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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 3h

Your reference acknowledged!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 3h

Ooh, good to know. I have tickets for there (for the first time) when I’m out visiting my family in November!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 9h

I’m so bummed I’m not in nyc till the end of the month. Enjoy this.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 15h

I was delighted by Yiyun Li’s MUSIC AGAINST THE NIGHT, an insightful, intricately crafted novel about the early lives of two virtuosos from starkly different backgrounds whose love of music will draw them together. Thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for entrusting me with this review.

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Yiyun Li’s new novel makes beautiful music with an unlikely love story - The Boston Globe

You might balk if I tried to sell you on a romance about a couple who don’t meet. What about a biography of a relative unknown that only alludes to their most noteworthy achievements? Because that bas...

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh no! When is this happening?? There are so many things about each of them I dislike, real worst of both worlds potential.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thrilled to get a chance to write about THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT, by Chloe Aridjis, an author whose wide-ranging intellect and imagery hooked me completely when I first reviewed her more than seven years ago. Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for the opportunity.

ronslate.com

on The Shadow of the Object, a novel by Chloe Aridjis – On the Seawall

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would just finish reading the book and leave it on a cafe table at the airport for someone else to read. I don’t have a permanent home so can’t keep every book I read. It makes me sad at times, but it also makes me happy that someone else often gets a free book.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hahaha. Feel like she probably didn’t pay enough attention to the venue name.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe a year ago (less? what is time), Delta announced they planned on experimenting with using machine learning/AI/data mining/whatever to charge different people different fares, essentially theater-type dynamic pricing per person rather than venue. I fear this is the the tip of the ol’ iceberg.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interesting. I had no idea they both did their own thing. Thanks for the background!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks. I’m very much still horror ignorant, and almost agnostic but trying. I loved Red Rooms, but can’t get myself to sit through something like The Thing. That is all to say that I feel like the slow pace might not necessarily bug me, but good to know the US one is also its own thing.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, that was damn close, Tyler. I was really pulling for you.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw that the original Japanese Ring is on Criterion now. Having never seen any of them, is that one worth starting with, in your opinion? I see why it would be since it’s the original, but if it’s so bad or something I don’t want to sour myself on the whole idea.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your assessment makes me curious to pick it back up. I think I watched through…five? Loved 1, was fine with 2, tolerated 3 and 4, and then just bounced and paid no attention. Intrigued that it rebounded, especially because Danes is so so good at playing Carrie.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every year the folks at the Relay podcast network raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. They’re in the midst of their annual 12-hour podcastathon and very close to their $700,000 goal for the year. So many worthwhile causes these days, but if you can give: relay.experience.stjude.org

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey, lots of super good human writers see “a peak” and “a beginning” as points on a continuum lol

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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:

gofundme.com

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 · 30/09/2026

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

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for this now I’m ruined hahah. Incredible stuff.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All such great points, and this item is esp. apt from POV of a book critic, maybe the most endangered species? With vanishingly few spots still covering books, pitching less visible/buzzy titles is so difficult. I focus on translated lit, and wish I had a thicker skin for all the no/ignored emails.

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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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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, this film feels like I finally have something to live for!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy birthday, Louis. Here’s to many more train rides and Screen Drafts appearances in the years to come. (Though I guess this is really a selfish wish, so hope you get what you want in life, too!)

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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

I’m honestly stunned the masked lesbian bar talk, which I only know about from podcasts, hasn’t arrived. The iced coffee interview I only “know” about from your two posts hahah.

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

Hahaha. I actually arrived in Prague very eager to learn the language, only to have the Czech translators I worked with at the Prague Post say “Why would you do that? You can’t speak it anywhere else. Plus we all want to practice English.” They weren’t wrong, though I genuinely wish I’d never left.

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

Exactly. When I lived there 30 yrs ago, I made an effort to speak the basics/be polite, and it wasn’t harder to do than anywhere else. It was fun to try and pronounce every disorienting word I walked past, and I lived in Jiřak so got lots of practice. Absolutely would’ve kept at it if I’d stayed.

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

Will be very curious how this is implemented wrt The Ringer’s recently announced Book Club podcast since they’re owned by Spotify. I know Ringer movie/tv podcasts have eliminated or greatly reduce the clips they play, but as you say, discussing a book without quote it is ludicrous.

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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

Ooh nice!!! I don’t think I’ve been to Aspen since I was like 14 hahah.

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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

lareviewofbooks.org

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 · 24/09/2026

Wow. I honestly haven’t looked since I saw the shows in the 90s, but now I’m definitely not looking again.

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know I’m not your target audience, but 6939?????????????????????????????????????? [takes a breath] ???????????????????????????????????? Who thinks in 4000 years that land is going to be a) diggable and b) that someone is going to be sitting there thinking, “didn’t someone bury something here?”

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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 · 21/09/2026

I haven’t read them all, but my two favorites are your two and three, so I’m immediately reading Black Bag! (I have a review about Aridjis coming out in a couple weeks and I kind of wanted to make it a comparison/companion piece about Perry too, because they had such a similar, contemplative vibe.)

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Shogun, phenomenal, and with the caveat that art appreciation is subjective, the Station Eleven series is one of my all-time favorite things.

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

(And I did know about the Ishiguro)

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

Oh nice. I learn so much more about what’s coming out from you than my email, which is invariably of the “out tomorrow!” variety.

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

If I wasn’t reading it for work, it’s the kind of novel that I would have stopped every few paragraphs to reread or just think about. And obviously everyone has different tastes, but I think you’re in for a real treat. MFL’s taste for what she translates is impeccable hahah. Take care.

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

Lol. Well, now I feel like an even bigger hayseed! Hahaha

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

I feel so old and un-brave haha. I don’t think I could be paid to do that!

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

100%. I love the breadth of Sam’s choices, and wish the nonfiction coverage had as many small press titles (meaning specifically the titles that I unsuccessfully pitch because I’m terrible at pitching lol).

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