Brian K Goodman
@briankgoodman.bsky.social
Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
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Discount! Book event! Not clips of the president yelling at us!
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Discount! Book event! Not clips of the president yelling at us!
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"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
www.dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
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Kirkus Reviews reviews, quirkily www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
BANNING BOOKS IN AMERICA | Kirkus Reviews
Confronting a “dangerous moment.”
www.kirkusreviews.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Kirkus Reviews reviews, quirkily www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Also, I just discovered this thoughtful review from Peter Bugge in the flagship Czech-language journal ČESKÁ LITERATURA 😅
asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliterat...
asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliterat...
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Also, I just discovered this thoughtful review from Peter Bugge in the flagship Czech-language journal ČESKÁ LITERATURA 😅
asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliterat...
asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliterat...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter...
(Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)
Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter...
(Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)
The Nonconformists — Harvard University Press
How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some indescribable way, we are each ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter...
(Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)
Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter...
(Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)
We move to Budapest in exactly one month... 😬
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We move to Budapest in exactly one month... 😬
Balint on Zipperstein's new bio of Roth: "Roth curated Penguin’s 'Writers From the Other Europe,' smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo Kiš, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz."
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Philip Roth’ Review: The Masks of a Writer
Roth’s fiction drew heavily on his own life and literary reputation in ways that blurred imagination and reality.
www.wsj.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Balint on Zipperstein's new bio of Roth: "Roth curated Penguin’s 'Writers From the Other Europe,' smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo Kiš, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz."
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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🇭🇺 On this day in 1956, Hungarians rose up against Soviet occupation — and showed solidarity with the 🇵🇱 Polish (“lengyel”) nation, whose June 1956 Poznań protests had been crushed.
🎥 Footage: Blinken OSA Archivum, post-colorized by Colorful History (Színes Történelem) YouTube channel
🎥 Footage: Blinken OSA Archivum, post-colorized by Colorful History (Színes Történelem) YouTube channel
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🇭🇺 On this day in 1956, Hungarians rose up against Soviet occupation — and showed solidarity with the 🇵🇱 Polish (“lengyel”) nation, whose June 1956 Poznań protests had been crushed.
🎥 Footage: Blinken OSA Archivum, post-colorized by Colorful History (Színes Történelem) YouTube channel
🎥 Footage: Blinken OSA Archivum, post-colorized by Colorful History (Színes Történelem) YouTube channel
Keep an eye out for this one from Hadji Bakara and @uchicagopress.bsky.social. It’s brilliant and necessary.💡
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
Writing for Dark Times
A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center. At Amnesty International’s headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaney’s “From the Republic of Conscience,” ...
press.uchicago.edu
October 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Keep an eye out for this one from Hadji Bakara and @uchicagopress.bsky.social. It’s brilliant and necessary.💡
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
When I was researching my book in Prague, Ivan Klíma and his wife Helena invited me into their home and talked to me for hours over zázvorová limonáda. Their hospitality was just one reason their apartment was a first stop for visiting US writers like Philip Roth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
When I was researching my book in Prague, Ivan Klíma and his wife Helena invited me into their home and talked to me for hours over zázvorová limonáda. Their hospitality was just one reason their apartment was a first stop for visiting US writers like Philip Roth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
This was a great excuse to finally read Riley’s book on Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe, and man is it a useful corrective on civil society, democracy, and authoritarianism (even if I don’t agree with all of it so far)
New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This was a great excuse to finally read Riley’s book on Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe, and man is it a useful corrective on civil society, democracy, and authoritarianism (even if I don’t agree with all of it so far)
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New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
“Antipolitics is the ethos of civil society, and civil society is the antithesis of military society.”
-György Konrád
-György Konrád
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Antipolitics is the ethos of civil society, and civil society is the antithesis of military society.”
-György Konrád
-György Konrád
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Come hang out at @redemmas.org on Wednesday October 1st!
September 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Come hang out at @redemmas.org on Wednesday October 1st!
Kino Lucerna, Dec. 21, 2013
September 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Kino Lucerna, Dec. 21, 2013
Incredible. Would be so interested to see a deep dive on the period, roughly, between ‘68 and ‘89.
Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
www.publicbooks.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Incredible. Would be so interested to see a deep dive on the period, roughly, between ‘68 and ‘89.
This review made me very curious about what these authors would make of a different liberal socialist tradition from the 20th century: attempts to liberalize state socialism from inside the Eastern bloc (Prague Spring, etc.).
Cool. "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" gets a thoughtful review alongside the great "Citizen Marx" by @brunoleipold.com. For @dissentmag.bsky.social
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...
September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This review made me very curious about what these authors would make of a different liberal socialist tradition from the 20th century: attempts to liberalize state socialism from inside the Eastern bloc (Prague Spring, etc.).
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New at PB: In conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social, @devoney.bsky.social talks about her new book “Wild for Austen,” covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness.
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...
September 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New at PB: In conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social, @devoney.bsky.social talks about her new book “Wild for Austen,” covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness.
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...
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“68 Publishers ‘was far and away the most important of the émigré publishing houses,’ said Derek Sayer. ‘It basically kept Czech literature alive.’ And, Mr. Sayer recalled, Mr. Škvorecký ‘was very insistent’ that ‘[Zdena Salivarová] was the one who kept it going.’”
Unpaywalled: archive.ph/7JJjL
Unpaywalled: archive.ph/7JJjL
August 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“68 Publishers ‘was far and away the most important of the émigré publishing houses,’ said Derek Sayer. ‘It basically kept Czech literature alive.’ And, Mr. Sayer recalled, Mr. Škvorecký ‘was very insistent’ that ‘[Zdena Salivarová] was the one who kept it going.’”
Unpaywalled: archive.ph/7JJjL
Unpaywalled: archive.ph/7JJjL
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August 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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THE NONCONFORMISTS made the Allen Ginsberg Project's weekly round-up: allenginsberg.org/2025/08/f-a-...
Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 732 - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Big news on the William Burroughs front this week – the discovery of his – hitherto unknown – third wife! David S Wills breaks the story on Beatdom. See here for an exclusive excerpt from Thomas Anto...
allenginsberg.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
THE NONCONFORMISTS made the Allen Ginsberg Project's weekly round-up: allenginsberg.org/2025/08/f-a-...
There were no apocalyptic haboobs in Bulgaria this summer. Highly recommend applying to this institute co-sponsored by @acls1919.bsky.social and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
www.acls.org/news/acls-co...
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ACLS Convenes Scholars of East Central and Southeastern Europe for 2025 Summer Institute in Bulgaria
The residency offered 15 scholars time and space to research and writing in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting.
www.acls.org
August 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There were no apocalyptic haboobs in Bulgaria this summer. Highly recommend applying to this institute co-sponsored by @acls1919.bsky.social and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
www.acls.org/news/acls-co...
www.acls.org/news/acls-co...