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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 23h

Incredible weekend in Chicago (& Milwaukee) at the Midwest Crossword Tournament (#midwestgridfest). Got to solve on the stage in the pairs finals w/ Rich. Due to an error by one pair and a split second finish ahead of another, we finished first! And Brewers are 2-0 vs. the Padres.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now seated. At 9pm. On a school night.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy Robyn Weintraub Friday to all who celebrate! #nytxw

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Enjoying the 4 B’s: Bach, Beethoven, Bartók, & Bridgers.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My favorite scene in Nolan’s Odyssey is at the end when Odysseus and Penelope set sail from the Grey Havens to the Undying Lands.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

KENNING apparently not in the ol’ word-hoard.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“…fully embracing the nation’s joy in the name of something as explosive and fleeting and simple as a goal” (119). ⚽️🇧🇷 EXEMPLARY HUMANS by Juliana Leite (tr. Zoë Perry) @twolinespress.com

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

BARN 8 (2020) EARTH 7 (2026) Calling this the Unferth Clock and when it reaches 0, then ?????? @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

PSA prompted by the clue for 35-D in tomorrow's (6/21) #NYTXW: [This goes in one ear]

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Is there a more apt translator name to novel pairing?

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

From Bette Davis’s first husband’s Complaint for Divorce (11/22/38): “Defendant has insisted on occupying herself with reading to a totally unnecessary degree.”

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Anyone in NYC should definitely try to grab a seat for this—listened on the Met broadcast today and it’s fantastic!

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

On a Bette Davis fixation at the moment: In 2002, Steven Spielberg anonymously bought the Oscar Davis had won at auction at Sotheby's and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuette had been part of the memorabilia displayed by the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Nothing hits quite like TCM on a Saturday afternoon when you're sick. High on melodrama, but Bette Davis absolutely shines in DARK VICTORY (dir. Edmund Goulding, 1939)!

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NBCC Vice President/Technology and Co-Vice President/Membership Rebecca Hussey, NBCC member Frances Evangelista, and Dorian Stuber, hosts of the One Bright Book podcast, contributed a conversational afterword to a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's "A Marsh Island":

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A Marsh Island — Unnamed Press

by Sarah Orne Jewett Published: March 03, 2026 ISBN: 9781961884854 Paperback $18.95

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

#InternationalBooker2026 SHE WHO REMAINS by Rene Karabash (tr. Izidora Angel) Wild novel of Albanian village life under ancient Kanun laws: blood feuds, renunciation of gender, violence, love, and escape. Unique narrative style with a couple exceptional twists!

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Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada, has announced its 2025 shortlist! Congratulations to the authors and publishers of these five remarkable books! The winner will be announced on Tuesday, March 10.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Happy Robyn Weintraub Friday to all who celebrate! @robynw414.bsky.social #nytxw

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Pantheon Books @pantheonbooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Indie crossword service AVCX has an exciting offer this holiday season! Subscribe, then claim your free meta mini pack by sending an email to freeminis@avxwords.com. Submit the meta solution to win a free copy of @natanlast.bsky.social's book "Across the Universe." avxwords.com

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Personally, I think it looks great!

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Dropped into Hatchards in Piccadilly yesterday.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Stopped by Sir John Soane’s to see some Hogarths today.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Closing out this Memorial Day in the middle of the Pacific with Henry Preston Standish.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Happy Robyn Weintraub Friday to all who celebrate! #nytxw 🥳🥳

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Delayed! At the train station. Stamford bound, eventually. ACPT2025

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS

Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Soon to embark on some frenzied reading of the IBP longlist along with these lovely people. 📚⏱️☕️

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Helluva last line to this stop on the Rougon/Macquart Express!

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

When I lived in Moscow in the early aughts, I read on the metro to/from work. I followed the Russian habit of covering my reading material. I made book covers from New Yorkers. Here’s the one for MIDDLEMARCH.

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Tim @sailert.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Attention: Lesser Ruins/Mark Haber fans! I made a Spotify playlist of Marcel's Mix. Mark provides this playlist at the end of the novel. (Which I'm loving and have one more part to go) open.spotify.com/playlist/6xr...

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Marcel's Mix

Playlist · Tim Sailer · 17 items

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows / that i know that touching was and still is and will always / be the true / revolution" from "When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Happy Robyn Weintraub Friday to all who celebrate! #nytxw

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

10 down & 10 to go with Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. Hopefully, I’ll have one in reading circulation throughout 2025 & finish around this time next year.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

With a nod to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I’ll be referring to this novel from now on as DREAM OF ZOLAFORNICATION.

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

TCM simply brutal in their bios lol

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

“(Even later, twenty years and then forty years later, he still had something left of those rehearsals of “To be” and “Not to be” — he arbitrarily attributed one to his leg, the other to the wooden leg: repeating the monologue trained him to walk)” (150). #Senges23 Ahab (Sequels)

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

“To contain is not an oceanic virtue, not an achievement, it should not be seen as a promise of salvation, as Roland looked to the moon for all that humans had lost on Earth: it contains passively, enduringly, without even chewing what it swallows”(292). Ahab (Sequels) #Senges23

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Campus Symmetry at UNC-Chapel Hill

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Some quiet hours before the lights & the noise w/ Yukio Mishima’s CONFESSIONS OF A MASK (tr. Meredith Weatherby).

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

reconnecting with my twitter mutuals

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Took a trip down Roy Williams Highway to Southpoint Mall w/ the 13yo for this:

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Happy upcoming “Lights & Noise” Day to all who celebrate. 🎆🎇 from Pynchon’s AGAINST THE DAY

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Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

As an introduction of sorts, here are my top reads of 2022. Gratitude to small presses, translators, & communities of 📚ish folks. Near exhaustive reading of Fosse, Marías, and Riley. 9/12 women writers, 10/12 works in translation, 12/12 memorable!

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