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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · 29d

Read an excerpt of Ariana Harwicz's Unfit (out October 7th) in @nplusonemag.com

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Sep 10

n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social
@liv-veazey.bsky.social
@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

Issue 51

Content filed under the Issue 51 taxonomy.

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · Aug 12

Dallas, it’s time!

Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.

Join us! www.hayfestival.org/dallas

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JP @jpa6.bsky.social · Aug 9

Looking for a good read for Women in Translation Month? Try Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s “We Are Green and Trembling,” translated by Robin Myers. It’s a winner. #booksky @ndbooks.bsky.social

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Wallace @wallace13.bsky.social · Aug 3

Loved her novel The Wall. This short book from 1958, available for the first time in English, punches way above its weight. So damn good. @ndbooks.bsky.social

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Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social · Aug 15

New on Book Post 📖
Geoffrey O’Brien on the intense, exploratory Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz who has, “the visual force of a silent movie or a rock formation painted by Cézanne.”

Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-geo...

Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on C. F. Ramuz

I came upon this book‘s 1944 edition on my parents’ bookshelves when I was around eleven, attracted irresistibly by its doom-laden prologue …

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

Read @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social’s marvelous interview of translator Hisham Matar and photographer Diana Matar, who worked together on Naguib Mahfouz’s dream book I FOUND MYSELF, in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
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Finding Ourselves in Naguib Mahfouz’s Last Dreams: An Interview with Hisham and Diana Matar - Chicago Review of Books

When awarding the acclaimed Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the Swedish Academy noted how “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic,...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Jun 26

Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:

www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...

Day #1144, #1167, #1403

Fiction

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Jun 25

"The poetry of Bernadette Mayer is as whimsical and difficult as raising children, one of her main subjects... Mayer’s avant-garde, fragmentary language echoes the cacophony of a full house"

Read The @newyorker.com's review of The Golden Book of Words, out now!

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Goings On Newsletter

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · May 15

"Voetmann ends his trilogy of historical lives on a high note with this hallucinatory chronicle of a Benedictine monk’s deathbed visions. A Boschian vision quest—this masterpiece of morbidity is not to be missed." —Publishers Weekly

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · May 13

Join Elizabeth Willis next Friday, May 23rd, at McNally Jackson Seaport while she reads alongside other brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene.

6:30pm ET. RSVP required. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · May 6

TOMORROW @Center4Fiction at 7 pm, join us for the release of THE JAMAICA KOLLECTION by Marcia Douglas. There will be special musical guest Keisha Martin, Jamaican snacks, and free ND totes with a surprise gift. 🎁 Can't wait to see you there... RSVP below

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · May 1

Check out Keisha Martin's grooves:

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KEISHA MARTIN - "Rocksteady" (NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2020)

YouTube video by Keisha Martin

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · May 1

Join us Wednesday at The Center for Fiction for The JAMAICA KOLLECTION OF THE SHANTE DREAM ARKIVE book launch and party! Marcia Douglas will be in conversation with Ken Chen, with special musical guest Keisha Martin.

centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 24

Polly Barton presents The Place of Shells in conversation with Liza St. James, TONIGHT @mcnallyjackson seaport, 6:30pm. See you there!
RSVP:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 23

Tomorrow 4/24: THE PLACE OF SHELLS by Mai Ishizawa NYC Launch 🌀
Translator Polly Barton in conversation with Liza St. James @mcnallyjackson Seaport

RSVP via the link:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 22

Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
🥂
RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 16

Polly Barton presents THE PLACE OF SHELLS
in conversation with Liza St. James at McNally Jackson Seaport on April 24th, 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there!

RSVP here:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 15

A beautiful conversation between Forrest Gander and Jorie Graham in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social—on illness, sediment, and poetry’s inefficiences lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Thickness of Being | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 10

We are thrilled that A LEOPARD-SKIN HAT and ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME are finalists for the International Booker Prize. Congratulations to Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson, Solvej Balle, and Barbara Haveland! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 10

See you tonight at Rizzoli Bookstore for a conversation with translator Katrina Dodson and Merve Emre on COVERT JOY, a selection of the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction. There will be books for sale, and a signing!

RSVP:
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Covert Joy by Clarice Lispector tr. by Katrina Dodson with Merve Emre

Katrina Dodson and Merve Emre on Covert Joy, a selection of the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction.

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 8

Listen to Forrest Gander discuss Mojave Ghost with
Francesca Rheannon. The two explore the book’s coalescence of ecological awareness and personal loss for @writersvoice.bsky.social.

www.writersvoice.net/2025/04/poet...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join us at Rizzoli Bookstore this Thursday, April 10, from 6-8pm as Katrina Dodson discusses her translation of Clarice Lispector's Covert Joy with Merve Emre.

RSVP here: www.rizzolibookstore.com/covert-joy

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Apr 2

BEHOLD! Fall ’25, featuring: Olga Ravn, Yoko Tawada, Alexis Wright, Susan Howe, Julio Cortázar, Jenny Erpenbeck, Caren Beilin, Ariana Harwicz, Solvej Balle, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzx...

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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social · Mar 21

We are thrilled to announce that Anne Carson’s WRONG NORMA has won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry!

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