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Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social · 4d

I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.

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Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 19h

Glad to see Mark’s book is on backorder @bookshop.org but you should go buy it somewhere! bookshop.org/p/books/anti...

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

The Anti-Fascist Handbook

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017. lithub.com/why-we-shoul...

Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism

Is Donald Trump a fascist? Did millions of Americans vote for an orange Mussolini? Well, recently the far-right commentator Dinesh D’Souza published a book intended not only to ease the consciences…

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents. lithub.com/how-a-1977-c...

How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025

The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in…

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague. lithub.com/he-comes-for...

“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

From 1972 through 1977, I traveled to Prague every spring for a week or ten days to see a group of writers, journalists, historians, and professors there who were being persecuted by the Soviet-bac…

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 1d

Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.

One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the N…

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 2d

Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001)
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Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?

My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 2d

Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.

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Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social · 2d

Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃

In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket

It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know To…

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 3d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

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Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

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Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

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Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 4d

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 8d

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”

My latest for LitHub:

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Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work

In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 9d

The Idiocracy presidency continues apace. lithub.com/librarian-le...

Librarian leaves job after declining Melania Trump’s demand for a sword.

Today in headlines I never thought anyone would I’d write, the head of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library has resigned after a spat with Melania Trump over an original Eisenhower sword s…

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 11d

The corruption is just so obvious (as it usually is in an incipient dictatorship) lithub.com/ron-desantis...

Ron DeSantis is about to “gift” Donald Trump a $200 million plot of land for his “library.”

Florida man and failed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will vote today—along with the state’s attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner, all republicans—to approve …

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 19d

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 18

A common technique of Holocaust deniers is to look up Red Cross statistics for disease in the concentration camps, and insist this proves that Jews and Romani were not deliberately murdered.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Again it's all spelled out here, but we're looking for books that were published between 2013-2022 roughly and not covered by the NYT book review under Paul (and shoulda been). This is a collaboration btw me and @maris.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social

www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you @jonnydiamond.bsky.social for greenlighting this!! Thanks everybody who's already sent in pitches and ideas. Again, now have a September 1 deadline and we'll circle back with folks after then.

Again all details re: pitching etc. can be found here: www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

I’m working on an exciting new book reviews-related project in collaboration with Maris Kreizman for Lit Hub. I’m interested in receiving recommendations of books written by a trans and queer authors that you feel were overlooked by the NYT book review between ~2013 - 2022 (under Pamela Paul’s leadership). If you are an author and you feel your book was overlooked, feel free to write me (or let me know on Bluesky). If you are a reader and you want to recommend a queer- or trans-authored book you adore that again the NYT did not review when it was released during this time-frame, again please feel free to let me know, either via this site or on Bluesky. If you’re a book reviewer and you want to pitch a book to review for the aforementioned series, please pitch me via email. If you’re interested in reviewing a book: Email me a paragraph or two explaining why this book in particular (not much longer). Please share a brief bio for yourself and a website. Also include a couple of your best clips, ideally previously published book reviews. Please reach out via my contact form. Book reviewers: This is a paid opportunity; I’m just coordinating on behalf of the publication; they’re saying $250 per ~800 - 1000 word review (and we’ll be assigning many so please tell your friends about this too, if they’re also book reviewers). We may have some flexibility, depending on what the outlet decides. I will discuss further specifics with those whose pitches we follow up with. Thank you! We are setting a September 1 deadline.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Aug 10

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 10

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 10

The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal.
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 10

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Aug 6

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · Aug 6

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · Jul 31

Eternal thanks to Lithub EIC @jonnydiamond.bsky.social, whose support means more than I can say. This is my first essay at Lithub, a publication I’ve admired for years, one of the few that has stood consistently with Palestine and its people. It’s an honor to publish with them.

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