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Now available in the US: Prague Triptych by Johannes Urzidil, trans. David Burnett Glorious Nemesis by Ladislav Klíma, trans. Marek Tomin Visions & Apparitions by Ladislav Klíma, trans. Jed Slast

Jakob van Hoddis' (1887-1942) poem 'Weltende' signaled the beginning of an explosive new literary movement : Expressionism Read my new translation here 👇 minorliteratures.com/2026/10/08/e...

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For the afternoon crowd, on the blog today another stunning new release from the wonderful @twistedspoon.bsky.social 📚💙

The book's not a bad read either. www.praguereporter.com/home/2026/7/...

Visions & Apparitions by Ladislav Klíma (artwork by @wordkunst.bsky.social) is now available in the UK, will be in the US in fall. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/visions-appa... #horror #ghoststories #czechfiction #gothic #poe #hallucination #translation #absurdism #nietzsche

In the mail: a nice-looking 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑦𝑐ℎ by Johannes Urzidil, from @twistedspoon.bsky.social twistedspoon.com/prague-tript...

"I quit studying medicine and took a position as a clerk where my time was wholly occupied with adding and subtracting, all my nobler aspirations brutally bottled up inside me." @twistedspoon.bsky.social Me and My Uncle — Ladislav Klíma (tr. Jed Slast) minorliteratures.com/2026/06/30/m...

"Yet I didn’t flee my inner ghost. My soul continued to be menaced by the thought, “I am inseparably bound to that loathsome corpse” …" Me and My Uncle — Ladislav Klíma (tr. Jed Slast) @twistedspoon.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/06/30/m...

thanks to @twistedspoon.bsky.social & @wordkunst.bsky.social

Back from the printer and available for order here: www.twistedspoon.com/visions-appa...

"Hats off to Alexander Booth for this fine translation." www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

In conversation with poet Ellen Hinsey at the New American Studies Journal nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...

Ria Dhull at Heavy Feather Review: on The Tigress: "Serner’s Dada roots peek through the darkness of The Tigress; there is something of the absurd within its chaos." heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/07/t...

Latest in my Czech marathon: Emil Hakl's of Kids and Parents about a father & son drinking around Prague & discussing everything shorturl.at/h1XEz tr Marek Tomin from@twistedspoon.bsky.social

A tribute to Adam J. Sorkin, a prolific translator of Romanian poetry who passed away a couple of months ago (as we just found out). We were fortunate to collaborate with him on the collection Memory Glyphs. plumepoetry.com/tribute-to-a...

www.praguereporter.com/home/2026/2/...

"The variety in the folded clock is almost astonishingly great. If all conceived somehow around numbers, Rühm does much more than simply offer a few variations on a few themes -- of either subject matter or approach."

Wishing everyone the very best for the new year, and a big thanks to all who did us right this past year.

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33! ... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ... www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-sern...

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Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock (Book acquired, drifted through, last week or the week before, end of 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/12/12/g...

"a note on recitation recited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year ..." The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social ) @twistedspoon.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...

ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...

Tomorrow, Nov. 26 downstairs at Café Club Míšeňská (Míšenska 3, Malá Strana) Alexander Booth will be presenting his translations of Gerhard Rühm. All Welcome. Doors open at 19:00, we'll start some time later. www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock... www.twistedspoon.com/cake-and-pro...

"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"

"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."

Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...

Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social

Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon. www.scribd.com/document/929...

In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....

Lovely to revisit Bookart bookshop near Old St tube 🚇 post-renovation - like my new bag and bought something intriguing from the @twistedspoon.bsky.social list

Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote: "[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor." www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...

James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social "A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end." www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...

This @twistedspoon.bsky.social novel is deeply intriguing, unsettling and funny. The tale of the narrative voice becomes a palimpsest of characters, times and places.

A nice review of Gerhard Rühm's "cake & prostheses" (in my translation) www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust...

"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."

In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."

Thanks JS : "Its raw, unapologetic narrative slips seamlessly between voice and perspective, continually cross-referencing itself, to create a world—one woman’s world, past and present—that for all its surreal elements is cohesive, sympathetic and real."

Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...

In bookshops this November, back from the printers in summer. For more info and individual orders: www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress.... www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock... #dada #demimonde #translation #germanliterature #alexanderbooth #walterserner #gerhardruhm #centraleurope #vienna #paris

Thanks Daniel Barbiero for such an incisive review of A Prague Flaneur: "The streets, bridges, buildings, and cafés “where Prague lives” provide a wealth of stimuli to which Nezval responds with a catalogue of memories." compulsivereader.com/2025/06/07/a...

Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...

Tonight at Riffraff in Providence, RI, 7 p.m., Agniezska Taborska will be discussing The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks. Stop by if you're in town. www.twistedspoon.com/unfinished-l...

"I have to say up front that Hostovsky’s writing is wonderfully individual and quite hypnotic."