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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Come nerd out with me and the rest of the original San Francisco nerds: book nerds.

CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Love these books like I love you like I love cats like I love good totes and all those things are one in a Two Lines membership. ❤️

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”. chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...

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Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Beautiful things are wasteful spending.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The only way I can explain it to myself is people apparently care as much about the arts as I do about AI emoji generators.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

[almost deadly birds of the soul]

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 20/03/2025

There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

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The Stevns Translation Prize

The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Publishing would be in a much better spot if we were all a bit less efficient. If writers were slower, editors were slower, the cycle of new books was just slowed down.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 24/02/2025

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

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The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize

THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 18/02/2025

🎉 Happy pub date to Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro! 🎉 Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore or order directly from us www.catranslation.org/shop/book/th...

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Nothing illustrates the advancements in my lifetime like how far temporary tattoo technology has come.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Are there publishers that pay for blurbs?

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I told you I wouldn’t complain about every year-end list… Check out Woodworm and Through the Night on this great list from the brilliant @gabino.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

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The Best Horror Fiction of 2024

We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

if we were to lose the ruins we would be left with nothing

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

What about a social network that only lets each user post once a day?

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Eating a cookie in a dimly lit room with a purring cat.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I want this to be a positive place. Am I hoping for too much?

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I ❤️ Maria Judite de Carvalho.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The most impressive marketing move of the last 50 years was somehow convincing all the hikers and hippies that their clothes should be made of plastic.

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