What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...

Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

The beautiful paperback of Irena Rey is officially out now!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Irena Rey (out tomorrow!) is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest honor I could possibly receive!

Irena Rey is out in paperback two weeks from today! I always prefer paperbacks to hardcovers—so much friendlier somehow—so if you’re like me, please consider a preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Charlie: What’s a holiday?
Nina: It’s a day for smelling chocolate!

Last day of two years old

Friends from Paxos and Antipaxos

Mi homenaje a Gombrowicz (y un poco a Bolaño y otro poco, ¿cómo no?, a Borges), una novela rara (según los críticos lol) narrada por una traductora desconfiada y poco confiable, ya se publica en español, en una traducción muy original y muy confiable y muy brillante de Regina López Muñoz. Un sueño.

I hate coming to the end of a class I love, and this semester's Advanced Fiction @utulsa.bsky.social has been one of the all-time best. Amazing thinkers, writers, community members, and I will miss our biweekly conversations so much. But hopefully we'll all be reading more from them soon!

Out today!!! A Extinção de Irena Rey by Sebastião B. Cerqueira and me. From Casa das Letras, Lisboa. This is the first translation of my translator’s book about translators—but many more are coming soon!! 👀👀

I get to talk about my novel THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY tomorrow at the University of South Carolina—please come if you're nearby! sc.edu/study/colleg...

I’ve always loved this postcard, even though I can’t understand what it says. It was written exactly 125 years ago today.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Get to talk to the amazing @lailalalami.com a week from today! Her new novel The Dream Hotel is out this week from @pantheonbooks.bsky.social and already on the longlist for @womensprize.bsky.social! LA Times calls it “powerful, richly conceived… astounding, elegantly constructed,” and so will you!

I’ve been really sad these last few days, but getting a copy of the Arabic translation of my first book, Homesick, was a bright spot. Thank you to Abeer Al-Khalidi for your translation. It means the world to me.