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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 18h

Fortuitous wormhole in that I learned starting tomorrow, October 1, there will be a digital archive of the Prague Post, posting one issue per week, 35 years after it originally came out. Will take a while to get to the issues I wrote for, but here’s hoping the Kickstarter picks up a bit:

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Donate to Help Digitize Prague Post's Historic Archive, organized by Mimi Fronczak-Rogers

October 1, 2026, marks 35 years since The Prague Post — Czechoslov… Mimi Fronczak-Rogers needs your support for Help Digitize Prague Post's Historic Archive

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 19h

Trying not to get absolutely lost in/wrecked by memories/nostalgia while writing about Prague is once again proving impossible.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, after a basically uninterrupted rewatch of Fleabag over the past two nights, I’d like to amend this and put it in its proper place. Irma Vep is not really a TV show anyway, despite how much I love it.

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you, Justin Verlander 🧡 JV leaves the mound for the Tigers - one final time.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perfect encapsulation of the Tigers season. Thanks for all the memories, JV.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not linking to it, but I really wish someone at Variety or any of the other entertainment media outlets could explain to me why the f*#% they keep writing articles about the idiotic AI actress as if it is a) a person and b) something anyone would give a shit about if you didn’t keep bringing it up.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Because the My Brilliant Friend erasure can’t stand

My Top Shows for the NYT poll

DEADWOOD

STATION ELEVEN

LOST

MAD MEN

ANDOR

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND

THE AMERICANS

THE GOOD PLACE

IRMA VEP

RESERVATION DOGS

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can—and should—still read books written and translated by women even though #witmonth is over, and another good one is Elvira Navarro’s excellent collection BLOOD IS DRIPPING ONTO THE COURTYARD, trans. by Christina MacSweeney. I wrote about it for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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The Impression of Living in a Ruin | Los Angeles Review of Books

Spanish author Elvira Navarro’s newly translated story collection captures the unease, decay, and isolation of our post-pandemic world.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All writers need editors, so re-upping from last week with correct title: Because the pub date was abruptly moved forward a full month, I wasn’t able to pitch a review of Rebecca Perry’s MAY WE FEED THE KING, which is spectacular and unique. I hope it gets the attention in the US that it deserves.

Cover of Rebecca Perry’s Booker shortlisted novel May We Feed the King (which is probably going to lose to Marlon James’s The Disappearers)

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Effusive post incoming, but having just finished Pol Guasch’s PARADISE BURNS, I’m gobsmacked. Napalm in the Heart is great, but this book just destroyed me. So phenomenally beautiful and sad and tender and creative. Mara Faye Lethem’s translation is every positive superlative I can think of.

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed "Silencio," written by Clyo Mendoza and translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, for Southwest Review: buff.ly/cfRIcEy

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Breaking the Silence

By Cory Oldweiler

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great *get*, NBC “News.” You should really be proud of the public service you’re providing with garbage clickbait like this.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is really shocking the degree to which Palestinians are spoken about as subjects to be managed rather than full human beings with agency. Even by people in supposedly supportive organizations. We have completely accepted the idea that Palestinians don't have a right to decide what they want.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Extremely autumnal chill in the air (and the kitchen and bathroom, etc) this morning, something I’m going to try and embrace no matter how uncomfortable it gets this year because I’ll soon be in Argentina for two months and likely longing to feel cold.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You can—and should—still read books written and translated by women even though #witmonth is over, and may as well start with the essential Mexican author Clyo Mendoza’s latest, SILENCIO, translated by the always excellent Christina MacSweeney. I wrote about it for @southwestreview.bsky.social

Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Should have gotten a new phone two weeks ago, though who could have guessed that the richest company in the world would decide to raise all their prices by $100 shortly after they raised their streaming TV price by 30%. Really hope those folks can manage to make ends meet now.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Honest to god can we stop with the “Trump says…” ledes. I’m begging you

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No mention of Yukon Jack, which given the amount of it I drank during my freshman year of college (not proud of my behavior) feels personal.

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🔔 New review “A collage of poetry, prose, fiction, & nonfiction, recounting the stories of Indigenous people, mainly women and girls, from Oaxaca, where Mendoza grew up.” Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on SILENCIO by Clyo Mendoza out now via 7Stories Press 💥 southwestreview.com/breaking-the...

Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And folks should still keep Emma Cline’s SWITZY on their radar…

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The deification of Mladic and the glorification of the genocide in Bosnia by Belgrade and Banja Luka is a baptism of blood. It aims to make the Serbian public complicit in the horrors of the 90s and, more importantly, to socialize them to embrace future rounds of violence.

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shintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Writing has been utterly derailed by browsing a high school yearbook from the class immediately preceding mine, and when I tell you that even though I was there, looking at the headshots of my former teachers makes me feel like we all came from another dimension. The 1980s were a TIME.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Manifesting a MoMI or other NYC venue screening of “My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile” during the first week of November.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The GOP that existed my entire life prior to this hateful moron’s escalator descent would have, possibly literally, crucified any politician who said this. And voters would have responded. That a majority of US citizens were so ignorant, misogynistic, or greedy to elect him twice…smmfh

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@pazsays.bsky.social would you mind if I DM’d you a quick, general question about BA? (It’s opinion, not something that you have to know or research.)

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Ratko Mladić is dead, but Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sovereign, internationally recognized state whose capital, Sarajevo, is today one of the premier global destinations, a city of festivals and celebrations and life.” THIS is how you write about a monstrous war criminal.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Because they are greedy, corporate cowards.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I really want to review the collection that this story is taken from, so if anyone wants to pay me to do so, that would be great!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the greatest writers the Balkans have ever produced.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If Tom Cruise insists on making legacy sequels to his earlier hits, the least he could do is make a follow-up to THE COLOR OF MONEY, since that was already one of the great legacy sequels anyhow.

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I'M Back Paul Newman

Alt: I'M Back Paul Newman

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As always, Tobias clues me in to how many titles I missed when looking for things to pitch. I do have a piece that should run in the next couple weeks (?) on Clyo Mendoza’s SILENCIO, however. She became a must read author for me after Christina MacSweeney’s first translation of her work, FURY.

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Serbia’s Justice Minister announces that genocidaire Ratko Mladic will be buried in the country with the highest state honors. It’s good that the Serbian government is doing this, so everyone can finally see the true, monstrous face of the Vucic regime. No illusions. www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/...

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Sramota koja se nikada neće oprati: Srbija će sahraniti zločinca Mladića uz najviše državne počasti

Ministar pravde Srbije Nenad Vujić rekao je da će presuđeni ratni zločinac Ratko Mladić biti sahranjen u Srbiji uz najviše državni počasti.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At least we got one good death this week! Rot in the ground, Mladic.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m sure everyone’s going to be totally normal about the politcs podcast announcement.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Furious needs to win every award that is out there.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Further evidence that so many have truly lost the plot. If I’d waited years—or my entire operagoing life—to attend Bayreuth and been greeted with this production of the Ring, I think I would lose my mind. Finally understand the vehement booing I heard on the broadcasts as each act came to an end.

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Avert your AIs - Parterre Box

Bayreuth’s AI-powered “Ring 100010110” marred a first-rate cast and orchestra with nightmarish visuals and horrid dramaturgy.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Lots of great books coming in the next few months, including a dozen or so that I was lucky enough to recommend for the @bostonglobe.com fall books preview, out in print today. Check it out below!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Very grateful to Kate for asking me to contribute. I loved these novels yet dearly wish I could’ve fit two other translated titles—SILENCIO, by Clyo Mendoza, trans. by Christina MacSweeney, which I’m reviewing for SWR, and DOGS, by Dora Šustic, trans. by Ena Selimovic, which I’m reviewing for LARB.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our big fall books preview is up at www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/20/a... Thank you to @paperhaus.bsky.social and @coryoldweiler.bsky.social for pulling together the fiction list! And to my colleagues at the @bostonglobe.com for a beautiful digital production. This will be in the print edition Sunday.

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Forty of the best new books to read this fall - The Boston Globe

Leave it to your friendly Globe book critics to help you find your next big read.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don’t expect sympathy given how miserably hot it is pretty much everywhere on earth, but waking up to temps in the low 50s this morning and all I can say is it is waaaaayy too early in the year.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wish someone would teach the machines/LLMs apparently now editing (or writing) so much journalism that you almost never hyphenate compound modifiers comprising an adverb ending in -ly and an adjective/participle. Sites with ostensibly human editors are increasingly making this error. Please stop.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*

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