Turtle House

Publisher of NewGen authors, Turtle House is an imprint of Zen Publications.

[Turtle House @TurtleReads]

In *Ilium*, a moral ambiguity seems to fascinate Lea Carpenter, the way living a double life and every day making your cover, that critical and deeply embedded lie, feels real to everyone... making *Ilium* an unexpectedly moving #novel. | @ChrisBohjalian https://t.co/13d5zE6KPb

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

The universally praised poetry of @hagelbck casts a "colloquial enchantment", lush with images of shy violas and velvet nebulas.
Step into this animated world that questions the idea of austere or quiet Swedish poetry, as translated by @FrekeRai: https://t.co/9rJ7aoh6vf

[TheModernNovel @ModernNovel]

Latest on my website:Vera Mutafchieva's The Case of Cem, about the long &complex exile of Cem Sultan and how he is (mis-)used by the European powers https://t.co/7N3RUce5zs Trans Angela Rodel, from @SandorfP

[Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort]

“Ideally, the writer and the editor are equal in their service to the work, and like language, like housekeeping, we disappear in our attention to whatever rests behind the veil.” @dlseuss

[Literary Hub @lithub]

"Fiction has taught me to be ruthless in my editing, avoiding long sections of backstory that don’t propel the story forward." @AbbottKahler on the benefits of crossing genre. https://t.co/3SzEgpFDF9

[Karen Leeder @KarenLeeder1]

Folks Cannot believe my translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's novel #Monsterslikeus is on there @seagullbooks, So many good things! So much excellent translation making its mark.

[Portuguese in Translation @PinT_Book_Club]

Our fourth book in line for 2024 is "Under Our Skin" by Cape Verdean author Joaquim Arena (tr. Jethro Soutar, Unnamed Press 2023).

"Under Our Skin is one journalist's wide-ranging investigation into the people of the early African diaspora."

https://t.co/pHekNuSwQK

[Sherna Khambatta @ShernaKhambatta]

The #Music of Other Tongues: On Translating Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry https://t.co/H3XgvAQIXa via @lithub

[Turtle House @TurtleReads]

*Tripping on Utopia* by Benjamin Breen @ResObscura: Margaret Mead & her cohort were key players in the first wave of #psychedelicscience which began not in the 1960s but in the 1920s. | Charlotte Shane @nytimes https://t.co/sBPvPBCyR8 #books #authors #nonfiction #culturalhistory

[New Vessel Press @NewVesselPress]

THE WORDS THAT REMAIN @DublinLitAward 2024 longlist for intl fiction! The novel by Stênio Gardel translated @bdantaslobato praised by nominating librarians as poetic “tender and sad love story” that “explores language and how it affects human relations.”

https://t.co/FtTvqMIs5M

[Seagull Books سیگل @seagullbooks]

Anjum Hasan's novel History's Angels (Bloomsbury) becomes the FIRST Indian book to be selected for a presentation at Books at Berlinale. Hasan is represented by the brilliant Jayapriya Vasudevan of Jacaranda Literary Agency. https://t.co/9lVMc4auxq

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize https://t.co/9pKVnGFeSd

[NORLA Norwegian Literature Abroad @Norwegianbooks]

#NorwegianNoir Tip:

The Night House, by Jo Nesbø
Tr. by Neil Smith
Pub. by @penguinrandom / @AAKnopf

#NorwegianLit

[Turtle House @TurtleReads]

In *Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are*, science #writer Rebecca Boyle paints the #moon as more than just a driver of physical phenomena. | Katrina Miller @nytimes https://t.co/CS4ZfmCR26 #books #authors

[Turtle House @TurtleReads]

Reading *To the Letter* by Tomasz Różycki (trans. from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal) will awaken a similar transition in you. The past will never leave us. It will haunt our photographs; it will speak between the words that we read and write. | @irjohnso https://t.co/9udC4vHvmv

[Asian Review of Books @BookReviewsAsia]

Today in the ARB: “From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia” by Peter Jackson @yalepress https://t.co/Au5KmQC2Q8

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

One of the internet’s gifts to poets: the Bernadette Mayer list. Also nifty to use as prompt for revisions or to blow new air into trashed drafts.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Cal Sagan mentioned in Cosmos (1980) ✍️

[WordsWithoutBorders @wwborders]

“The hustle comes from those who are tired of needing to do most of the work. But we do it.” In this essay from 2021, Aaron Robertson lays out three goals for a Black translators collective with “global ambitions.” Read what he has to say here: https://t.co/9QzWOOvZxC