Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse

Including her own, natch. You’ll love it, I promise! 😂

I do! I do recommend them, and I recommend my translation of The Village at the Edge of Noon, too. Go buy a book or two! And #dontgointhewoods

@iammilliam.bsky.social what a year - in better news, shitbag puppy all grown up

Publication day! #dontgointhewoods #booksky #translator

Omg, one of my favourite books is Air by Geoff Ryman. And I love parallel novels. Must find this!

A promotional panel. It shows the cover of the 2025 Angry Robot edition of The Village at the Edge of Noon by Darya Bobyleva, translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. The next reads: Everything you were afraid to find out about the heat of noon and grandma's old tales comes together... Out now!

"Valerych roared, and he struck out for the other riverbank - away from the incinerating flame and the village and his dead goddamned wife - toward the other world, the other shore."

Published today!

Is it terror in the woods? Or the truth?

Translated by @missadadoom.bsky.social.

@iammilliam.bsky.social you’ll love - or not hate - my incipient book musings blog (whence future media empire) “The Thrill of the Chaise”.

doing an episode with you guys was a pleasure and a hoot - longtime listener, overexcited guest

and a delightful and surprising amount of tenderness 💚 given the level of, ahem..

Buyer’s premorse- I haven’t bought it yet, but I fully intend to regret this purchase

A winning combination of ridiculous, hilarious, and adorable.

morally lax liberals

Ally, interrogator, ardent beam 😍

The Best Fiction in Translation of Fall 2025 Hi folks! It’s been a long fall season, and I’m just now catching up on all the good crime fiction in translation. That means the following list is extra-curated, and also, extra distur…

Thanks @crimereads.bsky.social - happy to be included - don’t go in the woods xx😳

crimereads.com/the-best-fic...

“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die”: Galaxy Quest Is Personal, and it’s Personal to Me I once read a book review in which the reviewer, the professor and critic Benjamin de Mott, expressed anxiety about effectively conveying the impressiveness of the work at hand: “I find myself nerv…

“Whoever wrote this episode should die!” Good actors playing bad actors becoming better people through acting and life. @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social has written the Galaxy Quest paean I’ve longed for: crimereads.com/galaxy-quest/

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Calling @aptshadow.bsky.social - am still reeling that he got arachnophobic me to read a whole book about sentient (shudders) spiders. This is the only spider content that shall ever be posted here. Or anywhere. By me.

Saying “Sorry to interrupt,” doesn’t actually give you the right to interrupt. Unless it’s an emergency. Your inability to wait your turn is not an emergency.

If you like folklore, horror and snark (or dying to know how the thrain could meet) get yourself a copy, but be sure to start it before the noonday blaze.

Yeah, I rethink the wisdom of owning a dog every morning from mid October to mid-March

Are you serious? Inability to feel shame is their superpower

Ah! I read it when it was called “Руки Женщин Моей Семьи Были Не Для Письма»… bit more of a mouthful…

I wondered how you were going to deal with that title!

As a full-time career? No. Even before AI, relatively few lived only by literary translation. Technical, medical, legal translation are ripe for automatisation (with “ok enough and cheap” results). I think of the “3% of Actors’ Guild members…” statistic…

I did a thing.

“I often walk through art galleries, and realise the stuff on the walls would be so much better if I simply stole it and drew penises on it or whatever, and that they wouldn’t have made it publicly viewable if they didn’t want that.” Marina Hyde nails it as usual.

Products individually so worthless that withholding them or paying for them will kill a whole industry? Right, so the golden goose here is artists, not AI…

Much cheaper to kill the artists’ industry