Hoy en España se publica la edición más espléndida posible de mi primera novela, Serpientes y escaleras. Muchísimas gracias a Ediciones Comisura por hacer libros tan hermosos, tan perfectos, tan fascinantes... ¡Necesitamos más editoriales así! edicionescomisura.com/tienda/
Front cover of picture book called Who Will Make the Snow? by Taras and Marjana Drokhasko, translated from Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk and Jennifer Croft. Elsewhere Editions, Archipelago Books, 2026
We have a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview for you today! Translator Boris Dralyuk on the music of language, softening difficult messages for children, what makes Who Will Make the Snow? distinctly Ukrainian...and his creative collaboration with Jennifer Croft
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This book is a delight. Unlike anything you’ve read. Take it from me.
Oh thank you!
Thanks so much to Lit Hub for including my new memoir NOTES ON POSTCARDS on this beautiful list of books to look forward to this year! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... @catapultbooks.bsky.social
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What are the best public postcard collections in the world? Like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston or the Newberry Library in Chicago--or just historical societies, universities, or public libraries that have interesting postcards you've seen or heard about?
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
THE LOST SOLDIERS, Andrey Kurkov’s latest Kyiv mystery, has a UK cover!
My wonderful editor is making his way through the translation now. Today he sent me a nice note, highlighting a passage he particularly admired.
Tonight in Tulsa!
Too many things are happening! I've been seeking refuge in the small (personal, provisional). Looking forward to sharing some gorgeous old postcards and fragments of translation intimacies at this event at Columbia next week. Please join us if you can. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
I’ve been a judge for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award in Translated Literature, and the NEA Translation Fellowship (RIP), and I’ve never read a translation more brilliant than this. Out in April, but you can preorder now. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sidetracke...
‘Dislocations’ by Sylvia Molloy, tr. Jennifer Croft, with a tropical watermelon cocktail
If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth
Loved getting to review this great new novel by Helen Oyeyemi for the NYTBR! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @henricole.bsky.social…
See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only.
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Educators, this short story about a young girl in Mexico preparing to travel to the US is paired with more reading from Mexico, literature about the theme of home, and even writing on fast food. Check it out on WWB Campus: buff.ly/DEPwBNK
Looking forward to this next month in New York! Hoping to bring together a couple of ideas I've been working on about translating time and art versus entertainment. And (perhaps needless to say) twins! Please join us if you're around! arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
Tomorrow night at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, the final event on my Irena Rey in English tour! Thrilled to bring this chapter in my life/career to a close in this gorgeous and extremely friendly cultural mecca—please come if you’re around!! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-ru...
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@elpais.com) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@anagramaeditor.bsky.social) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025...
The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...
This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market. From there, it unfolded like a dream… Thank you, Vernon, for many happy hours…
Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS. In prose and verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920). www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...
