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Alison Langley

@langleyshields.bsky.social
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📚Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone published 2024 by Dedalus Books 📕 Short Stories @thepigsback @frazzledlit @bournemouthwritingprize @InsurgentPress 🍄I hunt fungi & eat them She/Her

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Institute of Current World Affairs @icwa.org · 07/10/2025
While traveling across the US after 40 years abroad, Alison Langley @langleyshields.bsky.social meditates on myth & reality, listening to ordinary Americans at a Kansas brewery share conspiracy theories and fears for their loved ones' safety: compass.icwa.org/p/postcard-f...
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Postcard from Topeka
Listening to ordinary Americans.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 20/09/2025
BOYCOTT DISNEY
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 19/09/2025
Since Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t, I wrote his monologue for him. … let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/langleys...
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So, you may have heard… apparently, I’ve been suspended by ABC
Since Jimmy Kimmel no longer has a voice, allow me to write his monologue.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 14/09/2025
Chuffed to be highlighted in this issue
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 08/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When I left India, Ireland welcomed me in. I won’t let bigotry destroy the country we love | Cauvery Madhavan
People from the Indian community, and others, are facing violence that was once unthinkable. We must not give in to the racists, says novelist Cauvery Madhavan
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 17/08/2025
Humble brag Wordle 1,520 2/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 25/07/2025
So glad you liked it!
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 25/07/2025
I’m blushing. Thank you for the kind words
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 25/06/2025
Let’s see. He’s young, social media savvy, talks about affordable housing and other issues people actually care about. And democrats are worried??? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Mamdani’s defeat of Cuomo offers Democrats a path out of the wilderness
Mamdani signifies a generational change and rebuke to a party establishment grown complacent and hypocritical
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 20/06/2025
To anyone cheering the Trump policies on trying to entice women to have more babies: they are the same as Hungarian policies and the birth rate there hit a negative record in 2024. If you want more babies, make child care and housing affordable and increase incomes.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 11/06/2025
Nooooo www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Syria government says women must wear burkinis at public beaches
The rules are aimed at "enhancing public safety standards and preserving public decency", state media reports.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 06/06/2025
Excited for the US launch of my book Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone at Parkside Bookshop in Boston! I’ll be in conversation with @grubwriters Michelle Hoover who is also starting the next season of her @7amNovelist podcast. See you there!
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 03/06/2025
So excited for the US launch of my book!
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 01/06/2025
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid. (Source Guardian). Tell me why this is okay. Govts must stop this cruelty now.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 29/05/2025
This week, CPAC, the conservative political action group, meets in #Hungary to learn how to create a government like that in Budapest. Read about the economic conditions that helped Viktor Orbán gain control in my novel. #CPAC #Hungary #books
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 28/05/2025
14,000 children are at risk of dying of starvation in Gaza. How can anyone whose people themselves were once a target of genocide allow this to happen?
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 27/05/2025
This. theintercept.com/2025/05/25/h...
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How to Write About Palestine
A concise guide to proper media behavior when discussing the “complicated” situation.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 27/05/2025
This book changed my life. Thank you Susan Brownmiller. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
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Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 27/05/2025
Fun fact: the word ‘overmorrow’ is the Middle English term meaning ’day after tomorrow’. Its etymology is a direct translation of the German übermorgen. I, for one, believe we should bring it back to life, along with ‘ye’, the plural form of ‘you’.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 23/05/2025
First it’s 20% but lowers to 10% until July so both sides could talk. Now he says 25% starting next week. Can’t take this guy at his word. He makes things up as his mood suits. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump threatens tariffs on Apple iPhones and EU products
Shares in the US and Europe fall after the US president says trade talks with the EU are "going nowhere".
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 19/05/2025
This. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...
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Opinion | Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 13/05/2025
Republicans cannot couple work to food stamps without providing day care. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
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Trump Administration Highlights: U.S. Welcomes White South Africans Given Refugee Status
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 10/05/2025
This is correct. The Pope leads a worldwide church of 1.3 billion catholics. He is everyone’s leader. Who has asked for peace and unity around the world.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 09/05/2025
Nuclear exchange? Who cares? Noted. US VP Vance says war between India and Pakistan will be 'none of our business' - www.reuters.com/world/us-vp-...
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US VP Vance says war between India and Pakistan will be 'none of our business'
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that India and Pakistan should de-escalate tensions, but he added that the U.S. cannot control the nuclear-armed Asian neighbors and a war between them would be "none of our business".
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 05/05/2025
Sorry @nyt three is a trend. Two is a coincidence. Romania voted far right…. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
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A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump
In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished. Elsewhere, President Trump is having a more complex impact.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 03/05/2025
The US is the only country within the OECD that does not have a data protection agency. Doge can go rogue and spy on US citizens and the only remedy is a judge asking nicely to stop.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 02/05/2025
An important read, as Russia celebrates May 8… www.perspectives-budapest.com/post/the-pil...
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The piles of shoes, the mounds of hair ... I saw them. The shoes of neighbours, the hair of mothers
WW2 was more than Dunkirk and El Alamein - Retired diplomat Nigel Thorpe, in a Guest Post, writes on history, accurate, peoples' history, why it matters - & sloppy journalists.Diplomat in a Trabant: N...
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 02/05/2025
It astonishes me how the president has no knowledge of history
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 02/05/2025
Am I the only person not sad that US can’t order cheap stuff from China anymore? We’re talking sweatshops right?
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Issue 4, featuring the amazing art of Arch Hades, is out on May 28th. Sign up at our website to receive a FREE copy. #litmag #free #contemporaryart #newissue
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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is fucking incredible.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 29/04/2025
JB Pritzker’s fiery speech calls for mass protests - finally. Backbone in the opposition
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 29/04/2025
Carney and Canada made it to the top five! 🇨🇦
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 29/04/2025
Hungary's parliament bars opposition lawmakers over protest against Pride ban - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Hungary's parliament bars opposition lawmakers over protest against Pride ban
Hungary's parliament voted on Monday to temporarily "banish" six opposition lawmakers from the building and cut their salaries after they used smoke flares during a protest in the chamber against a law banning Pride marches by LGBTQ+ communities.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 26/04/2025
Support local businesses. They are the backbone of our communities. Bookshops support writers and readers… and the European Writers Salon. @saloneurope.bsky.social
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 24/04/2025
To be clear: Russia invaded a peaceful country in an act of naked aggression- twice. And Trump wants Ukraine, the injured party, to accept that Putin can take any land he can whenever he wants. No consequences. And we’re ok with this?
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 21/04/2025
The AHA has released a statement condemning the current administration’s immigration policies and practices, which “threaten the vitality of historical work through the targeting of international scholars for increased scrutiny and legal action.” 🗃️
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American Historical Association Condemns Targeting of Foreign Scholars
The AHA has released a statement condemning the current administration’s immigration policies and practices, which “threaten the vitality of historical work through the targeting of international scho...
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 21/04/2025
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to find himself mired in controversy.
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Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 20/04/2025
I got my first US review. The Midwest Book Review calls Ilona Gets A Phone “distinctively impressive and narrative driven storytelling telling…unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists.”
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 16/04/2025
This is what authoritarian countries like China and Russia do. They charge critics with trumped up and salacious crimes. Think: Tax evasion or corruption. Then they try the case in front of a favourable judge and jail critics. Trump is in dangerous company www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump seeks criminal prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James
Federal housing officials accused Letitia James, who won a real estate case against Trump in 2023, of mortgage fraud.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 12/04/2025
Erm, hats off to the illustrator www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/m...
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How the G.O.P. Fell in Love With Putin’s Russia
What explains the Trump administration’s radical reversal toward Moscow?
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 11/04/2025
Why doesn’t he give all Americans $10,000/year?
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 11/04/2025
I know what I’m doing 12-14 September @saloneurope.bsky.social
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The discussion promises to be our usual brand of warm and friendly What will make it interesting? You! We hope you’ll come along 📘🍷
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our host, Eleonora Balsano, is an Italian-born writer based in Brussels. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, long listed for the Wigleaf Top 50 and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. She’s also the host and producer of Chosen Tongue, a podcast on translingual writers & their journeys
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Author | Eleonora Balsano
Website of Eleonora Balsano, writer of short and longer fiction
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our first book: The Details by Ia Genberg In this International Booker Shortlisted book from 2024, a famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety
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Reading guide: The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson | The Booker Prizes
In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
📣 ICYMI 📣 In this weekend’s newsletter, we announced ⚡️two new programmes⚡️ for writers The first: Café Littéraire: European Book Club 📖 Hosted online by @norami.bsky.social, the book club will be quarterly and free to Supporters. For now, others can join for a small fee
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Café Littéraire: European Book Club
European Writers Salon invites you to join our quarterly Café Littéraire: European Book Club.
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 05/04/2025
While Trump played golf million+ people took to the streets to protest his disastrous and harmful policies. #handsoff2025
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 03/04/2025
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Alison Langley @handle.invalid · 03/04/2025
Tariffs will make books cost more. #books ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
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Ottawa bookstores warn new Trump tariffs could 'devastate' market, force closures
Ottawa bookstores warn of collapsing sales and shutdowns, but one local publisher sees a chance to loosen the U.S. grip on the industry.
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