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PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hey, we're PGC Books, Canadian distributors for some of your favourite independent publishers. We're not great at social media, but we are quite good at getting books where they need to go.
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Conundrum Press @conundrumpress.bsky.social · 1h
Vivi Partridge's QUIET CROSSINGS gets a Kirkus review!!

"Contemplatively ethereal and certain to spark lively debates over its interpretation" - Kirkus

Plus! Toronto! You're invited to QUIET CROSSING's book launch at The Beguiling, October 29, 4-7pm! 🎉
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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · 2h
Quan Barry, re her new novel @literaryhub.bsky.social: "...I’m really an instinctual writer. I don’t have a scholarly bone in my body, i.e., nothing in me vibes with literary analysis or criticism. At its heart, my book is a novel about memory." @groveatlantic lithub.com/quan-barry-o...
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 3h
Join us for two events with David Berry coming up soon:
Thurs., Nov. 6, 7 PM: Book Launch at Shelf Life Books (Calgary), with Ali Bryan, and on Thurs., Nov. 13, 7 PM: David Berry at TYPE Books (Toronto), with Sarah Lazarovic.

For full event details: chbooks.com/Events
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 3h
Tonight at Another Story Bookshop (Toronto), please join us for the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA! Jumoke Verissimo will be joined by Hoa Nguyen. 🖤
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 8d
Join us on Tuesday, October 14 to celebrate the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA by Jumoke Verissimo! Verissimo will be joined by Hoa Nguyen at Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto), from 7 PM.

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/circumtrau...
CIRCUMTRAUMA - Jumoke Verissimo (with Hoa Nguyen)
Join us for the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA, by Jumoke Verissimo. With Hoa Nguyen.
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PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · 5h
“Books need to have someone loudly clamoring behind the scenes to rise above the general masses"

The NYT talks to founders Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo about their indie press Hagfish (Gift link) :

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of
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NPR @npr.org · 5d
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.
László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in literature
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.
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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 5d
“An astonishing, delightful, and illuminating celebration of mathe-magics." THE BIG BOOK OF PI receives a #StarredReview from #Kirkus @helvetiq.bsky.social publishes it in February! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Property by Kate Cayley this past Tuesday, Oct 7! Thanks as well to Kate Cayley and Steven Beattie for the great conversation, and to Society Clubhouse for having us.

PROPERTY is available everywhere now: chbooks.com/Books/P/Prop...
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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d
NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press
"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 4d
Good news for fans of poems about hedges, frogs and long-handled spades: The Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now. Here's a great review by Philip Terry:
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
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PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · 4d
This week's slightly spooky newsletter for booksellers is all about new picture books for Halloween...

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The Grumpy Ghost Upstairs by Mamiko Shiotani Floris 9781782509264 Hardcover Picture Book 3-6 years 36 pages A grumpy little ghost makes a new friend in this wryly funny, spooky-but-cute picture book with striking illustrations The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole by Cecilia Heikkila Floris 9781782509530 | Hardcover Picture Book 4-7 years 44 pages Fox and Mole find a spooky story spilling into their lives in this autumnal tale for older picture-book readers.
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 4d
Tartan noir master Val McDermid flexes her talent for evocative description in this appealing collection about “memories of winters past and appreciation of winters present.” It’s a satisfying collection of literary amuse-bouches. buff.ly/BTxBx4F
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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 4d
This Saturday October 11 at 7pm, join Melanie Dennis Unrau for the launch of her new poetry collection, Goose, hosted by @ariel-gordon.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/melani... @pressassembly.bsky.social
Melanie Dennis Unrau to launch her new poetry collection Goose
Join Melanie Dennis Unrau for the launch of her new poetry collection Goose (Assembly Press), featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Ariel Gordon followed by a book signing.
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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 4d
It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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Serpent's Tail @serpents-tail.bsky.social · 4d
'The 71-year-old has been compared to Kafka, Beckett and Melville for his long, serpentine paragraphs and mournful, dystopian themes'

Catherine Taylor on László Krasznahorkai, following the Hungarian author's receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Why László Krasznahorkai deserves the 2025 Nobel prize fo...
The Hungarian novelist won the 2025 Nobel prize in literature for political dystopias that bear the unmistakable imprint of his country’s communist past
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 4d
First look images from Jack Thorne's adaptation of Lord of the Flies are here. From the writer and co-creator of Adolescence, the series has been filmed on location in Malaysia with many of the cast making their professional acting debuts.

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First look images for Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies revealed
New images show the young cast, many of them making their professional acting debuts, filming on location in Malaysia
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 5d
This interview is incredible.

Congrats to László Krasznahorkai & his publisher, the excellent New Directions, on the Nobel Prize for Literature ❤️
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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 5d
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social - László Krasznahorkai on Allen Ginsberg - the new Nobel-Prize winner's Ginsberg connection - allenginsberg.org/2020/03/t-m-...
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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 5d
the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now
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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 5d
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

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László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story
Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d
Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast:

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László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop
Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…
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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 5d
Pleased to see the very worthy Krasznahorkai get the Nobel Prize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter... First batch of linkage up at the Literary Saloon www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi...
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 5d
Wonderful news to see Lászlo Krasznahorkai, International Booker Prize 2015 winner, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today.

Find out more about the author and his work: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
László Krasznahorkai | The Booker Prizes
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
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AK Press @akpress.org · 5d
The first excerpt from our forthcoming book edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, Read This When Things Fall Apart, is a letter by Aaron Goggans about how fascism warps consensus reality—and how organizers can learn how to live well outside of it, without letting conflict and trauma rip them apart.
A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken
An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.
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Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social · 7d
The launch for Blood Letters is TEN DAYS away, friends. It would be great to see you October 17 at @mcnallyrobinson.com! @greatplainspress.bsky.social
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