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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aww, Alina, you are the best! ❤️

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the latest @thetls.bsky.social, I review Iya Kiva’s uncompromising collection “Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters,” translated from Russian and Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk @huribooks.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Huge thanks to all of the people who made this book possible, as well as poets Matthew Zapruder, Richard Deming, Andrei Codrescu, and especially @alinaetc.bsky.social for writing about it.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy International Translation day! No better gift than having my latest translation in my hands. The earthy-ethereal, brutal-gentle poems by Dan Sociu in Deep Fakes will be available from World Poetry Books, with a beautiful cover by Ana Maria Micu, starting next week.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I definitely need to read the other two now! I adored Ellen's translation - the repeated use of "super" was genius. And Vukovar! How cool. You definitely won't be disappointed by Fair and I Who Have Never Known Men. Absolutely fascinating books

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Why read a devastating book on the beach - when you can read three? Sooo goood

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I love this new Substack by Beca Sandu, an exploration of women's subjectivity -- and especially that of her mother and grandmother in Communist Romania. It's hard to describe what it is, you just have to read a few entries. Feels totally fresh to me as an approach. justmeandthebear.substack.com

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Just Me and the Bear | Rebeca Sandu | Substack

Notes on women's subjectivity inside and beyond dictatorship. Click to read Just Me and the Bear, by Rebeca Sandu, a Substack publication. Launched 24 days ago.

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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Dallas! Chicago! NYC! SF! DC! Tatiana Tîbuleac and Monica Cure are coming to you on an incredible 5-city tour to celebrate The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes — sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute! We’ll see you there.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman holding a card with an oval hole to her eye, facing right wearing a dark dress

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“There is one thing I’m good at, and that’s looking at the sea.” —Marguerite Duras

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 05/04/2026

As the water temperature rises, the fish become more active and want to get through the door! Why not help them and ring the bell if you see one. A good way to spend some time this Easter northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/...

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Ring ring! Open the door, let me through! The Fish Doorbell

Every year in spring, a lovely side of humanity shows in the form of a fish doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, but what is it and what does it do?

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I was honored to take part in the public humanities project, Through the Lens of K-Drama, with a discussion of Crash Landing on You. Towards the end, I discuss how the show humanizes the geopolitics of division - something we very much need everywhere today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxb...

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Crash Landing on You: Life Under Communism in North Korea and Romania

YouTube video by Through the Lens of K-Drama

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island

Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"I’m not the first translator to say that translation can feel like a seance. There are all these voices and references at play in the text, and then you channel them like a medium – what do you hear, what do you mishear?" Michelle & I interviewed by English PEN pentransmissions.com/2026/02/19/n...

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Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja

Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Highly recommend! Also has a nice cameo by Craiova!

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 15/02/2026

"The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis." Empower the arts ✊ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent

When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

So lovely catching up with you!

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Our launch together with @paulaerizanu.bsky.social at Carturesti Verona was a great joy and made Bucharest feel like the center of the literary world that night. I'm grateful to everyone who was able to come and get a copy (or two!). Starting today the book is available for purchase online.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Today's the official publication day of my translation of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Tibuleac! I don't think I've ever had a more exciting lead up, with a review in the New York Times and especially the visit of @deepvellum.bsky.social founder @willevans.bsky.social to Bucharest

Cover of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes

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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"If you use AI there’s a loss of process—art process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..." #xl8 💙📚

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

📚 Join Ceci Rossi for How to Write a Reader’s Report 📚 What exactly is a reader’s report? Is it simply a synopsis of a book, a critical commentary, or a combination of both? And what purpose does it serve? Find out more & register👉 www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm pinching myself. My newest translation @deepvellum.bsky.social in the New York Times. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/b...

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Why Does This Teenager Hate His Mother So Much?

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Such a beautiful interview by @brittastromeyer.bsky.social with Tatiana Tibuleac about The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes @deepvellum.bsky.social! www.ronslate.com/a-dialogue-w...

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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Check out all of our upcoming titles for the first quarter of 2026! All of these books are available for preorder now at store.deepvellum.org.

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm not sure I'll be at AWP but I hope to be in New York at some point this year. Let's keep in touch!

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Thank you, Kate! Wishing you all the best as well. I hope our (physical) paths cross this year!

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

May all the beautiful things that lay dormant last year come to life in 2026. (Brașov, Romania)

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation. Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue. It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'm absolutely ecstatic! What amazing company Liliana Corobca and I @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social are in!

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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🇷🇴 Congratulations to Liliana Corobca and @monicacure.bsky.social! TOO GREAT A SKY has been shortlisted for this year's Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! 🇷🇴 You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 29/10/2025

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!

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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We are thrilled that TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca and translated by Monica Cure has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025!

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