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A cocktail of almost cosmic potency, from Venedikt Yerofeev's deeply funny Moscow Stations (a.k.a. Moscow-Petushki) tr. Stephen Mulrine

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Recent acquisitions from a trip to the stunning @blackwells.bsky.social in Oxford: Emma - Jane Austen The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton Moscow Stations - Venedikt Yerofeev (tr. Stephen Mulrine) The Fallen - Carlos Manuel Álvarez (tr. Frank Wynne) #booksky

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A flagrant display of power opens Ryszard Kapuściński's The Emperor, a polyphonic examination of the downfall of Ethiopia's last emperor, Haile Selassie. tr. William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand

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Celebrating Valentine's Solzhenitsyn-style

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Please welcome @puncturedlines.bsky.social s.bsky.social, a feminist blog that @yelenafurman.bsky.social and I started together, focusing on Post-Soviet literature by writers in and outside the Former Soviet Union. Read our latest post & browse story archives! puncturedlines.com/2025/02/11/2...

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Very glad to receive in the post a signed edition of David Hay's (@archedroadway.bsky.social) On the Edge of the Asylum, (available now from Rare Swan/@ballerinibookpress.bsky.social!) Really looking forward to reading.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Some amazing detail from Kurt Vonnegut's Wikipedia page

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It's publication day for Waterblack. A fantasy masterpiece. We're very proud. And very lucky (again!). What a book. www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

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Had a great morning at a desk in the @writerscentre.bsky.social Writers' Room - really easy to book, a great environment, and free! (There is the option to make a donation as well). Well worth checking out for any Norwich-based or visiting writer nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writers-room/

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Detail from the frontispiece of a 1970 Bancroft edition of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

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happy #smallpoemsunday from Anna Akhmatova (“Fragment,” tr. Judith Hemschmeyer) and from me (“Nothing”) :)

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From Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman

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Calling all fiction writers! We are looking for stories between 1000 and 3000 words! Please send them our way! 😘 We can't wait to read you.😘

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A small excerpt by American poet John Shade (with assistance from V. Nabokov), from their eponymous Pale Fire.

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I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...

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Post on a theme from today and yesterday: Everything Flows - Vasily Grossman The Deserted House - Lydia Chukovskaya The Russians - Hedrick Smith The Oak and the Calf - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith

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The beautiful detail in my grandfather's 100 year old copy of Jane Austen's Emma

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Excerpt from the poem Old Man Hordij by Ukrainian poet & activist Ivan Drach, from his collection Orchard Lamps, trans. Paula Schwartz With a woodcutting from a series which accompanied the collection by Jacques Hnizdovsky

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Powerful words by Lydia Chukovskaya on her expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union, from an excellent review and mini-biography by @neglectedbooks.com

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Though assuredly apocryphal, I find the image of a grandmother typing out the entirety of War and Peace to get her grandson to read it just so funny

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nearing the end

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Very excited to receive in the post Deceit by Yuri Felsen, tr. Bryan Karetnyk from @prototypepubs.bsky.social & accompanying bookmark!

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Something HUGE has happened

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from Salammbo by Flaubert

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'The soldier isn't going to shoot at us, and even if he does, my intervention won't change the course of things; quite the opposite.' From Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, tr. Elisabeth Jaquette; a story of history, mental and physical borders, and the costs of truth. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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'It is hard going I know - but there is always worse ahead, I have found. Yet there is a merciful law by which nothing heavier than you can bear is ever put upon you. Remember it!' from this beautiful old copy of The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell

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Daniel Gianfranceschi reviews Left hand by Paul Curran www.erratumpress.com/a-nanosecond...

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New acquisitions from The Book Hive in Norwich: The Premonition - Banana Yoshimoto Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Minor Detail - Adania Shibli #BookSky

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@eyatesd.bsky.social chronicles a family history of illness, government cover-ups, and the unhealed wounds of nuclear testing.

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