Sivan Slapak

I just got my first pair of prescription glasses--pogressives--and so far I'm fighting the urge to crush them to dust under the sole of my sneaker.

Bookworm, no. 103 Amanda Perry reviews Sivan Slapak’s “Here Is Still Here.” Adrian Ma on Douglas Hamilton’s “Who Shot Estevan Light?” A page from Elise Levine’s “Big of You.” Inside the July/August issue.

Thankful for this review of Here Is Still Here by Amanda Perry in @reviewcanada.bsky.social
Bookworm, no. 103 open.substack.com/pub/reviewca...

ALGIERS OR JERUSALEM – WHEN FICTION COMES TO THE RESCUE OF REALITY - Blue Metropolis Montreal, Algiers, Jerusalem, Mexico: fiction sketches a geography of emotions that plays with borders, history and memory. How does it sort them out?  In her most recent novel, American author Claire...

Putting my Blue Met event on Blue Sky: bluemetropolis.org/event/algier...

also @llpmtl.bsky.social !

And our hopes such as they are

Alex Dimitrov

Fabulous Fiction: Our 2024 Books of the Year · Blog Post · 49th Shelf Books we've loved—and they're all up for giveaway!

Thank you 49th Shelf for including Here Is Still Here in your fiction Book of the Year roundup--super honoured.
Here are all the titles, and also a giveaway!
49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12...

Unique novel about woman who seeks a spiritual home in Jerusalem — through Yiddish איסאַבעל ראָזען, די העלדין פֿון סיװן סלאַפּאַקס ראָמאַן „דאָ איז נאָך אַלץ דאָ“, זוכט אַ פּאַסיקן אָרט, װוּ זי קען זיך אײַנאָרדענען. צוליב דעם פֿאַרלאָזט זי איר הײמשטאָט מאָנטרעאָל און באַזעצט זיך אין...

Being reviewed in Yiddish in der forverts (@forward.bsky.social) last month is really one of the book highlights of this past year, so let it be my first link here :)
forward.com/yiddish/6726...

Sure, thanks!

It’s kind of nice to get in on the ground floor with everyone

ha!!

So now here?