@OlgaRavn I think the problem with this list is not so much this rule, but that inspite of this rule, the number of great translated titles is laughably low. It is a very insular list centering the U.S., symptomatic of the times.
When @RonCharles@washingtonpost calls our Box “the literary equivalent of sending cookies baked by Massimo Bottura”, it’s hard not feel compelled to repost that atleast once a week! 😍
Cc: @katiekitamura@harikunzru@luxlotus
https://t.co/peWUCgKoDr
Books Mirchi and I are reading this week: Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellers.
Also looking forward to watching Kieslowski’s Dekalog that looks at a housing complex in late Communist Poland! Thanks so much Simar Puneet and @theboxwalla 😻
New Launch: A Kids’ Book Box subscription! The first box is curated by the acclaimed novelists & literary couple @katiekitamura & @harikunzru. Thanks @RonCharles for breaking the story on @washingtonpost. Find it here: https://t.co/u8AVS55TWx with hints about future curators.
We promised our Book Box subscribers that in addition to the 2 books they’ll receive in Oct’s box, we’ll send them the 2023 Nobel winner. So, #jonfosse’ Septology is coming in the box! https://t.co/zYx3XIAsUU (The other 2 writers are Yan Lianke & Elsa Morante). @transitbooks
“There are always a few daunting aspects of publishing a 700-page, single-sentence series of books about doppelgangers on the western coast of Norway meditating on life and art. But this is exactly the kind of work we founded Transit Books to publish.”
https://t.co/wU3nDm2PdY
This tweet is even more bonkers than yesterday’s. Every aficionado has heard of Fosse—but the problem is a writer of his immense stature can *only* be published by small independent publishers in the English language due to Big 5 conglomeration squeezing out international writers