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MN author Kao Kalia Yang's picture books meet the moment - MinnPost ‘I write because I don't know what to do with all of the things that are going on in the world,’ Yang said.

Incredible interview with @kaokaliayang.bsky.social: "I write because I don’t know what to do with all of the things that are going on in the world,” she said. “I write to make sense of it. I write to give myself — my imagination — the power to overcome it.”

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pure unquenchable fire

All was quiet in the deep dark wood, until... 10th September 2026! Social media card featuring the Mouse, the Gruffalo and Child. Return to the deep dark wood with the first new Gruffalo story in over twenty years.

Oh help! Oh no! It's a Gruffalo. Return to the deep dark wood 10th September 2026! Social media card featuring the Mouse and the Gruffalo

"Oh help! Oh no! It's a gruffalo!"

Return to the deep dark wood with the first new Gruffalo story in over twenty years. Available September 10th 2026!

Get your claws on it first and pre-order now:

www.raincoastgroup.com/item/9781035...

Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...

📘 JANUARY NEWSLETTER ALERT 📘

The 3rd book from Fruttero and Lucentini has hit the shelves in the UK, perfect for fans of classic mysteries and sophisticated literary fiction.

Brilliantly translated by @gregorydowling.bsky.social

Find out more here: bit.ly/4rdiwoI

#Tuscany #CrimeFiction

YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud Canada Reads 2026 book reveal

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT youtube.com/watch?v=prlK...

Hawt damn I love this cover:

The Aquatics Check out The Aquatics - <b>An extraordinary novel of loyalty, strife, and empowerment from Peabody Award-winning Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat.</b> <p/>In the fictional African country of…

Next is THE AQUATICS by Osvalde Lewat (tr.@marenbaudetlackner.bsky.social) published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, “a story of governmental oppression and private hypocrisy”: bookshop.org/a/169/978156...

A graphic labelled "CBC Canada Reads 2026 shortlist. Congrats to Invisible Publishing" with the cover of Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard.

Congratulations to LPG member @invisibooks.bsky.social and author Tyler Hellard whose novel SEARCHING FOR TERRY PUNCHOUT is among the shortlist for #CanadaReads2026!

CBC Canada Reads 2026 social media card for Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard featuring the book cover and Canada Reads logo on a blue background

Hockey YouTube personality and podcaster Steve “Dangle” Glynn champions Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard

Searching for Terry Punchout will be championed by on this year's Canada Reads by @stevedangle20.bsky.social. The debates will take place April 13-16!

Meet the Canada Reads 2026 contenders | CBC Books The debates take place April 13 to 16 live at 10 a.m. ET.

Congratulations @tylerhellard.com and @invisibooks.bsky.social! Searching for Terry Punchout is on the Canada Reads shortlist! www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Photo of the front cover of the Korean novel Capitalists Must Starve, by Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur and published by Tilted Axis Press. The cover is brick-red, with the publisher's name and logo at the top and the title in the centre, with the author's name bottom left and the translator's name bottom right.

Photo of the title page of the novel Capitalists Must Starve (see previous image), which has been signed by both author and translator. The author's dedication, at the bottom in red, reads 'To Isabel', with a signature, the date (25 October 2025) and some short Korean text. The translator's dedication, at the top in blue, reads 'Great to see you in person, Isabel!' with a signature and the date.

Capitalists Must Starve, by Park Seolyeon, translated by @antonhur.com

A novelisation of the life of Korean resistance fighter & labour activist Kang Juryong (1901-1932). Dear Lord, women had it hard in the early 20th century (no Koreans had it easy). Funny, sad, inspiring.

💙📚 #translatedlit

Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, Heart Lamp is shortlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social 2025 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! ❤️‍🔥

How to Find Your Home: A Review of Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum - Asymptote Blog Tangerinn is . . . a story of blooming beyond the social images and pressures that can get confused with a meaningful life.

“‘Tangerinn’ meanders through scenes of childhood, London, and the present, much like how our minds are layered with selves.”
In Asymptote Journal‬‬, Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Emanuela Anechoum’s newly translated novel, “Tangerinn” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the John Leonard Prize!

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

Temptation Island | A review of “When Water Became Blue” by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated by Rhonda Mullins | Literary Review of Canada Stacey May Fowles reviews “When Water Became Blue” by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, an infidelity narrative translated by Rhonda Mullins.

'A sparse yet powerful exploration of the complexity of female desire and how it is articulated in art and nature.'

When Water Became Blue from Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (trans. Rhonda Mullins) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

Incite: Maggie Helwig on Encampment | Vancouver Writers Fest Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres across Canada has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found th...

Incite—our free event series presented in partnership with VPL—returns on February 10, 2026 with @maggiehelwig.bsky.social, author of the 2025 Toronto Book Award winner, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community.

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On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir” The Chronology of Water Like many others, I first encountered Lidia Yuknavitch’s work when a friend thrust her pages into my hands. I didn’t consider myself a writer at the time, or even a reader. As a kid, I had devoured…

“I believe there are even more out there, a sea of us, lying in wait for a new friend to shove works like The Chronology of Water into our hands.” @ashadore.bsky.social considers Lidia Yuknavitch’s “anti-memoir.”

Comedian, actor, and producer John Mulaney @mulaney.bsky.social recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje for his book club Mulaney Reads, calling the novel "brilliant . . . It's a knockout."
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Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for January and February 2026 - Reactor Stories of near-future societies, uncanny filmmakers, and virtual gaming gone wrong...

At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I previewed some indie press books due out in January and February. reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

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Holy F*ck by Joseph Incardona, tr by Sam Taylor, out in April (UK) and May (US).

“A mystical and burlesque novel" says @lemonde.fr

Darkly comic and unsettlingly tender, Holy F*ck is a blistering satire of faith, desire, and the machinery of salvation.

DM for review copies!

Dani Netherclift Tries to Capture the Shape of Absent Bodies in VESSEL Our featured title today, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (Assembly Press), is a unique, genre-bending work of memoir, literature, history, and ...

Acclaimed poet Dani Netherclift tries to capture the shape of absent bodies in VESSEL (@pressassembly.bsky.social), a new and form-bending work of memoir. We interview the author right here on Open Book!
#AmReading #Memoir #Nonfiction #Translation
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DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!

🎉HYPER by Agri Ismaïl is out today!🎉 👉👉A hypermodern family saga: Dubai luxury malls, algorithms, corded radios, and desperate efforts to locate meaning and identify within the numb isolation of modern immigrant life. A stunning debut by @agri.bsky.social 👈👈

Author Mieko Kawakami looking cool on the cover of Publishers Weekly.

Mieko Kawakami on the cover of @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Seven by Joanna Kavenna review – a madcap journey to the limits of philosophy With its cast of thinkers, gamers and artists, this romp across Europe explores our desire to define reality – even as it slips from our intellectual grasp

'Joanna Kavenna's two decades as a writer have seen her beat a gorgeously unconventional path.'

Seven by Joanna Kavenna is the Book of the Day in the Guardian 📚

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Hyper A salesman’s hand stretched out towards the prospective buyer, cupped into a universal signifier. His fingers flexed slightly towards the palm, in case Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, the potential future owner …

“A salesman’s hand stretched out towards the prospective buyer, cupped into a universal signifier.” Read from @agri.bsky.social’s novel, Hyper.

Hyper A salesman’s hand stretched out towards the prospective buyer, cupped into a universal signifier. His fingers flexed slightly towards the palm, in case Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, the potential future owner …

An excerpt from HYPER in today's LitHub Daily Fiction. Out next week! 💶💶💶
lithub.com/hyper/ @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here! | CBC Books This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to build bridges. The panellists and the books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 22.

The full longlist is here www.cbc.ca/books/canada...