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D. A. Powell

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Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️‍🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 3h

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work that, “in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

David Schurman Wallace reviewed his grim and funny “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming” on our site back in 2019.

Dust to Dust | David Schurman Wallace

Sitting for a while with your earthly meaninglessness in the face of László Krasznahorkai’s fiction is oddly sobering, even calming.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3h

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” https://to.pbs.org/473vZah

WATCH: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

The 71-year-old Krasznahorkai is the first Hungarian winner since 2002. He has previously received the Man Booker International Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the U.S.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 3h

Betty Buckley plays the coach who looks out for Carrie and protects her from being bullied.

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely. That scene where Carrie and Tommy dance together at the prom caused a little vertigo. Hadn't seen it on a big screen in probably ten years or more.

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 8h

I think of Scatman Crothers in The Shining a lot!

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MattyDrawsMore @mattydrawsmore.bsky.social · 12h

Inktober 2025 Day 9: Heavy

Poor old Atlas, scoring off the centuries as he holds up the heavens for all eternity

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktoberheavy

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12h

Who's someone whose performance provides the bulk of the humanity in a great horror movie. My pick: Betty Buckley in "Carrie."

Brian DePalma's Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 2d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 17h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12h

Me and @randallmann.bsky.social just got out of a showing of Carrie at the @voguetheatersf.bsky.social

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12h

Portland Pepper Frog for Pres

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12h

This is the perfect time of year to get new jammies.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 18h

Halloween is at hand. San Francisco is putting on its glorious Fall colors. Blood red, puke green, hiway emergency orange, mystic eye purple. And more blood red.

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Losing the touch 😞

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

relatable 😷

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Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 1d

"I’m promoting banned/challenged books for the whole month of October. I have a post it note inside each book explaining why it has come under scrutiny. I think it deserves more than a week to be recognized." -Pam S.

Join us in celebrating the freedom of expression: https://lflib.org/bbw

Bookshelves wrapped in yellow caution tape with signs labeling sections as challenged or banned adult, children's, graphic novels, picture, and YA books.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

Is that the underside of the elephant 🐘

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect for Banned Books Week -- John Waters reads from Lady Chatterly's Lover at City Lights, 2013.

John Waters reads from Lady Chatterley's Lover at City Lights Books

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

This is Penguin-level corruption.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

They should serve them with wax beans.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

I love the heat 🌶️

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

Gin and grapefruit juice with a shot of Tabasco.

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