Christine Dunbar

Editor, Asian Humanities and Literary Translations, Columbia University Press

[Christine Dunbar @cad_pub]

The Slavic Reference Service at @iaslibrary is hosting @dtbyler for a Research & Language Learning talk, Reading THE BACKSTREETS in Urumchi, May 3, 3 pm Central. So great to see this book get attention from different parts of the academy. Register here: https://t.co/H5HVTms57C

[Christine Dunbar @cad_pub]

"THE BACKSTREETS reads like a mash-up between Kafka and David Lynch" Thanks to @motnedwob for including Perhat Tursun's novel in this fascinating round-up! @dtbyler

[Tom Bowden @motnedwob]

Focus on Asia • Plus: Sex! Preexisting Conditions! @DandQ @astrahousebooks @open_letter @NYRBpoets @ColumbiaUP @kiddiepunk @NYRcomics @KoreroPress @ZoneBooks @mitpress https://t.co/yBcUBGtlGs

[TheModernNovel @ModernNovel]

Latest on my website: Yao-Chang Chen's Puppet Flower, about Taiwan's indigenous tribes vs the imperialist powers https://t.co/t8TTlygts0 tr. Pao-fang Hsu, Ian Maxwell and Tung-jung Chen from @ColumbiaUP

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

Now available! THE RIVER IMP AND STINKY JEWEL AND OTHER TALES is "A pleasure to read with its wonderful, creepy and imaginative range of illustrations."— Susan Napier https://t.co/qKyLwLpDjg #Japanese #FictionInTranslation @TranslateMonth
@LitTranslate #ReadTheWorld #Translation

[Philip Leventhal @PhilipLeventhal]

@thegreatkellino @bookcritics @TBewes @ColumbiaUP @rlwalkowitz For other books in the Literature Now series: https://t.co/xd00FgNV98

And coming this Fall! MIGRANT AESTHETICS, by Glenda Carpio; BIG FICTION, by Dan Sinykin (@dan_sinykin); and WRITING BACKWARDS, by Xander Manshel (@XanderManshel).

[TheModernNovel @ModernNovel]

Latest on my website: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Stravaging Strange 3 strange tales about miniaturisation, Kant & a man who walks every street in London https://t.co/ibtkf2sfEi tr. Joanne Turnbull from @ColumbiaUP

[Christine Dunbar @cad_pub]

"Do you enjoy your fairy tales politically charged and subversive?" @TobiasCarroll's monthly round-up of translated fiction is out from @wwborders and includes THE NARROW CAGE AND OTHER MODERN FAIRY TALES by Vasily Eroshenko, trans. @Kuplowsky

[WordsWithoutBorders @wwborders]

What to read next? @TobiasCarroll recommends books tr from Korean, French, Esperanto, Japanese, and Portuguese: https://t.co/UCparUx4Oh
@GraywolfPress @brumelianebrum @dianewhitty
@otherpress @KaoutarHarchi @EmKateRam

[Christine Dunbar @cad_pub]

Immanuel Kim's #translation of FRIEND by North Korean novelist Paek Nam-nyong included in @TheEconomist's "Seven books you are forbidden from reading"
https://t.co/OrMikwVYSV

[WorldLiteratureToday @worldlittoday]

The March–April issue is in print and online! “The Russophone Literature of Resistance” cover feature headlines the new issue. For the month of March, this cover feature + our July 2022 cover feature on Odesa and Kharkiv will be free to read online.

https://t.co/A7nRbewi7T

[Michael Orthofer @MAOrthofer]

New review: The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales by Vasily Eroshenko https://t.co/ZiuC36GJ2l

[🦀 @funsizedshark]

our book club read the membranes by @Tawei_Chi and we promptly and collectively had an existential crisis over it, so of course i had to spend some time drawing a cover as a tribute. truly an excellent book

[Christine Dunbar @cad_pub]

Congratulations to @EdwardTyerman, whose @ColumbiaUP book INTERNATIONALIST AESTHETICS is the Winner of the 2022 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies! 🎉Be sure to check out the full list of impressive finalists & get your (affordable paperback) copy here: https://t.co/3ro0YZYy7H

[AATSEEL @AATSEEL_Tweets]

Please help us congratulate the recipients of the 2022 AATSEEL Prizes and Book Prizes. You can find information about the awards and recipients by following the links below.
Teaching, Service, and Scholarship Awards:
https://t.co/VaDf2gWPrK
Book Prizes: https://t.co/5vG81VFjCM

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

"This collection of stories — translated from Japanese and Esperanto — is a treasure trove of inventive and sometimes subversive fables that transcend borders."— @Tokyo_Weekender on THE NARROW CAGE AND OTHER MODERN FAIRY TALES https://t.co/BUOVYUptHw @Kuplowsky #Translation

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

Join Darren Byler, Andrew J. Nathan, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a virtual book talk about THE BACKSTREETS tomorrow, January 30 from 4:00PM - 5:30PM ET. RSVP Today! https://t.co/9a6LLOJsaQ @WEAI_Columbia @Columbia @dtbyler

[Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch_tr]

Ahead of what promises to be a compelling discussion of Perhat Tursun's THE BACKSTREETS with co-translator @dtbyler on January 30, we recommend @menevere's review! https://t.co/NC0n7B0yjV

[Tony @tony_malone]

After finishing my #JanuaryInJapan reread of this slightly battered copy of the Seidensticker Genji, I went straight onto a second look at Michael Emmerich's 'The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature' (from @ColumbiaUP)...

[Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch_tr]

This week in Hopscotch, an incisive review by Munawwar Abdulla of Perhat Tursun's THE BACKSTREETS, cotranslated by @dtbyler and an anonymous ally, and published by @ColumbiaUP – a milestone in English translation of Uyghur literature.
https://t.co/NC0n7B00un

[Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb]

Hey #AHA23! Get your steps in and come visit us at the @ColumbiaUP booth in the 4th floor exhibit hall for 30% off our latest history books! We’re here until 6pm today 📚