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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026

"The prognosticators wring their hands over the demise of reading, but ignore those whose very livelihood depends on the selling of books. Perhaps they might have something to say on the subject." defector.com/what-do-book...

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a…

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

hey that’s my buddy Walker! read the story, it’s really good!!

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

well I didn’t fail either spectacularly or immediately (I did fall 3 short of 31), and I don’t know if it fixed me but I did read way more poetry this month than I had in the past few years combined, and spent more time reading than I had in recent months. so it at least improved me #sealeychallenge

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New from me today - lobbyists employed by Israel have published voluminous material under the banner of a non-existent thinktank in an apparent attempt to game the information people get from AI chatbots www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

attempting the #sealeychallenge this month. I’ll either fail spectacularly and immediately, or it will fix me

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

happy bastille day. tear down the prisons and build bridges with the rubble 🧱

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

will I, entirely by accident, be in Dublin on Bloomsday? yes I said yes I will Yes.

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

@ndbooks.bsky.social has a spring cleaning sale on today, so might be time to get a bunch of books to improve your life / street cred (20% off 2, 30% off 3, 40% off 4)

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/04/2026

Radical bookstores don’t just sell books. In Chicago, Baltimore, and beyond, they host book clubs, training sessions, meetings, jail support work, and organizing that can shape entire movements. New from @leftiecowboy.bsky.social

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Radical Booksellers Do More Than Just Retail

Bookstores fight for communities through activism, despite backlash.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

watching the last university standing in Gaza get pulverized by bombs on this screen is so real and so sobering and i hope every influencer at Coachella dreams about it tonight.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

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Jona @jona-maz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A real Québec libre freak on the moon could fix us

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Zionism is an inherently antisemitic ideology, example no. 195638437

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

what in the striped pajamas is this shit

photo of a book titled “a Sunday at the pool in Kigali” by Gil Courtemanche

"The novel of the year" is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda-by one of French Canada's most admired journalists.
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a motley group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates and prostitutes.
Among these patrons is the hotel waitress, Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a foreign journalist.

Author photo of Gil Courtemanche, a middle aged white quebecer, with the following bio: “PIERRE LONGTIN
Gil Courtemanche is a journalist specializing in international and Third World politics. His recent nonfiction works are Québec (1998) and Nouvelles douces colères
(1999). He lives in Montreal.”

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

yeah, this is absolutely disgusting and actively puts Jewish Americans at risk. also it's genocide denial. which Jewish people used to think was bad.

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Primeval finally coming back in print AND @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social’s return as Enard’s translator?! We are so, so back

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Renee D. Becerra @reneedbecerra.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/02/2026

Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help! Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Hi how’s it going? Find everything alright? Do you have an account with us? Last name? Do you need a bag? Will that be cash or card? How about a receipt today?

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about this part from MLK’s Letters from Birmingham Jail; how so many “good” white people don’t want to think about race, don’t want to think about politics, don’t want to work for justice, and all the harm that negative peace has done

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a
"more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality … Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.” Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I could not even fathom a reason why a governor of a very blue state with pockets of red would be against measures to combat book bans. www.nyclu.org/press-releas...

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Gov. Hochul Vetoes Freedom to Read Act - NYCLU

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Martin MAUSer and Howard RATner… c’mon

screenshot of letterboxd review:

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Uncut Gems 2019
Rewatched Jan 2, 2026
Adam Sandler was 53 in this movie, which was set in 2012, so Howie was roughly 60, which means he was born in 1952... RIP Marty Supreme, Jr.:(

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

if only there were a well-known and oft-cited line from Shakespeare to express this sentiment

2-star letterboxd review of Hamnet: “Has all the trappings of profundity, but ultimately not much of anything to say”

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry)
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions) (Nonfiction)
Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, by Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli (City Lights) (Poetry)
Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories) (Fiction)
Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen (Biblioasis) (Fiction)
Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories) (Nonfiction)

2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, (NYRB) (Fiction)
The Ruins, by Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li (Deep Vellum) (Poetry)
The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions) (Fiction)
Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press) (Nonfiction)
We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth) (Fiction)
Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth (Archipelago) (Poetry)

2025 BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
LONGLIST COMMITTEE
Tobias Carroll
Mandana Chaffa
Isabella Corletto
Adam Dalva
Frances Evangelista
Rebecca Hussey
Andrea Lingenfelter
Idra Novey
Mira Rosenthal
Defne Saricetin
Alina Stefanescu
Hannah Weber
Liz Wood

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/12/2025

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

New Yorkers, did you know Gov. Hochul could sign into law protections for school libraries any time she cares to? We don't need to wait. Let her know you want this done now. Come to Union Square on Monday and join me, @authorsabb.bsky.social and other orgs to remind her what's sitting on her desk

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FREEDOM TO READ ACT READ-IN

Join us in urging Governor Hochul to sign the Freedom to Read Act, ensuring our schools are protected from library censorship!

Monday Dec. 8
3:30 pm
Union Square
17th Street

logos along the top for Teen Activist Project, Authors Against Book Bans, American Booksellers Association, and Pen America.

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

definitely should not have commuted in a blizzard but at least it was cozy at the store

Interior of a bookstore with the lights off, snowlight coming in

Snowy village street corner as seen from under the bookstore awning

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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

humanities scholars today

Jim Downey podcast meme with text “Mahmood Mamdani’s kid?”

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