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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 2h

Indie publisher with muscle and long reaching vision, check out their list folks! 👀👏

Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks to all the librarians at Hebden Bridge @calderdale.bsky.social for this magnificent display of Bluemoose authors with a nod to the upcoming @bbc 6 part b series of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social . Brilliant.

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · Nov 25

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 13

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 14h

Reality check courtesy of Franciscan friar, padre LouisRomeo1234 via Threads. Too many politicians seriously talk such sh*** voters need to forensically figure out where their heads are at to see through all the 🗣️🗣️🤔

Reality check courtesy of franciscan louisromeo1234

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 15h

Listen up folks! 🎧🎤

Tam Dean Burn @tamdeanburn.bsky.social · Jan 16

A great shame about David Lynch passing but I did have to take him on at Glasgow Film Theatre about him breaking the cultural boycott of Israel…

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 18h

Looking for some superlative reads and/or ideas that are a little different? If so have fun with this motley globetrotting crowd ! 😉📚👀
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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 1d

Inspiring! Bravissimo! 🥳

Polari Press @polari.press · 8d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled to be invited to run this course again with the wonderful @mailbykite.bsky.social for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Looking for support/time/space/encouragement/nurturing/nourishment for your writing? This might be the one for you.
#PlaceWriting #DisabilitySky
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Online Writing Month (daytime): Writing the Body | Embodied Place Writing | Arvon

To be able to connect with place, it is not possible to ignore the body that carries you there, that arrives and that journeys through, however that might happen. It is impossible to ignore the human ...

www.arvon.org

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 1d

Great for godparents too! 😉👏

Pushkin Children's Books @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social · 6d

A greater than ever guide, featuring Mika Song's One Smart Cookie, X Fang's We Are Definitely Human, and Kengo Kurimoto's Wildful!

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Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social · 3d

A 2016 interview with #LaszloKrasznahorkai www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #Nobel #literature

An interview with László Krasznahorkai - Asymptote

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai's literary signature is his disenchantment with the period, “the dot” that he considers “an artificial border between sentences.&#82...

www.asymptotejournal.com

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 3d

Never more pertinent than now 🕊️by legendary Beat poet & co-founder of City Lights publishers - booksellers 🙉🙈🙊

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 3d

What a glorious photo of two superb writers! And yes indeed long live a forward looking Central Europe free of dictators 👏🥳

Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 3d

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!

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 3d

I felt a lump in my throat when it was announced that László Krasznahorkai had won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. I love his books and have reviewed four of his novels for The Irish Times.
Many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for allowing me to do so.
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Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai: A paean to depth and meaning amid violence and death

The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an existential threat to the world

www.irishtimes.com

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 3d

Great news about a great writer 👏🥳

Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social · 3d

Hungarian ‘Master of the apocalypse’ Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature www.rappler.com/life-and-sty... via @rappler.com.web.brid.gy

Hungarian 'Master of the apocalypse' Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

(1st UPDATE) 'Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess,' the ...

www.rappler.com

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 3d

Timely and informative clearly, must read! 👍👏

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · Jul 1

I went on TV to talk about my book with Rev. Al Sharpton, a sentence that I cannot believe is true
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

Nine ways to feel about our changing planet

Climate scientist Dr. Kate Marvel joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet'.

www.msnbc.com

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 3d

Likely @forwardprizes.bsky.social will be a good event to attend 👏🎟️
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Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 | Southbank Centre

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 4d

Ha ha this is so funny-sad-true! Send to all Media outlets NOW … we’re sick of how they bang on about growth & how everyone must go out & spend & borrow since ‘consumers power growth’. Bonkers! Added to which the planet is drowning in enough plastic & useless stuff as it is 🙄

Roland Hoskins @rolandhoskins1.bsky.social · 6d

A very neat explanation👇

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 4d

Sounds glorious 🥳

Emily Strelow @emilystrelow.bsky.social · Sep 12

Come freewrite from prompts and read nature writing with me!
We had an amazing time last spring with this class and I'm excited to be teaching it again. This time it's virtual so you can join from anywhere 🌻🦎🦅
literary-arts.org/event/nature...

Nature Writing Seminar

Throughout this eight week course, students will look at the many ways in which humans are connected to our natural surroundings, both urban and remote. Weather, soil, plants, wildlife, changing syste...

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 4d

👏👏👏setting a great precedent here’s to hoping many more others follow suit… 🙏👀

ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Late last night, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deploying any out-of-state federalized National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

This is a win for the rule of law.

BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 4d

Hey @wearebookanista.bsky.social have you seen this? 😨😾

NYCLU @nyclu.org · 4d

NEW: We've received reports that ICE agents are unlawfully banning ALL books from entering the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility. Titles include a dictionary, religious books - even a Sudoku puzzle book.

This is a blatant First Amendment violation. The facility must change course, now.

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 5d

Nice one! Will investigate :)

The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi everybody. We're a Madrid, Spain, based literary magazine. We publish in print and online. Right now Issue 2 is free to read and download from www.themadridreview.com
Writers, poets, readers, artists: follow us and we'll follow you. Nice to be here! #litmag #literature #writers #poets #poetry

The Madrid Review

www.themadridreview.com

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 5d

A classic, to reread and consider in the light of the grim mess the West is in…..

Everyman’s Library @everymanslibrary.bsky.social · 14d

In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the corrupting influence of power and racism in a horrifying story of colonial exploitation. Marlowe's encounter with Kurtz, an idealist crazed by power, prompts him to reflect on the eponymous darkness at the heart of all men www.penguin.co.uk/books/372993...

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 5d

One for the TBR pile!

Europa Editions @europaeditions.bsky.social · Jun 30

A year after the success of THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, Europa brought out its first big original English language title in 2006: Jane Gardam’s OLD FILTH.

Borrowing from biography and history, OLD FILTH is a modern classic and a literary masterpiece that retraces much of the twentieth century.

BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 6d

Thank you so much for the kind words and support! It’s great you love discovering great reads from around the world. If any of the books spark thoughts or conversation, I’d love to hear your take, and if you ever have recommendations of your own, let me know - the more the merrier!

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 6d

For a contextual background read to the current crisis, Fractured France by Andrew Hussey is a good source of all manner of information, recently reviewed in BookBlast® Diary
bookblast.org/blog/fractur...

Bookblast Review Fractured France Andrew Hussey

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