Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 4hToday's excellent galley mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and Astra House! The Statuary Gardens by Jacques Abeille translated; by Alex Andriesse. The finished copy will include an introduction by Brian Evenson. Also, Ackermann by Nicolette Polek. Both will be out in the coming months. 000
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 6hToday is International Translation Day! Here's a stack of some of my favorite translated books published in 2026. Titles, authors, and translators are in the alt text. Many thanks to all the translators out there I really appreciate your work! 192
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"I want to tell you, simply, joyful we were that summer." I just read and highly recommend Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas. Set in South, trans healthcare, found family, and caregiving. On the National Book Award fiction longlist. Published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social. 000
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I stopped by @spl.org last night and picked up three National Book Award longlisted books. My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova; translated by Lisa C. Hayden, Promise/Threat by Jonah Mixon-Webster, and Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr. 040
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One of my favorite books of 2026 is here! "After a few months of surviving on pretty small, not overly compelling jobs, I received a commission in my inbox." May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry is published by @transitbooks.bsky.social and a finalist for the @thebookerprizes.com! 0140
Reposted by Cait_onthe_luceMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me? 417153
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excellent galley mail from @graywolfpress.bsky.social! A Nihilist's Guide to Parenthood by Sam Lipsyte, The Museum of Mary by Mary Jo Bang, and A Diagnosis by Elva Wilk. All due out in early 2027. 🐺🐺🐺 040
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New galleys that are landing in early 2027 from the always excellent @fsgbooks.bsky.social pictures with my always reliable ten plus year old FSG tote. Titles and authors are in the alt text. 051
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Awesome @thebookerprizes.com shortlist! I actually dreamt last night that The End of Everything made the shortlist! Excellent book out in October from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social! 030
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The 2026 Booker Award Shortlist announcement starts in one hour! 140
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm currently reading Paradise Burns by Pol Guasch; translated by Mara Faye Lethem. From the first chapter: "All this is to say that we exist because others remember us..." Out in October from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. 121
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The 2026 Booker finalists will be announced tomorrow. Here are my favorites in no particular order. In past years I’ve predicted the Booker winner months before the longlist was even announced. Seriously! Some books just have that Booker winner smell. This year? Titles/authors in the alt text. 390
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm currently reading Eden at Dawn by Karim Kattan & translated by @jmz.bsky.social. "But how can I love you in this fickle city so quick to anger, this city racked by the god and loath to let me worship you over him?" Longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award in Translation. Highly recommended! 030
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in March 2027 There's Plenty of Sunshine Where You're Headed: Stories by Ghassan Zeineddine. His earlier collection Dearborn is one of my favorite short story collections. 033
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Excellent galley mail day! Both are landing in early 2027 from @aaknopf.bsky.social. 240
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026From Wednesday evening walking down Capitol Hill. 010
Reposted by Cait_onthe_luceWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15/09/2026Heavens keep him from these beasts! 528939
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📚National Book Award LonglistWeek is here! Young People's Literature was just announced and Translated Literature lands in a few hours. Schedule and YPL titles are in the alt text. 261
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Poofy pigeon at a light rail station busy devising a plan to free a giant bag of popcorn from a trash can. 031
Reposted by Cait_onthe_luceWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/09/2026And then it was when the unhappy king (Whose wrongs in us God pardon!) did set forth Upon his Irish expedition 335863
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In today's excellent galley mail a copy of A Handful of Arrows: Encounters with Art by María Gainza and translated by Thomas Bunstead. Optic Nerve also translated by Thomas Bunstead was my favorite book of 2019. A Handful of Arrows is due out in January 2027 from @catapultbooks.bsky.social. 192
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today's read is a revisit of Look at Me by Anita Brookner. From the first page: "My name is Frances Hinton and I do not like to be called Fanny." 1101
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Here's my Seattle Book Bingo card! This was the first year I participated! Any excuse to reread Headshot! One of my favorite books that strangely I don't own so I checked a copy out from the library! 010
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My September staff favorites shelf at Island Books! Titles are in the alt text. 070
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The cat distribution system at work. Meowzers! youtu.be/l8NlyMvBINY?...youtu.beKirkland woman describes encounter with Bobcat inside her homeYouTube video by KIRO 7 News 020
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"So this boy just walks in smelling of Lip Smacker, Matterhorn cigarettes, and sex sweat." Out today The Disappearers by the excellent Marlon James! Over 600 pages and I want to read it again. One of my favorite books this year! Many thanks to @riverheadbooks.bsky.social for this signed copy. 030
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026September! September! September! Neglected New Yorkers, selections from this stack underneath Woodstock! 1110
