Mel
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I post about queer and translated fiction, small press, manga, and pretty books 📚✨
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Cecily Parks examines the ceremony and intimacy of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme.”
A Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme”
Descriptions of tree bark and heartwood, arranged into lines that rhyme: that’s Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme.” There’s no first-person “I” inside the poem to act as a reader’s avat…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Cecily Parks examines the ceremony and intimacy of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme.”
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All biographies should contain an Astral Chart.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All biographies should contain an Astral Chart.
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Many thanks to the New York Public Library for ordering seven (7!) sets of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, available now from @asterismbooks.bsky.social. US modernist scholars: ask your school's library to order a set, too!
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Many thanks to the New York Public Library for ordering seven (7!) sets of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, available now from @asterismbooks.bsky.social. US modernist scholars: ask your school's library to order a set, too!
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Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure!
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Episode 40: I Who Have Never Known Men
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat a…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure!
onebrightbook.com/2025/11/18/e...
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pretty great book mail from MadisonPaperbacks on Etsty and Idle Hands Books on instagram 📚✨
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
pretty great book mail from MadisonPaperbacks on Etsty and Idle Hands Books on instagram 📚✨
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972), tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972), tr. by William Weaver
started reading today 📚
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
started reading today 📚
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
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#NYRBWomen25 Tomorrow, we start MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley). “…a genre-bending & stream-of-consciousness meditation that is not an act of mourning so much as an expression of curiosity.” Here’s our page guide. clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
#NYRBWomen25 Tomorrow, we start MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley). “…a genre-bending & stream-of-consciousness meditation that is not an act of mourning so much as an expression of curiosity.” Here’s our page guide. clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
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"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.”
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
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Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
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Interview with an Editor: Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics - Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.”
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...
Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...
upcoming books in English translation I found online
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
upcoming books in English translation I found online
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.
first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books
I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.
October 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.
book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚