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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@openletterbooks.bsky.social is not staffed by necromancers, so this is my last Dubravka Ugrešić review. THE CULTURE OF LIES, her worries about toxic nationalism, not one whit less important in 2026 than when written. Ite, missa est. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/08/cove...

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THE CULTURE OF LIES, last collection of essays I have of Dubravka Ugrešić's to review

THE CULTURE OF LIES DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ (tr. Celia Hawkesworth) Open Letter Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.95 ebook, avail...

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Spanish #SFinTranslation review from 9 years ago: Rodrigo Fresan's immense, brilliant THE INVENTED PART, tr by Will Vanderhyden, from @openletterbooks.bsky.social www.sfintranslation.com?p=2236

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Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

No one. Absolutely no one. Pam Bondi: THE DOW IS ABOVE 50,000

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I made the 40yo-amateur-hour mistake this morning of announcing to my chiropractor that my back has been feeling GREAT, 1000% AMAZING, only to lean a little to the right a few hours later to pet my dog. ☠️🫠

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CNN @cnn.com · 11/01/2026

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good. cnn.it/4sAhJj5

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The way some organizations try to steadfastly gaslight their way out of paying an invoice THEY are on-written-record (in multiple places) asking YOU to send and saying (numerous times) THEY will repay is vewwy angwy siwwy-goose energy, IMHO.

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

People are out there flat-out lying (and acting like the rest of us don't keep receipts) or else presenting severe memory issues that should be checked by a neurologist. Politically and professionally speaking.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026

Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The U.S. cannot keep it in its pants for a SINGLE DAY.

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Open Letter Books @openletterbooks.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2026 is feeling like a bit of drawing some boundaries, a tad of holding people accountable, a sprinkling of burning bridges 💅✨

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

incl. THE RIVER! open.substack.com/pub/abookfor...

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This week's THE TUNNEL notes, no context.

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Laura's THE RIVER means so much to me. To see it on the 2026 PEN Translation Prize longlist, and in such good company, is thrilling—and the cherry on top of this year!

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Drinking game for the president's live address: throw a can at the TV each time you catch yourself saying "this motherfucker..."

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Turned on the radio to hear NPR news mid-sentence talking about how "Rudolph has been hit hard by tariffs on China" and, for more seconds than I am comfortable with, legitimately wondered how fucked things are that even reindeer are getting economically railroaded.

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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Kicking off a deep dive into @openletterbooks.bsky.social’s backlist with this post about publishing strategies, looking at backlist trends, and Ingrid Winterbach’s TO HELL WITH CRONJÉ. threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/the-promis...

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The Promise of the Backlist

A new project that kicks off with Ingrid Winterbach's "To Hell with Cronjé."

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I̶ ̵d̶o̶n̶'t̶ ̵k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̵w̶h̶o̶ ̵n̶e̶e̶d̶s̶ ̵t̶o̶ ̵h̶e̶a̶r̶ ̵t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̵b̶u̶t̶ you really should be proofreading your public-facing shit.

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vincentfrancone.bsky.social @vincentfrancone.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Great chat with @chadwpost.bsky.social about this book and its author. And what to do with artists that do terrible things. And the time I conned my way into meeting Jeanette Winterson. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-ikon-m...

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"The Ikon Maker" by Desmond Hogan

A deeply sad book about parenting and sexuality.

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Scam me on a sunny day but in THIS weather?

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Wherein I hope William Gass's German pronunciation in THE TUNNEL is just a bit and 100% Kohler. open.substack.com/pub/threeper...

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Giving Mark Nowak's . . . AGAIN a final proof and it is so hard to remember/believe he is writing about things that happened in 2021 and not 2025. coffeehousepress.org/products/aga...

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. . . AGAIN

Award-winning poet Mark Nowak returns with a harrowing documentation of the expansive landscape of MAGAmerica. Told through five abecedarian prose sections,

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 29/10/2025

We're sad to hear of the death of David Bellos, a wonderfully witty writer, professor, translator and judge of the 2016 International Booker Prize.

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My Translator Triptych has released 2 of its 3 books! Who's ready for next week's gem? threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/kicking-of...

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Kicking off the Latvian Translator Triptych with "The River" by Laura Vinogradova

Kaija Straumanis's triptych is finally here!

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kmstraum @kmstraum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our 6yo: So you know how everything is made of atoms? That means everything is always moving and we're never actually touching anything and that KINDA FREAKS ME OUT. I miss the days when it was just about monsters under the bed 😵‍💫

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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And then we released the second episode of this season of the Two Month Review about Melville’s THE CONFIDENCE-MAN. open.substack.com/pub/threeper...

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TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]

Minerals?!? Get that outta here. Vegetable all the way . . .

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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And finally, I posted a piece on Dalkey Essentials and Eimar O’Duffy (mostly forgotten Irish satirist) and parody. Took me MONTHS to finally get this down. So much struggle and procrastination . . . open.substack.com/pub/dalkeyar...

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Political Satire When We're Through the Looking-Glass

Do Eimar O'Duffy's satires matter today? Are they "Essentials"?

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