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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Congrats to László K and his fearless translator troops, also including Mari Alföldy, Hans Skirecki, and more

Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Peter Matthiessen Vladimir Sorokin Clemens J. Setz Yoko Tawada Jaroslav Rudiš Bohumil Hrabal Johan Harstad Olga Tokarczuk Mathias Énard Jon Fosse

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Where to start with Old Vlad Nabokov? #booksky

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 31/01/2025

If AI were plagiarising Disney, Warners, etc, it would have been shut down. But it plagiarises freelance writers & artists. Publishers response? Tumbleweed…PRH’s anti-scraping line is belied by its intention to “use generative AI tools […] where we see a clear case that they can advance our goals.”

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Marcel @sibaerisch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wer es nicht wusste: Nationalsozialismus liegt in der Familie bei Friedrich #Merz. Das ist nämlich sein Großvater:

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Got me something special today. Thanks to the always well-stocked Grober Umfug comics store in Berlin.

Chris Ware's Building Stories - a graphic novel in a box

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

You need about 85 7M dollars if u want to build a new American casino You'd need 1,400 7M dollars, to build a new American data center To power the genAI Like China released to everyone For free That it spent $7M to build That is about as good As the genAI they Build the data centers For

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you lose, just say you win - that's Trump in a nutshell. Great post by Petro.

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Re China crushing billions of US AI investments

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Elon Musk zeigt bei der Amtseinführung von Trump den, wie Alice Weidel sagen würde, berühmten kommunistischen Gruß!

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

In January 2021, during the third national lockdown, I pulled into this deserted pub car park to turn the van round and found a lamppost and a bin engaged in lively conversation while they thought no one was looking. Incredible.

A photograph of a deserted pub car park surrounded by bare trees on a murky day: wet asphalt, grey sky. In the centre, next to a flumpy yellow cypress tree, are a litter bin and an ornamental lamppost who appear to be sharing a joke together. The head of the lamp is bent at an angle so it appears to be looking down at the bin whose lid has broken given it the appearance of a laughing face.

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If you're looking for a crime psycho romp of a novel outside the dime-a-dozen police procedure avalanche, John Burnside's GLISTER (2008) is your thing. Leave David Lynch in a disused chemical plant and this is what you get. Thanks to SherdsTube channel for putting it on my radar.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The Flann O'Brien article also brought to mind this animated film of An Béal Bocht/The Poor Mouth. In Irish with (fortunately for me) English subtitles, as otherwise my limited abilities would have made it very absurd indeed...

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An Béal Bocht/The Poor Mouth

YouTube video by rawnervefilms

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Looking for new mindbogglers - first ones: Jodorowsky (Albino), Steven Dunn (Potted Meat), Strugatsky's (Roadside Picnic), Blake Butler (Molly, Void Corp), Lital Khaikin (Flight), Juliet Escoria (Juliet the Maniac)

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Never so depressed as during Christmas, the Mandatory Celebration

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Whether you've seen this, or not, it is a thing of real magic.

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Ken Lambeets @kenlambeets.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Eind oktober besliste de Italiaanse premier Giorgia Meloni om grenscontroles uit te voeren aan de Italiaans-Sloveense grens. Dat gebeurt o.a. vlakbij de afgelegen havenstad Triëst, die nooit aan de grillen van de geschiedenis is ontsnapt. Voor de liefhebbers, een kerstessay.

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Terug naar Triëst

Een potentieel risico op terroristische aanslagen. Dat vormen volgens de Italiaanse premier Giorgia Meloni vluchtelingen die via de Balkanroute West-Europa proberen te bereiken. Sinds eind oktober voe...

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

2024 reading plans (if readable at all)

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Dalkey Archive Press have AGAIN pushed back Otohiko Kaga's Marshland, this time by two months. Print edition will never see the light of day, I fear @alisonfincher.bsky.social

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Can't wait to start this 1929 Roberto Arlt classic, translated by Naomi Lindstrom and Larry Riley. A novel in two parts, published together for the first time in 2022, preceded by insightful introductions by Riley and (see picture) publisher Rick Harsch, among others. @coronasamizdat.bsky.social 1/2

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Print on demand books are terrible. No quality, they are lacking the love real publishers put into them. I always send them back.

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

"In adolescence you think Dylan is literature - until you hear Shane"

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

RIP Shane MacGowan A songwriting great. ‘And the next time I see you we'll be down at the Greeks There'll be whiskey on Sunday and tears on our cheeks For it's stupid to laugh and it's useless to bawl 'Bout a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball’ - Broad Majestic Shannon youtu.be/FMi3AGWsm0I?...

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Last stations of Alfons Mucha, Bohumil Kafka at Vyšehradský hřbitov/cemetery/Friedhof

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Daniela Hodrová - after reading her trilogy City of Torment you never look normal at your pantry again. Also Agota Kristof, another trilogy that keeps haunting you.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Stonking list of small presses here for book lovers. Read down the thread 🙏

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Some inspiration for you all. Fum d'Estampa, Charco Press, Fitzcarraldo, Galley Beggar Press, Bluemoose Books, Twisted Spoon Press, Lolli Editions, Sublunary Editions, Boiler House Press, Corona\samizdat, among others

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Diese Geschichte ist berührend und sollte gelesen werden.

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Jens Schöne @schoene.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

3. November 1989: Eine Reiseregelung für DDR-Bürger/innen gen Westen wird für den 1. Dezember 1989 erwartet. Ost- und West-Berlin verhandeln nun darüber. Womit aber niemand rechnet: Es wird komplett anders kommen. In sechs Tagen fällt die Berliner Mauer.

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Ich, im Buchladen: "Darf ich die Folie vom Buch entfernen, so dass ich mal reingucken kann?" Verkäuferin: "Nein." Ich dachte immer, Kunde ist König, aber in Deutschland bleibt es wohl erlaubt werte Kunden einsilbig anzuschnauzen

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Ik zie op de website van de NOS reclame voor politieke partijen staan. Daar vind ik wat van.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

oh my fucking god. does he think it’s called blade runner cuz the guy’s name is blade runner

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

#Followerpower An meinen deutschen Followern: welche Version von Kafkas Tagebücher soll ich kaufen, wenn ich eine so getreu mögliche Chronologie der von ihn geschriebenen Texte lesen will?

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Three guarantees in life: death, taxes and a pub date delay of Miss Macintosh, My Darling. Will it ever happen?

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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Four hours until we have Banana Yoshimoto, in live translation, in a virtual conversation with Bryan Washington. This is a cool, rare chance to hear her speak. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/banana-yos...

Flyer for an event showing headshots of Banana Yoshimoto and Bryan Washington, with text:

Banana Yoshimoto: The Premonition with Bryan Washington
Monday, October 23
7:30 PT
Virtual Event
Presented by Elliott Bay Book Co. Exile in Bookville and Green Apple Books

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