Editor, Asian Humanities and Literary Translations, Columbia University Press
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The Slavic Reference Service at @iaslibrary is hosting @dtbyler for a Research & Language Learning talk, Reading THE BACKSTREETS in Urumchi, May 3, 3 pm Central. So great to see this book get attention from different parts of the academy. Register here: forms.gle/566ScxDfbAf8ch5q7
ALT Book cover for The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, by Perhat Tursun, translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous. The cover features a photograph showing a Uyghur man's back in the foreground and a large building under construction in the background.
"THE BACKSTREETS reads like a mash-up between Kafka and David Lynch" Thanks to @motnedwob for including Perhat Tursun's novel in this fascinating round-up! @dtbyler
Focus on Asia • Plus: Sex! Preexisting Conditions! @DandQ @astrahousebooks @open_letter @NYRBpoets @ColumbiaUP @kiddiepunk @NYRcomics @KoreroPress @ZoneBooks @mitpress thebookbeat.com/backroom/202…
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Latest on my website: Yao-Chang Chen's Puppet Flower, about Taiwan's indigenous tribes vs the imperialist powers bit.ly/3Kzo5ew tr. Pao-fang Hsu, Ian Maxwell and Tung-jung Chen from @ColumbiaUP
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Now available! THE RIVER IMP AND STINKY JEWEL AND OTHER TALES is "A pleasure to read with its wonderful, creepy and imaginative range of illustrations."— Susan Napier buff.ly/3ZrjMX7 #Japanese #FictionInTranslation @TranslateMonth
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For other books in the Literature Now series: cup.columbia.edu/series/lite…
And coming this Fall! MIGRANT AESTHETICS, by Glenda Carpio; BIG FICTION, by Dan Sinykin (@dan_sinykin); and WRITING BACKWARDS, by Xander Manshel (@XanderManshel).
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Latest on my website: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Stravaging Strange 3 strange tales about miniaturisation, Kant & a man who walks every street in London bit.ly/3lyC7Dw tr. Joanne Turnbull from @ColumbiaUP
"Do you enjoy your fairy tales politically charged and subversive?" @TobiasCarroll's monthly round-up of translated fiction is out from @wwborders and includes THE NARROW CAGE AND OTHER MODERN FAIRY TALES by Vasily Eroshenko, trans. @Kuplowsky
What to read next? @TobiasCarroll recommends books tr from Korean, French, Esperanto, Japanese, and Portuguese: bit.ly/42v2Ql7
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Immanuel Kim's #translation of FRIEND by North Korean novelist Paek Nam-nyong included in @TheEconomist's "Seven books you are forbidden from reading"
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ALT Book cover for Friend: A Novel from North Korea, by Paek Nam-nyong, translated by Immanuel Kim. The cover features three empty blue hangers against a backdrop of floral wallpaper.
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The March–April issue is in print and online! “The Russophone Literature of Resistance” cover feature headlines the new issue. For the month of March, this cover feature + our July 2022 cover feature on Odesa and Kharkiv will be free to read online.
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New review: The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales by Vasily Eroshenko dlvr.it/Sk0QTZ
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our book club read the membranes by @Tawei_Chi and we promptly and collectively had an existential crisis over it, so of course i had to spend some time drawing a cover as a tribute. truly an excellent book
Congratulations to @EdwardTyerman, whose @ColumbiaUP book INTERNATIONALIST AESTHETICS is the Winner of the 2022 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies! 🎉Be sure to check out the full list of impressive finalists & get your (affordable paperback) copy here: cup.columbia.edu/book/intern…
Please help us congratulate the recipients of the 2022 AATSEEL Prizes and Book Prizes. You can find information about the awards and recipients by following the links below.
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"This collection of stories — translated from Japanese and Esperanto — is a treasure trove of inventive and sometimes subversive fables that transcend borders."— @Tokyo_Weekender on THE NARROW CAGE AND OTHER MODERN FAIRY TALES buff.ly/3R9tsTe @Kuplowsky #Translation
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Join Darren Byler, Andrew J. Nathan, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a virtual book talk about THE BACKSTREETS tomorrow, January 30 from 4:00PM - 5:30PM ET. RSVP Today! buff.ly/3WK5uQl @WEAI_Columbia @Columbia @dtbyler
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Ahead of what promises to be a compelling discussion of Perhat Tursun's THE BACKSTREETS with co-translator @dtbyler on January 30, we recommend @menevere's review! hopscotchtranslation.com/202…
Remember to join Darren Byler, Andrew J. Nathan, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a virtual book talk about THE BACKSTREETS on January 30 from 4:00PM - 5:30PM ET. RSVP Today! buff.ly/3hKOtqq @WEAI_Columbia @Columbia @dtbyler
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After finishing my #JanuaryInJapan reread of this slightly battered copy of the Seidensticker Genji, I went straight onto a second look at Michael Emmerich's 'The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature' (from @ColumbiaUP)...
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This week in Hopscotch, an incisive review by Munawwar Abdulla of Perhat Tursun's THE BACKSTREETS, cotranslated by @dtbyler and an anonymous ally, and published by @ColumbiaUP – a milestone in English translation of Uyghur literature.
hopscotchtranslation.com/202…
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Hey #AHA23! Get your steps in and come visit us at the @ColumbiaUP booth in the 4th floor exhibit hall for 30% off our latest history books! We’re here until 6pm today 📚