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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks so much!

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

Good book, great introductory essay on the use of translations in classic WEIRD TALES.

Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · 2d

For spooky season, we're offering 25% off of Night Fears, our anthology of weird fiction in translation, edited by
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Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation

With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · 2d

For spooky season, we're offering 25% off of Night Fears, our anthology of weird fiction in translation, edited by
@geoliminal.bsky.social: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...

Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation

With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 15d

For the Almanac, I wrote about Lafcadio Hearn and the value of publishing a “bad” translation: open.substack.com/pub/paradise...

Why Publish a Bad Translation?

Because it's better than having no translation at all

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 25d

For the Almanac, I wrote about charming cicada folklore from Japan and the difficulties of typesetting haiku: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/how-can-yo...

How can you read a haiku?

On the difficulties of typesetting small poetic forms from other languages

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm doing preliminary layout work at the moment, so no need to rush!

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · Aug 5

Reprint in progress: Shadowings by Lafcadio Hearn, an excellent collection from 1900, featuring studies of Japanese legends and linguistics as well as more personal, Gothic and Symbolist-inspired narratives. An odd duck in Hearn's catalog but all the stronger for it. @addisonzeller.bsky.social

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · Aug 5

Got a lil bagatelle at beloved @hexliterary.bsky.social

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · Aug 1

For the Almanac, I continue a series of weird fiction short stories set in and around historical Philadelphia (1682-1976): paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/strange-ta...

Strange Tales from the Ancient Capital: Biloquism, or a Spurious Footnote to Early American Literature (1793)

From an ongoing series of historical weird fiction

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · Jul 30

Reprint in progress, a massive historical gothic adventure novel by Charles Maturin, set during the Albigensian Crusade, complete with werewolves (!) and some great epigraphs. "A gentle knight came pricking o'er the plain."

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · Jul 22

From a cluttered desk: there are just a few handmade copies of Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social left in stock. paradiseeditions.net/products/pho...

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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · Jul 14

Lovely post today from @paradiseeditions.bsky.social
Phoretics, by @israelbonilla.bsky.social
Beautiful production by @unpaginated.bsky.social Exquisite layout and typesetting. Hand-sewn.

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · Jul 14

“My heart aches so much too, but I like it—”
Jean Paul, ‘The Parson in Jubilee’, tr. Spencer

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · Jul 14

"To act as a physical cause is to act with complete attention to our rhythms," from Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jun 22

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits

— the third ANONYMOU[S] text: 'An Excerpt from the Journals of Albrecht Plums'

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— an extract from @israelbonilla.bsky.social 's PHORETICS, out with @paradiseeditions.bsky.social

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Phoretics: After Hazlitt — Israel A. Bonilla

1. Life surpasses all attempts at capture, and so we fool ourselves by reducing it to a few moments of great intensity. Not without consequence: our viewpoint shifts in radical succession, and we r…

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · Jun 4

Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social is ready to be printed and assembled. Get yourself a copy while they last: paradiseeditions.net/products/pho...

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Israel A. Bonilla @israelbonilla.bsky.social · May 28

A few copies left of this limited run (@paradiseeditions.bsky.social): asterismbooks.com/product/phor...

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · May 24

Everybody give Eric a round of applause! And check out Night Fears, the anthology of translated weird fiction we did with him in conjunction with this project: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · May 18

ICYMI ... last week @ minor lits ..

— an interview with Diane Seuss by @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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— new fiction from @unpaginated.bsky.social

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Back Alley of the Universe: The Men of the Society of Women in the Wilderness — Matthew Spencer

Ancient Capital (1694-1695) Spring had come to the Wissahickon and Brother Kelpius was walking high along its banks when he chanced upon another hermit, an Englishman—their kind becoming common in …

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · May 16

For the Almanac, I wrote about sentence length in translations and the apocalyptic religious sects of Southeast Pennsylvania: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/there-is-n...

There is no objectively correct length for a sentence

On Pennsylvania sectarians and Kleist's ecstasy of language directly permeating into the brain

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · May 13

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · May 7

The pleasure is mutual!

Israel A. Bonilla @israelbonilla.bsky.social · May 2

It was a pleasure working with Matthew—he is a great designer and editor.

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · May 7

For the Almanac, I announce some prose poetry of mine and write about how I like to use the printer: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/the-happy-...

The Happy Merchant

Influence is always a relationship between living beings.

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · May 1

Now available for preorder: Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social, three essays in aphorism on Goethe, Emerson, and Hazlitt. 5.5 x 8.5 inches // 38pgs // $10 Link below: paradiseeditions.net/products/pho...

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · Apr 26

If you're in the vicinity, come say hello to Eric (and purchase some wares) at the Greater Austin Bookfest.

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · Apr 26

Come on down to the Central Library and buy some damn books!

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