Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social

Some news, as they say: thrilled to be launching a #Maine-based publishing program. The first two books will be out in March and I'll have lots more on all of this come January. Bounce any questions/thoughts my way, or to the wonderful @luxlotus.

Vera Mutafchieva’s masterpiece, The Case of Cem, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, is on the shortlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada, judged by independent booksellers to shine a light on small, but mighty, publishers. Congratulations all!

Kendrick literally protested, and taunted America in front of the president during America’s biggest sports event. Chefs kiss.

Libraries are the best, and they should all have signs like the @boisepublib!

Today we're looking at In Elvis's Room by Sebastijan Pregelj on the Dublin Literary Award Longlist, translated from the Slovenian by Rawley Grau. Nominated by Mariborska knjižnica & Mestna Knjižnica Ljubljana/Ljubljana City Library (Slovenia) and published by @SandorfP. 🧵 1/4

There’s a certain look that passes between people who can’t believe what they survived. And then, eventually, one is left to carry those secrets alone.

That's right, Underground Barbie is the February pick for the @asymptotejrnl Book Club. "Underground Barbie bears witness to a turbulent childhood in transition—the wonder and terror of it all, sustained by imagination."

"Selimović has brilliantly rendered the wonder, the mix of naive innocence with worldly wisdom, in this fabulous translation." @Broke_Bookworm reviews UNDERGROUND BARBIE by Maša Kolanović, in translation by Ena Selimović (@SandorfP): full-stop.net/2025/01/30/rev….

Thanks to @lithub for featuring Underground Barbie on its list of today's new releases and using this killer @aliner blurb!

Happy pub day to Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović (tr. @enaselimo)! bookshop.org/p/books/underg…

Maša Kolanović's Underground Barbie (tr. @enaselimo) is out tomorrow, but you can read an excerpt today @lithub. lithub.com/underground-ba…

A starred @LibraryJournal review for Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie (tr. @enaselimo)! "It brilliantly illustrates a bloody war through the imaginative eyes of children and their prized dolls." Out on January 28. Preorder today. libraryjournal.com/review/undergr…

Review: Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (May 2025) by Donald Niedekker (t. Jonathan Reeder) 🗺️ "Such an odd and fascinating premise gives way to a richly imagined, beautifully translated, and appropriately wry tale." ⚓️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/21/rev…

@wwborders reviews Underground Barbie: "No matter how far underground the trauma of growing up during a war gets buried, it will never go away. But the survivors still deserve a monument to their memories, and Kolanović’s novel provides a fitting one." wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/i…

This is James Baldwin from Nothing Personal, an under-appreciated collaboration with Richard Avedon. Dropping it here for no particular reason.

Fresh ARCs hot off the press here in #Maine. Martina Vidaić’s Bedbugs won the 2023 EU Prize for Literature and we’re psyched to introduce this exciting and fresh Croatian voice to readers, thanks to Ellen Elias-Bursać‘s jaunty translation. Book folks, get in touch!

Imagine watching Twin Peaks as your country was torn apart by war. Maša Kolanović's characters in Underground Barbie (tr. @enaselimo) did just that. "We each boarded the couch and sailed off from our own country to a distant American hinterland." RIP David Lynch.

More exciting news on the prize front: Angela Rodel’s incredible translation from Bulgarian of Vera Mutafchieva’s masterpiece, The Case of Cem, is on @USRofC longlist, alongside nine other books released by indie publishers. Thanks to the judges and congratulations to all!

@IneluctableQuak I love how design of The Nocilla Trilogy boxset so neatly contains the ricocheting madness of Mallo’s prose.

I ❤️ boxsets