Currently Reading: #TheCutLine by Carolina Pihelgas. Will be published 3rd February by @worldedbooks.bsky.social. Thank you to them & @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC.
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Will Morningstar and Michelle Mirabella in conversation on All That Dies in April and The Cracks We Bear | Community Bookstore
Brooklyn's oldest operating bookstore. Serving Park Slope since 1971.
Tomorrow at 7pm at @communitybookstore.bsky.social in Brooklyn!
Donβt miss this conversation between first-time translators @michellemirabella.bsky.social and @willmorningstar.bsky.social, moderated by Anderson Tepper!
communitybookstore.net/events/48469
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Just published!
"Chilean writer Infanteβs penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch." @publisherswkly.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social
05.11.2025 20:05 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The cover of the book The Cracks We Bear
Canβt believe itβs finally pub day for The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante out today from @worldedbooks.bsky.social!! Thank you to Catalina, our publisher Christine Swedowsky, my editor Shimanto Reza, and my family, friends, and colleagues for their support!
05.11.2025 04:01 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
What opens as a story on matrescence reveals itself to be an exploration of memory, trauma, and griefβpersonal, familial, and nationalβas the protagonist, Laura, struggling in her new motherhood,β¦
Michelle Mirabella and author Catalina Infante Beovic's THE CRACKS WE BEAR (World Editions, 2025)
Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.
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With less than two weeks until pub day for #TheCracksWeBear by Catalina Infante (@worldedbooks.bsky.social), it is so special to have this essay out in @worldlittoday.bsky.social, the home of our original debut together as author and translator.
22.10.2025 20:13 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Pleased to announce these authors as featured guests for #VWF2025! Officially D-11 days from the 2025 Festival.
β’ Saeed Teebi
β’ Souvankham Thammavongsa
β’ Madeleine Thien
β’ Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social
β’ Miriam Toews @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social
β’ Georgia Toews
09.10.2025 16:06 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is
hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syriaβs most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature.
Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...
06.10.2025 21:50 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
These novels shed light on political conflicts and acts of resistance around the world. Meet Sheung-King (Batshit Seven) Maria Reva, (Endling), & Jeremy Tiang (State of Emergency) Oct 26. Presented w/ SFUβs World Languages and Literatures + Peliplat.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire!
www.cercadorprize.com
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Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.socialβs State of Emergency!
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Corruption And The Natural World In βA Carnival Of Atrocitiesβ | Hola Cultura
Stripped of her family, home and identity by the supposedly pious people of CocuΓ‘n, all that is left for Mildred is her hatred. In her rage, she curses the
"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, βA Carnival of Atrocitiesβ promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social
holacultura.com/corruption-a...
17.09.2025 14:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"My name is Lina Ramos, wife of Relicario Cruz. For a while now Iβve been telling him we need to leave, but he doesnβt want to."
Continue reading!
www.ronslate.com/from-all-tha...
@marianatravacio.bsky.social l @willmorningstar.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social
12.09.2025 12:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This comes out tomorrow!! I can't wait for everyone to finally be able to meet Lina and Relicario (and his donkey) in English. Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for the space!
08.09.2025 21:16 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
All That Dies in April
Iβd been warned that it wouldnβt be easy to go digging up the dead. I had some new coffins with me, because Iβd also been warned the old coffins would be in pieces by now. It was a good thing Iβd rβ¦
βIβd been warned that it wouldnβt be easy to go digging up the dead.β Read from Mariana Travacioβs novel All That Dies in April, translated by @willmorningstar.bsky.social and Samantha Schnee.
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All That Dies in April is a roadless road novel told in short chapters like clockwork from 3 different perspectives.
A Hay Festival Book Club selection, this is a suspenseful ancestral tale rooted in a Latin American history of rural displacement and perpetual inequality.
@worldedbooks.bsky.social
10.09.2025 16:00 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Cover of Mariana Travacio's All That Dies in April
It's finally here! My first book translation, co-translated with the brilliant @samanthaschnee.bsky.social, is out today from @worldedbooks.bsky.social. I fell in love with @marianatravacio.bsky.social's writing in early 2020, and I'm so happy to share it now in English. tinyurl.com/4uvpn2jx
09.09.2025 22:13 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We are thrilled to announce today's publication of All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio, translated by @willmorningstar.bsky.social and @samanthaschnee.bsky.social
09.09.2025 16:31 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
CC'ing Julie Schaper - Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Welcome to Consortium Corner, a Q&A series with staff and reps to celebrate Consortium's 40 years of independent book distribution. To kick off the
Weβre celebrating Consortiumβs 40th anniversary this year, and to mark the milestone, we're talking with staff about their favorite titles and memorable moments. ππ
Kicking off the series is Julie Schaper, VP and president of Consortium. Read the interview: www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...
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We are so happy to announce that Lisa Grgas has joined the World Editions Editorial Team! You might know Lisa from her 20 years as Supervising Editor of The Literary Review, which sadly shut down. She has worked with @adroitjournal.bsky.social @blreview.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social and others
02.09.2025 19:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"A visceral and emotional migratory quest propels the haunting novel All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio."
@willmorningstar.bsky.social @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/all-...
29.08.2025 02:04 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
PLANET OF CLAY, tale of the toll living exacts on the different
PLANET OF CLAY SAMAR YAZBEK (tr. Leri Price) World Editions $16.99 trade paper, available now Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Say...
Syria's chaotic cruelty should interest everyone in the US in 2025's #WITMonth PLANET OF CLAY by SAMAR YAZBEK & translated by Leri Price, via @worldedbooks.bsky.social is a tale of the toll simply living exacts on the different in high-control cultures.
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2021/11/plan...
23.08.2025 18:49 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Copy of All That Dies in April on a wooden table in front of a window. There's a huge tree and a few blah buildings outside.
The cover is orange with one person riding a donkey and another walking alongside they are both laden with possessions.
Lunchtime reading with All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio; translated by Will Morningstar and Samantha Schee. out in September from @worldedbooks.bsky.social. #WITMonth
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Our #WITMonth goodies include @worldedbooks.bsky.social's 2023 treat This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia GarcΓa Freire & translated by the estimable @furiousleeper.bsky.social
#Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/08/augu...
20.08.2025 22:57 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
βHow does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold Warβs forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?β Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/
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