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April Book Box - you choose 1 & we choose 1. Fixed book: Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov’s Diary of an Invasion. Choice 1: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, Choice 2: Alba De Cespides’ Forbidden Notebook, Choice 3: Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood. https://t.co/coppfjZ3Oc https://t.co/JsoGNJqs41

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The December Book Box! You choose 1 book & we choose 1. The ‘Fixed’ book is Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human (new edition). The choices are Best American Essays 2022 edited by @alexanderchee, Dasa Drndic’s Doppelgänger & Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot. https://t.co/coppfjZ3Oc https://t.co/1tnKTsSa4E

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We are so thrilled to celebrate the US publication of Tomb of Sand with the February Book Box! Written by Geetanjali Shree. Translated from Hindi by @shreedaisy https://t.co/PqI9ag0UAJ

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Oct. Book Box: you choose 1 book & we choose 1. The ‘Fixed’ book is Boubacar Boris Diop’s Doomi Golo. The choices are: Zoe Wicomb’s October, Sahar Khalifeh’s My First & Only Love & Cartarescu’s Nostalgia. Publishers: Mich. State Press, @thenewpress, @HoopoeFiction, @NewDirections https://t.co/prjlhPm6Pb

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Annie Ernaux is one of the few writers we have showcased twice in our Book Box. Last August: The Years & this June: Happening. CC: @7StoriesPress https://t.co/tijtCPyvzz

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As a die-hard Percival Everett fan, I was thrilled to see this! And I would give everybody a copy of Erasure to read if I could (actually we did try to do exactly that in 2020. 😀). https://t.co/DMWaQTvXIY

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Throwback Thursday & here’s our review of @zaintkhalid’s extraordinary Brother Alive, which was in the first American Fiction box curated by @alexanderchee. On the blog now: https://t.co/qykP449Jkp cc: @groveatlantic @luxlotus https://t.co/nH8ArW9Xfd

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April Book Box - you choose 1 & we choose 1. Fixed book: Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov’s Diary of an Invasion. Choice 1: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, Choice 2: Alba De Cespides’ Forbidden Notebook, Choice 3: Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood. https://t.co/coppfjZ3Oc https://t.co/JsoGNJqs41

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I am very drawn to the meditative writing of Mu Xin. His stories are a soothing salve for my soul especially in these times of uncertainty, death, despair, & also callousness, by some people in power, towards human… https://t.co/g4lC9IzU6N

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April Book Box - you choose 1 & we choose 1. Fixed book: Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov’s Diary of an Invasion. Choice 1: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, Choice 2: Alba De Cespides’ Forbidden Notebook, Choice 3: Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood. https://t.co/coppfjZ3Oc https://t.co/JsoGNJqs41