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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Later this month, folks...

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is your translation online somewhere?

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

how philistine of me to mix up pharisees and philistines in my continued attempt to understand pasternak's hamlet... philistines would fit that poem better.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After Rilke’s sudden death at the end of 1926, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote two works addressed to Rilke that sit among the great European modernist poems. You can read my translations of them and a creative essay in Tsvetaeva ‘27 @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

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Mike Karpa @mikekarpa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come join @mumblers.bsky.social at the Litquake small press fair in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens, 11-4 Sunday Oct 4. Readings and music on stage #Booksky www.litquake.org/bookfair

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Book Fair | Litquake

On Sunday, September 28, join a curated spread of small presses and literary magazines for the Litquake Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded. "Wicked and cruel boy!" I said. "You are like a murderer--you are like a slave-driver--you are like the Roman emperors!" C1- Jane Eyre #Brontefest Day 1

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Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I resisted all the way: a new thing for me…” #brontefest

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Brontefest "This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible." "Superstition was with me at that moment; but it was not yet her hour for complete victory." So good!

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Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Despite all, Jane has a sense of humor. “Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.” #brontefest

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Week 1, Day/Ch3 #Brontefest Charlotte/Jane -Jane wakes up bewildered -Relief there's a stranger - Mr. Lloyd, the apothecary - not just scary usuals -J tells Mr. Lloyd her problems -She'd like schooling & is anxious, nervous -She asks Bessie (singer of sad song) for Gulliver's Travels -Welsh rabbit

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Week 1, Day 2 #Brontefest Charlotte/Jane -Jane (described by Bessie as "like a mad cat") is restrained & brought to the red-room -Which reminds me of The Shining... -More of John's cruelty revealed -Jane doesn't understand why she has to suffer; she doesn't belong -Chapter ends w/a "species of fit"

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Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This hybridity is evident in the mixture of languages, as she incorporates Russian and Arabic into her English-language poetry to reflect her multiple identities. The three poems featured below showcase these themes. puncturedlines.com/2026/09/25/e...

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Elina Katrin’s Overwintered: Three Poems

Today we are featuring poems from Elina Katrin’s collection Overwintered (Trio House Press, 2027). Katrin is a Syrian-Russian immigrant poet who lives in Los Angeles. Her poems are characteri…

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This book is both lyrical and tells a unique and rather sad story of migration. As the world rebuilds its walls, those of us with families elsewhere become ever so trapped and disconnected. It's good to have these poems for companionship and solace.

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even the pictures transmit that quality. Amazing how looking at something so much in motion can feel calling to the body.

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Down Pacific Coast Highway. It was hard to capture, but the waves were big. LA is an amazing place.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Brontefest Week 1: Charlotte's Jane Eyre Greetings, Brontë readers! Here's an odd schedule for Week 1. Chapter lengths are uneven so read as you wish. And the print in my book is teeny: I hope this isn't too much for the week! Sept28: Ch1 Sept29: Ch2 Sept30: Ch3 Oct1: Ch4 Oct2: Ch5 Oct3: Ch6

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICYMI, with many thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social for help with editing and technology.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This event is tomorrow, friends!

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

here's hoping that the publisher had someone proofread it! The Russian in the text was quite idiomatic and well-formatted, which was so lovely to see.

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@paperpills10.bsky.social This is another one that might be of interest! There's actually some Arabic in the book, as well as Russian. We copied and pasted the Arabic to the blog as carefully as we could :))

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And I also love the way this poem appears to be in conversation with the poem by Jane Muschenetz, "Yevgenia," that we published three years ago and that appeared in her collection ALL THE BAD GIRLS WEAR RUSSIAN ACCENTS. puncturedlines.com/2023/11/14/v...

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Vinegret, a Recipe for Disaster by Jane Muschenetz

I want to tell you something small, in the great turning of this world, intimate as your grandmother’s soup. When you boil beets, carrots, and potatoes together, the potatoes will soften first, eve…

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In her poems, Elina Katrin beautifully captures the multicultural immigrant experience. She begins with her name, showing the way her Russian and Syrian roots weave together in three syllables that to many in her adopted country continue to be inscrutable.

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you Yelena for getting it up there!. I love the way it echoes some of the themes we long explored on the blog, with its own particularity -- like the name poem.

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now on the blog. Thank you @olgaz.bsky.social for the editing help.

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MY DREADFUL BODY, by Egana Djabbarova and translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social, longlisted for National Book Award. @nationalbook.bsky.social newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is me realizing that the Russian term for the "coven" of witches -- шабаш -- is really a Jewish Shabbat. So "a Shabbat gathering of witches." The word was first used in this way in XIV century in the Alps and somehow migrated to Russia...

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Throat: Those pieces of jewelry bore messages from one woman to another, telling of a husband's love, of an engagement, of an argument, or of redemption after guilt. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When she was sure there were no witnesses, my paternal grandmother would whisper a nocturnal prayer: the words bumped into one another as if they were clumped prayer beads that then skittered down through her voice box. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody Prayer: Qiyam al-Layl-standing during the night

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They felt better in the morning after the prayer because it seemed as if the words that had been released into the world took that burden with them. I often heard my mother pray at night. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello, Brontë sister readers -- #brontefest will finally start on Sept 28! A bit of information: We'll read all three sisters' novels, starting with Charlotte's Jane Eyre. We'll read about 50-60 pages a week with a flexible schedule; there will be breaks between books. All are welcome to join us!

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Haha you're very welcome to the idea! Not many murder mysteries in the USSR era, but later on, my aunt gave me some Agatha Christie and Poirot novels to read and I had a hard time with those. I don't even know if looking ahead helped. So tense!!

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How to choose? There are gems in all of the parts!

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Andrea Meador Smith @andreamsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m only halfway through, but so far, I like the chapter about hands the best. It’s the one that made me really reflect on my mother, aunts, grandmothers, and how they paved the way so I could use my hands to hold books and write 🙏🏻

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Could a swimsuit really make a woman depraved or unworthy of respect? just as they couldn't stop existing as the objects of social pressure, others' desires, and male power. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I decided that after the operation I had to buy myself some red high heeled shoes that clacked when I walked. 👠👠👠 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I totally agree about the heartwarming part. This makes it so extra special.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s something so curiously heartwarming about this book. Somehow cheerful? This paired with the great suffering, generational pain, and violence running throughout makes it very unusual. You did a great job translating throughout! Such great word choices/turns of phrases.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolutely brilliant read! Thank you so much for your translation, @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. It's way up there with Three Apples Fell From the Sky for me. #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses—like books—never betrayed me. They always waited for me to return to their world when I opened up another book or took them off my nightstand; they waited for me to open my eyes again. Egana Djabbaraova, My Dreadful Body

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