Twisted Spoon Press
@twistedspoon.bsky.social
Independent press based in Prague publishing English translations of Central & Eastern European writing.
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"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"
On the Ramblings today, my second book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social this week - a stunning poetry collection from Gerhard Ruhm, in a wonderful translation by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social. And it fits for #GLM2025! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...
“…I was never younger or older…” #twistedspoonpress
The second Twisted Spoon Press book I want to share this week is very different from “The Tigress”, but equally as fascinating! The author is Gerhard Rühm, an author, composer and visua…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"
"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."
For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!
On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."
Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada.
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada.
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
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Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon.
www.scribd.com/document/929...
www.scribd.com/document/929...
Interview with Alexander Booth | PDF
An interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon.
www.scribd.com/document/929...
www.scribd.com/document/929...
In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera.
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
More info here:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
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Lovely to revisit Bookart bookshop near Old St tube 🚇 post-renovation - like my new bag and bought something intriguing from the @twistedspoon.bsky.social list
September 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Lovely to revisit Bookart bookshop near Old St tube 🚇 post-renovation - like my new bag and bought something intriguing from the @twistedspoon.bsky.social list
Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote:
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
Possibilities in Transformation: A Review of Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová - Asymptote Blog
[Ceilings] and its setting dwell in a place where play and terror occur simultaneously. . .
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August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote:
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
"[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor."
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...
A Prague Flâneur – Vítězslav Nezval
Prague surpasses its “practical necessity” and expands into a dynamic host for memories
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August 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...
"A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end."
www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...
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This @twistedspoon.bsky.social novel is deeply intriguing, unsettling and funny. The tale of the narrative voice becomes a palimpsest of characters, times and places.
August 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This @twistedspoon.bsky.social novel is deeply intriguing, unsettling and funny. The tale of the narrative voice becomes a palimpsest of characters, times and places.
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A nice review of Gerhard Rühm's "cake & prostheses" (in my translation)
www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...
www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...
cake & prostheses - Gerhard Rühm
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of cake & prostheses by Gerhard Rühm.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A nice review of Gerhard Rühm's "cake & prostheses" (in my translation)
www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...
www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...
"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."
July 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."
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My round-up of recent translated fiction is now online (details of the books reviewed are below).
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
July 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
My round-up of recent translated fiction is now online (details of the books reviewed are below).
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."
Cooking In The Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer, tr. by Eleanor Updengraff @pushkinpress.com
The Arsonist by Egon Hostovský, tr. by Christopher Morris @twistedspoon.bsky.social
A Fortunate Man by Henrik Pontoppidan, tr. by Paul Larkin @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
The Arsonist by Egon Hostovský, tr. by Christopher Morris @twistedspoon.bsky.social
A Fortunate Man by Henrik Pontoppidan, tr. by Paul Larkin @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."
Thanks JS : "Its raw, unapologetic narrative slips seamlessly between voice and perspective, continually cross-referencing itself, to create a world—one woman’s world, past and present—that for all its surreal elements is cohesive, sympathetic and real."
ICYMI I wrote about this lyrical, dream-filled journey through drug rehab. Loved it! @twistedspoon.bsky.social
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová
Drink them up, swallow those clouds, gulp them down with all your might, because all you’ve got to look forward to now are ceilings. As Ema, the fifty year-old protagonist of Zuzana Brabcová’s Ceil…
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July 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Thanks JS : "Its raw, unapologetic narrative slips seamlessly between voice and perspective, continually cross-referencing itself, to create a world—one woman’s world, past and present—that for all its surreal elements is cohesive, sympathetic and real."
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Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová
Drink them up, swallow those clouds, gulp them down with all your might, because all you’ve got to look forward to now are ceilings. As Ema, the fifty year-old protagonist of Zuzana Brabcová’s Ceil…
roughghosts.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...
In bookshops this November, back from the printers in summer.
For more info and individual orders:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
For more info and individual orders:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In bookshops this November, back from the printers in summer.
For more info and individual orders:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
For more info and individual orders:
www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....
www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
#dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris
Thanks Daniel Barbiero for such an incisive review of A Prague Flaneur: "The streets, bridges, buildings, and cafés “where Prague lives” provide a wealth of stimuli to which Nezval responds with a catalogue of memories."
compulsivereader.com/2025/06/07/a...
compulsivereader.com/2025/06/07/a...
A review of A Prague Flâneur
by Vítězslav Nezval – Compulsive Reader
compulsivereader.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thanks Daniel Barbiero for such an incisive review of A Prague Flaneur: "The streets, bridges, buildings, and cafés “where Prague lives” provide a wealth of stimuli to which Nezval responds with a catalogue of memories."
compulsivereader.com/2025/06/07/a...
compulsivereader.com/2025/06/07/a...
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Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...
B O D Y | Berlin Variations by Alexander Booth
Alexander Booth is a poet and translator who lives in Berlin. His collection of poems Triptych was published in 2021 and Kantor in 2023.
www.bodyliterature.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...
Tonight at Riffraff in Providence, RI, 7 p.m., Agniezska Taborska will be discussing The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks. Stop by if you're in town.
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May 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Tonight at Riffraff in Providence, RI, 7 p.m., Agniezska Taborska will be discussing The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks. Stop by if you're in town.
www.twistedspoon.com/unfinished-l...
www.twistedspoon.com/unfinished-l...
"I have to say up front that Hostovsky’s writing is wonderfully individual and quite hypnotic."
For the afternoon crowd, a fascinating new book out from @twistedspoon.bsky.social today - loved it!
On the blog today - a compelling new release from Twisted Spoon - “The Arsonist” - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/e...
May 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"I have to say up front that Hostovsky’s writing is wonderfully individual and quite hypnotic."
If you're in or around Providence next Monday, on April 21, at 6:30 p.m., Metcalf Auditorium at Rhode Island School of Design, Agniezska Taborska will be presenting The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks.
It's free and open to the public.
Info here:
involved.risd.edu/event/11193857
It's free and open to the public.
Info here:
involved.risd.edu/event/11193857
April 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If you're in or around Providence next Monday, on April 21, at 6:30 p.m., Metcalf Auditorium at Rhode Island School of Design, Agniezska Taborska will be presenting The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks.
It's free and open to the public.
Info here:
involved.risd.edu/event/11193857
It's free and open to the public.
Info here:
involved.risd.edu/event/11193857
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New review: Egon Hostovský's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 www.complete-review.com/reviews/cesk...
The Arsonist - Egon Hostovský
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Arsonist by Egon Hostovský.
www.complete-review.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
New review: Egon Hostovský's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 www.complete-review.com/reviews/cesk...
"The surreal imagery, the shifts of location, the fluidity of her identity are all brilliantly rendered by Brabcova, and the result is an exhilarating and sometimes dizzying work which leaves you a bit stunned."
@twistedspoon.bsky.social should be the correct handle!
On the blog today, I share my thoughts on a fascinating and unsettling new release from @TwistSpoonPress, Ceilings - more here kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/a...
April 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"The surreal imagery, the shifts of location, the fluidity of her identity are all brilliantly rendered by Brabcova, and the result is an exhilarating and sometimes dizzying work which leaves you a bit stunned."