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@jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
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writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-trans…

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First round of postcards to people who have preordered my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS! If you'd like a postcard, you know what to do! (Preorder from anywhere, but if you do it from your local bookstore you'll get a prettier stamp!)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was thrilled by the reviews of my last book--so many were works of art in their own right! Not Kirkus. "Cheap sleep aid, non-habit-forming,"* they wrote--and that was the kindest part! BUT check out Kirkus on my new book! We are friends again! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you so much to Rebecca Foster and @shelf-awareness.com for this beautiful review of my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS, out 11/10. www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bookseller friends! Friends of booksellers! The deadline for November’s Indie Next is Monday, and I would love for you to vote for Notes on Postcards! It’s about intimacy, distance, and languages, and it has pictures! If you have a minute, please take a look.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fashion inspiration (donkey=best accessory) from my upcoming memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS, in case anyone is heading to the beach today!
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BookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This fall, Naomi Klein and Jon Ronson return to the page with a lot on their minds, while Roz Chast and Jennifer Croft provide dashes of whimsy—plus, the two celebrity memoirs we can’t wait to read. @@grandcentralpub.bsky.social@@stmartinspress.bsky.social
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm really happy to read the first review of my new memoir Notes on Postcards (which comes out with @catapultbooks.bsky.social on November 10), thanks so much to M. Tiffany Messer-Bass and @libraryjournal.bsky.social! www.libraryjournal.com/review/notes...
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"I know now you could not have been more right: what is the point of the extra three minutes provided by the highway, when it makes the whole journey bland?" From the LARB archives, Jennifer Croft muses on the lessons of her father: lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/fat…
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A Father’s Day Letter | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jennifer Croft muses on the lessons of her father.
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Matt Burris @mattburris.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Finished this just a little while ago and it’s Very good.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Hoy en España se publica la edición más espléndida posible de mi primera novela, Serpientes y escaleras. Muchísimas gracias a Ediciones Comisura por hacer libros tan hermosos, tan perfectos, tan fascinantes... ¡Necesitamos más editoriales así! edicionescomisura.com/tienda/
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worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We have a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview for you today! Translator Boris Dralyuk on the music of language, softening difficult messages for children, what makes Who Will Make the Snow? distinctly Ukrainian...and his creative collaboration with Jennifer Croft worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
Front cover of picture book called Who Will Make the Snow? by Taras and Marjana Drokhasko, translated from Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk and Jennifer Croft. Elsewhere Editions, Archipelago Books, 2026
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This book is a delight. Unlike anything you’ve read. Take it from me.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Thanks so much to Lit Hub for including my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS on this beautiful list of books to look forward to this year! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... @catapultbooks.bsky.social
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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Join us in just under 30 minutes!
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
THE LOST SOLDIERS, Andrey Kurkov’s latest Kyiv mystery, has a UK cover! My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Tonight in Tulsa!
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/09/2025
getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
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From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man.  My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a c…
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I’ve been a judge for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award in Translated Literature, and the NEA Translation Fellowship (RIP), and I’ve never read a translation more brilliant than this. Out in April, but you can preorder now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sidetracke...
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Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood|Paperback
The first English translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic of Russian Émigré lifeWith great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin’s Sidetracked provides unique insight into one...
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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
‘Dislocations’ by Sylvia Molloy, tr. Jennifer Croft, with a tropical watermelon cocktail
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Loved getting to review this great new novel by Helen Oyeyemi for the NYTBR! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
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She Has 7 Selves, and They All Have a Story
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @henricole.bsky.social… See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
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Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Educators, this short story about a young girl in Mexico preparing to travel to the US is paired with more reading from Mexico, literature about the theme of home, and even writing on fast food. Check it out on WWB Campus: buff.ly/DEPwBNK
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Looking forward to this next month in New York! Hoping to bring together a couple of ideas I've been working on about translating time and art versus entertainment. And (perhaps needless to say) twins! Please join us if you're around! arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
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On Being in Between: Postcards, Pregnancy, Travel, and Translation | School of the Arts
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-ru...
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The Russian destruction of Odesa's Pryvoz Market — croftwork
The first thing Boris and I did when we visited Odesa was walk to the house where he grew up. The next thing we did was buy fruit at Pryvoz Market.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/202…
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@elpais.com) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@anagramaeditor.bsky.social‬) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025...
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Una novela sobre traducciones se convierte en un cruce apasionante entre ‘Perdidos’ y Agatha Christie
Jennifer Croft, traductora de la premio Nobel Olga Tokarczuk, publica un libro sobre la importancia del que recrea la obra de otro
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...
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How an Exiled Russian Noble Became a Great American Songwriter
His story spans everything from Belarus to Balanchine to Bacharach
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market. From there, it unfolded like a dream… Thank you, Vernon, for many happy hours…
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS. In prose and verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920). www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed Jennifer Croft about her memoir, "Homesick," which is accompanied by her own Polaroids, for Memoir Nation:
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Memoir Nation: Find yourself in the story of your life.
Join and gain access to our monthly newsletter and receive \u201CCrafting Your Memoir\u201D as a free download!
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Do give this extraordinary memoir of the 20th century a read. From Stravinsky to the Gershwins, Prokofiev to Ethel Waters, Duke knew them all—and the poems at the back of the book are little cures for depression, each and every one. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
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Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems
Introduction by Boris Dralyuk534-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589882041Publication Date: 7/15/2025 (now shipping)“Passport to Paris is one of the great neglected memoirs of the 20th-century...
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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
One of the funniest, weirdest, most meta books I’ve read in ages. And a beautiful cover design! What more could you ask for!
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It’s a sight to behold!
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Bloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Happy paperback #pubday to THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY by Jennifer Croft! Eight translators gather in the primeval forest home of the world-renowned Irena Rey. They are there to translate her magnum opus together, but within days of their arrival, Irena disappears. On sale! geni.us/extinctionof...
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International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist Jennifer Croft's madly brilliant mystery novel of interconnection, transformation, and translation in Europe's last great wilde...
Order now:
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The beautiful paperback of Irena Rey is officially out now!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Irena Rey (out tomorrow!) is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest honor I could possibly receive!
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I’ll have some news to share about my dear Alexander Voloshin and his mock epic of exile in Hollywood, SIDETRACKED, in July. In the meantime, here I am, casting anything but a cold eye on his final resting place at Hollywood Forever.
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Kevin Rector @kevrector.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Breaking: California asks court for restraining order to block Guard, Marine deployments in L.A. (w/ @laurajnelson.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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California asks court for restraining order to block Guard, Marine deployments in L.A.
California on Tuesday asked a federal court for a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard forces and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Irena Rey is out in paperback two weeks from today! I always prefer paperbacks to hardcovers—so much friendlier somehow—so if you’re like me, please consider a preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Charlie: What’s a holiday? Nina: It’s a day for smelling chocolate!
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Last day of two years old
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