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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 1h

In honor of Vicente Luis Mora's CENTROEUROPA, translated by Rahul Bery, being named a finalist for a 2026 National Book Award, here's a look back at our review. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @jbywrites.bsky.social @nationalbook.bsky.social #centroeuropa #booksky

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Centroeuropa | Washington Independent Review of Books

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 1h

In honor of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's PURE MEN, translated by Lara Vergnaud, being named a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award, here's a look back at our review. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p... @nationalbook.bsky.social #puremen #booksky

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 9h

That one is still on my TBR stack!

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 9h

Today's no-pressure reading recommendation to my students... #booksky

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 21h

We have eleventy-billion streaming services, yet watching the original "Fright Night" without purchasing an add-on is somehow a bridge too far.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 22h

DC Public Library is celebrating your freedom to read with Banned Books Week. This year’s national theme, “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.”, emphasizes the joy, creativity, and resilience that libraries bring to communities. bit.ly/3PzJZjj

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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wilksofficial @wilksofficial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you live in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Texas, or Arizona, Today is THE LAST DAY to register to vote in the 2026 Midterm Election!!! Pls check your voter registration @iwillvote.com

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Flashlight Press @flashlightpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Washington Independent Review of Books for the review!

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If the guy replacing Mariota goes down, does Dan Quinn have to suit up?

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spot the cat

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Montgomery won't be taking any questions this afternoon. #caturday

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WAMU 88.5 @wamu.org · 03/10/2026

Novelist George Pelicanos’ latest novel “The Blue Flame” shows private detective Derek Strange solving crimes in D.C.’s quieter neighborhoods, like Michigan Park, Shaw and Kenilworth. buff.ly/7B6VP89

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We've reached the Dwight Yoakam-listening part of the evening, kids. Strap in!

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My husband and I seem to be running a two-person ramekin-stealing operation around town. Please do better with your go boxes, restaurants!

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not all book review sections are dying. @wirobooks.bsky.social is thriving! At the 15th anniversary party, I finally got to ask Kitty Kelley about that legendary box of fish heads sent to Jonathan Yardley: roncharles.substack.com/i/218268260/...

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who is the most exquisite TV character ever written, and why is it Omar?

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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Halloween" is already on TV. I'm not sure I'm ready to make the seasonal shift yet...

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The Inner Loop @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome Lenna Jawdat (@lennaj) to our Author's Corner spotlight, celebrating her new collection of poetry about grief, memory, and hope. 70,000 is out now with @centavebooks. Learn more about Lenna at the link in our bio! #202creates #DCwriters #TheInnerLoopAuthorsCorner #DMVWriters

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're angry about the men at Cornell University, wait until I tell you about the men in the White House, the Pentagon, health and human services, and on the Supreme Court.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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