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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 46m

You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’ The right Nobel winner for 2025… Checks out ✅

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 54m

László Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, he was in conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop

Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 4h

I happened on this beautiful & moving (6-year old) ode to a bookstore by @andreapitzer.bsky.social

The Small-Town West Virginia Bookstore That Helped Me Survive My Terrible Childhood | Essay | Zócalo Public Square

Parkersburg, West Virginia, where I grew up, sits on land that was once home to the Shawnee and later belonged to George Washington. After killing

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 19h

Also, on reading all 20 of Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart novels: “When you read that much of an author, he does leech into the ground water”

Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 19h

“When you read Dickens, when you read Zola, when you read Flaubert, when you read George Eliot, when you read Jane Austen, don't you want to try that stuff?
When you look at the 19th century novel, it's so much more varied and so much more alive and so much stranger than I think people remember”

Brandon Taylor On His New Novel, 'Minor Black Figures'

Podcast Episode · The Book Review · 10/10/2025 · 40m

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 1d

“In the course of quantifying the risks of A.I., I was hoping that I would realize my fears were ridiculous. Instead, the opposite happened: The more I moved from apocalyptic hypotheticals to real-world findings, the more concerned I became”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for that cheering thought!

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d

This man is rising to the occasion. Trump’s greatest legacy may be the election of President Pritzker in 2028.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 3d

Just heard “Sunday Morning” in a doctor’s office on a Pandora (or something) “Mellow Morning” mix. Would Lou be amused or appalled @willhermes.bsky.social ?

I guess he’d probably just appreciate the revenue

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 3d

The best LLM

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 4d

Paging Andrew Stauffer!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 4d

@drbibliomane.bsky.social you may enjoy! From Wells library stacks

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 4d

Happened on this 1919 edition of Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory with amazing annotations thruout. There’s a coding system distinguishing between comments made: (1) At Home, Sept 22, 1925; (2) at Berea, KY, Feb 11, 1928; (3) At Home, Sept 29, 1930; & (4) Cottage, July 22, 1933 😮

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 6d

As a novelist I appreciate this piece of evidence about the persistence of human character across time.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 9d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 8d

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k.

2025: $228
2026: $1142

She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care.

This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10d

And we traded stuff like this for AI slop 😞

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 10d

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters.
He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10d

Judge William G. Young 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“ Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, we the people of the United States have our magnificent Constitution”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 12d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11d

The 5 Calls app also makes this easy to do. Takes less than 5 minutes to call both senators & my house rep

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11d

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 25d

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 12d

The report completely neglects the way that much of the momentum in far right extremism has now become part of STATE VIOLENCE. It does not count ICE actions, militia actions, vigilantism clothed in state authority. THIS IS WHERE THAT VIOLENCE NOW RESIDES. (4)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah Sean Penn’s Col. Lockjaw (with his musings about “semen demons”) seems like a clear homage to Gen. Ripper. Loved the performance!

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16d

It's sort of the Dr Strangelove of the current moment (Sean Penn's character is an astonishing grotesque from the General Jack D Ripper mould) but has none of Kubrick's frosty hauteur about human frailty. It has the liveliness of a 1930s New Deal movie too, where the poor are the point of it all.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 13d

I don't have the words, but I'll try an unpopular few: Kaleb Horton was a singular human. But. Also. There are a thousand Kaleb Hortons—brilliant, weird—out there; he wrote about some of them. The journalism industry is grinding down all of them. All of us.

We just won't know many of their names.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 13d

Good sad conversation partly about what it means to work in “dissent” (in the juridical sense)

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 21d

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent exercise tips from James Boswell (via Dwight Garner)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 14d

NYT Books' new "help us find your next novel!" approach is a bit much."How about an eerie historical novel reminiscent of Shirley Jackson?" "I like memoirs — the more gutting, the better!" "A time-hopping vampire mystery? I’m in!" Is this kind of BookTok discourse...?

The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 14d

It was a treat! I’m teaching the Bostonians at the moment & keep finding myself thinking about the chapter breaks

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