Chief editors of TXT Celine Kock and Lena Ryzhova joined us today to discuss their upcoming publication. On this episode we discussed what it's like to work on the journal and why community of memories is the topic for this years publication.

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Books mentioned:

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer

A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Series by Bonnie McBird

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Dua Lipa's book club https://www.service95.com/tag/book-club

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How high are you ready to climb to knock on heaven's door?

On this episode Laura, Natalia and Bethany discuss Ted Chiang's short story The Tower of Babylon (1990).

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On this episode, Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the 2025 Thessaloniki Book Fair. Highlights include: a panel discussing the challenges of translating gender and queerness into smaller languages AND a visit to the Estonian booth, where they are celebrating 500 years since the first book was printed in the Estonian language.

We include a short interview with Priit-Hendrik Kaldma, a scholar and translator who works on Estonian-Greek-Estonian translations. On Making Book History, we discuss the Unbound fiasco and the difficulty of being an author in today’s world.

Links:

Thessaloniki Book Fair

https://www.thessalonikibookfair.gr/

500 Years of EstonianBooks

https://www.erm.ee/en/do-you-know-this-story

Our favorite translations:

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Glennkill by Leonie Swann

From Merlin to mansions…the CodEX Machina crew discusses Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (quite exuberantly) on the latest installment of Strange Land Book Club. In Making Book History, we discuss the discovery of a fragment of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin (a contemporaneously popular 13th century French telling of the King Arthur saga) in, of all things, the binding of a 16th century archival registry. Hey, when you need paper, you grab the closestbook, right?

Modern Magic UnlocksMerlin’s Medieval Secrets

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge

Sex, Jealousy andGender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 Years On

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/23/olivia-laing-on-daphne-du-mauriers-rebecca-80-years-on

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00:38 Making Book History

4:15 Main topic

Is serialization a thing of the past? Did authors and publishers indulge in publishing serialized novels only in Victorian times? How does digital world embrace serialized publications? Our guest Swara Shukla will take us on a journey across her research subject of Wattpad and serialized publications. Stay tuned!

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In this episode we talk to our first guest Swara Shukla about books she is reading. In the next episode Swars will share her research nto Wattpad and contemporary serialization!

In this episode: I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki (Baek Se-hee), How to Kill Your Family (Bella Mackie), What Readers Do (Beth Driscoll), The One Month Boyfriend (Roxie Noir), Out (Natsuo Kirino) and some others!

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How do you feel when your favourite book series stops coming out? The story isn't finished and you might have to wait for years. Even this wait might be in vain. What can a reader do in such a desperate situation? Listen to find out.

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This episode features our rubric Making Book History (some AI shenanigans from Inkitt) and of course a discussion of Piranesi - a novel that touched us deeply and irrevocably.

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