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Mandy-Suzanne Wong

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Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.mandysuzannewong.com 🌊 🇧🇲🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌊

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · Aug 7

Well, the Winter 2026 catalogue is up @graywolfpress.bsky.social. My little book of essays, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, is in that catalogue -- in such company! -- and I couldn't be more delighted. 🐌🦑🐙🌊🪸💙

www.graywolfpress.org/winter-2026-...

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 2h

For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues.

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 11d

#SneakPeek 👀 Karen Tei Yamashita's QUESTIONS 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II—is out April 28, 2026. Preorder:

bookshop.org/p/books/ques...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 10d

Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details:

www.graywolfpress.org/events

Donika Kelly on tour for The Natural Order of Things:

10/7 @ 7 PM | Iowa City, IA
Iowa City Book Festival,
at the Iowa City Public Library

10/10 @ 7 PM | Des Moines, IA
Storyhouse Bookpub
w/ Melissa Febos

10/14 @ 7:30 PM | Atlanta, GA
Charis Books
w/ Jericho Brown

10/23 @ 5:30 PM | Providence, RI
Brown University (McCormack Family Theater, Room 132)

10/25 @ 7:30 PM | Madison, WI
Wisconsin Book Festival,
at the Arts + Literature Laboratory
w/ Elizabeth Bradfield, Keetje Kuipers,
& Sadia Hassan

10/27 @ 7 PM | Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books
w/ Jennifer Espinoza

Donika Kelly on tour for The Natural Order of Things:

11/1 @ 3 PM | Palm Springs, CA
Pride on the Page Book Festival,
at the Palm Springs Cultural Center
w/ Meredith Maran & Melissa Febos

11/8 @ 10:15 AM | Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
co-presented by Torch Literary Arts
w/ Tiana Clark

11/8 @ 1:45 PM | Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
w/ Cecily Parks,
moderated by Jennifer Chang

11/13 @ 7:30 PM | New York, NY
NYU MFA Reading Series,
at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
w/ Melissa Febos

11/14 @ 5 PM | Bronxville, NY
Sarah Lawrence College
w/ Melissa Febos

11/15 @ 2:30 PM | New York, NY
P&T Knitwear
w/ Ama Codjoe, Marie Howe, & Ladan Osman, hosted by Melissa Febos

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 11d

For Animal Culture Magazine, I wrote about the Jura phase of Kathryn Eddy's new work of artistic animal-advocacy, Doe.
(photo by Tracy McDonald)

www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 14d

For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...

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Syracuse University Press @syracuseup.bsky.social · 20d

This week's What'SUP Blog, from the translator of Castigation: "As someone who has taken this book apart and put it together again in the process of translation, my advice is to give up all attempts to fit this tale into any frame you’ve previously encountered." press.syr.edu/excerpt-cast...

Excerpt: Castigation – Syracuse University Press

The winner of Kazakhstan’s 2014 Novel of the Year, Castigation is a stunning meditation on humanity’s capacity for both destruction and transcendence. The novel, translated from Kyrgz, tells the…

press.syr.edu

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 17d

For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed CASTIGATION by Sultan Raev, translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega @syracuseup.bsky.social

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 25d

From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling.

Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.

#poem #books #writing

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 19d

“No matter how uncanny octopuses are, there’s something oddly familiar about them, something that helps us feel connected as we look across clades.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg

‘Such Flexible Intensity of Life’ | Verlyn Klinkenborg

Their striking intelligence makes octopuses tempting subjects for wishful anthropomorphism and uncanny reminders of nature’s mysteries.

buff.ly

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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · 19d

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Consider the Snail — The Dial

“In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”

www.thedial.world

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 19d

Born #onthisday in 1889, CK Scott Moncrieff, whose epic English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title is not, however, considered a high point... publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd

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Oneworld Publications @oneworldbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

Following the lives of nine heiresses, @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social peers beneath the demure, empire-waisted image of the Georgian heiress to reveal a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation.

Available to pre-order now⬇️
Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty
Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 24d

🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now).

graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 21d

For ASYMPTOTE's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, published by Istros.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 25d

19 September 2023 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 📦

www.graywolfpress.org/books/box

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Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Starting next Friday! Join me and the other incredible 2025 NEA Translation Fellows as we share a glimpse of our projects across five Friday Zooms. Register here to tune into the whole series: www.catranslation.org/event/works-...

Works in Progress: 2025 NEA Translation Fellows Conversation Series | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press

Join us to celebrate the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellows in a series of conversations about their award-winning projects, which span 17 different languages across 21 countries...

www.catranslation.org

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Sep 12

We're 1 week away from DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. *Please note the keynote with Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura is SOLD OUT.

Day of Translation 2025

Sept. 18, 2025, Noon-7 PM at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY

www.catranslation.org

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 28d

GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa @twolinespress.bsky.social

Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC!

mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period

Grace Period

by Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

mandysuzannewong.substack.com

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 29d

My first reviews for ASYMPTOTE are live on the journal's "What's New in Translation" blog! Reviewing work translated from Kyrgyz, Serbian, and Russian this month, I'm extremely honored to be part of this project. Posts about the books to follow.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...

www.asymptotejournal.com

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · Sep 11

M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026.⁠ #SneakPeek

Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · Sep 13

Really excellent article by @chadwpost.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social on reviewing literature in translation -- which it's worth doing even if, like me, you're a monolingual born on a rock in the middle of the ocean.

worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Reviewing Literature in Translation: A Flowchart of Complications, by Chad W. Post

A longtime publisher of books in translation—and reviewer of translations who reads some one hundred translations a year—offers some best practices for reviewing literary translations.

worldliteraturetoday.org

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · Sep 4

Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS—winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto Ríos—is out April 7, 2026.⁠ @poetsorg.bsky.social

Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/over...

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · Sep 4

ARCs!!

Much gratitude to the team at @graywolfpress.bsky.social

🌊🪼🦑🐙💙

www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · Aug 15

Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate #WITmonth, we’re having a sale to help you stock up on must-read translated titles. Save 25% off all titles in our Literature in Translation Series written and/or translated by women until August 31, 2025.
bookhugpress.ca/product-cate...

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