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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 51m

"Truly magnificent" - the author

Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 53m

Got reviewed in the FT and the Times, otherwise the silence has been deafening, as they say. Which is peculiar, for the most important sequence of books of the 21st century so far. Ours is not to reason why, boats against the current, the horror, the horror, etc.

white cover on a red background, golgotha by lavie tidhar, a timeless masterpiece, says the author

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 53m

Got reviewed in the FT and the Times, otherwise the silence has been deafening, as they say. Which is peculiar, for the most important sequence of books of the 21st century so far. Ours is not to reason why, boats against the current, the horror, the horror, etc.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 57m

too handsome for a hugo

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 57m

too risque for a booker

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 57m

ok done

Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 58m

going to put that in my bluesky bio hold on

Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

I'm too young for a Nobel prize

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

I'm too young for a Nobel prize

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

They called him the Count if they called him at all, which they tried very hard not to. Three brides, a Dutch professor of the arcane and a missing European aristo who ran into the wrong end of a Texan's barrel.

I had no business getting involved. But I needed the flies, to catch the spiders.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

"You are Renfield, R.M.?" she said. "The P.I?" She was a statuesque Hungarian, or maybe Moldovan, and there were two more just like her behind her.
"Depends," I said, "on who wants to know."
She let that fly, like a bat. "It's about our husband," she said, "he's gone missing in London."

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

my tribute to Nobel Prize winning almost-winner @adamroberts.bsky.social right there

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

Roses are red
I really need booze

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

New #Shelfies alert! This week, we have Mazin Saleem on Borges, Henderson, Tisdale, George and Mulisch!

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Shelfies #57: Mazin Saleem

The first bookshelf I called my own I built myself

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

"I first met the Count not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead."

Bram Stoker's On The Road

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

reminds me of this tribute to mccarthy i wrote once

He walked out of that door and stood staring at the diminishing sun and he thought back to his childhood how he begged them how he said I want to play with them with the commas and his mother said commas are not toys and his father said youve been a bad boy you cant even have an apostrophe and he said what about speech marks and his mother said no speech marks for you Cormac and he walked outside and stood there like he stood there now watching the blood red sun and blood he thought there must be so much blood at least one per sentence he will show them he didnt need their commas or their speech marks or their stupid apostrophes they were just conventional signs.

He liked full stops though. All that blood. All that blood and short sentences and full stops. But never a comma. Then he went back inside.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

can you dig it, chigurr said.
do i have a choice, dean said. he held the shovel. there was blood on his face. the moon shone down red. dig, chigurr said.
dean dug.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

Now I'm wondering what a McCarthy/Kerouac mashup would look like

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

though i did do a fun parody of the style in an excerpt in The Circumference of the World

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1h

"Why, darling," he said, his voice softening. "We're living, that's all. We're just... living. And when you're living, you're digging everything there is to dig."

I'm reminded just how much I cordially dislike Kerouac and On The Road.

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

www.theguardian.com

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1d

giant space opera (tm) update - still making stuff up. so much stuff. so. much. stuuufff...

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1d

Do you accept forint

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1d

you should write in a more compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art, Adam

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1d

I literally just looked at the results and thought, I can't BELIEVE Adam didn't win, again!

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book day!

E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 1d

When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year.

I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍

ejswift.co.uk/2025/10/09/w...

Hardback edition of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift, with cover featuring a wolf and branch/leaf/flower design, photographed in the garden with the author's cat in the background being dramatic

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 1d

galactic internet. link in comets.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 2d

How did I not know about Gerald Kersh? I'm reading Night and the City now, it's a freakin' masterpiece

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