Seth Rogoff
@snrogoff.bsky.social
Author of six books, including the recently published novel The Castle (FC2) https://fc2.org/authors/rogoff/#castle
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Some compelling work here from @snrogoff.bsky.social, author of THE CASTLE, A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel! fc2.org/authors/rogo...
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some compelling work here from @snrogoff.bsky.social, author of THE CASTLE, A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel! fc2.org/authors/rogo...
Lots of new content on FRANZ since I last posted here many months ago! Kafka letters in new translation, a series of essays on The Trial, on Havel and Kafka, etc. franzjournal.substack.com
FRANZ | Seth Rogoff | Substack
FRANZ is dedicated to creative engagement with Franz Kafka's life and work, including the first-ever publication of his complete letters in English. Click to read FRANZ, a Substack publication with hu...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Lots of new content on FRANZ since I last posted here many months ago! Kafka letters in new translation, a series of essays on The Trial, on Havel and Kafka, etc. franzjournal.substack.com
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Loved "eavesdropping" on this @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social convo with @saralippmann.bsky.social & @snrogoff.bsky.social about the new anthology they co-edited. www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the...
‘The Spirit of Radicalism’: A Conversation Between Sara Lippmann and Seth Rogoff
Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible is a bold, new c
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May 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Loved "eavesdropping" on this @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social convo with @saralippmann.bsky.social & @snrogoff.bsky.social about the new anthology they co-edited. www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the...
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Happy #BookBirthday to @saralippmann.bsky.social, @snrogoff.bsky.social, and the entire #anthology crew.
Just out today is SMASHING THE TABLETS: RADICAL RETELLINGS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, edited by Sara Lippmann & Seth Rogoff, which shares stories, poems, essays, & creative nonfiction that reshape & refresh our thinking of the Hebrew Bible. Read our review below. bit.ly/42pkFUu
Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible
Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible is arguably the most exciting creative volume devoted to biblical narrative in years and brims with stunning scriptural and psy
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April 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Happy #BookBirthday to @saralippmann.bsky.social, @snrogoff.bsky.social, and the entire #anthology crew.
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SMASHING THE TABLETS: Radical Retelling of the Hebrew Bible, edited by @saralippmann.bsky.social and @snrogoff.bsky.social with a piece in it by yours truly (The Book of Ruth but make it explicitly gay! And full of queer longing!!!), is out today! Check it out:
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Smashing the Tablets
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April 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
SMASHING THE TABLETS: Radical Retelling of the Hebrew Bible, edited by @saralippmann.bsky.social and @snrogoff.bsky.social with a piece in it by yours truly (The Book of Ruth but make it explicitly gay! And full of queer longing!!!), is out today! Check it out:
sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smas...
sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smas...
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More awesome #bookmail. This one, smashing! From @saralippmann.bsky.social and @snrogoff.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
More awesome #bookmail. This one, smashing! From @saralippmann.bsky.social and @snrogoff.bsky.social
FRANZ has published its first guest essay by the amazing writer Andrés Neuman! See here for some of Neuman's recent (and incredible) fiction: www.openletterbooks.org/collections/...
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The World Exploits Kafka
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
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February 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
FRANZ has published its first guest essay by the amazing writer Andrés Neuman! See here for some of Neuman's recent (and incredible) fiction: www.openletterbooks.org/collections/...
franzjournal.substack.com/p/the-world-...
@openletterbooks.bsky.social
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@snrogoff.bsky.social is our local Kafka expert! Read his book THE CASTLE, fictional return to the unsettling world of Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel (of the same name) : www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...
February 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@snrogoff.bsky.social is our local Kafka expert! Read his book THE CASTLE, fictional return to the unsettling world of Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel (of the same name) : www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...
My interview with Oxford scholar Karolina Watroba about her recent book Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka is now up on FRANZ: franzjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Interview with Karolina Watroba
On: Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
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February 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My interview with Oxford scholar Karolina Watroba about her recent book Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka is now up on FRANZ: franzjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
@profilebooks.bsky.social
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Ross Benjamin in FRANZ on Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena. franzjournal.substack.com/p/four-outta...
Four Outtakes from Letters to Milena
“Is this Milena?” The graphic artist working with us on redesigning FRANZ texted me a photo snapped from my copy of Hartmut Binder’s Kafkas Welt (Kafka’s World), an extraordinarily comprehensive picto...
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January 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Ross Benjamin in FRANZ on Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena. franzjournal.substack.com/p/four-outta...
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Dreams of Walls and Towers
On Kafka's "The Great Wall of China"
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January 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New on FRANZ: open.substack.com/pub/franzjou...
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Check out this essay by @snrogoff.bsky.social ~ author of THE CASTLE ~ get your copy here: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...
January 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Check out this essay by @snrogoff.bsky.social ~ author of THE CASTLE ~ get your copy here: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...
My second essay on Kafka's "A Country Doctor" now available at FRANZ: open.substack.com/pub/franzjou...
Reading a Wound
Reflections on "A Country Doctor," Part II
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January 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My second essay on Kafka's "A Country Doctor" now available at FRANZ: open.substack.com/pub/franzjou...
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Hear @snrogoff.bsky.social -
author of THE CASTLE interviewed on As Told To 🔎 open.spotify.com/episode/4Y0Y...
author of THE CASTLE interviewed on As Told To 🔎 open.spotify.com/episode/4Y0Y...
Episode 79: Seth Rogoff Returns
As Told To · Episode
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December 21, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Hear @snrogoff.bsky.social -
author of THE CASTLE interviewed on As Told To 🔎 open.spotify.com/episode/4Y0Y...
author of THE CASTLE interviewed on As Told To 🔎 open.spotify.com/episode/4Y0Y...
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I'm so thrilled to be part of this anthology, Smashing the Tablets, edited by @saralippmann.bsky.social and @snrogoff.bsky.social. Queering/fucking with sacred texts is a truly Jewish practice and I'm so proud of the short story of mine that's in this book. Pre-order!
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Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible a book by Sara Lippmann and Seth Rogoff
Lot's daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an avaricious former sorority girl--Smashing the Tablets pres...
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December 19, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I'm so thrilled to be part of this anthology, Smashing the Tablets, edited by @saralippmann.bsky.social and @snrogoff.bsky.social. Queering/fucking with sacred texts is a truly Jewish practice and I'm so proud of the short story of mine that's in this book. Pre-order!
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bookshop.org/p/books/smas...
Honored to see my novel The Castle from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social among Ryan Ruby's books of the year.
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Books of the Year 2024 | Granta
This year Granta invited contributors to reflect on what they read in 2024.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Honored to see my novel The Castle from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social among Ryan Ruby's books of the year.
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Today's #JewishBookMonth share: a forthcoming @sunypress.bsky.social #anthology, co-edited by @saralippmann.bsky.social & @snrogoff.bsky.social, in which I'm proud to have a story. Pre-orders available! sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smas...
December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Today's #JewishBookMonth share: a forthcoming @sunypress.bsky.social #anthology, co-edited by @saralippmann.bsky.social & @snrogoff.bsky.social, in which I'm proud to have a story. Pre-orders available! sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smas...
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"Listening is the key element... putting yourself as much as you can in the shoes or in the place of the subject." @snrogoff.bsky.social on the skills required of a #collaborator (and, perhaps, a translator and novelist)
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listen to our #Kafkaesque podchat:
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#booksky
listen to our #Kafkaesque podchat:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
December 17, 2024 at 5:56 PM
"Listening is the key element... putting yourself as much as you can in the shoes or in the place of the subject." @snrogoff.bsky.social on the skills required of a #collaborator (and, perhaps, a translator and novelist)
#booksky
listen to our #Kafkaesque podchat:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#booksky
listen to our #Kafkaesque podchat:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
So honored to see Kirschbaum on this beautiful list! Thank you.
Here’s the usual record of a year in my reading. Say hi if you see yourself, and I may tag you…is that a thing? Anyhow, thank you all for the good books and kind words in what has been the best hardest year of my life. #books #reading #writingcommunity
December 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM
So honored to see Kirschbaum on this beautiful list! Thank you.
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Brilliant new translation by Ross Benjamin. Check out our Kafka complete letters project at FRANZ.
Brilliant new translation by Ross Benjamin. Check out our Kafka complete letters project at FRANZ.
6. To Oskar Pollak in Prague
Prague, 4 February 1902, Tuesday
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December 16, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Brilliant new translation by Ross Benjamin. Check out our Kafka complete letters project at FRANZ.
Brilliant new translation by Ross Benjamin. Check out our Kafka complete letters project at FRANZ.
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Celebrate the final weeks of our 50th anniversary year by using code FC250 for 50% off select titles! www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
December 10, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Celebrate the final weeks of our 50th anniversary year by using code FC250 for 50% off select titles! www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
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The rare pleasure of opening a book I knew nothing about by an author I'd never heard of -- and being blown away. High praise: I'll have to sit with The Castle a while then read it again. The ambition alone is staggering. What a single crow achieves. Wow. @snrogoff.bsky.social #booksky #books
December 10, 2024 at 1:46 AM
The rare pleasure of opening a book I knew nothing about by an author I'd never heard of -- and being blown away. High praise: I'll have to sit with The Castle a while then read it again. The ambition alone is staggering. What a single crow achieves. Wow. @snrogoff.bsky.social #booksky #books
New on the FRANZ substack, my piece on Kafka's "A Country Doctor" -- please check it out and subscribe for great Kafka-related content:
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"the frost of this most unfortunate age"
Reflections on Kafka's "A Country Doctor"
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December 10, 2024 at 8:59 AM
New on the FRANZ substack, my piece on Kafka's "A Country Doctor" -- please check it out and subscribe for great Kafka-related content:
open.substack.com/pub/franzjou...
open.substack.com/pub/franzjou...
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Praise from @cdrose.bsky.social for @snrogoff.bsky.social's THE CASTLE ~~ a fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel of the same title. Get your copy 🌌 www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...
December 9, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Praise from @cdrose.bsky.social for @snrogoff.bsky.social's THE CASTLE ~~ a fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel of the same title. Get your copy 🌌 www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...