Mandy-Suzanne Wong
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
www.mandysuzannewong.com
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Well, the Winter 2026 catalogue is up @graywolfpress.bsky.social. My little book of essays, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, is in that catalogue -- in such company! -- and I couldn't be more delighted. 🐌🦑🐙🌊🪸💙
www.graywolfpress.org/winter-2026-...
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For the evening crowd.
'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
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@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”
The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today
www.newstatesman.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For the evening crowd.
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Happy pub. day to Karina Pacheco Medrano's THE YEAR OF THE WIND (trans. Mara Faye Lethem), Carlos Manuel Álvarez's FALSE WAR (trans. Natasha Wimmer), and Brandon Kilbourne's NATURAL HISTORY! 🎉🎉🎉
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy pub. day to Karina Pacheco Medrano's THE YEAR OF THE WIND (trans. Mara Faye Lethem), Carlos Manuel Álvarez's FALSE WAR (trans. Natasha Wimmer), and Brandon Kilbourne's NATURAL HISTORY! 🎉🎉🎉
“A passionate paean to life’s wonders.”
Thank you so very much, Kirkus, for reading DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL and for this wonderful review, available in its entirety at: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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@graywolfpress.bsky.social
Thank you so very much, Kirkus, for reading DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL and for this wonderful review, available in its entirety at: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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@graywolfpress.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“A passionate paean to life’s wonders.”
Thank you so very much, Kirkus, for reading DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL and for this wonderful review, available in its entirety at: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
💙🌊💙
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
Thank you so very much, Kirkus, for reading DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL and for this wonderful review, available in its entirety at: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
💙🌊💙
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
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Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues.
neglectedbooks.com/?...
neglectedbooks.com/?...
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#SneakPeek 👀 Karen Tei Yamashita's QUESTIONS 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II—is out April 28, 2026. Preorder:
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October 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 Karen Tei Yamashita's QUESTIONS 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II—is out April 28, 2026. Preorder:
bookshop.org/p/books/ques...
bookshop.org/p/books/ques...
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Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details:
www.graywolfpress.org/events
www.graywolfpress.org/events
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details:
www.graywolfpress.org/events
www.graywolfpress.org/events
For Animal Culture Magazine, I wrote about the Jura phase of Kathryn Eddy's new work of artistic animal-advocacy, Doe.
(photo by Tracy McDonald)
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(photo by Tracy McDonald)
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October 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
For Animal Culture Magazine, I wrote about the Jura phase of Kathryn Eddy's new work of artistic animal-advocacy, Doe.
(photo by Tracy McDonald)
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
(photo by Tracy McDonald)
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
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This week's What'SUP Blog, from the translator of Castigation: "As someone who has taken this book apart and put it together again in the process of translation, my advice is to give up all attempts to fit this tale into any frame you’ve previously encountered." press.syr.edu/excerpt-cast...
Excerpt: Castigation – Syracuse University Press
The winner of Kazakhstan’s 2014 Novel of the Year, Castigation is a stunning meditation on humanity’s capacity for both destruction and transcendence. The novel, translated from Kyrgz, tells the…
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September 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This week's What'SUP Blog, from the translator of Castigation: "As someone who has taken this book apart and put it together again in the process of translation, my advice is to give up all attempts to fit this tale into any frame you’ve previously encountered." press.syr.edu/excerpt-cast...
For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed CASTIGATION by Sultan Raev, translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega @syracuseup.bsky.social
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
September 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed CASTIGATION by Sultan Raev, translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega @syracuseup.bsky.social
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
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From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling.
Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
#poem #books #writing
Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
#poem #books #writing
September 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling.
Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
#poem #books #writing
Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
#poem #books #writing
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“No matter how uncanny octopuses are, there’s something oddly familiar about them, something that helps us feel connected as we look across clades.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg
‘Such Flexible Intensity of Life’ | Verlyn Klinkenborg
Their striking intelligence makes octopuses tempting subjects for wishful anthropomorphism and uncanny reminders of nature’s mysteries.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
“No matter how uncanny octopuses are, there’s something oddly familiar about them, something that helps us feel connected as we look across clades.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg
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I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Consider the Snail — The Dial
“In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”
www.thedial.world
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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Born #onthisday in 1889, CK Scott Moncrieff, whose epic English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title is not, however, considered a high point... publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd
September 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Born #onthisday in 1889, CK Scott Moncrieff, whose epic English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title is not, however, considered a high point... publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd
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Following the lives of nine heiresses, @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social peers beneath the demure, empire-waisted image of the Georgian heiress to reveal a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation.
Available to pre-order now⬇️
Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty
Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm
Available to pre-order now⬇️
Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty
Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm
June 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Following the lives of nine heiresses, @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social peers beneath the demure, empire-waisted image of the Georgian heiress to reveal a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation.
Available to pre-order now⬇️
Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty
Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm
Available to pre-order now⬇️
Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty
Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm
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🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now).
graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...
graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...
September 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now).
graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...
graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...
For ASYMPTOTE's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, published by Istros.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
September 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For ASYMPTOTE's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, published by Istros.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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We're 1 week away from DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. *Please note the keynote with Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura is SOLD OUT.
Day of Translation 2025
Sept. 18, 2025, Noon-7 PM at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY
www.catranslation.org
September 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We're 1 week away from DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. *Please note the keynote with Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura is SOLD OUT.
GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa @twolinespress.bsky.social
Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC!
mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period
Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC!
mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period
Grace Period
by Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
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September 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa @twolinespress.bsky.social
Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC!
mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period
Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC!
mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period
My first reviews for ASYMPTOTE are live on the journal's "What's New in Translation" blog! Reviewing work translated from Kyrgyz, Serbian, and Russian this month, I'm extremely honored to be part of this project. Posts about the books to follow.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
www.asymptotejournal.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My first reviews for ASYMPTOTE are live on the journal's "What's New in Translation" blog! Reviewing work translated from Kyrgyz, Serbian, and Russian this month, I'm extremely honored to be part of this project. Posts about the books to follow.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...
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M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026. #SneakPeek
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
September 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026. #SneakPeek
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...