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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 1d

It’s official! ORLANDA “arrives like a bucket of ice water to the face — it’s a clarifying shock to the system…a roaring jaunt that boldly leaps over the charged lines of gender.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

The ’90s Gender Swap Novel You Need to Read Now

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 1d

"Only ONE Nobel Laureate blurb?" You say incredulously--dare we say arrogantly? But not to worry. We've got two.

“Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!”

—Elfriede Jelinek,
Nobel Laureate

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever's on László Krasznahorkai's #tbr should probably be on your TBR! Preorder this book by our contributor Krisztina Tóth (tr. by another contributor, Ottilie Mulzet):
bookshop.org/a/169/978164...

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for your Krasznahorkai that just became backordered? Dive into some Laszlo-recommended Hungarian lit in the meantime.

“Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel [Eye of the Monkey] . . . Tóth is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.”

—László Krasznahorkai,
Nobel laureate

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 2d

when we publish The Cat Fitzpatrick Criticism Reader in 2055 we will solve this debate once and for all…

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 2d

omg this is so nice! THANK U @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social // CARDS ON THE TABLE THOUGH The Call-Out is in tetrameter but it is *not* in iambics it is in sprung rhythm // my position is that this is not cheating but a choice // wild speed varitation ftw

Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 2d

We love @catfitzpatrick.net, we love @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social, Hive Mind loves Cat, and we we all love rhyme schemes.

3) I finally read The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick and had the absolute very best time I've had with a book in a while. The whole novel is written in Onegin stanzas, which is in iambic tetrameter. Wikipedia, handily, has the rhyme scheme: aBaBccDDeFFeGG. For starters, simply being held by this meter and rhyme was like being rocked in the gentlest of cradles. The reliable rhythm was a lullaby for this addled mind. (This is also why I like a lot of older country music, I've come to understand.) And then second: the book is just damn fun. Cat is hilarious, and the book revolves around a group of queer and trans women in Brooklyn. Hijinks, hookups, and social disasters ensue! What a gift to spend time with such perfectly delightful literature. Cat can friggin write. "

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 2d

We love @catfitzpatrick.net, we love @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social, Hive Mind loves Cat, and we we all love rhyme schemes.

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 2d

"[SAD TIGER is] the best book I've read for a very long time. . . . It's by a writer called Neige Sinno and it completely changes all the rules of writing." – Rachel Cusk, speaking to the Stockholm Libraries PLAY

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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 2d

A rave review for Krisztina Tóth's EYE OF THE MONKEY (tr. Ottilie Mulzet) in today's @financialtimes.com:

"What we are left with is not only a powerful impression of the alienating effects of authoritarianism, but a cautionary tale about self-deception."

Read here: www.ft.com/content/f64b...

Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth — autocratic deception and unchecked desire

The acclaimed Hungarian author’s first work published in English is a delicately observed portrait of the alienating effect of authoritarianism

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 3d

Can't think of company we'd rather be in <3

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 3d

We were so lucky to have @veryhotmomm.bsky.social and Neige in conversation this spring--read them talking about writing and power in their own words on @thecreativeindependent.com: thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent

Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

thecreativeindependent.com

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 3d

"Yet in taking their own experiences of trauma seriously, by directing their writing and reading towards understanding and articulating it, Hood and Sinno expand the horizons of what trauma literature can be. Their books mark the arrival of two major literary talents."

Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art

Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.

theconversation.com

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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 3d

“It is the return of the sun,
Of my exiled ones
And for her sake, and his
I swear
I shall not compromise
And to the last pulse in my veins
I shall resist,
Resist—and resist.”

From Sameeh Al-Qassem’s “Enemy of the Sun”. A handwritten copy of the poem found was found in George Jackson’s cell.

A Palestinian flag hanging in a bookshop full of books.

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 3d

Jessica Benhar! The piece is called “Woman Vs Tiger”

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 3d

SAD TIGER IS A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST! Congratulations to Neige and Natasha, and thank you to everyone who’s supported this thorny and thoughtful book. Tune into the awards ceremony with us on November 19th!

Graphic announcing SAD TIGER as a National Book Award finalist for translated literature

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 7d

#lakebooks

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 7d

I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!

CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. Aidan Rooney)
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (tr. Alex Niemi)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
GRACE PERIOD by Maria Judite de Carvalho (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
ANIMAL STORIES by Kate Zambreno
INTO THE WEEDS by Lydia Davis
THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn (tr. Martin Aitken)
HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman
DREAMING OF DEAD PEOPLE by Rosalind Belben
GOOSE OF HERMOGENES by Ithell Colquhoun
IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones & Robin Myers)
MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf
ORLANDA by Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz)
THE OTHER GIRL by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer)
SAY FIRE by Selma Asotić
LITTLE WORLD by Josephine Rowe
THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY by Edward Mendelson
ALPHA AND OMEGA by Jane Ellen Harrison

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 9d

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10d

RIP gary indiana you would have loved luigi mangione

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 14d

“You see I have this broken nose I got
when el tico Lizano hit me with a brick
because I said it was obviously a foul”

From “I Wasn’t Always This Ugly” by Roque Dalton, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. buff.ly/nYl90IS

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10d

Working on a new book, “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government.” Drawing from my experience as a prosecutor, the book offers ideas to take back our democracy and a vision for the future. Available June 9, 2026. Here’s the cover. What do you think?

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 10d

we're always here to help you Radicalize 'Em Young

Howard Zinn's A YOUNG PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Howard Zinn's VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

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Isle McElroy @islemcelroy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 22d

With the success of I Who Have Never Known Men, more of Jacqueline Harpman's works are becoming available, like her novel Orlanda. 1 part Virginia Woolf's Orlando (obv), 1 part the psychology of Fight Club (..less obv), 1 part Harpman's brilliant insights. Out on 9/30

Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman translated by Roz Schwartz

The groundbreaking novel about a woman whose subconscious mind splinters and finds itself in the body of a young man, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men. Now in paperback with a new foreword by Isle McElroy for the 30th anniversary of its original publication.

portersquarebooks.com

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NPR @npr.org · 17d

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

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