Kornélie by Beata Balogová. All the world is crammed into a small village in southern Slovakia. Autofiction meets magic realism in one of the most beautiful books I have ever read... ...and I delivered the translation to the publisher an hour ago. Out next year from @jantarbooks.bsky.social 🌐 💙📚🇸🇰

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businessman reading sebald on the metro today

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Got confirmation from a university library I'm going to be able to see some artifacts connected to Qiu Jin when I visit Tokyo for my research trip 💜

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Pathway for Haruki Murakami to win the Nobel Prize: stop writing novels (he is not great at it and at this point, he will never get better). Write only short stories (which he is excellent at). REVIVE the art form, make it so a thousand short story writers can bloom. It’s noble. It’s Nobel.

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It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

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