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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 13d

It’s @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Virtual Warehouse Sale day!

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 14d

I was fully willing to be public like a frog but it was not to be

Reading Together | Powell's Books

Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 14d

Ha, I wish! I tried reaching out to a few different bookstores to see about doing an event and learned that it’s not so appealing to them if you’re a complete nobody 😂 I had lofty dreams of roadtripping around the east coast on a little book tour, touchingly naive.

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 14d

…And lo and behold, less than an hour later he sent me this link to pre-order it from @powells.bsky.social !!

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A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs she has...

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 14d

I was telling a friend in Portland that while I am very grateful if anyone buys my book, I am EXTRA grateful if they buy it from an indie bookstore! Firstly because I love supporting bookstores, and secondly because that’s likely the best shot I have for getting it onto store shelves…

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 16d

A late summer dahlia from my garden

#Flowers #Dahlias #MagentaMonday #MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #Bloomscrolling #BackyardBlooms #Anthophile #Photography #Edmonds

A large and full muli-petaled magenta colored dahlia with a yellow center. Two greenish colored buds are in front of it and green leaves and stems are all visible.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16d

What a fucking G.

The Marine veteran behind this viral photo at the Chicago ICE protest

The flag-waving Marine was at the anti-ICE protest near Chicago because of his beliefs, and said his training helped him weather tear gas.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20d

Only 3 more days to submit to the roundtable on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century that @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social and I are organizing for the 2026 ASECS. Your abstracts have to go through the ASECS portal, but please reach out to us individually if you're thinking of submitting & have any questions.

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 7

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch
We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period
—its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 22d

Wrote a little about Lisa Ko’s Memory Piece, which is a great story about female friendship and becoming an artist, and also an absolutely terrifying look at the dystopian future awaiting us.

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Memory Piece, Lisa Ko

This is a cool, strange book — a story of three women and their friendship over the years, but also, unexpectedly, a work of sci-fi that sketches a vision of the future that awaits us. Each section…

Toni Cade Bambara: Do you know your neighbor’s name? - Hood Communist

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 7

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · Sep 7

@prisonculture.bsky.social If you haven’t read this, by Toni Cade Bambara’s grandchild Zoe Bambara, I think you’ll appreciate it.

”We do what Grandma Toni taught my momma, and what my momma taught me. We talk to our neighbors.“

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My radical being doesn’t stop when the clock hits 5:00 pm; we have shit to do. Radical organizing will never send you a W2.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

We didn't stop them, but we slowed them down. They got hundreds of us, but we kept them from getting hundreds more, and it wasn't violence or graffiti or insults that did the job, it was regular people getting involved. It was my neighbor the speech therapist, it was my friend the life-coach. 8/

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wrote a little about Danzy Senna’s Colored Television, which is a super interesting novel about artistic ambition and marriage
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Colored Television, Danzy Senna

This is a really interesting novel about ambition and marriage. Also writing, and especially writing for tv, though the Hollywood industry part was more stressful than appealing for me. But this co…

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 29

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I’m no @biblioracle.bsky.social but I do love to tell people about books that I love.

Mixtape #7: Happy Women in Translation Month (2025)

Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 29

Catch me promoting the @openletterbooks.bsky.social sale and some of my favorite #WiTMonth reads for @mid-theory.bsky.social!

Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · Aug 29

August is Women in Translation Month! To celebrate we asked critics, scholars, and translators: what are some of your favorite works written and/or translated by women? Here are some of their recommendations. We hope you would check out a few of these and celebrate women in translation!

August is Women in Translation Month! So for Mixtape #7, we asked critics, scholars, and translators: what are some of your favorite works written and/or translated by women? Here are some of their…

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 29

Cramming in a few more #WiTMonth books — I wrote a little bit about A Singularity by Balsam Karam, tr. Saskia Vogel, pub. @feministpress.bsky.social

I have been reflexively avoiding books lauded as “devastating” but I picked this up knowing nothing about it and it is really incredible.

The Singularity, Balsam Karam, tr. Saskia Vogel

A quietly devastating, but absolutely riveting, book. It begins with the suicide of a woman stricken with grief over her daughter’s disappearance, intertwining her story with those of her rem…

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gah!

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 23

Camping with a bunch of friends and their kids.

S: I hope no one gets hurt, I only brought one band-aid.

T: Oh, I have several boxes.

Me: I didn’t bring any band-aids.

T, lovingly: nobody thought you did, Kasia.

Me: I did bring tinned fish though!

S: That tracks.

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 21

I wrote a little bit about Nan Da’s The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear, a complex and gripping read.

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The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear, Nan Da

This is a remarkable book about the difficulties of understanding King Lear, and also 20th-century Chinese history. It turns out that thinking about them alongside each other is both illuminating a…

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 14

A piece of good news!

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Aug 14

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 14

A cool thing about copy-editors is that they can teach you that it’s HOME in, not HONE in

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sister Deborah, Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. Mark Polizotti

This is terrific — wry, bristly, surprising. It’s a story about a woman, the titular Sister Deborah (though she will prove to have many names throughout the book) who comes to Rwanda from the…