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Sandorf Passage publishes work that creates a prismatic perspective on what it means to live in a globalized world. It is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency.
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This is what close to 4 years of hard, but rewarding, work looks like when it comes to indie publishing. Thanks to our authors, translators, designers, editors, proofreaders, and sales people—and BIG UPS to all our readers and the indie bookstore folks who champion these books! Get ready for 2025!
More end-of-year love for Underground Barbie. @libraryjournal.bsky.social includes it in “Stellar Selections: Best Books of 2025”! www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...
Stellar Selections | Best Books 2025
Throughout the year, LJ’s expert reviewers consider thousands of books, reading titles across a myriad of genres and subjects. These are the nearly 800 works they judged as the best, most notable, sig...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
More end-of-year love for Underground Barbie. @libraryjournal.bsky.social includes it in “Stellar Selections: Best Books of 2025”! www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...
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This week @buzzpoole.bsky.social, cofounder of @sandorfpassage.bsky.social and the person most responsible for Mike's first book being published in a defensible state, visited the library for a discussion of publishing literature in translation and more. Listen anywhere that pods are known to pod.
The Ministry of Culture with Buzz Poole
Podcast Episode · Library Pizza · 12/11/2025 · 1h 45m
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December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This week @buzzpoole.bsky.social, cofounder of @sandorfpassage.bsky.social and the person most responsible for Mike's first book being published in a defensible state, visited the library for a discussion of publishing literature in translation and more. Listen anywhere that pods are known to pod.
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Translators are alchemists, conjuring meaning and beauty from one language into another. @littranslate.bsky.social’s sole purpose is to support and advocate for translators. If you can, help them help translators by making a donation. Maybe you’ll even win a virtual meeting with me . . .
Did you know? When you donate $50 or more to ALTA by December 19, you'll be entered into a raffle to win a virtual meeting to talk shop with Buzz Poole of Sandorf Passage! @buzzpoole.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
Learn more here, and donate by December 19: buff.ly/9MCcuix
Learn more here, and donate by December 19: buff.ly/9MCcuix
2025 Winter Fundraiser
Thanks to several generous ALTA members, we are excited to announce a full match for our winter fundraiser! That’s right: All donations up to our goal of $20,000 will be matched. We’re grateful to…
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Translators are alchemists, conjuring meaning and beauty from one language into another. @littranslate.bsky.social’s sole purpose is to support and advocate for translators. If you can, help them help translators by making a donation. Maybe you’ll even win a virtual meeting with me . . .
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Did you know? When you donate $50 or more to ALTA by December 19, you'll be entered into a raffle to win a virtual meeting to talk shop with Buzz Poole of Sandorf Passage! @buzzpoole.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
Learn more here, and donate by December 19: buff.ly/9MCcuix
Learn more here, and donate by December 19: buff.ly/9MCcuix
2025 Winter Fundraiser
Thanks to several generous ALTA members, we are excited to announce a full match for our winter fundraiser! That’s right: All donations up to our goal of $20,000 will be matched. We’re grateful to…
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Did you know? When you donate $50 or more to ALTA by December 19, you'll be entered into a raffle to win a virtual meeting to talk shop with Buzz Poole of Sandorf Passage! @buzzpoole.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
Learn more here, and donate by December 19: buff.ly/9MCcuix
Learn more here, and donate by December 19: buff.ly/9MCcuix
In the words of Sun Ra: Space is the place! And for those of you in the Portland, Maine, area, the mighty @spacegallery.bsky.social Pop-Up Shop opens tonight. Shop local and get some locally published books, along with all manner of creative gifts.
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In the words of Sun Ra: Space is the place! And for those of you in the Portland, Maine, area, the mighty @spacegallery.bsky.social Pop-Up Shop opens tonight. Shop local and get some locally published books, along with all manner of creative gifts.
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Like a map that unfolds & unfolds until it is larger than the territory, this odd and oddly delightful little book will beguile you with the beauty of its prose, the agility of images, and the joy it clearly shows in the art of literature
Strange & Perfect Account from the Permafrost
“ I am the nameless crew member who died on January 27, 1597.” So reports the Dutch narrator of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost from his icy grave on the Arctic archipelago Novaya Zemyla, separating what is known today as the Barents and Kara Seas in Russia. But when this expedition set out to find a “ northeast passage” from Europe to China, the landmasses blocking such a route were unknown. While the expedition failed, the narrator becomes a sentient part of the landscape, privy to centuries of change.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Like a map that unfolds & unfolds until it is larger than the territory, this odd and oddly delightful little book will beguile you with the beauty of its prose, the agility of images, and the joy it clearly shows in the art of literature
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gonna tell my niblings this was A Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
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Photographer captures a polar bear devouring a sperm whale in the remote Arctic
A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive the melting ice.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
gonna tell my niblings this was A Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
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@caitluce.bsky.social is also a fan of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost! 👇👇👇
On my Baker's Dozen 2025 too!
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@caitluce.bsky.social is also a fan of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost! 👇👇👇
So great to see Jonathan Reeder’s spectacular translation of Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost on this @speculativeshelf.bsky.social Top 10 Books of 2025 list! speculativeshelf.com/2025/12/02/t...
Top 10 Books of 2025
10. Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel Emotionally resonant and deeply felt, Lightbreakers plumbs the complex depths of love, loss, and grief through the eyes of three individuals caught in a tid…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So great to see Jonathan Reeder’s spectacular translation of Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost on this @speculativeshelf.bsky.social Top 10 Books of 2025 list! speculativeshelf.com/2025/12/02/t...
Translator Jonathan Reeder muses on the first sentence of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost—the longest first sentence he’s ever translated—for the wonderful Dutch Athenaeum bookstores. athenaeumscheltema.nl/vertalers/20...
Athenaeum | Scheltema | The first sentence of Donald Niedekker's Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Toelichting: Jonathan Reeder vertaalde Donald Niedekkers Waarachtige beschrijvingen uit de permafrost als Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Translator Jonathan Reeder muses on the first sentence of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost—the longest first sentence he’s ever translated—for the wonderful Dutch Athenaeum bookstores. athenaeumscheltema.nl/vertalers/20...
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If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
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First up from @sandorfpassage.bsky.social is THE COMPETITION OF UNFINISHED STORIES by Sener Ozmen (tr. Nicholas Glastonbury). “The narrative… isn’t limited to the paragraphs that line these pages.” bookshop.org/a/169/978953...
The Competition of Unfinished Stories
Check out The Competition of Unfinished Stories - Novelist, poet, and internationally acclaimed visual artist Sener Ozmen is one of today's most exciting contemporary voices in Kurdish literature.…
bookshop.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
First up from @sandorfpassage.bsky.social is THE COMPETITION OF UNFINISHED STORIES by Sener Ozmen (tr. Nicholas Glastonbury). “The narrative… isn’t limited to the paragraphs that line these pages.” bookshop.org/a/169/978953...
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Need advice on what November releases to read? @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has picked four great books in translation for you! Keep scrolling for more information about the books on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Need advice on what November releases to read? @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has picked four great books in translation for you! Keep scrolling for more information about the books on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
“To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” Hilary Ilkay on @gayadorno.bsky.social’s translation of The Competition of Unfinished Stories. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Ozmen - Asymptote Blog
From a Turkish perspective, there is no Kurdistan . . . . Ozmen’s novel meditates on what this effacement does to someone’s subjectivity.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” Hilary Ilkay on @gayadorno.bsky.social’s translation of The Competition of Unfinished Stories. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
Asymptote chews on The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social): “To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, [Sener] Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Ozmen - Asymptote Blog
From a Turkish perspective, there is no Kurdistan . . . . Ozmen’s novel meditates on what this effacement does to someone’s subjectivity.
www.asymptotejournal.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Asymptote chews on The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social): “To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, [Sener] Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social includes Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) on the @wwborders.bsky.social November Watchlist! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Watchlist: November 2025 - Words Without Borders
Nonfiction, comics, poems, and fiction in translation: Tobias Carroll recommends a little of everything in this month's Watchlist.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social includes Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) on the @wwborders.bsky.social November Watchlist! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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Looking for translators with cats! Please help me find my people.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Looking for translators with cats! Please help me find my people.
The UN General Assembly has designated today, November 25, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Monika Herceg’s Closed Season is a clarion call to not look away from or ignore the suffering of women throughout the world.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The UN General Assembly has designated today, November 25, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Monika Herceg’s Closed Season is a clarion call to not look away from or ignore the suffering of women throughout the world.
Last week’s Monika Herceg events in support of Closed Season were a delight: inspiring, challenging, surprising, and beautiful. Get a taste by watching this video from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6d...
Brookline Booksmith is live! Transnational Series: Monika Herceg with Ellen Elias-Bursać
YouTube video by Brookline Booksmith
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Last week’s Monika Herceg events in support of Closed Season were a delight: inspiring, challenging, surprising, and beautiful. Get a taste by watching this video from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6d...
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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ALWAYS judge a book by the cover! Book design essentially tells you a story of the story in the actual text & can convey tone, vibes, etc all to help you know if the book you're holding might be right for you! (After it's gotten you to pick up the book in the 1st place.)
Kindly wax poetically about the role of the book designer.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
ALWAYS judge a book by the cover! Book design essentially tells you a story of the story in the actual text & can convey tone, vibes, etc all to help you know if the book you're holding might be right for you! (After it's gotten you to pick up the book in the 1st place.)
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well earned!
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
well earned!
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As it should be! This is such a wonderful book
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As it should be! This is such a wonderful book
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!