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Love books, feminism, human rights, culture. Occasional book reviewer (bobbygw.com). Like Winnie the Pooh, I'm a 'Bear of very Little Brain, & long Words bother me.' Ahem. A curator of feminism, writers & books at https://www.scoop.it/u/bobbygw

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction 📚💙

Where to start with Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai.

The Hungarian novelist is difficult & dark, yet funny; his apocalypticism is leavened by a humane belief in the value of art. Here are some excellent recommendations

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Selection of English language translated editions of László Krasznahorkai's fiction. Collage by bobbygw

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2h

#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙

In Brandon Taylor’s new novel, Minor Black Figures, an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.

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Collage of portrait photo of Brandon Taylor with the cover of his novel Minor Black Figures. Riverhead Books | 387 pp. | $29.

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 12h

#booksky excellent for #literaryfiction #essays #memoirs #ModernClassics 📚💙

The Essential Vladimir Nabokov. Essay by Molly Young, creator of www.nytimes.com/column/read-.... Clever & dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns & lepidoptera (& there’s so much more than Lolita).

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Nabokov books recommended by Molly Young.

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 13h

#booksky highly recommended for #nonfiction #socialmedia #disinformation #TechBros 📚💙

Essay-review: Algorithm Nation by Jacob Weisberg.
Fights about digital filtering tools are increasing. That’s because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion & mass culture.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 13h

#booksky for #music #biography #RocknRoll #culturalstudies #booklovers 📚💙

Interview: Greil Marcus on Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, his classic nonfiction book, now in its 50th anniversary edition.

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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus, 50th Anniversary Edition.

Mystery Train author Greil Marcus. Photo credit: Ida Lodemel Tvedt

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 18h

#booksky for #bonkbusters #womenwriters 📚💙

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Appreciation: Jilly Cooper, who has died aged 88, never claimed to be a serious novelist, yet few writers chronicled Britain’s ruling classes with such energy, mockery & appetite. By Gerry Brakus, creative editor, New Statesman.

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Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper at home in Gloucestershire in 2016. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 18h

#booksky for #BestsellingFiction #womenwriters #RutshireChronicles 📚💙

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Jilly Cooper wrote 48 books in 55 years, 26 of them non-fiction. Her Rutshire Chronicles is her most popular series of novels.

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All books in the Rutshire Chronicles series by Jilly Cooper ~ The official website of Dame Jilly Cooper

Jilly is possibly best known for the Rutshire Chronicles, her iconic, much loved, and bestselling series. Set against the glorious backdrop of the fictional county of Rutshire, the Chronicles weave ta...

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 18h

#booksky for #BestsellingFiction #womenwriters #RutshireChronicles 📚💙

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Obituary: Jilly Cooper has died aged 88. Her bestselling novels, inc. Riders, & Rivals, were set deep in an English countryside where characters pursued land, sports - & each other - with lust & gusto.

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The bestselling Rutshire Chronicles series of novels by Jilly Cooper.

Jilly Cooper, bestselling novelist, sold over 11 million copies of her books just in the UK.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for thanking me!

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 1d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #LászlóKrasznahorkai 📚💙

The Pleasures of Reading László Krasznahorkai. Essay by Garth Risk Hallberg, novelist.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for books often called bleak & challenging. But they’re also comical & deeply human.

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A selection of László Krasznahorkai's novels in English translation. Collage by bobbygw

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 1d

#booksky highly recommended for #nonfiction #booksales #bookdiscounts #booklovers 📚💙

The superb Princeton University Press has a 70% off sale for a wide selection of its books, October 1-31. Explore their featured collections & save money with your purchases.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #LászlóKrasznahorkai #shortstories 📚💙

... *In it, two soldiers are dying in a muddy trench, one trying to soothe the other with quixotic visions of a techno-utopia that neither will ever see.

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #LászlóKrasznahorkai #shortstories 📚💙

Earlier this year, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, @yalereview.bsky.social published An Angel Passed Above Us*, a new short story by Krasznahorkai, translated by John Batki.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #LászlóKrasznahorkai #booklovers 📚💙

Recommended interview at @yalereview.bsky.social :

László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian novelist and Nobel laureate. Interview by Hari Kunzru, British novelist and journalist.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

Classic Krasznahorkai. Thank you.

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 2d

looking forward to Krasznahorkai's single-sentence acceptance speech

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #LászlóKrasznahorkai 📚💙

... on where to begin & how to engage him. By Jacob Brogan, an editor of The Washington Post's Book World.

Author László Krasznahorkai in 2018 in Madrid. (Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #NobelPrize #bookawards 📚💙

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Washington Post:

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai awarded Nobel Prize in literature.

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László Krasznahorkai, shown in May 2015 in London, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. (Matt Dunham/AP)

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #NobelPrize #bookawards 📚💙

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New York Times:

László Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature: The prize committee said the Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of art.”

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #NobelPrize #bookawards 📚💙

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The Guardian:

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025.

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"Beauty in language. Fun in hell"… László Krasznahorkai. Photograph: Carlos Álvarez/Getty Images

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

* Among them: Pete Davidson, Louis CK, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Whitney Cummings and Jessica Kirson. While most of the performers are US-based, Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall and Omid Djalili also appeared as headliners.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 2d

#Riyadh #Comedy #HumanRightsAbuses #MBS

Disgusting (aka, Greed Is Good, say these comedians):

Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) latest interest? Comedy. The Riyadh comedy festival, which ends today, has attracted a number of big hitters*.

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Paid in full … Jimmy Carr performed at Riyadh comedy festival. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Aziz Ansari. Photo credit: Chad Salvador/PMC

Dave Chappelle. Photo Source: https://allhiphop.com/newsbreak/dave-chappelle-mocks-american-censorship-charlie-kirk-at-riyadh-comedy-festival/

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 3d

#booksky recommended for #bookawards #booklovers
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National Book Award finalists announced for 2025 for fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, translated literature & poetry. Titles by Patricia Smith, Bryan Washington, & Solvej Balle are among this year's shortlisted.

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A selection of National Book Award finalists announced for 2025. Collage by bobbygw

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 3d

* Katherine Bouton, a former editor at the New York Times, is the author of Shouting Won’t Help: Why I and 50 Million Other Americans Can’t Hear You, and an educator and advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing.

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 3d

#booksky recommended for #memoirs #womenwriters 📚💙

This deaf writer offers a compelling new way to think about language.

In her memoir Articulate, Rachel Kolb explores her experience growing up deaf, focusing on communication rather than loss. Review by Katherine Bouton*.

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Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice by Rachel Kolb. Ecco. 304 pp. $29.99

Author Rachel Renee Kolb. Photo credit: Josephine Sittenfeld

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