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LibraryReads @libraryreads.bsky.social · Jul 15

Next on the LibraryReads August 2025 Hall of Fame list is KATABASIS by R. F. Kuang! @librarylovefest.bsky.social

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jul 11

So I know that I am super late to this, but I just finished reading Babel by @rfkuang.bsky.social, and it's one hell of a book.

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Distópolis 📚 Temporada XI @distopolis.bsky.social · Jun 23

La Editorial Hidra anuncia para el 1 de septiembre la publicación de la novela CATÁBASIS de R.F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social, una historia a medio camino entre el LA DIVINA COMEDIA de Dante y PIRANESI de Susanna Clarke:
t.co/PxVkRwZrbj #Catábasis #RebeccaFKuang #Katabasis

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · May 12

first time doing book events ever in : Austin, Indianpolis, Chicago, Nashville, San Diego, Calgary, and Hamilton. i'm very excited!

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · May 12

i'm going on tour in the US/UK/Canada for KATABAISS in late August/September ❤️ all the dates, locations, and ticket links are up now: smarturl.it/2F5F7c

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Mar 21

thank you, Heide!! i hope we'll get to see each other in September :)

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Heide Franck @heidefranck.bsky.social · Mar 20

Noch basteln wir an der Übersetzung, Alexandra Jordan und ich 😊 Und das Buch ist vollgepackt mit witzigen Zitaten, klugen Anspielungen, wissenswerten Haupt- und Nebensächlichkeiten. Wie man‘s kennt von @rfkuang.bsky.social 😌🤓

Eichborn Verlag @eichbornverlag.bsky.social · Mar 14

Wir bereiten da gerade was vor.
Das Buch kann ab sofort in den Buchhandlungen eures Vertrauens vorbestellt werden.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · Feb 18

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation

Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

www.insidehighered.com

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Feb 12

Lauren is wonderful. Querying authors, note:

Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · Feb 12

It's #MSWL day! I represent adult SF, fantasy, and horror; also open to mainstream fiction with genre elements, or a deeply surreal/speculative flavor. This year, I hope to expand into romance and mystery, esp. with speculative elements. I like books to be smart, fun, and weird.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · Feb 8

This is a recommendation for #MathSky and anyone else who likes to read or works in academia.

R. F. Kuang's Katabasis comes out this August. The cover has just been revealed. See that Penrose staircase? There will be much more math inside, I promise. Along with searing commentary and a great story.

Cover of the novel Katabasis by R. F. Kuang.

View is of a square tower, looking down from above. The bottom of the tower recedes into the distance, suggesting the infinity of a Sisyphean task. An impossible Penrose staircase goes around the top of the tower. Inside more staircases are visible, possibly also Penrose staircases; maybe they're all the same staircase and the distinction is an illusion. One figure, apparently female, runs along the staircase at the top. Another figure, apparently male, appears to be one level lower and is writing mathematical equations on an endless row of blackboards. Pages blow off of a stack of papers that is placed on the top of the tower, suggesting a thesis that is both unfinished and about to be lost. The pages encircle the tower and emerge towards the viewer, inviting—urging even—a deeper exploration into this hellish vision of academia.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 6

"Rejecting identitarianism...means abandoning the neoliberal dream of impeccably multicolored boardrooms. But it does not mean retreating into a tone-deaf class-only politics."

myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...

What’s New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t) – Spectre Journal

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Enzo Rossi explain how "woke" racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.

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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · Feb 5

Congrats to @rfkuang.bsky.social on another amazing release! Pre-order your copy of this stunning edition of "Katabasis" (out 8/2025) from our website and have it signed or personalized 🖋️ www.harvard.com/rf-kuang-sig...

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Jan 28

i enjoyed that chat so much. thanks, Lee!

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Lee Snelgrove @leesnelgrove.bsky.social · Jan 28

I had the privilege to ask some questions of @rfkuang.bsky.social at Richland Library for our Off Book series. I particularly love the answer about how different languages mark the passing with time. youtu.be/DDeBqV-U0V8?...

OFF BOOK: Rebecca F Kuang

YouTube video by Richland Library

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Dec 21

aww Anton! readers definitely feel that way about you already. i enjoyed that panel so much. hope we get to do it again soon!!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Dec 19

With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Brand Management: International Bestsellers and the Death of the Author, Again

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Dec 10

"Where 'Shanghailanders' spins outwards across time and space, 'Tiananmen Square' enters squarely into a saturated discourse about one particular time and place: Tiananmen Square, June 1989." Rebecca Kuang reviews "Tiananmen Square" and "Shanghailanders." lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...

From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Dec 8

i wrote about Juli Min's SHANGHAILANDERS and Lai Wen's TIANANMEN SQUARE, two debut novels from this past year that i enjoyed greatly

lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...

From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Dec 6

Just up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, an engaging essay on two novels, Shanghailanders and Tiananmen Square, reviewed astutely by @rfkuang.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...

From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Nov 30

i have two more public events upcoming this year, one in NOLA and one in NYC. tickets and more event details linked here, and please excuse the NOLA graphic for being so extra - I did not make it but I am flattered 🙈

NOLA: kuangrf.eventbrite.com
NYC: firstgoldendaybnusq.eventbrite.com

B&N Union Square
Five Golden Days of Author Signings
Monday, December 16th at 3PM

NOLA
December 7th at 4:00 pm
Baldwin & Co
https://kuangrf.eventbrite.com

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Zakirah Alam @booksloth.bsky.social · Nov 20

Collector’s edition of THE POPPY WAR looks especially beautiful in the winter sun @rfkuang.bsky.social

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TolkienMundo 📖 @tolkienmundo.bsky.social · Nov 20

Las palabras cuentan historias. En concreto, la historia de esas palabras -cómo empezaron a usarse y cómo su significado se transformó en lo que significan hoy- nos cuentan tanto o más sobre un pueblo que cualquier otro tipo de artefacto histórico.

Babel - @rfkuang.bsky.social

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Lucy Woolhouse (she/her) @lucywoolhouse.bsky.social · Nov 20

My Collector's Edition of @rfkuang.bsky.social's The Poppy War came yesterday - and it is STUNNING! I had completely forgotten it was illustrated so that was a lovely surprise. Fingers crossed they do the other two as well! #Booksky 📚💙

Front cover of the Collector's Edition of The Poppy War by RF Kuang - a girl is jumping in a battle stance with a sword in one hand and fire in the other. A phoenix flies above her and in the background is an army.

The edges of the book are painted with flames.

A hand drawn illustration of two armies facing off against each other. One is mounted, the other armed with bows and arrows. They are surrounded by mountains.

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Nov 20

anyways, i am currently writing a Novel About a City, and trying to read as many Novels About (real) Cities as I can – eg Ben Lerner's LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION, Elif Batuman's THE IDIOT, Katie Kitamura's INTIMACIES, Teju Cole's OPEN CITY... any recommendations, particularly for cities in Asia?

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Rebecca F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social · Nov 20

(i dipped into threads briefly to see what was going on there...what a mess!)

i will use this space to chat about interesting books and re-share knowledge from thinkers and activists who i learned something from. i really missed having a social space in which to think out loud!

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