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Independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions. wakefieldpress.com

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An absolute tour de force of riparian revelry. A sunken cathedral whose prayers are yearning to surface. Immediately slots near the very top of the Belgian school of the Strange.
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An oneiric Atlantis in the throes of a luminous pessimism: The Drowned Land is now available. wakefieldpress.com/products/the...
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The Pataphysical Society of New York @patanyc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Fortunately for English readers, @wakefieldpress.bsky.social has issued far more accessible editions of Schwob's work in translation, including Imaginary Lives (along with other pataphysical and pataphysics-adjacent writing. All writing is pataphysics-adjacent, but some more than others.)
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy to announce that Julien Gracq’s The Sunset Lands is now in our paws, after many delays (including this much-delayed post)!
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is @wakefieldpress.bsky.social's seventh collection of Belgian author Jean Ray's tales of the strange and terrifying: wakefieldpress.com/products/the... #SFinTranslation
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The Last Canterbury Tales
Translated, with an afterword, by Scott Nicolay / April 2026 / 5.375 x 8, 216 pp. / 978-1-962728-09-6 A window in the night is a terror. I have known people who went crazy just waiting for the nightma...
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Scorpions is the first work of Japanese #SFinTranslation out from the fabulous @wakefieldpress.bsky.social: wakefieldpress.com/products/sco...
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Scorpions
Translated, with an introduction, by Michael Day / December 2025 / 4.5 x 7, 80 pp. / 978-1-962728-10-2 “My literature is a cancer which attacks and destroys the literature of the past.”—Yumiko Kurahas...
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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A long-read about London as a theme in 20th century Belgian 'strange fiction'. Told through the lens of author Jean Ray & the first English translation of novel The Last Canterbury Tales by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. Takes in Machen, Symbolism, WW1, & dreams. open.substack.com/pub/urblinds...
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The London of the Imagination
The strange occurrence of Jean Ray and The Last Canterbury Tales
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Starting a new series on the website spotlighting publishers who bring us the excellent #SFinTranslation we love. First up: @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Back from the printer: the collected poetry and other writings by Belgian Dadaist Clément Pansaers. Arguably the most Dadaist verse to be found among all the Dadas: Tzara and Picabia seem almost traditional in comparison.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
#SFinTranslation Out in 2026: from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, @wakefieldpress.bsky.social, @unnamedpress.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @tordotcom.bsky.social, @twolinespress.com, @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bsky.social, and more! www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=15892
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
ICYMI I wrote about this short but passionate defence of the power of language. You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard, tr by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz @wakefieldpress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/01/16/y...
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You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard
Austrian poet, writer and librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal signalled a break with his earlier works when, in 1902, he published the story “A Letter,” also known as “The Lord Chandos Letter.” It is…
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Our win…
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tomorrow!
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We are pleased to announce a celebration for our 100th title: SchrummSchrumm, or The Sunday Quicksands Excursion by Fernand Combet. Marc Lowenthal will be joined by translators Erik Butler, Margaret Carson, Kit Schluter, Doug Skinner Aeon Bookstore 151 E Broadway, NY, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Fantastic Orgy by Alexander M. Frey, is now in hand, along with reprints of Marcel Brion's Waystations of the Deep Night and Jean Ray's Malpertuis. Sign up for our newsletter for updates at wakefieldpress.com. Thank you and much love to our readership and supporters!
3books: malpertuis, waystations of the deep night, fantastic orgy
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colmmckenna.bsky.social @colmmckenna.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Had the pleasure of covering Hermann Burger's Diabelli (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social and published by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social) for this week's @thetls.bsky.social. Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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‘Acrobatics bereft of inner order’
In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Cate Blanchett does a great reading of a letter from our Remedios Varo book! youtu.be/RcTIwlc3RN8?...
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Cate Blanchett reads a wonderfully bizarre letter to a stranger
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We're happy to declare that we have two new titles in hand: Huysmans's pessimistic ode to sterility (and his own favorite novel of his career), Domesticity, and Jacques Sternberg's frenetic pop-surrealist fever dream, The Employee wakefieldpress.com/products/dom... wakefieldpress.com/products/the...
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The first monologue from Hermann Burger's Diabelli in The Baffler, for those wanting to dip their eyes in before taking a plunge. thebaffler.com/fiction/the-...
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The Orchestra Minion | Hermann Burger
I have not applied for the post of orchestra minion in order to revive the old feud between strings and woodwind.
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Messengers have arrived. Evocative of Alain-Fournier and Kafka, but presenting a dreamscape of its own unsettling character, their message comes with the inevitable question: how has this award-winning 1974 novel never been translated into English before? wakefieldpress.com/products/the...
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“I have stolen myself from a film. Now I am strolling along the ocean shore. And I still have not spliced my paragraphs into the proper order.” www.thebeliever.net/a-review-of-...
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A Review of The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards (a Novel Against Psicho-Analise) - Believer Magazine
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We literally have new books in hand: Hermann Burger's Diabelli and Emil Szittya's Hashish Dreams of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards. wakefieldpress.com
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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New review: Gaston de Pawlowski's 1916 collection, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 www.complete-review.com/reviews/anci..., recently out in English, from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
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New Inventions and the Latest Innovations - Gaston de Pawlowski
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of New Inventions and the Latest Innovations by Gaston de Pawlowski.
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
New arrogant recommendations from Tom Bowden, which include two recent Wakefield titles. And, of course, much more...
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde. wakefieldpress.com/products/sta... wakefieldpress.com/products/the...
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We reviewed the unsettling short novel With Their Hearts In Their Boots, out now on @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c...
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Constant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots”
Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William …
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William Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for writing about Jean-Pierre Martinet’s WITH THEIR HEARTS IN THEIR BOOTS over @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social. My pal Alex translated the book, & I wrote the foreword. It’s out now from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c...
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Constant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots”
Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William …
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Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c... Some attention given to the bracing existential horror of Martinet's With Their Hearts in Their Boots. And a happy holiday to our readers in the US.
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Constant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots”
Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William …
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