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if you did not know about this AMAZING, should 100% be AWARD-WINNING story by Reeves Wiedemann last year, read every word: https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/stealing-books-before-release-mystery.html I absolutely cannot believe they nabbed the dude https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1478855751544320000

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but it's her translations of Mathias Énard that merit special praise, particularly Zone, a thrill-ride that, for tone, recalls the great BBC show "The Prisoner" on a much broader & bleaker historical canvas

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Such a beautiful press making such wonderful books -- highest recommendation to dive right in. The Ma Yan book is incredible, I started Erica Van Horn's "By Bus" this morning and it's utterly magical...look into UDP, they're something good in the world. https://t.co/YakFueTnQ9

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Congratulations to all the winners! in my fave category, translated literature, two things of note: 1) @open_letter!!! 2) Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei on the short list. READ THIS AUTHOR, READ THIS BOOK. Ge Fei is incredible https://t.co/2gAbKUeNt3

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Once I got into writing “Wolf in White Van,” I found that pleasure in writing a big book, and in actually seeing the project through to a satisfying conclusion.

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@muleryder @t_brewbeck “The sunset tree” is a hymn referenced in an especially harrowing scene in Samuel Butler’s “The Way of All Flesh.”

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just so many must-reads. currently obsessed with Antoine Volodine & his several heteronyms; Open Letter published Bardo or Not Bardo, Radiant Terminus, Eleven Sooty Dreams under the pseud Manuela Draeger...that's twenty bucks well spent right there https://t.co/7mfL5ISnDd

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just so many must-reads. currently obsessed with Antoine Volodine & his several heteronyms; Open Letter published Bardo or Not Bardo, Radiant Terminus, Eleven Sooty Dreams under the pseud Manuela Draeger...that's twenty bucks well spent right there https://t.co/7mfL5ISnDd

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RIP Bernadette Mayer. Poems like these make me want to abandon my other pursuits and pursue poetry, which is a delicious feeling. https://t.co/l4uHzRF8gu

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Bunyan's allegorical style errs invariably on the side of see-it-from-a-mile-away clarity, so some other works of his have titles like "The Life and Death of Mr. Badman"