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Book Cover for: The Dice Cup, Max Jacob

The Dice Cup

Max Jacob
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A few books we've been reading and recommending this winter, including The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie (@Pegasus_Books ), The Dice Cup by Max Jacob (@Wakefield_Press), I Had Nowhere to Go by Jonas Mekas (Spector Books), and more. https://t.co/VAy8btQZgC https://t.co/3hsswre6RO

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin

Axiomatic

Maria Tumarkin
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@elenasb_ Would highly recommend the sections that comprise Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin.

Paperback, 2019

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Bar at Twilight, Frederic Tuten

The Bar at Twilight

Frederic Tuten
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I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN in the latest @ConsortiumBooks communiqué ✨✨✨ alongside the excellent A GIRLHOOD by Carolyn Hays (@BlairPublisher), SAINT SEBASTIAN'S ABYSS by Mark Haber (@Coffee_House_) and Frederic Tuten’s THE BAR AT TWILIGHT (@bellevuepress) https://t.co/JodeTJymx0

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman
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"Paradoxically, the book’s austere mystery—the atrophied and gelid world it depicts—provides a richly allusive consideration of human life." Deborah Eisenberg (!) on Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (tr. @RosSchwartz) for @nybooks https://t.co/KTfrzlgH60

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Poetics of Work, Noémi Lefebvre

Poetics of Work

Noémi Lefebvre
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We're launching @LefebvreNoemi's POETICS OF WORK on 3/9 with a conversation between translator @sophietimes and Kate Briggs, author of THIS LITTLE ART, hosted by our friends @CommunityBkstr 👋 Register (and hey, buy the book from them!) ⤵️ https://www.communitybookstore.net/poetics-of-work https://t.co/mqYJjhAFz4

Paperback, 2021

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cold Nights of Childhood, Tezer Özlü

Cold Nights of Childhood

Tezer Özlü
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“Cold Nights of Childhood might be understood as a revenge on the convulsive therapy that robbed its author of much of her twenties, and from whose jolts she invented a new syntax.” ✨@yasmineseale on Maureen Freely’s translation of Tezer Özlü✨ https://t.co/T7W1XXfpSP

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Migratory Birds, Mariana Oliver

Migratory Birds

Mariana Oliver
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For #womenintranslationmonth revisit Farah Abdessamad's excellent @LARB essay on @marianaoliver 's Migratory Birds, translated by Julia Sanches. https://t.co/lEJIMvUPZO https://t.co/5jCKgidR3a

Paperback, 2021

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: We All Loved Cowboys, Carol Bensimon

We All Loved Cowboys

Carol Bensimon
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"TO READ IF: You’re a sad girl, or a hot girl, or a hot, sad girl (or if you’re trying to impress a hot, sad girl)." McKayla Coyle on WE ALL LOVED COWBOYS by Carol Bensimon (tr. @BethFtranslate) https://t.co/i2yuUuqELO

Paperback, 2018

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Other Name: Septology I-II, Jon Fosse

The Other Name: Septology I-II

Jon Fosse
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Out today! ❤️‍🔥 Our special edition hardcover collects Jon Fosse's SEPTOLOGY (tr. Damion Searls)—THE OTHER NAME, I IS ANOTHER NAME, and A NEW NAME—for the first time ❤️‍🔥 Design by Justin Carder (@24hourmoons). https://t.co/lIe4nFYHXf https://t.co/r3n2sWyIht

Paperback, 2020

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: At Night He Lifts Weights, Kang Young-Sook

At Night He Lifts Weights

Kang Young-Sook
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🏋️ Coming in September! 🏋️ Kang Young-sook's disquieting vision of ecological dystopia, AT NIGHT HE LIFTS WEIGHTS, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong.⁠ ⁠ Cover design by @24hourmoons 🙏 https://t.co/ukzje9M0qw https://t.co/He3UHWc547

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book