and translation is superb. @deepvellum.bsky.social
Reading Bomarzo next.
September 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reading Bomarzo next.
Latest book pickup: The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch. There’s just something about Austrian writers and their work that I enjoy so much.
August 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Latest book pickup: The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch. There’s just something about Austrian writers and their work that I enjoy so much.
I’ve been supplementing my #translatedfiction reads lately with some amazing poetry. Such as Olav H. Hague’s late works, and Alice Notley’s epic, The Decent Of Alette (1992). 🚇☠️
July 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’ve been supplementing my #translatedfiction reads lately with some amazing poetry. Such as Olav H. Hague’s late works, and Alice Notley’s epic, The Decent Of Alette (1992). 🚇☠️
“In these four years that have gone by, people have said all manner of things about The Hive…It hurts when you realize that people still think of literature as a form of entertainment, like the violin, which never does anyone any harm.”-Camilo José Cela, preface to 2nd ed. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“In these four years that have gone by, people have said all manner of things about The Hive…It hurts when you realize that people still think of literature as a form of entertainment, like the violin, which never does anyone any harm.”-Camilo José Cela, preface to 2nd ed. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
Do we still do this, here?! 🙏😀
Anyhow, here’s my @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Summer Sale choices! (Also just noticed the third part - 1815-30, of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, arrives this winter).
Anyhow, here’s my @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Summer Sale choices! (Also just noticed the third part - 1815-30, of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, arrives this winter).
June 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Do we still do this, here?! 🙏😀
Anyhow, here’s my @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Summer Sale choices! (Also just noticed the third part - 1815-30, of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, arrives this winter).
Anyhow, here’s my @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Summer Sale choices! (Also just noticed the third part - 1815-30, of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, arrives this winter).
The Coming Spring (1925), a work of #fiction by the magnificent, though little known in the English-speaking world, novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing. Trs. by Bill Johnston.
📙 More about Stefan Żeromski from @nehgov.bsky.social: www.neh.gov/humanities/2... #BookSky
📙 More about Stefan Żeromski from @nehgov.bsky.social: www.neh.gov/humanities/2... #BookSky
June 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Coming Spring (1925), a work of #fiction by the magnificent, though little known in the English-speaking world, novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing. Trs. by Bill Johnston.
📙 More about Stefan Żeromski from @nehgov.bsky.social: www.neh.gov/humanities/2... #BookSky
📙 More about Stefan Żeromski from @nehgov.bsky.social: www.neh.gov/humanities/2... #BookSky
Not sure why I waited so long to finish Karl Ove Knausgaard’s #MyStruggle. I blew through books 1-5, but am only just now getting to the final installment and it’s amazing. Some of the best #writing I’ve read - like this piece on pg. 404 about his deceased father. 🤯 #BookSky #NorwegianLiterature
June 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Not sure why I waited so long to finish Karl Ove Knausgaard’s #MyStruggle. I blew through books 1-5, but am only just now getting to the final installment and it’s amazing. Some of the best #writing I’ve read - like this piece on pg. 404 about his deceased father. 🤯 #BookSky #NorwegianLiterature
The publisher, @seagullbooks.bsky.social, never fails to make beautiful-looking books. This hardcover of The World Machine by Paolo Volponi is no exception!
May 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The publisher, @seagullbooks.bsky.social, never fails to make beautiful-looking books. This hardcover of The World Machine by Paolo Volponi is no exception!
Exciting book delivery this week. And how about this amazing line from Dunya Mikhail’s forward to Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams: “Through these dreams that slip through the cracks of history to resurface in the breaths of the night…”🔥 @princetonupress.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Exciting book delivery this week. And how about this amazing line from Dunya Mikhail’s forward to Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams: “Through these dreams that slip through the cracks of history to resurface in the breaths of the night…”🔥 @princetonupress.bsky.social
Super! Just took advantage of the sale to pickup the long awaited, The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III. I already have a nice spot picked out along with a few companions on the bookshelf for vol. III. 😉
March 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Super! Just took advantage of the sale to pickup the long awaited, The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III. I already have a nice spot picked out along with a few companions on the bookshelf for vol. III. 😉
My first @galleybeggars.bsky.social. ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS by @markbowles.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My first @galleybeggars.bsky.social. ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS by @markbowles.bsky.social
Solenoid by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu (trs. by Sean Cotter), and published by @deepvellum.bsky.social, was the perfect, “literary juggernaut,” to end this 3-book reading cycle. These three were also all first time reads for me.
March 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Solenoid by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu (trs. by Sean Cotter), and published by @deepvellum.bsky.social, was the perfect, “literary juggernaut,” to end this 3-book reading cycle. These three were also all first time reads for me.
I just finished the best 3-book cycle ever.
With the completion of Cǎrtǎrescu’s Solenoid this week, 2666 before it, and The Flanders Road kicking off this months-long #reading journey, I can safely say - for me - it’s been the best 3-book series ever. www.instagram.com/p/DGngiSeg3O... #BookSky
With the completion of Cǎrtǎrescu’s Solenoid this week, 2666 before it, and The Flanders Road kicking off this months-long #reading journey, I can safely say - for me - it’s been the best 3-book series ever. www.instagram.com/p/DGngiSeg3O... #BookSky
March 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I just finished the best 3-book cycle ever.
With the completion of Cǎrtǎrescu’s Solenoid this week, 2666 before it, and The Flanders Road kicking off this months-long #reading journey, I can safely say - for me - it’s been the best 3-book series ever. www.instagram.com/p/DGngiSeg3O... #BookSky
With the completion of Cǎrtǎrescu’s Solenoid this week, 2666 before it, and The Flanders Road kicking off this months-long #reading journey, I can safely say - for me - it’s been the best 3-book series ever. www.instagram.com/p/DGngiSeg3O... #BookSky
Looking forward to this one! Summer of Fire and Blood - The German Peasants’ War by historian, Lyndal Roper. Also, just came across this podcast episode from Historically Thinking featuring Prof. Roper as she discusses her new book. historicallythinking.org/episode-395-... #germanhistory #books
February 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Looking forward to this one! Summer of Fire and Blood - The German Peasants’ War by historian, Lyndal Roper. Also, just came across this podcast episode from Historically Thinking featuring Prof. Roper as she discusses her new book. historicallythinking.org/episode-395-... #germanhistory #books
My 1st CEU Press Classics, just arrived:
The Coming Spring (trs. by Bill Johnston), Stefan Zeromski’s last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. #books
The Coming Spring (trs. by Bill Johnston), Stefan Zeromski’s last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. #books
February 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My 1st CEU Press Classics, just arrived:
The Coming Spring (trs. by Bill Johnston), Stefan Zeromski’s last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. #books
The Coming Spring (trs. by Bill Johnston), Stefan Zeromski’s last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. #books
Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, Translated by Damion Searls and out in April from @princetonupress.bsky.social - has a cover (at least it’s the first time I’m seeing it)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #booksky
January 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, Translated by Damion Searls and out in April from @princetonupress.bsky.social - has a cover (at least it’s the first time I’m seeing it)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #booksky
Happy to have this hardcover from @stmartinspress.bsky.social arrive today.
Cold Crematorium - Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz. A haunting, lost #memoir by József Debreczeni (trs. by Paul Olchváry / forward by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social). Info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cold Crematorium - Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz. A haunting, lost #memoir by József Debreczeni (trs. by Paul Olchváry / forward by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social). Info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
January 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Happy to have this hardcover from @stmartinspress.bsky.social arrive today.
Cold Crematorium - Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz. A haunting, lost #memoir by József Debreczeni (trs. by Paul Olchváry / forward by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social). Info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cold Crematorium - Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz. A haunting, lost #memoir by József Debreczeni (trs. by Paul Olchváry / forward by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social). Info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Bolaño Amulet vibes.🪬
First American hardcover edition. (2007).
First American hardcover edition. (2007).
January 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Bolaño Amulet vibes.🪬
First American hardcover edition. (2007).
First American hardcover edition. (2007).
Ever find a once greatly anticipated, unread book, buried behind a stack on your #bookshelf that you’ve completely forgotten about? www.instagram.com/p/DEpl8kiR85... @princetonupress.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ever find a once greatly anticipated, unread book, buried behind a stack on your #bookshelf that you’ve completely forgotten about? www.instagram.com/p/DEpl8kiR85... @princetonupress.bsky.social
Time’s Echo: Music, Memory and the Second World War by Jeremy Echler is a #book I’m looking forward to reading this season. A “beautiful meditation on the dark shadows that compelled, propelled and ultimately haunted classical music in Europe during and after WWII.” www.instagram.com/p/DD4g1xDRQk...
December 22, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Time’s Echo: Music, Memory and the Second World War by Jeremy Echler is a #book I’m looking forward to reading this season. A “beautiful meditation on the dark shadows that compelled, propelled and ultimately haunted classical music in Europe during and after WWII.” www.instagram.com/p/DD4g1xDRQk...
“My mind had no room left for blue skies mirrored in the springtime pond,” so, naturally, I started Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu’s SOLENOID, translated by Sean Cotter, last night. #booksky
November 20, 2024 at 1:27 PM
“My mind had no room left for blue skies mirrored in the springtime pond,” so, naturally, I started Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu’s SOLENOID, translated by Sean Cotter, last night. #booksky
“Marguerite Young is a poet whose prose, the longer it is looked at and listened to, becomes #poetry also,” writes Mark Van Doren in the intro (originally published with 1966 reprint ) to this #DalkeyArchive major release, Angel in the Forest by Young. Will be reading soon. #Solenoid I think, next.
November 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
“Marguerite Young is a poet whose prose, the longer it is looked at and listened to, becomes #poetry also,” writes Mark Van Doren in the intro (originally published with 1966 reprint ) to this #DalkeyArchive major release, Angel in the Forest by Young. Will be reading soon. #Solenoid I think, next.