Dave Herman
@davidmherman.bsky.social
Translator, writer, musician, father of three.
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Saw Marc Ribot in concert last night. Consummate artist. A heckler tried to stop him playing Bella Ciao because Charlie Kirk’s assassin wrote the words on a bullet. Ribot refused to allow this classic anti-fascist anthem to be sullied and played on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Gv...
Marc Ribot - "Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)" (feat. Tom Waits)
YouTube video by Pitchfork
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November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Saw Marc Ribot in concert last night. Consummate artist. A heckler tried to stop him playing Bella Ciao because Charlie Kirk’s assassin wrote the words on a bullet. Ribot refused to allow this classic anti-fascist anthem to be sullied and played on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Gv...
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I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).
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November is for reading
or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure
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November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).
naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
Today, if my spam emails are to be believed, I have won an ‘AAA Car Emergency Kit’! Not knowing what this great gift entails, I have looked it up. Underwhelming, frankly. Apart from the transparent poncho, that is. The transparent poncho I want. Remain dry and stylish at the same time. Nice.
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Today, if my spam emails are to be believed, I have won an ‘AAA Car Emergency Kit’! Not knowing what this great gift entails, I have looked it up. Underwhelming, frankly. Apart from the transparent poncho, that is. The transparent poncho I want. Remain dry and stylish at the same time. Nice.
Today my spam email tells me I have won a '170 Piece Stanley Tool Set'. Sorely tempted, but after a moment's reflection... 170 pieces? I Google it. Nice, but no handsaw. I need a new handsaw. So, no thanks. Nice try.
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Today my spam email tells me I have won a '170 Piece Stanley Tool Set'. Sorely tempted, but after a moment's reflection... 170 pieces? I Google it. Nice, but no handsaw. I need a new handsaw. So, no thanks. Nice try.
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László Krasznahorkai, born in Hungary in 1954, has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 and the 2015 International Booker Prize.
Discover his work here: serpentstail.com/contributor/...
Discover his work here: serpentstail.com/contributor/...
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
László Krasznahorkai, born in Hungary in 1954, has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 and the 2015 International Booker Prize.
Discover his work here: serpentstail.com/contributor/...
Discover his work here: serpentstail.com/contributor/...
I keep receiving spam email that really makes me smile. It tells me I have won a fire safety kit. This is such a pleasingly innocent attempt at a scam that I'm almost tempted to click on the link...
September 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I keep receiving spam email that really makes me smile. It tells me I have won a fire safety kit. This is such a pleasingly innocent attempt at a scam that I'm almost tempted to click on the link...
Just finished reading a new novel by a celebrated French author in English translation. I don’t understand how @picadorbooks.bsky.social can release a paperback (i.e., not the first edition) featuring so many typos, missing words and syntax bloopers. Do they no longer employ proofreaders?
September 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just finished reading a new novel by a celebrated French author in English translation. I don’t understand how @picadorbooks.bsky.social can release a paperback (i.e., not the first edition) featuring so many typos, missing words and syntax bloopers. Do they no longer employ proofreaders?
#Autocorrect is yet another mind-popping collection of short stories by #EtgarKeret. Exploring our era from totally novel points of view, leaping in and out of time and reality, but always concise, incisive, irreverent and funny. Highly recommended! Follow him on substack: etgarkeret.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#Autocorrect is yet another mind-popping collection of short stories by #EtgarKeret. Exploring our era from totally novel points of view, leaping in and out of time and reality, but always concise, incisive, irreverent and funny. Highly recommended! Follow him on substack: etgarkeret.substack.com
Very pleased to say a short story of mine was shortlisted for The Letter Review prize! Didn't win, but still a nice little bit of encouragement! letterreview.com/the-letter-r...
The Letter Review Prize Winners October – December 2024 - The Letter Review
It's always such an astonishing joy to publish the winning entries of The Letter Review Prize: We spend months with these works before we are able to experience the thrill of sharing them with our com...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Very pleased to say a short story of mine was shortlisted for The Letter Review prize! Didn't win, but still a nice little bit of encouragement! letterreview.com/the-letter-r...
‘Longlisted’ does not sound glamorous or glitzy, it doesn’t evoke walks of fame or barrels of gold, it doesn’t taste of champagne and petits fours, but it does mean: we have seen you. For a writer this is rocket fuel. Can’t say which title is mine yet… fracturedlit.com/anthology-5-...
Anthology 5 Longlist - Fractured
If these titles are any indication, then you can see how hard it has been getting down to a longlist of 67 flash and micofictions! We can't wait to get our shortlist of 40 to judge, Tara Isabel Zambra...
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May 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
‘Longlisted’ does not sound glamorous or glitzy, it doesn’t evoke walks of fame or barrels of gold, it doesn’t taste of champagne and petits fours, but it does mean: we have seen you. For a writer this is rocket fuel. Can’t say which title is mine yet… fracturedlit.com/anthology-5-...
Some delicious food for thought from Iain McGilchrist on a Monday morning: youtube.com/shorts/MLaz8...
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and The Unmaking of the World #4
YouTube video by Dr Iain McGilchrist
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April 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Some delicious food for thought from Iain McGilchrist on a Monday morning: youtube.com/shorts/MLaz8...
Has anyone else noticed that Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria is actually John Turturro? Or is it just me?
March 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Has anyone else noticed that Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria is actually John Turturro? Or is it just me?
A superb collection of Black Mirror-esque short stories! Dystopian futures – embodied tech, climate disasters, deadly video games – imagined in ways both terrifying and wholly believable, and beautifully crafted. #universallove #alexanderweinstein
March 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A superb collection of Black Mirror-esque short stories! Dystopian futures – embodied tech, climate disasters, deadly video games – imagined in ways both terrifying and wholly believable, and beautifully crafted. #universallove #alexanderweinstein
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‘He is ashamed and also sort of horrified that he is doing this with someone old and ugly like her.’
New fiction by David Szalay.
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New fiction by David Szalay.
granta.com/flesh/
Flesh
‘A moment later he’s aware of the wetness inside his trousers, and then the smell of it. It feels like a disaster, what’s happened.’ Fiction by David Szalay
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February 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
‘He is ashamed and also sort of horrified that he is doing this with someone old and ugly like her.’
New fiction by David Szalay.
granta.com/flesh/
New fiction by David Szalay.
granta.com/flesh/
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Who's getting rich from your mortgage?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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February 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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The aftermath of yesterday's Russian strike on Kherson.
Five people injured, including 13 year old twins. Their mom is still under the debris, rescuers are trying to find her.
Russia attacks Kherson every single day.
Five people injured, including 13 year old twins. Their mom is still under the debris, rescuers are trying to find her.
Russia attacks Kherson every single day.
February 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The aftermath of yesterday's Russian strike on Kherson.
Five people injured, including 13 year old twins. Their mom is still under the debris, rescuers are trying to find her.
Russia attacks Kherson every single day.
Five people injured, including 13 year old twins. Their mom is still under the debris, rescuers are trying to find her.
Russia attacks Kherson every single day.
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I’m launching a sci-fi book club!
February 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I’m launching a sci-fi book club!
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Thousands of people remain without electricity and heating in Odesa after a Russian drone attack last night.
As I write, Russia is waging a new drone attack on Odesa.
As I write, Russia is waging a new drone attack on Odesa.
February 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Thousands of people remain without electricity and heating in Odesa after a Russian drone attack last night.
As I write, Russia is waging a new drone attack on Odesa.
As I write, Russia is waging a new drone attack on Odesa.
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Russian attack on Odesa last night. Civilian infrastructure damaged once more, local authorities reported.
◾️Four people injured;
◾️Children's outpatient facility and daycare badly damaged;
◾️14 schools, 13 daycares, over 500 residential buildings without electricity and heat.
◾️Four people injured;
◾️Children's outpatient facility and daycare badly damaged;
◾️14 schools, 13 daycares, over 500 residential buildings without electricity and heat.
February 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Russian attack on Odesa last night. Civilian infrastructure damaged once more, local authorities reported.
◾️Four people injured;
◾️Children's outpatient facility and daycare badly damaged;
◾️14 schools, 13 daycares, over 500 residential buildings without electricity and heat.
◾️Four people injured;
◾️Children's outpatient facility and daycare badly damaged;
◾️14 schools, 13 daycares, over 500 residential buildings without electricity and heat.
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Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react
youtu.be/KMoCzeGnIss
youtu.be/KMoCzeGnIss
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react
YouTube video by CriminOlly
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February 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react
youtu.be/KMoCzeGnIss
youtu.be/KMoCzeGnIss
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Read the Banned Books, that’s where all the good stuff is!
February 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Read the Banned Books, that’s where all the good stuff is!
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I invite you to a short walk
through the bookstore.
The poems about love of Ukrainian poets
are breathing in the air.
Kyiv doesn’t show off,
Kyiv isn’t afraid.
Kyiv lives.
through the bookstore.
The poems about love of Ukrainian poets
are breathing in the air.
Kyiv doesn’t show off,
Kyiv isn’t afraid.
Kyiv lives.
February 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I invite you to a short walk
through the bookstore.
The poems about love of Ukrainian poets
are breathing in the air.
Kyiv doesn’t show off,
Kyiv isn’t afraid.
Kyiv lives.
through the bookstore.
The poems about love of Ukrainian poets
are breathing in the air.
Kyiv doesn’t show off,
Kyiv isn’t afraid.
Kyiv lives.