New Directions @NewDirections
Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world. ndbooks on Bluesky and ndpublishing on Instagram. ndbooks.com New York, NY Joined July 2008-
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Join Morley and Sam for a reading group this fall on 21st century translated fiction from the amazing @NewDirections put on by our friends at @Center4Fiction ! Really good stuff here centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…
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Dallas, it’s time! Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers. Join us! hayfestival.org/dallas
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We're so excited to celebrate Anne de Marcken's winning debut novel at our annual event in November! Read more about the winning novel here: news.vcu.edu/article/2025/0… Author photo by Nina Subin. @VCUCHS @VCUEnglish @VCULibraries
“This poetic, sometimes hallucinatory tale, translated by @robinepmyers, was inspired by the origin story of the Guaraní people and the autobiography of Catalina de Erauso”—a former nun turned conquistador. Read a new review of WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING:nytimes.com/2025/07/31/boo…
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As John Keene puts it, Essex Hemphill “knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, all of which he wielded when needed.” thenation.com/article/cultur…
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The 3 finalists for the 2025 Cabell First Novelist Award are: Fire Exit by Morgan Talty @Tin_House It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken @NewDirections Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang @DuttonBooks Congratulations to all 3 authors! @VCUCHS @VCUEnglish @VCULibraries
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Been anticipating Lili is Crying all year. Hoping to have more Hélène Bessette brought to us by Kate Briggs’ expert pen. This is to be read in a summer heat.
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TONIGHT is Tawada night in Brooklyn
Join us tomorrow at @booksaremagicbk Smith St for the launch of Yoko Tawada’s EXOPHONY with translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and @translationista. Two Tawada translators on Tawada’s radical experiments with language… not to be missed. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-lis…
Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift_mag: thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1…
Join us July 1st at @booksaremagicbk Smith St for the launch of Yoko Tawada’s EXOPHONY: VOYAGES OUTSIDE THE MOTHER TONGUE with translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Susan Bernofsky. RSVP here: booksaremagic.net/events/2921420…
"The poetry of Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022) is as whimsical and difficult as raising children, one of her main subjects... Mayer’s avant-garde, fragmentary language echoes the cacophony of a full house, or is it the other way around?" - @NewYorker link.newyorker.com/view/5be9fdfd3…
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PRETTY COOL -- world's first excerpt of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOL. III by Solvej Balle in THE DRIFT ISSUE 15!!!!!!! thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1… @thedrift_mag @NewDirections
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Salute to Walt Whitman (excerpt)” by Fernando Pessoa, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos published by @NewDirections Read here: poems.com/poem/salute-to…
Out next month: Marlen Haushofer’s KILLING STELLA, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Listen to Gabriela Cabezón Camàra on the Vulgar History podcast with @annfosterwriter. The two discuss Antonio de Erauso, whose extraordinary life during the Spanish Conquest provides the basis for We Are Green and Trembling, Camàra's forthcoming novel. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZW…
Out this week — EXOPHONY, Yoko Tawada’s first essay collection in English, about the possibilities opened up by cross-hybridizing languages (by one of its most exciting practitioners). Deftly translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. ndbooks.com/book/exophony
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It’s pub day at last for WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING, by the ever-extraordinary @Cabezoncamara, available from @NewDirections in the US and Harvill Secker in the UK 🌱
Join Elizabeth Willis next Friday, May 23rd, at McNally Jackson Seaport while she reads alongside other brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene. 6:30pm ET. RSVP required. mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-pr…
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