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Turtle House @TurtleReads

Publisher of NewGen authors, Turtle House is an imprint of Zen Publications.

Joined July 2015
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In *Ilium*, a moral ambiguity seems to fascinate Lea Carpenter, the way living a double life and every day making your cover, that critical and deeply embedded lie, feels real to everyone... making *Ilium* an unexpectedly moving #novel. | @ChrisBohjalian nytimes.com/2024/01/13/books…

In This Spy Novel, Business Is Very Much Personal (Published 2024)

“Ilium,” by Lea Carpenter, follows a young woman torn between opposing forces in her double life.

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Asymptote Journal@asymptotejrnl
17 Jan 2024
The universally praised poetry of @hagelbck casts a "colloquial enchantment", lush with images of shy violas and velvet nebulas. Step into this animated world that questions the idea of austere or quiet Swedish poetry, as translated by @FrekeRai: bit.ly/37kZYzf
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TheModernNovel@ModernNovel
17 Jan 2024
Latest on my website:Vera Mutafchieva's The Case of Cem, about the long &complex exile of Cem Sultan and how he is (mis-)used by the European powers bit.ly/424T5KM Trans Angela Rodel, from @SandorfP
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Gabriella Page-Fort@pagefort
17 Jan 2024
“Ideally, the writer and the editor are equal in their service to the work, and like language, like housekeeping, we disappear in our attention to whatever rests behind the veil.” @dlseuss
The Hopkins Review@Hopkins_Review
17 Jan 2024
POETRY IS MY LAST DEFENSE: IN CONVERSATION WITH DIANE SEUSS @PulitzerPrizes winner @dlseuss on poetry writing and literary citizenship upon her 2024 appointment to the @POETSorg Board of Chancellors. hopkinsreview.com/features/i… photo credit: Gabrielle Montesanti
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Literary Hub
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17 Jan 2024
"Fiction has taught me to be ruthless in my editing, avoiding long sections of backstory that don’t propel the story forward." @AbbottKahler on the benefits of crossing genre. lithub.com/why-nonfiction-wr…

Why Nonfiction Writers Should Try Writing Fiction (and Vice Versa)

In 2019, I watched a fantastic (in both senses of the word) documentary called Tell Me Who I Am. It tells the story of Alex and Marcus Lewis, identical twins whose lives were upended by an unusual,…

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Karen Leeder@KarenLeeder1
16 Jan 2024
Folks Cannot believe my translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's novel #Monsterslikeus is on there @seagullbooks, So many good things! So much excellent translation making its mark.
Dublin Literary Award@DublinLitAward
16 Jan 2024
70 books. 80 libraries. 35 countries. THe 2024 #DublinLitAward longlist is a treasure trove of stories and worlds just waiting to be explored! Find out more at bit.ly/DLA_2024 Brought to you by @DubCityCouncil with kind support from @dubcilib and @DublinCityofLit
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Portuguese in Translation@PinT_Book_Club
17 Jan 2024
Our fourth book in line for 2024 is "Under Our Skin" by Cape Verdean author Joaquim Arena (tr. Jethro Soutar, Unnamed Press 2023). "Under Our Skin is one journalist's wide-ranging investigation into the people of the early African diaspora." unnamedpress.com/books/book?…
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Sherna Khambatta@ShernaKhambatta
17 Jan 2024
The #Music of Other Tongues: On Translating Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry lithub.com/the-music-of-othe… via @lithub

The Music of Other Tongues: On Translating Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry

Dictums about the impossibility of translating poetry abound, from Frost’s oft-misquoted aphorism that poetry is what’s lost in translation to John Ciardi’s oft-misattributed statement that transla…

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*Tripping on Utopia* by Benjamin Breen @ResObscura: Margaret Mead & her cohort were key players in the first wave of #psychedelicscience which began not in the 1960s but in the 1920s. | Charlotte Shane @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/01/16/books… #books #authors #nonfiction #culturalhistory

Could LSD Have Achieved World Peace? Ask Margaret Mead. (Published 2024)

In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.

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New Vessel Press@NewVesselPress
16 Jan 2024
THE WORDS THAT REMAIN @DublinLitAward 2024 longlist for intl fiction! The novel by Stênio Gardel translated @bdantaslobato praised by nominating librarians as poetic “tender and sad love story” that “explores language and how it affects human relations.” dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-l…
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Seagull Books سیگل@seagullbooks
16 Jan 2024
Anjum Hasan's novel History's Angels (Bloomsbury) becomes the FIRST Indian book to be selected for a presentation at Books at Berlinale. Hasan is represented by the brilliant Jayapriya Vasudevan of Jacaranda Literary Agency. rb.gy/ineuos
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Guardian Books
@GuardianBooks
15 Jan 2024
Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize theguardian.com/books/2024/j…

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of a collection that draws connections between Shakespeare’s hero and today’s immigrants

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NORLA Norwegian Literature Abroad@Norwegianbooks
16 Jan 2024
#NorwegianNoir Tip: The Night House, by Jo Nesbø Tr. by Neil Smith Pub. by @penguinrandom / @AAKnopf #NorwegianLit
Tap The Line@TapTheLine1
16 Jan 2024
BOOK REVIEW: "The Night House" by Jo Nesbø. @JoinTertulia @Norwegianbooks @scanoircouk @NordicWatchlist tapthelinemag.com/post/the-n…
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In *Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are*, science #writer Rebecca Boyle paints the #moon as more than just a driver of physical phenomena. | Katrina Miller @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/01/15/books… #books #authors

When We Look at the Moon, We See Ourselves — Craters and All (Published 2024)

In “Our Moon,” Rebecca Boyle elucidates how Earth’s closest neighbor makes us what — and who — we are.

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Reading *To the Letter* by Tomasz Różycki (trans. from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal) will awaken a similar transition in you. The past will never leave us. It will haunt our photographs; it will speak between the words that we read and write. | @irjohnso wordswithoutborders.org/book…

The Double Weight of History in "To the Letter" - Words Without Borders

"The erasure of such a large part of Poland’s Jewish population during WWII [...] operates like a tidal undercurrent in this text," writes Iris Dunkle.

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Asian Review of Books
@BookReviewsAsia
14 Jan 2024
Today in the ARB: “From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia” by Peter Jackson @yalepress asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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Alina Stefanescu@aliner
14 Jan 2024
One of the internet’s gifts to poets: the Bernadette Mayer list. Also nifty to use as prompt for revisions or to blow new air into trashed drafts.
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Physics In History
@PhysInHistory
14 Jan 2024
Cal Sagan mentioned in Cosmos (1980) ✍️
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WordsWithoutBorders@wwborders
14 Jan 2024
“The hustle comes from those who are tired of needing to do most of the work. But we do it.” In this essay from 2021, Aaron Robertson lays out three goals for a Black translators collective with “global ambitions.” Read what he has to say here: buff.ly/4aMNooC
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