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Love books, feminism, human rights, culture. Occasional book/film reviewer (bobbygw.com). Like Winnie the Pooh, I'm a 'Bear of very Little Brain, & long Words bother me.' Ahem. A curator of feminism, writers & books at www.scoop.it/u/bobbygw

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How an army librarian brought literature to World War II’s front lines.
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How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading to the Front Lines
In September 1942, Army Chief Librarian Ray Trautman was on the final leg of a world tour of US installations when he arrived in Australia. Here, his mission was twofold: take the temperature of th…
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#booksky #AnneCarson 2/2 Before today's stellar announcement, Carson ​had already won two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the PEN/Nabokov Award, the Princess of Asturias Award, and the 2025 Paris Review Hadada Prize for lifetime achievement.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#booksky for #NobelPrize #womenwriters #AnneCarson 📚💙 1 of 2 Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026. The world's most prestigious literature prize goes to the Canadian poet, essayist known for genre-defying works such as Autobiography of Red. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
Photograph of Anne Carson, award-winning poet-essayist, who has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#booksky for #NobelPrize #womenwriters #poetrylovers #booklovers 📚💙 Anne Carson, the genre-bending “bold and inventive” Canadian writer, wins Nobel Prize in literature. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/s...
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Anne Carson, the genre-bending Canadian writer, wins Nobel Prize in literature | CNN
Anne Carson, the Canadian writer and classicist whose work blends verse, prose and essay with influences from classical myths, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature for her “bold and inventive oe...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
#booksky highly recommended for literary #thrillers #spyfiction #LenDeighton #booklovers 📚💙 Many of Len Deighton’s novels are available from Grove/Atlantic. groveatlantic.com/author/len-d...
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Len Deighton | Grove Atlantic
At the Royal College of Art his teachers called him subversive, but it was his first novel — The Ipcress File — that sealed...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
#booksky highly recommended for literary #thrillers #spyfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary: Len Deighton has died aged 97. He was a giant of modern classics with bestselling thrillers & spy fiction (among other works of fiction & nonfiction). wapo.st/4uEBmYu & www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
A montage of UK paperback covers of many of Len Deighton’s bestselling novels between 1962-1996. Credit: @EdwardHMOPhoto of Len Deighton
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#booksky Highly recommended for the happily voracious among us - I'm one - who love reading multiple books on the go rather than just one at a time. Nom nom nom. Yum. #booklovers 📚💙
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/03/2026
‘As a friend of mine said, misogyny is like water: stop up one leak, and it will spill out somewhere else. If a man is inclined to sexual abuse, he probably won’t lack chances.’ Susan Pedersen on Epstein and entitlement. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Susan Pedersen · Diary: Men explain Epstein to me
You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or...
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In this episode, Nate speaks with primatologist and author @christinewebb.bsky.social about human exceptionalism – the deeply embedded belief that humans are separate from and superior to the rest of nature. www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#booksky for #shortstories #booklovers #HybridFiction #weirdfiction 📚💙 Kierkegaardian dread & alienation: Reflections on You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison. bobbygw.com/2026/03/07/y...
Book cover of You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#booksky for #wellbeing #selfhelp #womenwriters 📚💙 Obituary: Margareta Magnusson,91, Dies. She Wrote of Cleaning Up Before Dying. Her bestselling book encouraged people to tidy up homes & lives as death approached - as a gift for loved ones & to revisit memories. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
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Margareta Magnusson,91, Dies; Wrote of Cleaning Up Before Dying
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Lisa @runtalien.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hey, it’s me! I wrote that! #booksky
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Obituary: António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83. In an award-winning career, he was the author of dozens of novels that grappled with Portugal’s legacy of dictatorship & colonialism. bit.ly/4licZeD
"Antunes...deserves to be embraced by all serious readers of literary fiction. A brilliant performance."  The Washington Post

Mr. Antunes' 1996 novel, The Inquisitors' Manual explored the testimony of a brutal official of Portugal's Salazar dictatorship. Mr. Antunes in 2018. His novels, especially the early ones, were a no-holds-barred exposure of suppressed truths about the hypocrisies of Portuguese society.  Photo credit: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images. Mr. Antunes's 2001 novel, What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?, translated by Gregory Rabassa, depicted the uneasy mental excursions of the son of a Lisbon transvestite.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
Painted portrait of the upper half of a white woman with dark hair tied, dressed  in grey top
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#Highly recommended #WomensRights #feminism #activism #Iran♀️✊💙 Women's Rights in Iran: a highly recommended independent annual report offers a recap of events in 2025 as related to women’s rights in Iran. wncri.org/2026/03/03/a...
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Annual Report 2026: From Protests, to Uprising, and the Role of Iranian Women
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A great question. I'm sure there'll be books forthcoming, even if they're only collected stories, or new editions with new intros. Do hope you manage to read the fourth Hyperion. Am always in awe of how remarkably he succeeds in different genres (I'm reading Drood at the moment, and enjoying it).
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#booksky for #booklovers 📚💙 How authors can protect themselves from scams, according to a book publicist. lithub.com/how-authors-...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #movies #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Tom Hanks will play Abe Lincoln in his movie adaptation of George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo. lithub.com/tom-hanks-wi...
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Tom Hanks will play Abe Lincoln in his adaptation of George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo.
Looks like President Lincoln’s distinctive stovepipe top hat is about to become a stovepipe Tom hat. According to Variety, Nice Guy Actor Tom Hanks is set to play the mourning President Linco…
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#booksky for #sciencefiction #horrorfiction #fantasyfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary: Dan Simmons, Prolific, Acclaimed, Multi-Award-Winning Novelist - and Known Especially for His ‘Hyperion Cantos’ Series - Dies at 77. www.booknotification.com/news/dan-sim...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#booksky for #shortstories #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Bookshop US link to buy *Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff bookshop.org/a/102959/978...
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Brawler: Stories
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#booksky recommended for #shortstories #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 LARB Podcast Interview: Bestselling author Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies, Matrix, The Vaster Wilds) on Brawler*, her approach to writing stories, Flannery O'Connor, & more. lareviewofbooks.org/av/lauren-gr...
Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff. 

Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region -- from New England to Florida to California -- these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels.

“In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples’ good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can.

Precise, surprising, and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, Brawler reveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #health #wellbeing #culture #arts #goodlife 📚💙 Bookshop US link to buy Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives by *Daisy Fancourt. bookshop.org/a/102959/978... Bookshop UK link to buy the book uk.bookshop.org/a/15319/9781...
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Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives
The Science of How the Arts Save Lives
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #health #wellbeing #culture #arts #goodlife 📚💙 Essay: On the myriad ways in which the arts can improve our health. By author* Daisy Fancourt, UCL Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology & Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group. bit.ly/3OGxZQ4
US hardback cover of Art Cure: 
The Science of How the Arts Save Lives by Daisy Fancourt. Published by Celadon Books. UK hardback cover of Art Cure: 
The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health by
Daisy Fancourt. Published by Cornerstone Press.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Jesse Jackson loved us—sometimes before we loved ourselves.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on Jackson’s legacy of support for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves
“Before they came for us, and woke, and us, and power, they came for Jesse Jackson,” Kiese Laymon, the author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, wrote just hours after …
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction 🖋️📚💙 International Booker Prize Nominees: 13 Books to Get You Talking. Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/b...
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje; translated from Dutch by David McKay. The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar; translated from German by Ruth Martin. We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara; translated from Spanish by Robin Myers. The Deserters by Mathias Énard; translated from French by Charlotte Mandell.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#booksky for #poetry 📚💙 Profile: How a New Yorker Put Poetry on the London Underground. Forty years ago, Judith Chernaik had the idea to put poems in London's subway system. It has been a great success ever since. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b... & the poetry website poemsontheunderground.org
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How a New Yorker Put Poetry on the London Underground
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#booksky for #TayariJones #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Bookshop US link to buy Kin by Tayari Jones (published on 24 Feb 2026). bookshop.org/a/102959/978...
Kin by Tayari Jones. Published by Knopf in hardback on 24 February 2026.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 🖋️📚💙 Profile: Tayari Jones, bestselling author of An American Marriage, and now Kin, her latest novel, which “should clinch Jones’s place among the bards of Atlanta, alongside Anne River Siddons, Natasha Trethewey and Alfred Uhry.” bit.ly/3Op7Vcg
Tayari Jones in her Atlanta home. The city is the setting for Kin, her new novel. Photo credit: Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #memoirs #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Excellent, thoughtful essay-review on Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides. wapo.st/46f4Lha
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot, translated from French by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver. Penguin Press. 256 pp. $32
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #memoirs #feminism #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Bookshop US link to buy A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides Gisèle Pelicot, translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver. The book will be published on 17 Feb 2026. bookshop.org/a/102959/979...
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot, translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #memoirs #feminism #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story. Interview: ‘They All Tried to Break Me.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
Gisèle Pelicot, photographed by Philip Gay for The New York Times.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #BookerPrize #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Explore the 10 winning novels from a decade of the International Booker Prize. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Montage of book covers of 10 winning novels of the International Booker Prize.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
#booksky for #travel #essays #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Essay-appreciation: On Cees Nooteboom's bristling wit and melancholy. [He died this week, aged 92.] By Madeleine Thien, novelist. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
‘History is inscribed everywhere’, Cees Nooteboom in 2017. Photograph: Awakening/Getty Images
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #travel #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary (Guardian): Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist, essayist & travel writer, dies aged 92. He had an international breakthrough with his 1980 novel Rituals, and won acclaim for his travel writing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Wearing glasses and holding a pen and a book, Dutch author Cees Nooteboom is photographed at a reading. Photograph: Bernd Kammerer/AP
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #travel #essays #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary (Washington Post): Cees Nooteboom, multi-award-winning Dutch novelist, poet, essayist & travel writer, dies at 92. wapo.st/3Moqixg
Dutch author Cees Nooteboom, who has died aged 92, was a major literary figure in postwar Europe. Photograph: Bernd Kammerer/AP.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Federal Judge says Pete Hegseth is unlawfully retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly: “Any way you slice it, Defendants' [Hegseth et al] actions violate the First Amendment.” – senior US District Judge Richard Leon. www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/p...
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Judge says Pete Hegseth is unlawfully retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Thursday shut down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempts to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders, ruling that the Pen...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#booksky for #ICE #migration #immigration #justice #booklovers 📚💙 In solidarity with all those standing up for communities against the brutality of immigrant detention & ICE occupation, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 3 #FreeEbooks about migrant justice & border abolition. bit.ly/3ZRnFHv
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#booksky recommended for #nonfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Profile: Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark. By Alexandra Alter. The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
Once considered a lightweight of Japanese letters, Murakami is now Japan's most famous, and arguably most influential, contemporary novelist. Photo credit: Dana Scruggs for The New York Times.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Can a commercial be genius? Why yes, yes it can. Abundant, splendiferous proof here: youtube.com/watch?v=Gaej...
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Hellmann's 2026 Big Game Longform
YouTube video by Hellmann's
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Interview: Maggie O’Farrell, Multi-Award-Winning Novelist, on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, & Adapting Her Hamnet Novel for the Screen. lithub.com/maggie-ofarr...
Book covers of nine of Maggie O'Farrell's novels, and a memoir.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#booksky for #music #BadBunny #booklovers #biography 📚💙 Bookshop USA link to buy P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. bookshop.org/a/102959/978...
P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. Duke University Press. 310 pp. $27.95, paperback.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#booksky for #music #BadBunny #booklovers #biography 📚💙 Bad Bunny conquered the world, but he wants to save Puerto Rico. In P FKN R, Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau explore the music and activism of Bad Bunny. wapo.st/45NZRYo
Bad Bunny in San Juan in July. (Alejandro Granadillo/AP)P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. Duke University Press. 310 pp. $27.95, paperback. Bad Bunny performs in San Francisco in 2024. (Dana Jacobs/Getty Images)
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Definitely.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
#booksky highly recommended for #crimefiction #booklovers 📚💙 Profile: Don Winslow, acclaimed & bestselling crime fiction author. wapo.st/4toameO
Don Winslow is kind, gentle and soft-spoken, but his crime novels "have a real warrior spirit to them," says fellow writer Joe Hill. "They're real bare-knuckle works of fiction." (Photo credit: Philip Cheung/The Washington Post)The Danny Ryan trilogy of novels by Don Winslow, comprising City on Fire (Book 1), City of Dreams (Books 2), and City in Ruins (Book 3). The Power of the Dog trilogy of novels by Don Winslow, comprising The Power of the Dog (Book 1), The Border (Book 2), and The Cartel (Book 3).Winslow's new collection of short stories, The Final Score, is set around his hometown in Rhode Island. They're not autobiographical, but they're more personal than most of his work without forgoing his journalist's eye for fiction. (Picture credit: William Morrow)
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
#booksky for #literaryfiction #history #biography #booklovers 📚💙 Six noteworthy books for February. Regency scandal, aristocratic rot, Hong Kong protests, gothic fantasy, the Seminole Wars, and a slave's quest for freedom in the Revolutionary era. wapo.st/3OrF4DO
Everyday Movement, a novel by by Gigi L. Leung, translated by Jennifer FeeleyOne of Us, a novel by Elizabeth DayThe Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America’s Forgotten War by Jamie HolmesRebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown by Ann Foster
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Toni Morrison considers Blackness in the literary canon and what Flannery O’Connor’s fiction reveals about race in America.
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Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America
The novels of Ernest Hemingway, as well as most fiction of the twenties, thirties, and forties, are no longer obliged to do the technically strenuous work of establishing racial difference that we …
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#Trump #Noem #ICE U.S. District Judge Fred Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo #Ramos and his father from immigration detention in Dilley, Texas. His three-page opinion is fiery, scathing, & brilliant (see second link below). www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/u... bit.ly/4c37T3e
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READ: District judge’s scathing opinion ordering release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father | CNN
US District Judge Fred Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration detention in Dilley, Texas. In the fiery opinion, Biery admonished the Trump admini...
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#booksky for #horrorfiction #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 More fat than meat: The Lamb, a gristly debut literary horror novel by Lucy Rose. bobbygw.com/2026/01/30/s...
The Lamb, a debut (literary horror) novel by Lucy Rose.
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wonderful. Hope you enjoy it.
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