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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A few books I’ll be spending the next few months with.

Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

12 books by 8 Russian authors from Dostoevsky to Sorokin, with special emphasis on Solzhenitsyn. substack.com/@tbowden/not...

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12 books by 8 Russian authors from Dostoevsky to Sorokin, with special emphasis on Solzhenitsyn.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In memory of Rick Harsch and the press he founded, corona\samizdat: links to some of the reviews and author interviews I’ve done for my column at the ever-estimable Book Beat. First up, W. D. Clarke and his novel White Mythology (2nd review down). tbowden.substack.com/p/w-d-clarke...

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W. D. Clarke's White Mythology

The authors of corona\samizdat, part 1: Reviews of books published by Rick Harsch, along with interviews with their authors

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

You know it’s going to be a hot night when your date says, “You had me at ‘Jackie Gleason’s Library of the Paranormal.’” #weirdlit @furtherreadinglibrary.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social #iarrogantlyrecommend

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The boys are all smiles after their second walk of the day.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Headed to @bookbeat.bsky.social yesterday to satisfy my jones for Seth’s latest progress report. @drawnandquarterly.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Double-fisted cowboy poesy from the Argentine pampas. Conscription, murder, flight, and a singing contest! @oxunipress.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation #iarrogantlyrecommend

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The darling buds of [adjusting for global warming] April.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Strictly high-tone aesthetic praxis from R Crumb! @fantagraphics.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Red Wind Howls is about the aftermath a Tibetan community, called Amdo, where Mao sent troops in 1958 and massacred 120,000+ civilians in one day and sent another 50,000+ to labor camps, where most of them died. #literatureintranslation

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Translation of wages earned by package-delivery workers in Beijing, per package: 32 cents (contract workers without benefits) and 26 cents (company employees with benefits).

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New poetry from Xuela Zhang and reprinted first three books by Eileen Myles in one volume from @fonografeditions.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The earliest known novel in Arabic by a woman, Sa’iba (1891) by Alis al-Bustani, in a new translation by Marilyn Booth, from @oxfordworldsclassics #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New arrival in the ⁦‪@LibraryArabLit.bsky.social‬⁩ #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Anybody know how to cancel a Dropbox subscription? As far as I can tell, it's a criminal organization that has *nothing* on its website or call center that allows for canceling. "Instructions" for doing so match *nothing* at the website. Please spread the word that they are a criminal organization.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Current state of the collection, authors M - O. #bookporn

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Two new installments in the @Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, published by @oxunipress.bsky.social Bi-lingual editions (Mandarin/English on facing pages) covering 3,000 years of Sinitic literatures. #literatureintranslation #chineseliteratureintranslation

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Now that I have figured the four books comprising Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917, it’s time to start The Tunnel by that master of poetic rhetoric, William Gass. @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

@mcsweeneys.net #81! Ever since Chris Ware edited issue #13, I’ve been buying it.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Ever since Ash before Oak, I’ve learned to read everything by Jeremy Cooper that @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social publishes.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Back-to-back arrivals from @isolarii.blusky.social On the Zero Line, Tariq Aswari (Ed.), and Ah!merica by Allen Ginsburg. #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Earning his poet’s certificate from the Sculptors of Living Masterpieces, Inc. Joe Brainard’s The Complete C Comics. @nyrcomics.blusky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Hoping to finish the 3rd “node” within the next 2 weeks. Then on to Solzhenitsyn’s 4th node—April 1917. @undpress.bsky.social #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Finished! Yes, it’s about a seminary school dropout, but not to be confused with Baron Corvo. @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @bookbeat.bsky.social

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Daniel Defoe on the socio-economic plight of women 300 years ago. Is it better to starve and remain virtuous, or give yourself to a man to stay housed and fed? And why are these the only options on hand?

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I bought these anthology reprints in 1974, when I was 15. Anybody else latch onto this series? There may be two more collections from the same editor. #weirdlit #goldenagescifi

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The Marquis de Sade on the collapse of morality in his time. The power center has shifted since his time from religious leadership to business leadership in ours. (From @rjdent.bsky.social ‘s translation of Sade’s Stories, Tales, and Fables.)

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New arrivals from the always interesting @wakefieldpress.bsky.social Someone new, someone known: Ferdinand Combet and Nerval. #literatureintranslation #weirdlit

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The Edwardian Era’s dark side.

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The newest from @kenjisiratori.bsky.social —750 pages on bio-mechanical linguistic collapse.

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