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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 22h

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.

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...

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

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22h

Lászlóóóóóóóóóóóóóó!

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 23h

(I recognise that last example is not "linguistic"... cultural detritus let's say.)

Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 23h

Actually, I rather like this kind of linguistic detritus--because we don't really "fast forward" anymore, do we? Also expressions like "hang up" the phone. Or the now-meaningless little handset shape, which even small kids understand means "phone", while having no physical sense as to why.

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Read a conversation with Neige Sinno by us for @yalereview.bsky.social here: yalereview.org/article/shak...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 2d

Read a conversation with Neige Sinno by us for @yalereview.bsky.social here: yalereview.org/article/shak...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 3d

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 7d

"I wanted the form, the sentences, the paragraphs to take the form of spirals, never reaching closure."

Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER, which was recently long listed for the National Book Award.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 7d

Always a good day when the boys drop a new episode...

If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 8d

Episode 45: How To Win Friends And Influence People

89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.

How To Win Friends And Influence People

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 10/02/2025 · 1h 10m

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 8d

The beard is back!

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10d

Since they have to “be in work”, will they be exempt from the salary tax deductions that would otherwise pay for the benefits they are not allowed to claim?

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Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social · 10d

Thrilled to announce a dream collaboration dreamed up by me and Adam Biles: @yalereview.bsky.social + @shakespeareandcompany.com .Together, we’ll publish author conversations from the legendary Paris bookshop—beginning with Neige Sinno on her extraordinary Sad Tiger. yalereview.org/article/shak...

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

yalereview.org

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 10d

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with @shakespeareandcompany.com, the legendary Paris bookshop. TYR will publish select transcripts from the shop’s author events. The inaugural installment features Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER—and the paradoxes of story and memory.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

yalereview.org

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10d

Wait until him and his followers find out that a proponent of proto-communism “thousands of years” ago was that Jesus bloke…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10d

We’re so happy to be teaming up with The Yale Review to make some of our best in-store conversations available to read. The first instalment is with the brilliant Neige Sinno whose SAD TIGER is currently shortlisted for the National Book Award.

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 10d

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with @shakespeareandcompany.com, the legendary Paris bookshop. TYR will publish select transcripts from the shop’s author events. The inaugural installment features Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER—and the paradoxes of story and memory.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

yalereview.org

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 13d

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13d

Great response to people who don’t read fiction

(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)

He asked her what book she was reading.
"The Idiot. Do you know it?"
"No. What's it about?"
"It's a novel."
"I'd rather read the truth," he said.
"It is the truth."

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 13d

To celebrate this development, tell us the Fullest Book you’ve ever read? Ulysses, Middlemarch, Moby Dick…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 16d

Are you saying the intersection in the Venn diagram of Harry Hill Fans and people who know how to pronounce David Szalay is not as big as I thought?

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 16d

👏 👏 👏

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 20d

So why not “Oasis suck” in the headline?

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 20d

Genuine question by the way. Is there a grammatical precedent underlying these choices?

Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 20d

I know the use of third-person-singular for groups etc passionately divides Brits and Americans… But shouldn’t the subheading therefore begin “Its songs…”, for consistency?

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 20d

I know the use of third-person-singular for groups etc passionately divides Brits and Americans… But shouldn’t the subheading therefore begin “Its songs…”, for consistency?

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22d

Be existential to each other…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22d

Now do Mason & Dixon…you coward!

(Also Chase Infiniti is a delightfully Pynchonian name…)

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

www.theguardian.com

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 23d

Bon voyage, Bob! 🫡

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