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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP Annie Dillard "There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. ... Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading — that is a good life." - From The Writing Life

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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Delighted to be bringing this haunting masterpiece into English. For fans of Death Stranding, Cormac McCarthy, and True Detective Season 1, this one will stay with you.

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Support each other folks, that's all we've got..

Silhouette of a lone standing seagull on a ridge against a cloudy orange sunset sky.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you to @paperpills10.bsky.social for hosting a group read of my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body. Our work together and the book itself mean a lot to me so it's especially gratifying to hear that My Dreadful Body made the National Book Award's longlist for Translated Literature!

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...the teacher's face crumpled like the quizzes we tossed in the wastebasket." The similes in this book are 💯

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "All the words that were ever said to her had turned into huge, dry stones." "My body forgives no misdeeds. The only thing it can easily forget is pain."

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 "Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses - like books - never betrayed me."

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The right side of my neck was bent double and I couldn't straighten it out without myorelaxants. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody Instantly brought to mind this painting: Jeanne Hébuterne by Amedeo Modigliani.

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Chapter 3: “Hair” “The main thing any little girl should do was marry and leave the parental home to the sounds of ‘Vagzaly.’ A daughter unable to make her parents happy with her marriage was considered a bad daughter” (23). youtu.be/R145B0epC5M?...

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Huseyn Mehemmedoglu - Vagzali

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...all her words were turned into deeds, into the food she cooked, the laundry, the sewing." 3.

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Hair "...daughters were merely temporary inhabitants of the home and were nurtured for other families..."

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Her words were shekarbura, thin kutaby pancakes with greens and cheese, 4 buglama meat stew, and chigirtma.' Whenever she wanted to say something, she prepared food. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's interesting that I was the lone child in our large family to wear glasses. That was why Bibi firmly decided the books were to blame, since I read too many of them. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It turned out that the Earth had been poisoned to its very core after the decaying bodies of former colonizers managed to pass on their standards to the world, whereby everything blue was beautiful but brown was hideous. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Starting September 11th. 11 chapters in 11 days. Let's do this #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody give a like to join the group read! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/blog/

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Good #beedoubleokayess📚🐦

Starting September 11, 2026! 11 chapters in 11 days. Books we read in 2025: Let’s do this!

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In many situations, "it's finally allowed" had replaced the reproving "forbidden." #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Botox won't help you, too much has been affected." #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And that's how my black eyebrows answered my question. ... They were now harbingers of tremendous misfortune, a red fare on the high seas. Someone who could interpret all this had finally appeared. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The skin reddened quickly after recognizing the bitterness of loss, as if it mourned each tiny hair. Twenty minutes later, new brows nad replaced the old, engraved on the skin like an ornament on a vase. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody I had to laugh.😅

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In small mountain settlements, the eyebrows were first and foremost in differentiating an innocent, unmarried young woman from a woman who had already married. - My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova translated by Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social #Djabbarova26 @paperpills10.bsky.social

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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Could it be the most important thing I’ve ever written? Could it be a theory explaining how Russians are simultaneously in a highly individualistic and an immerse, collective society? Yes and yes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Ambient war: Stalingrad memory and Russian state-aligned Telegram networks in the war against Ukraine - Ian Garner, Hugh Garner, 2026

The idea of fighting World War II again has been an important feature of Russian state-aligned discourse about the ongoing war in Ukraine. This article examines...

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sad to hear that Péter Nádas, one of the giants of modern Hungarian literature, has passed away. Embarrassingly for me, I still have his monumental (in size and stature) PARALLEL LIVES to read.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.” - Anton Chekhov, in a letter to A.S. Suvorin. (April 13, 1895)

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In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

From 'Autumn Sky' by Charles Simic The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence. .

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#Djabbarova26 #EganaDjabbarova #readinganactofsharedsolitude #paperpills💊 #booktwitter friends This read will take place on Bluesky on September 11th 📚🐦💙 Give a like to join the groupread!@lizoksbooks.bsky.social @yelenafurman.bsky.social @olgaz.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/Db8VWzh...

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Calling all memoir, nonfiction, autofiction writers and all and everyone. This radio program, Whose Truth Is It Anyway? on Radio 4 with Damien Barr looks brilliant: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...,

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BBC Radio 4 - Whose Truth Is It Anyway?

Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature.

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy Friday to my dear peeps 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦💙 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's #WitMonth, and among the many phenomenal titles, see below for @paperpills10.bsky.social's call for a group read of My Dreadful Body by Egana Dzhabbarova, translated from Russian by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social Writer, translator, group read leader are all women, and this novel is FABULOUS.

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A toad @toadlett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Elixir: a voyage into alchemy by Kapka Kassabova. v interesting book, came for the plants, stayed for the people. Kassabova's ability to describe amazing and nuanced people and their lives in a remote area of Bulgaria almost makes up for her strange biases and blind spots as a narrator.

cover for hte book Elixir: a voyage into alchemy by Kapka Kassabova. the cover has a photo of a meadow surrounded by dark forest, the meadow lit up with golden sunlight.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Such a balanced and beautiful read, Susanna. I loved it! @susannacrossman.bsky.social I was thinking of my mum while reading your essay. She has psoriasis, which is also an inflammation and would have benefited from consulting fire-tamers.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Very to share my new piece of auto-fiction, The Appointment, published in the 10th anniversary Anatomy edition of RIC Journal. A story about wax, things being added, removed & the body work of beauticians. ricjournal.com/2026/03/19/t... All thanks to editor @saudaminideo.bsky.social .

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Esther Allen (@eallen.bsky.social) can spin the woolliest yarn with scholarly precision… You know who else was known for such things?

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Big thank you to @moushumighosh.bsky.social for the recommendation of this, which feeds my growing obsession with Japanese detective fiction of the twistiest kind. (Mystery of a different kind is why this new book is covered with baked-in black stuff all over it. Yes, I did try to wipe (!) it off.)

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Wow writers. My online life-writing course ‘Things We Think With:Evocative Objects‘ with the brilliant @saloneurope.bsky.social has almost sold out. Join us 26/11 for exercises and talk about Proust, objects, archives and Annie Ernaux. Do book now and can’t wait to see you there ! (All links below)

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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Final cover for Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, publising in Oct. by @sevenstories.bsky.social in the US and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social in the UK. Available for preorder now

Cover of Eye of the Monkey, by Krisztina Tóth, trans. Ottilie Mulzet. An abstract image of a fence or gate at the top in brownish-taupe hues, with the title, author, and translator at the bottom.

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Contrary to a reader's expectations that we might find in letters the writer "at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without a thought for appearances," Hardwick wrote about literary correspondence in 1953, (1/2) #TheDolphinLetters25

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Lowell and Hardwick's separation was conducted mostly through letters in the summer and fall of 1970. A practical reason for writing ... was the expense of transatlantic calls and the uneven quality of reception ... (1/2) #TheDolphinLetters25

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

"Almost everyone understands how one would want to leave America temporarily," Lowell wrote to Hardwick that April. (April 27, 1970) #TheDolphinLetters25

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The Dolphin Letters collects the correspondence between Hardwick and Lowell during the last seven years of Lowell's life ... and offers a portrait of two writers at a time of intense personal crisis and creative innovation. ##TheDolphinLetters25

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Until the end of her life, Elizabeth Hardwick wondered what had happened to the letters she wrote to Robert Lowell during the 1970s. #TheDolphinLetters25 #ElizabethHardwick #RobertLowell We will find out.

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Moushumi Ghosh @moushumighosh.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage. - A 2019 review in the New Yorker of The Dolphin Letters. archive.is/FIzxF #TheDolphinLetters25

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

'I paint in order not to cry' - Paul Klee The same could be said for writing

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