Spencer Ruchti

I love this prize! Congrats @ryanhasbadtaste.bsky.social & @spencerruchti.bsky.social! @usrofc.bsky.social

Happy to serve 🫡🫡🫡 it’s fantastic.

Ironically I’ll never have the guts to this

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I ♥️ Third Place Books

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Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...

I’ve never met @davidnaimon.bsky.social, and yet his manner is such that I feel like we’re old friends. And I don’t listen to podcasts except for Between the Covers. This week’s is a doozy. Very highly recommended.

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Disgusting

HUGE ideas!!

Oof, buddy

IS A RIVER ALIVE? coming this May

I know how the TikTok girlies feel now. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

NOWHERE LEFT TO CLIMB (except the Pulitzer)

Plot twist: after 15 minutes the AI author facsimile loses track of the conversation and starts ranting about how they think Nielsen BookScan works

I was just saying to myself this morning, I wonder if there’s anything more AI could do to suck all joy out of the private experience of reading.

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Oh, thank you András!

nightmare unleashed, no no no no no

I would have been the Tin House intern around that time… could I have sent you that package?? Congrats to László, precious baby

I agree that’s funny

I think this is correct—and astute!

“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent.” - Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

Seattle Times headline that reads: “Despite RSVPs, Oregon newlyweds show up to mostly empty wedding reception”

Yeah, try running author events for a living…

I’d be interested to read any scholarly work by Pym if you have a paper you’re thinking of.

Chad also stopped collecting data, I believe. And he was only keeping a record of books in translation through catalogs, not in comparison to the overall output (so there never was a new 3% figure iirc)

But I do think an up to date statistic would be useful not for those who work in the book business, but those work for international cultural orgs, those who are convincing government entities with control of certain purse strings the rarity of translation in this country.

Not the point of CJ’s post, but I think it’s crazy there hasn’t been an update or rebuttal to Bowker’s 3% statistic about translation in 20 years. (!!!) In that time, the iPhone was invented, the Kindle came to market. Even the idea of what it means to “publish a book” has changed.

It has been 20 years since Bowker found only 3% of books were translations. Of the 100 “best books” by the ny times this year a whopping… 4 are translated. How far we’ve come.

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Beautiful intro. Let’s get cooking.

You mean you’re not “highly anticipating”??

Not here, I promise. Lol.

Book cover of 'Speak to Me of Home' by Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt

Jeanine Cummins, it seems, has quietly moved to Henry Holt.