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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Sep 9

Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉

Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Sep 8

Love these books like I love you like I love cats like I love good totes and all those things are one in a Two Lines membership. ❤️

Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Sep 8

Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...

The Center for Translation (CAT) tote bag pictured with four upcoming Two Lines Press titles. Miao!

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Jun 23

Seattle Supersonics.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Jun 7

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 21

When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”.

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Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 5

What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 5

Beautiful things are wasteful spending.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 5

Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 5

The only way I can explain it to myself is people apparently care as much about the arts as I do about AI emoji generators.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 1

It’s like people hate joy and want to kill it with exposition.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · May 1

One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Mar 21

Rilke would have loved 90s TV

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Mar 21

[almost deadly birds of the soul]

CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Mar 21

Every angel is terrifying.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Mar 21

Every angel is terrifying.

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Mar 20

There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

The Stevns Translation Prize

The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Mar 6

Publishing would be in a much better spot if we were all a bit less efficient. If writers were slower, editors were slower, the cycle of new books was just slowed down.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Feb 25

So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!

Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Feb 25

🎉 International Booker list just dropped! Congratulations to Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott for ON A WOMAN'S MADNESS!! US readers can order it through our website or (of course) with your favorite indie bookstore 🎉 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

On a Woman's Madness | The Booker Prizes

This classic of queer literature – as electrifying today as it was when it first appeared in 1982 – tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Feb 24

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize

THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Feb 18

🎉 Happy pub date to Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro! 🎉 Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore or order directly from us www.catranslation.org/shop/book/th...

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Feb 11

Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.

CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Feb 11

The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Feb 11

The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Feb 11

There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org

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Michael Holtmann @michaelholtmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in Granta.

VOICES OF ADRIANNA is forthcoming from @twolinespress.bsky.social on February 18.

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Images of Women | Elvira Navarro | Granta

‘In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks?’ Fiction by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Feb 1

Jenny Holzer.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · Jan 31

Richard Siken

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