-Joy Sullivan

💐Congratulations @morgantalty.bsky.social !

Longlisted for the 🏆2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize!

Congrats to all the finalists & read more: www.aspenwords.org/literary-pri...

@aspeninstitute.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
2/20

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, tr. from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20

(Posting yesterday's answer to start a thread because I'm new & still figuring it all out.)

The Box by @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social

The most wonderful time of the year is almost upon us! We have six books chock-full of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, and they make perfect reading this time of year. In fact, pro tip: curling up with one of these is a perfect antidote to the stresses and horrors of the outside world. 🎄👻🎅

Saturday, January 18th at 3pm, I'll be at Artifact Books in Encinitas, CA, for the re-release of #TheContortionistsHandbook forthcoming from Datura Books, with an intro by Jordan Harper. See y'all there.

Current reads:

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West @anathanwest.bsky.social

Manchester people! Come join us at the Winter Book Fair at House of Books & Friends! I will be there and so will a raft of indie publishers for all your Xmas shopping needs ⋆｡°✩

Another weird piece from my ongoing found poetry project using my college Gray’s Anatomy textbook as my source text.

ogre.red/issues/2022-...

This one originally published
in @redogrereview.bsky.social

And here's a great list from @wwborders.bsky.social of publishers and literary magazines working in translated and global lit...
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It's here. Announcing our 2025 lineup. We're very excited about what we have in store for readers, and we think you will be too.

Subscribe to our 2025 Fiction Bundle now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...

Friend: So what're you up to?

Me: Oh, the usual. Rebellion and reading.

DEMOCRACY CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT

Damn straight. You are my brothers and sisters. No one has the right to put you down.

In many places, these crisis lines are the only services available to young people. We desperately need to figure out how to allocate resources to keep these organizations afloat. If you are looking for a way to help and can handle the strain, consider volunteering today.
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We all knew this, but it's better to have it backed by data. theconversation.com/most-us-book...

To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway.

Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.

You have until noon on Sunday 17th November