Anne Berest's prizewinning, luminous novel THE #POSTCARD, in my English translation:
Spring Super Lead title, April-July 2023 Catalogue
Available 16 May 2023
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Walking home last night I realized I was holding my keys between my fingers in "defensive attack" position automatically, even in safe Durham. As women we absorb the fear of being harmed by men into our very spirits & bones; maybe it's there from birth. Makes me so sad & SO ANGRY
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David Davis joins the bulging ranks of Brexiters who blame everyone but themselves for the fact they were wrong about everything.
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John Bercow schools Nigel Farage on the brexit disaster.
"To date brexit has been a grotesque blunder... but Nigel wants to blame someone else... it's nonsense on stilts... just admit people are poorer & wages are down... "
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Translators! Raise your hands if you did a reading for our "seeking a publisher" playlist and have subsequently signed a contract with a publishing house! This is important info and we'd love to know!
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19 child coffins in Uvalde.
And Congressional Republicans paying homage with AR-15 lapel pins to the weapon that blew off their faces.
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85% of Americans are non-smokers. The demanded indoor smoking.
70% of Americans want women’s right to choose. The House GOP is discussing travel bans.
71% of Americans want stronger gun laws to make us safer. The House GOP showed up today with AR-15 pins. /1
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson has disgracefully called for Ukraine to be accepted into the EU. Does he not care about their "sovereignty"? Does he not understand they won't be able to choose the colour of their passports? What about their fishing industry? 😭😭😭
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Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris.
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if you earnt £1 every single second (that’s £3,600 an hour) it would take you over 1,000 years to earn the same amount of *profit* (£32.2bn) that shell made in the last year alone.
obscene doesn’t even come close to describing it.
100% windfall tax now.
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If your cat sits on your computer keyboard half way through an online shop, always check the basket when checking out.
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Wow: Czech president-elect Pavel says he fears possible bugging devices at Prague Castle and won't work there until there has been a thorough sweep of the place.
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teachers in Nazi Germany hid books to avoid being arrested. teachers in Republican Florida are hiding books to avoid being arrested. any questions
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Someday soon, it will be hard to even find people who admit to ever having supported Brexit in the first place. It will join Suez and Iraq in the pantheon of catastrophic British errors
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Precarious colleagues wrote down their experiences in universities across the UK. Here they are being held by permanent staff members. #Solidarity #ucuRISING
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After 35 you whisper “progress is not linear” until you die
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Just bought my ticket for the ! It'll be my first time--probably coming down on the Wednesday. Excited!
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100 days of Sunak
Williamson: sacked
Braverman: bullying
Raab: bullying
Bridgen: lobbying
Johnson: corruption
Zahawi: ministerial code
Sunak: no seatbelt
Chester by-election: lost
Tax: Highest for 70 yrs
Polls: 23%
And he's literally the best they've got
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Aha, this is what he meant by “restoring order” 😀
Cute video shows values of new Czech president elect Petr Pavel.
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My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
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Absolutely appalling.
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William and Kate showed up empty handed. They DID bring a videographer, a reporter, and 8 or 9 photographers. Sadly, they brought no food donations. At 41, Kate laughed when told the pantry runs on donations. At 41, she says she’s just learning”. FINALLY! news.sky.com/story/william-
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Incredible news ❤️
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Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
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You don’t have to watch the video of #TyreNichols being beaten by police.
You don’t have to subject yourself to that trauma.
It should not require another video of a Black human being dehumanized for anyone to understand that police brutality is an urgent, devastating issue.
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God, I miss being European. Brexit was the worst thing ever to happen to my country. We left the EU because so many of my countrymen hate eastern Europeans.
I wish I could apologise to all of Europe for this shitshow, and especially to those of you in east Europe. I'm so sorry.
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Meghan Markle was overqualified for the job they wanted her to play in the British Royal Family.
In a few minutes, she delivers a speech that blows any other royal out of the water. They had to dim her light because she was way too bright.
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The Duchess of Sussex has launched the Smart Works capsule collection in London.
The charity, of which Meghan is Patron, helps women to dress and prepare for interviews by providing them with key workwear essentials.
#DuchessOfSussex @SmartWorksHQ #MeghanMarkle
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woman who puts people in camps condemns people who put people in camps
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On this #HolocaustMemorialDay I remember all those innocent people who were killed in the Holocaust. That stain on humanity must never be forgotten so that such evils are never repeated.
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Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.
I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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In Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day our Book of the Day is The Postcard by Anne Berest; translated by Tina Kover. Said Caitlin: “A story of memory and loss and a new standout in literature about the Holocaust.” Due from @EuropaEditions in May.
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Please STOP sending royals & politicians to food banks
Having millionaires arrive empty handed, well fed, pampered, posing for photographs, surrounded by security, & seemingly unable to either understand or open their own car doors is embarrassing & offensive
Put up or shut up
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I'm hazarding a guess here. But I bet the 87-year-old woman who froze to death in Bury never once shorted sterling, dodged a £3m tax bill, crashed Britain's pension funds, fired and rehired an entire workforce or sold the NHS a shedload of dodgy PPE.
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I love photos of cats being indifferent to aristocrats - in this case Lady Cottesloe, second wife of 4th Baron Cottesloe. npg.org.uk/collections/se
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Late to the party here, but this by is a book of quiet brilliance.
It’s a story of shy, unambitious, thoroughly decent men carving themselves a path through the world.
Anyone looking for a profound and deeply soulful read - you may wish to note the above 👌
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we had more stores that still looked like this? This October 1946 photo is of Westwood Book Store, 10926 Weyburn Ave, Westwood. What intrigues me is that part of the sign that says “Rental Library.” Did they rent books? Was that normal? #LosAngelesHistory
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