February 2012
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The Ever-Shrinking World
The Ever-Shrinking World
by Jindrich Styrsky I imagine a girl’s movement, dissecting horror and memory, and nothing from the sacks of silliness I sit on escapes me. Emilie with the tiny Chinese feet is dead. I save only one lamp without stars, an orb without light. A mirror without image, ruins without memories. In the ivy and in that dwarf nut I rediscovered history, drawn out and losing...
Jindrich Styrsky : poem + photo
I Built a Box I built a box Verdigris Stalks An aquarium, into it I threw Marie’s glove To always have in my sight The ruin Dead verdigris Dead stalks And the broken handle of a parasol Dead moons Of moss A celluloid nymph gone soft Many strange creatures Were not born in water
Photograph and text by Jindrich Styrsky translated from Czech by Jed Slast
Forthcoming in Dreamverse from Twisted...
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Texts to I Burn Paris
I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasienski will be back from the printers in a couple of weeks. In the meanwhile, we have posted some of it:
Excerpt here and translator’s afterword here
We posted a translation of Anatol Stern’s Preface to the 1957 edition here (not included in our edition).
January 2012
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I Burn Paris at Asymptote
In their latest issue the great Asymptote have posted an excerpt from I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasienski. The issue also has a lot of other good stuff in it and is well worth the read. Go here.
The book will be out soon, and we can’t wait. The webpage is here.
December 2011
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"Willow" by K.J. Erben →
We will be publishing Karel Jaromir Erben’s A Bouquet, in Marcela Sulak’s excellent translation, first half of next year (once we get the artwork and Erben’s notes sorted out). In the meanwhile, the link will take you to Marcela’s translation of “Willow” (Vrba) just recently published by Loch Raven Review. And it was good of them to choose something other than...
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October 2011
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Glorious Nemesis will be out soon
Glorious Nemesis by Ladislav Klima will be back from the printers soon. In the meanwhile, an excerpt can be read here.
August 2011
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Karel Cudlin photos →
Karel Cudlin’s photographs of a bus stop in the Ukraine (for Respekt).
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On Miroslav Tichy →
About Miroslav Tichy’s work at the Paris Review’s daily blog. A Tichy exhibition, “Sun Screen,” is currently on in New York. Link here.
July 2011
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Dennis Cooper on experimental literature →
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Reviews of The New Moscow Philosophy
Some reviews that have come in for The New Moscow Philosophy:
The Complete Review
Our Book Review Online
The Prague Post
The New York Journal of Books
June 2011
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Interview with Tom McCarthy
Good interview with Tom McCarthy at The Days of Yore. He talks a bit about his time spent in Prague and Berlin, and about teaching in an MFA program: “Before coming to Columbia, I had been invited to come lecture and teach at other programs and I had always refused precisely because I think that the Hemingways and Faulkners of tomorrow are not in one of these programs; they’re in Berlin...
Appropriations of Bruno Schulz →
David Goldfarb’s recent essay in the Jewish Quarterly on Bruno Schulz’s abiding influence on contemporary writers et al.
Shakespeare and Sons in the Exberliner →
The bookstore in Prague is a great place to hang out, especially the space downstairs. I suspect the Berlin store will be just as inviting.
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Bogdan Suceava review and interview
The prolific reviewer Damian Kelleher has an interview with Romanian author Bogdan Suceava (who we hope to be publishing in the future) at the Quarterly Conversation to accompany his review of the recently released Coming from an Off-Key Time (translated by Alistair Ian Blythe).
The link to the interview is here.
The review is here.
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May 2011
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The New Moscow Philosophy
The New Moscow Philosophy by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh has just come from the printers. It should be in bookstores shortly (June), or you can order via our website:
www.twistedspoon.com/newmoscow.html
Excerpt here: http://tinyurl.com/3ozaalx
Interview with the author here: http://tinyurl.com/3sxn86z
Stephan Delbos on writers in Prague
Prague Post culture editor and poet Stephan Delbos was recently interviewed about his own work and expat writers in Prague. It’s good to see some expats taking an interest in translating Czech poets (finally). Though knowledge about who’s doing what still seems rather limited, at least there’s a curiosity to find out more.
The interview is here.
April 2011
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Travis Jeppesen on NY writers
This is definitely worth a read, not only for Travis’s reviews of the books (by Bruce Benderson, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles) but for his thoughts on the literary “scene” in the US.
New York Dolls at 3:AM
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Primeval and Other Times discussed by European...
Primeval and Other Times, by Olga Tokarczuk will be the book discussed for the 2011 Polish session of the European Book Club, which will take place:
Wednesday, May 25, 6:30 pm New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
for details McNally Jackson in Manhattan’s SoHo district, which hosted a reading with Olga Tokarczuk and other authors during the November...
Interview at Spike
Interview about TSP is up at Spike Magazine, here: www.spikemagazine.com/twisted-spoon-press.php.