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Lara Pawson

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Writer #stopthegenocidenow #freepalestine #sisterhoodnotcisterhood https://larapawson.com/

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · Jul 1

"As If Proust Dipped His Madeleine in LSD"
Thank you Steven van Ammel for this fabulous 4**** review for Verbruikt Licht (aka @cbeditions.bsky.social Spent Light) published by Koppernik in the Netherlands & Belgium. Best headline ever!

“Alsof Proust zijn madeleine in lsd sopt”: ‘Verbruikt licht’ van Lara Pawson is een boek vol excessen dat onder de huid kruipt ★★★★☆

Als de pepermolen aan een handgranaat doet denken en de kookwekker martelfantasieën oproept, weet je dat je te maken hebt met een boek over trauma.

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 1h

Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social has used strict word constraints to write enchanting books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Let Me Tell You also became this astonishingly beautiful & strange work of music created by Hans Abrahamsen. Be mesmerised.

Abrahamsen: Let me tell you with Barbara Hannigan

Enjoy Hans Abrahamsen’s piece “let me tell you” with lyrics by Paul Griffiths, conducted by Kent Nagano. Recorded for GSOplay in Gothenburg Concert Hall in 2014 – with the amazing Barbara Hannigan as ...

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

Hell, yeah!

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously saluting the Jane Fonda work-out: "This is the most frightening moment of my life... The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group backed by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 3d

It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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georgeszirtes.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social · 3d

CELEBRATING LK

In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,

but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken

breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,

spouting as it dives.

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. I'm out of town for this.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

I just hope he shares the cash with his translators.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Also, you're real and your hair (is looking fantastic!).

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...