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Karol Lagodzki

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#Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel, finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for including Controlled Conversations among the finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel! Congratulations to all the finalists Venita Blackburn, Michael Deagler, Samuel Kolawole, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio! #booksky

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 3d

#Publishing With this week's announcement about the closure of the book distributor Baker & Taylor, it's important to support independent presses that will lose their publisher services. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social is one such. Buy one of their books. Or five. #BookSky #Reading schaffnerpress.com

Schaffner Press – BOOKS OF SOCIAL RELEVANCE FOR DISCERNING READERS

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 9d

My wife says the same thing about me 🤣

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 13d

Come by, it’ll be diverting! 😀 #booksky

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 13d

Bloomington Readers! Join @klagodzki.bsky.social & I at Morgenstern Books as we discuss Pineville Trace and Controlled Conversations. Both novels feature characters on the run, escaping to realize freedom. What are they running from and toward, and why does it matter? 💙📚 #authors

Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 21d

My guess is that Orangio and Wormbrain shorted a bunch of Kenvue Brands stock well before their Tylenol announcement #crooks

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28d

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Sep 11

No national coverage for this study, but it could be one of the most important things to happen in a while. Doing #climate #science while thinking like a lawyer. Vital. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

www.nature.com

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Ponder Review @ponderreview.bsky.social · Sep 10

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Sep 10

Polish, Dutch, German and Italian aircraft worked together last night to shoot down 19 Russian drones over Poland.

This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.

Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Sep 6

What’s frightening is that an average person misses 4 of these specific questions, including what fossil fuels are.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Sep 5

#Bloomington #Indiana
@wesblake.bsky.social is coming to town on Oct 10! Join us at Morgenstern’s at 6 pm. Plenty of notice, so no excuses :-)
#booksky

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Aug 30

My wonderful wife @mlagodzki.bsky.social is taking off for a month-long residency, and my goal is to get down the words for the first draft of the next novel before the end of Sep. Over/under? Wish us both luck.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · Aug 30

Felt like a pie chart was in order.

Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197

% of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095%

% of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Real conservation means not just focusing on the plight of a single species but on the ecosystem in which it lives, supports others, and is supported." - Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet" in @easthamptonstar.bsky.social

www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

Guestwords: End of a Keystone Species? | The East Hampton Star

This fall a Horseshoe Crab Protection Act will land on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. It would ban harvesting these ancient creatures in New York rather than merely setting quotas, and this is vital to saf...

www.easthamptonstar.com

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Aug 19

I hate Nazis

Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Aug 18

Absolutely mesmerizing. I can't stop staring at it.

Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Jul 29

This sucks. I'm sorry you're going through it. A piece of pie is the least the universe owes you.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · Jul 26

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social.

Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy!

#Guinea

REVIEW
JACQUELINE NYATHI
THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF VERONIQUE BANGOURA
A NOVEL BY TIERNO MONÉNEMBO
TRANSLATED BY RYAN CHAMBERLAIN
To live, to die and to tell

Should we protect the world from our pain, and our pain from the world, or share it far and wide?

IN TRANSLATION, the idiomatic
expressions and mannerisms of the
original language can sometimes
interrupt the reader's flow. But if that
happens in the first pages of Tierno
Monénembo's new novel, keep going.
The tale of the woman who will
be known as Véronique Bangoura is
enthralling. On one of her daily jaunts
with her wheelchair-using husband
Véronique meets Madame Corre, who
recognises the language she speaks as
originating from Guinea. Madame Corre
wants Véronique to tell her story- why
she's in Paris and how she came to be
(as Madame Corre mistakenly believes)
a personal care assistant to the man in
the wheelchair.
Madame Corre, you see, has her own
painful history to share, and suspects
Véronique does too. From this shared
place ofpain the women bond and come
to understand one another across their
seeming divide.
The Lives and Deaths of Véronique
Bangoura weaves its story around the
atrocities that happened in Guinea
under Sékou Touré from 1956 to 1982.
In the moving retelling of of Touré's
brutality through the lives (and many
deaths) of Véronique and Madame
Corre, Monénembo brings what would
otherwise be a distant news story and
past history to the present experience
of the reader.
Once any initial struggle with style in
translation passes, the rhythm of this
work begins to resonate, along with
the singular voice of Véronique - an
outstanding character who has survived
a complicated past and escaped it
through a series of unlikely events.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Jul 27

Are you Black but grew up in a White family? If so, I’d really appreciate a chance to speak with you to get a sense for what it felt like. In complete confidentiality. Please DM me. Thanks!!! #novel #writing #fiction #characterization

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Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social · Jul 19

Throwback to the author photoshoot last year and the book review by @fullybookedinky.bsky.social for Best Thriller Books. New novel is finished and coming soon!

Author photo of Josh Boldt standing on a rooftop parking lot in Lexington, KY. Quote says: “Boldt’s prose immerses and pulls the reader along with perfect pacing.” – Best Thriller Books

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Jul 9

True. But lots of people will get hurt before sanity returns, and there is no satisfaction in I-told-you-sos even if we’re still here then.

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Jul 2

We are pleased to announce that Boman Desai of Chicago, IL, is the winner of the 2025 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature for his novel BRAHMS COMES TO DINNER, which we will publish in June of 2026!

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Jun 21

I don’t know about a movie or tv show, but what’s a novel without a deeply symbolic ceiling stain? One simply must have it. 😀

The omniscient narration by the camera might make the omission easier while preserving significance in film/tv. Few novels these days are written from the omniscient POV.

Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check out the new paperback from @anandalima.bsky.social Craft is fantastic! #booksky

Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social · Jun 17

Yay! Yay! Yay! It's paperback day! Today Craft is officially out in paperback! (Almost) The same cover I love (can you spot the difference?), snazzy new orange spine... plus more travel and wallet friendly. I love it so much! 😍🧡🎉 Get one for yourself, loved one, secret crush and frenemies today!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 14

Two Minnesota lawmakers are in grave condition following apparent “targeted” shooting, officials say

Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement

2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incident: Officials

Police are investigating two shootings targeting elected officials in Minnesota that could possibly be connected, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bloomington, IN. Come and be heard. Saturday, Jun 14: Monroe County Courthouse. #nokings #democracy