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Hari Kunzru

@harikunzru.bsky.social

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Writer. Immigrant. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. www.falloffreedom.com

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Dec 31

A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...

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Cover of Blue Ruin, black sans serif font, reflected in a kind of silvery mirror. A novel by Hari Kunzru, designed by John Gall, with a face emerging from clouds by Chad Wys.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2h

This has the right amount of gold and the inscription is perfect

Gold triumphal arch, probably AI generated. Inscription reads “Lorem Ipsum”

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2h

I guess it would fit right in with the fashy Neoclassicism of the rest of DC's federal zone

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2h

The 'Arc de Trump' news has a kind of nauseating inevitability. It really was only a matter of time before some kind of Albert Speer style Germania plan bubbled up in MAGA brains.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2h

Project 2029:

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 21h

My 4 part private lecture series has a lot of people asking questions already answered in my 4 part private lecture series

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 21h

Obviously this is exactly what the actual Antichrist would say

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 21h

“ Do you think Trump is the Antichrist?" Thiel mused at one point. "I will give you a hearing. And we should consider that." www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Style tip: if you are a writer or editor describing a law or constitutional clause as a ‘longstanding norm’ you are helping end the republic.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 1d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d

One reason the One Special Boy thinks he can just issue Executive Orders to do whatever he wants is because he keeps issuing Executive Orders & doing whatever he wants - in obvious violation of the law & Constitution - & no one who swore oaths to country & Constitution is doing anything about it.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

i reviewed LK’s Seiobo There Below, which showed the swerve in his work after communism fell and he was finally able to travel www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...

Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai review – an exhilarating experience

The winner of this week’s Man Booker International prize has an extraordinary intensity unsurpassed in English-language fiction

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Adding in some other LK pieces into the thread. A recent short interview with TYR bsky.app/profile/yale...

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 1d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

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László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Nice!

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, they’ll be baking a fresh potato in the Krasznahorkai household tonight

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Worth checking out that video for the home made instrument and the AM radio feedback

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

He’s actually very funny too. Last year I interviewed him for an event at Paula Cooper with an outsider musician friend of his and Patti Smith paulacoopergallery-studio.com/posts/about-...

December 10: László Krasznahorkai—Herscht 07769 — PCG Studio

Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Hari Kunzru to discuss his new book Herscht 07769 (New Directions, 2024), with a performance by Viktor Lois...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 3d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Habeas corpus? Never knew her

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

And let’s not even get into what Blake thought of STEM

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

Trouble is you soon stumble on Blake and Shelley and before you know it you’re telling pater and mater how mill owners are dark and satanic and the Peterloo massacre was bad actually

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

It might be fun to spin up a Tory alt and post about how you can’t truly love your country unless you love English Literature www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_g...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

I understand that Kemi Badenoch hates people like me and wants to stop more of us being formed, but even on conservative terms she’s a fool. If she’d read some Burke she might be skeptical that a nation can be held together with business studies and comp sci

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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