Rob Madole
@robmadole.bsky.social
Writer & translator in Berlin /// work in NYT Mag, The Baffler, The Point, Texas Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, &c /// www.rob-madole.com
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I’ve been lucky enough to read SOFT POWER in draft and it’s such a good novel - so clever and fun and absorbing. Can‘t wait for it to be out in world and getting the love it deserves.
My novel is coming out with Melville House next year and I’m very excited to share it with you!
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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My novel is coming out with Melville House next year and I’m very excited to share it with you!
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My novel is coming out with Melville House next year and I’m very excited to share it with you!
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October 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
happy birth
day you li
ke jazz now an
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ou read non
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are a lawyer!
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are a lawyer!
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I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel
What a great night listening to @gabrielflynn.bsky.social discuss his debut novel Poor Ghost with Aidan Cottrell-Boyce. Touching on class, storytelling and Gabriel's evocative depiction of Manchester (fishing for hand grenades with magnets, anyone?). Pick up a signed copy while you can!
June 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel
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I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.
The film The Klezmer Project, writes Sanders Isaac Bernstein, suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past.
Now online from our Fall/Winter 2024 issue:
Now online from our Fall/Winter 2024 issue:
Sonic Bloom
The film The Klezmer Project suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish…
jewishcurrents.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.
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Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!
My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.
I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.
I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
May 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!
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Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...
Spectral analysis: Gabriel Flynn's gentrified ghouls - The Berliner
The struggling characters in the Berlin-based author's debut novel 'Poor Ghost!' are as haunted by their austere past as they are wary of Manchester's foreclosed future.
www.the-berliner.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...
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Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.
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"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...
Down Under in Berlin: Reflections on why readings matter - The Berliner
Books critic and native Australian Alexander Wells has curated a unique festival celebrating literature from Australia and Aotearoa. Here's why you can't miss it.
www.the-berliner.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...
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'a remarkable new novel ... think In Cold Blood meets Grand Theft Auto with the psychological complexity and moral anguish of Dostoevsky and inputs from third-wave feminists.' Another wonderful review of @vijaykhurana.bsky.social's The Passenger Seat. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
There’s Power in Male Bonding. Must There Be Menace? | The Tyee
Two stirring books update crime noir by illuminating dark corners of modern masculinity.
thetyee.ca
April 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'a remarkable new novel ... think In Cold Blood meets Grand Theft Auto with the psychological complexity and moral anguish of Dostoevsky and inputs from third-wave feminists.' Another wonderful review of @vijaykhurana.bsky.social's The Passenger Seat. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
early version of Moviefone introduced by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1952. You'd call 115 to hear the movie listings played back on an "Assmann" magnetic disc recorder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8I...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8I...
Kinoansage der Deutschen Bundespost im Auftrag der Deutschen Postreklame
YouTube video by GeSt TelekomHistorik
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March 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
early version of Moviefone introduced by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1952. You'd call 115 to hear the movie listings played back on an "Assmann" magnetic disc recorder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8I...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8I...
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Viktor Orbán's Hungary: scourge of the EU, role model for the US right. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about how the Orbán regime seeks legitimacy by telling dodgy stories about the 20th century—stories not all so different from those that we've been telling in the West
thebaffler.com/salvos/house...
thebaffler.com/salvos/house...
House of the Rising Hun | Alexander Wells
In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.
thebaffler.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Viktor Orbán's Hungary: scourge of the EU, role model for the US right. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about how the Orbán regime seeks legitimacy by telling dodgy stories about the 20th century—stories not all so different from those that we've been telling in the West
thebaffler.com/salvos/house...
thebaffler.com/salvos/house...
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Fidesz wants to "substitute gulag for Auschwitz, to make ideas like redistribution and internationalism just as politically taboo as antisemitism and eugenics"
Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com
Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com
House of the Rising Hun | Alexander Wells
In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.
thebaffler.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fidesz wants to "substitute gulag for Auschwitz, to make ideas like redistribution and internationalism just as politically taboo as antisemitism and eugenics"
Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com
Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com
not a single podcast about Lucky Per in the entire Anglosphere .... outrageous
March 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
not a single podcast about Lucky Per in the entire Anglosphere .... outrageous
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Berliners, my novel is coming out in two months and I'm throwing a launch party at @lettretage.de with my great pal @ajbwells.bsky.social. Come along!
March 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Berliners, my novel is coming out in two months and I'm throwing a launch party at @lettretage.de with my great pal @ajbwells.bsky.social. Come along!
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Just so you know, despite the CDU’s culture cuts, there are still some cheap seats at Berlin‘s theaters…my most recent column for @exberliner.bsky.social
www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...
www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...
Cheap seats: How the Berlin theatre is fighting against culture cuts - The Berliner
Despite the CDU-led culture cuts, you can still find cheap seats at the theatre in Berlin, if you know where to look.
www.the-berliner.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just so you know, despite the CDU’s culture cuts, there are still some cheap seats at Berlin‘s theaters…my most recent column for @exberliner.bsky.social
www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...
www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...
BREAKING NEWS: BERLIN
March 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
BREAKING NEWS: BERLIN
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Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.
THE PASSENGER SEAT by Vijay Khurana is out today! A searing examination of male friendship and masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness, the NYT called it "unsettling and powerful" and the Literary Review of Canada said it "will both mesmerize and refuse comforting resolution."
March 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.
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microphones in late Weimar films
Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)
Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
microphones in late Weimar films
Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)
Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)
where were you when they came for Schröders Data Shop
March 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
where were you when they came for Schröders Data Shop
“If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence.”
March 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence.”
