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Spencer Ruchti
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bookseller in Seattle / author events / co-founder of the Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation
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🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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👉 This Thurs., 11/20, at Third Place Books 🔜 Natl. Book Award-winning translator Megan McDowell will sit down with @spencerruchti.bsky.social ( #ThirdPlaceBooks & the #CercadorPrize) to discuss her #translation of Mexican author Elena Garro. 💯 recommend‼️ www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jazmin...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🎉 The committee for the Cercador Prize confers this year’s prize to Christina MacSweeney for her translation of ‘The Queen of Swords’ by Jazmina Barrera (Two Lines Press). Congratulations to Christina, Jazmina, and @twolinespress.com!
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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July 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I’ve never met @davidnaimon.bsky.social, and yet his manner is such that I feel like we’re old friends. And I don’t listen to podcasts except for Between the Covers. This week’s is a doozy. Very highly recommended.

tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
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February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Oof, buddy

IS A RIVER ALIVE? coming this May
February 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I know how the TikTok girlies feel now. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Plot twist: after 15 minutes the AI author facsimile loses track of the conversation and starts ranting about how they think Nielsen BookScan works
December 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I was just saying to myself this morning, I wonder if there’s anything more AI could do to suck all joy out of the private experience of reading.
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent.” - Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
November 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Yeah, try running author events for a living…
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Not the point of CJ’s post, but I think it’s crazy there hasn’t been an update or rebuttal to Bowker’s 3% statistic about translation in 20 years. (!!!) In that time, the iPhone was invented, the Kindle came to market. Even the idea of what it means to “publish a book” has changed.
It has been 20 years since Bowker found only 3% of books were translations. Of the 100 “best books” by the ny times this year a whopping… 4 are translated. How far we’ve come.
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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It has been 20 years since Bowker found only 3% of books were translations. Of the 100 “best books” by the ny times this year a whopping… 4 are translated. How far we’ve come.
November 27, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Jeanine Cummins, it seems, has quietly moved to Henry Holt.
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Oh fantastic news! This is a wild book… and I’m deeply appreciative it exists, and is receiving some honors. Congratulations Heather!
Deep Vellum could not be more thrilled to announce that RECITAL OF THE DARK VERSES by Luis Felipe Fabre, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, has won the 2024 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize!
November 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Over on Instagram, recommending a few of our favorite Percival Everett books with my friend Zac. @graywolfpress.bsky.social @nationalbook.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

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November 22, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Congratulations to Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King, writer and translator of the National Book Award-winning "Taiwan Travelogue!" Check out Jenna Tang's list of Taiwanese lit, which mentions "Taiwan Travelogue" and offers suggestions for more reading from Taiwan!
Literature in Translation from Taiwan: What to Read Next by Jenna Tang - Words Without Borders
Jenna Tang, translator of "Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise," recommends 8 books and short stories in translation from Taiwan to read now.
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November 21, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha began her National Book Award acceptance speech, "Good evening everyone and Good morning to beloved Gaza, where it is the 411th day of the genocide.. We are now living in the second November of the American-funded genocide in Palestine: t.ly/DV2K9
November 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Congrats to Thomas Bunstead, a WWB contributor!
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November 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM
For as long as I live, I’ll remember where I was when Percival Everett won the National Book Award… waiting in line for a burger, with friends, looking up briefly from the livestream on my phone to say: “Percy’s got it.”
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Not Mac Barnett in a Cercador Prize hat (sorry Mac)
November 20, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Another thing I’ll add. People who come into a bookstore and cover, hide, rearrange books—they suck, but mostly they’re just a nuisance. We put the books back. And then we display more on the subject. Literally the dumbest thing you can do in terms of “activism.” But Stephen says it best here.
There's been a rash in people objecting to books about Palestine in our bookstore, so I put up a sign.
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Oh hell yes.
There's been a rash in people objecting to books about Palestine in our bookstore, so I put up a sign.
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM