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Anyway, was reading this article because I’d begged my Knopf editor for years to reissue English translations of Camus’ notebooks and he told me, with some relief, that UCP were doing them soon. Then I forgot he told me and didn’t check until just now 😂 Ordered! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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I wonder if this comes from religion—all of our major prophets (Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad) are humans abstracted into divine “silhouettes,” to use Camus’ term. But doesn’t language reduce all of us to silhouettes and caricatures… even, dare I whisper to myself, literary language?

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This is an old dichotomy (I don’t think anyone really believes in it anymore) but the article is interesting in how it describes authors (Camus in this case) are abstracted into ideals by readers and society when they are, in truth, flawed and feeling humans and should be read and understood as such

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Fame! A Misunderstanding | Los Angeles Review of Books

“The philosopher proceeds by explaining and solving away the experience (by reducing it to a mere concept, an abstraction) while the artist resists such attempts at escape (accepting the impossibility of such conceptual closure) and is concerned simply with the act of experiencing and describing.”

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Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective.

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Just showing you the exact location (in the gap at the top) where my copy of this book will live

Four coffee table books stacked inside a coffee table

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I love the pyramid crew! And Corpsefall is so fascinating, a really neat character to the end! So much to talk about with this series…!

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Björk should've sued the army

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The number of times I have actually done this is veering toward "grounds for eviction" territory

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Yay! I hope you'll be pleased with Redacted's continuing journey and how they work through their very sticky conflicts. The author is hilarious in that he clearly loves Redacted as a character but is always trying to make Redacted's life more difficult 😂 Being king is hard! All that tear drinking...

Somewhat reductively: most human beings are human bodies that learn how to have minds, while Panit is a mind that learns how to have a human body (how words "feel"). Best illustrated in this excerpt. The Japanese paperback-format Nomad edition is on sale now: www.harpercollins.com/products/tow...

How could humans stand how madly beautiful the world was?
I was briefly overcome.
When the effect began to subside to manageable levels, I realized that I was also feeling textures. I felt the silky cotton sheets against my skin, the breath inside me, my heart beating in my chest.
My breath. My heart. My beating pulse.
I spent a long moment in stillness simply feeling the air being drawn in and out of my lungs, feeling my beating heart, marveling at my own pulse. I slowly moved my eyes from the movement of the waves to the clouds, and to the folds of shadow in the thick white comforter.
Every millimeter of movement was excruciatingly painful, just as Dr. Beeko had feared, but that pain, too, was receding as the seconds passed and my consciousness eased into the reaches of my physical, nanite brain. It felt as if my mind was stretching into a tight space and expanding it, like a hand into a rubber glove. I found myself having muscle memories that were clearly not mine, ideas of how to move my body.
When I finally felt confident enough, I slowly brought my
right hand before my face. It was a pale hand.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Shakespeare. The superstitious play, not to be referred to by name. It was not a nineteenth-century work, in other words not

my area of expertise, but the Bard had been quoted often enough back then to be considered essential text, much like the King James Bible. The quote came to me not as readily as it had before, but when it did, it had a force and clarity that knocked the breath out of me. My now literal breath.
This was where my new body pushed me onto a completely
unexpected sensibility, a new plane of being.
I suddenly realized that I understood the words like I'd never understood them before. The multitudinous seas incarnadine.
Words that were not simply bits of cross-referential information but each a thing of living, breathing, tactile emotion. I felt these words against my skin as if they were physical objects, or as if they were light passing through the prism of my body and shattering into the spectrum. Had I ever truly understood any word before, ever? How could I have claimed to have made a study of poetry or that this study had made me human when I had never understood what it meant to feel words?
Twenty minutes passed as my thoughts and new emotions coalesced into a manageable equilibrium. This new body was like a drug. It enhanced some kinds of thought and dulled others. I could not do calculations like I used to, but I kept feeling new, subtle textures to my thoughts that shifted my thinking into strange directions and associations. Later on, I recognized these textures as emotions. It was the longest twenty minutes I had ever lived, half a lifetime in 1,200 seconds.
I was soon feeling strong enough to venture out of the bed. I was still unsure of my body and ended up sliding out between the sheets and onto the floor. I had never had to stand up before.

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Toward Eternity was written before LLMs entered the discourse. Readers have asked if I am pro or con large language models; simply put, I don't consider Panit to be an evolved LLM. Dr. Mali Beeko wonders about this but comes down on No—he is a machine that learns how to feel. LLMs don't *feel*.

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ness the clown @carvingclown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh I hate LLMs, burn them all to the ground 👍🏼 The Panit character is cute and all, but his intellect *is* eventually used in a specicide to destroy all of humanity, even if that intellect is also what preserves Yonghun's love for Prasert for eternity. Thank you for reading Toward Eternity!

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aoooough i just finished book two (out in january), puh-leeeease somebody come talk to me about this series @antonhur.com

book cover of 'the heart of the nhaga' by lee young-do. a cool guy with cool sword that's two swords stuck together is buffeted by stylistic wind, and a crooked tower looms over a bridge. it looks cool as hell, you should probably read it

the cover of 'those who prepare the way' by lee young-do. a cool and happy fire spirit guy watches some other fire spirit guys wrestle. it looks cool as hell

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 27/09/2026

😂 Yes indeed the king is [redacted]! An amazing twist

sylle 🌕 @cal3dfwlch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Just finished Anton Hur's Toward Eternity. I love it the way I love Rakesfall, and Mammoths at the Gates, and Embassytown... which is to say, a whole hell of a lot. Jiminy Christmas. I wasn't expecting to cry this much from joy and of sadness! I need a drink (of water)!

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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The scammer (whether it's I-can't-spell-his-name or not) also sent me the first page of my novel before it went to printers (they used an older version) but I don't think it has impacted sales or reception or anything. You would also think the Times would reach out to Flipper Bandana for comment?

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"Sarah has been marked safe from British Airways"

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I still think about that blue tweed blazer you wore to our event, so classy ✨

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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That’s the price of a typical return flight between Detroit and Seoul

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Thank you, Christine! I’m so honored you read our little book!

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/09/2026

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🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 With its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, Bora Chung's novel in ghost stories (translated by @antonhur.com) gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies.

A photo of the book Midnight Timetable, standing on a black shelf next to a glass vase with two pink-orange flowers and some greenery.

"What we can see and hear and touch in this world is very limited. And so perhaps it’s true we don’t know much about the world at all. We like to say there’s nothing new under the sun, but we don’t have the slightest inkling of how many things there are, indeed, under the sun."

from Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can help Abood's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving, sick, & homeless. Abood is disabled with special needs, at risk from severe seizures, and urgently needs medical attention his family can't afford:

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Support for the Nurse and My Brother Abood

Hi! My name is Hammam Al-Shanti.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 24/09/2026

Thank you, Ash! The final part is coming out this year and it really does come together in an amazing way!

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Ash⁷ @arajellybean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading Blood of the Old Kings today by @sung-il-kim.com (translated by @antonhur.com) and it's really really good. I am very curious how these three people are gonna interact with each other, because their stories are so different...

A copy of Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim on a couch with a Yoongi photocard poking out

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23/09/2026

No I mean she had wine in her hotel in Iceland

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23/09/2026

I think she had wine in her hotel at some point but yes

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23/09/2026

Sarah flying British Airways is genuinely worse than that time she got caught up in an attempted military coup

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 22/09/2026

I guess that’s basically what happened here. I was so bored in the shower that I came up with my debut novel. LET’S PUT DOWN OUR PHONES AND BE BORED!!!!!

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 22/09/2026

TIL that an initial state of boredom is essential to enter Csíkszentmihályi flow state. No wonder I work better closer to deadline/EoD, only then do I force myself through the boredom, which makes me achieve flow state—completely incidentally. Achieve flow state deliberately by embracing boredom!

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Your phone addiction is keeping you from achieving flow state | Arthur Brooks

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 22/09/2026

me: what's the korean word for 'magnolia tree' brain: 버들나무 me: no it's not brain: 버들나무 me: NO IT'S NOT STOP SAYING THAT brain: 버들나무 버들나무 버들나무 lol fine it's 벚나무 me: *sets phaser to kill*

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a stupid piece of shit. Fuck him.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can help save Mahmoud's mother's life by sharing & donating. She was severely injured by Israel's endless genocidal airstrikes on civilians, & urgently needs surgery. They need $300:

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💚 Help Mahmoud Care for His Family and Four Orphaned Children

My name is Mahmoud Mohammed, and I am from northern Gaza.

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Same cover, same font, same illustrations! The cover is matte and not glossy, and the paper quality is finer, but it’s like being 8 y/o again!

Reissued Choose Your Own Adventure, The Mystery of Chimney Rock, cover

Inside of The Mystery of Chimney Rock, illustration of black cat

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They're reissuing the classic ones—are you saying they changed the insides? Or just the new matte covers?

I have the windows open tonight because the air is so nice and cool and I am learning that: 1) Everyone in our apartment building owns the Schubert-singing Samsung washing machine line and 2) everyone is doing their laundry tonight

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