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Sabir
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He/him. Books & events at PEN America. Previously Strand Bookstore & B&N. Views my own.
Love Marilyn Hacker!
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“I see more opportunity in telling truer, fuller stories about the guilty—not the lurid ones that end with the conviction…”
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It is here and I cannot wait!
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Obsessed with the cover art of Ariane Koch's Overstaying (trans. by Damion Searls). It's so good.
September 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“This act of translation, then, was not merely a linguistic task; it was a negotiation of histories, identities, and traumas, all colliding on the page.”
August 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So many good titles on here too!

Shuang-zi Yang’s Taiwanese Travelogue trans. From Mandarin Chinese by Lin King

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp trans. from Kannada by Deepa Bhashti

Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome trans. from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda.
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
An interesting piece by Rachel Kushner on writing about incarceration, a history of fiction about the topic, the way the carceral state is built into the architecture of our daily lives and more.

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
August 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
So excited a new novel by Lucy Tan is Corning! What We Were Promised was so good. I still think about it.
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It been a few a days since I finished it, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Wildcat Dome by Yuko Tsushima and translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. A haunting meditation on grief, time, and the aftermath of the US occupation of Japan and it’s dropping of atomic bombs. 🧵
July 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Solitaria by Eliana Alves Cruz & trans. by Benjamin Brooks is just incredible. So so so good. A beautifully written story about a black mother & daughter who work as live-in maids for a rich family. It’s an incisive look at race, class, gender and injustice. It’s a revelation. Buy this book!
July 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
July 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New England used Bookstores - a threat.
June 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,
The unendurably specific, the exact thing.”

How Some of It Happened - Marie Howe
May 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Excellent mail today! Just in time for a long weekend.
February 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So good!
November 27, 2024 at 2:13 PM
From Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
November 25, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Trying to read. The cat has other ideas.
December 10, 2023 at 6:38 PM
So pumped 😍
December 2, 2023 at 1:28 AM