Alex Zucker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alex Zucker

Nearing the end of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE (@CommonNotions), by @genderhorizon & @emanabdelhadi, and just want to say it is GREAT. My mind flashing ⬅️ a lot on PARABLE OF THE SOWER, then ➡️ to the present and our reality now—pieces of it there in this novel. 💯 recommend.

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I decided to follow it up with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, which has been on my list forEVER, and I'm in the midst of that now, so having a fruitful period in my "extracurricular" reading these days. 🤓

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OK, so I can share that the novel is called Život po Kafkovi (Life After Kafka), the author is Magdaléna Platzová, and the publisher is @bellevuepress. I did a previous book by Magdaléna for Bellevue—The Attempt (2016)—and I'm looking forward to working with Erika G again! 🙂 https://t.co/RbmznW90qe

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"Some people argued that our initial cover went a little bit too far in the grotesque direction (a digitally rendered shock of pink + white lilies concealing a bloody steak, a finger, + an eyeball) but I thought it was tremendous." https://t.co/pvOMcPmRxg Never seen this before! https://t.co/VrCvyKEyNy

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"A Sensitive Person [by Jáchym Topol, translated by @alexjzucker for @yalepress] begins 2023 as one of the more frenetic, rambunctious, and distinctive novels of recent vintage." — @dwhitethewriter @On_The_Seawall https://t.co/03y9xOZJlY https://t.co/IS3M6K6wtm

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Featuring THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang, translated by @videshi_beti https://t.co/spzE5IWAuP

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@anthgarrett * Translating Milan Kundera * Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation * Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka -- all by Michelle Woods

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@GlobalLitin @MsKeithsLibrary @anzlitlovers @Drhr90 @FincherAlison @AlisonHindley @NetworkEmerging @elton_uliana @vchaungwejr @NickyHarman_cn @librarian_adhd Several chapters into @Mahmud_writer’s translation from Bengali of BLACK ICE, by Mahmudul Haque: Enjoying the bickering and insults! https://t.co/O7CGc6C3TW

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👉 One week from tonight 👈 🎉 NYC launch of THE LAKE by Bianca Bellová 🎸 With music by Adrian T. Bell! 😮 My first appearance with a Czech author in person in NYC since [gulp] 2011, when Petra Hůlová and I launched my translation of her debut novel, ALL THIS BELONGS TO ME https://t.co/mp8P4AJAYi

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Warm congrats to my fellow #EBRDLiteraturePrize2023 finalists! 🌟Mister N, by Najwa Barakat, translated from Arabic by @LukeLeafgren (@andothertweets) 🌟The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by @jenniferlcroft (@FitzcarraldoEds) https://t.co/jWDkwQYTlY