Rob Madole

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I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel

I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.

The screenshot New novel drops next year

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Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!

Spectral analysis: Gabriel Flynn's gentrified ghouls - The Berliner The struggling characters in the Berlin-based author's debut novel 'Poor Ghost!' are as haunted by their austere past as they are wary of Manchester's foreclosed future.

Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

Down Under in Berlin: Reflections on why readings matter - The Berliner Books critic and native Australian Alexander Wells has curated a unique festival celebrating literature from Australia and Aotearoa. Here's why you can't miss it.

"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...

There’s Power in Male Bonding. Must There Be Menace? | The Tyee Two stirring books update crime noir by illuminating dark corners of modern masculinity.

'a remarkable new novel ... think In Cold Blood meets Grand Theft Auto with the psychological complexity and moral anguish of Dostoevsky and inputs from third-wave feminists.' Another wonderful review of @vijaykhurana.bsky.social's The Passenger Seat. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

YouTube video by GeSt TelekomHistorik Kinoansage der Deutschen Bundespost im Auftrag der Deutschen Postreklame

early version of Moviefone introduced by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1952. You'd call 115 to hear the movie listings played back on an "Assmann" magnetic disc recorder

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House of the Rising Hun | Alexander Wells In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.

Viktor Orbán's Hungary: scourge of the EU, role model for the US right. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about how the Orbán regime seeks legitimacy by telling dodgy stories about the 20th century—stories not all so different from those that we've been telling in the West

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House of the Rising Hun | Alexander Wells In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.

Fidesz wants to "substitute gulag for Auschwitz, to make ideas like redistribution and internationalism just as politically taboo as antisemitism and eugenics"

Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com

not a single podcast about Lucky Per in the entire Anglosphere .... outrageous

A poster: Poor Ghost! Book launch. Readings, discussion, and Q&A with Gabriel Flynn and Alex Wells. Wednesday 21st May, 20:00 @ Lettrétage, Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin-Mitte. Free entry. Books and drinks for sale.

Berliners, my novel is coming out in two months and I'm throwing a launch party at @lettretage.de with my great pal @ajbwells.bsky.social. Come along!

Cheap seats: How the Berlin theatre is fighting against culture cuts - The Berliner Despite the CDU-led culture cuts, you can still find cheap seats at the theatre in Berlin, if you know where to look.

Just so you know, despite the CDU’s culture cuts, there are still some cheap seats at Berlin‘s theaters…my most recent column for @exberliner.bsky.social
www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...

BREAKING NEWS: BERLIN

great Chartbook today #toozeheads

three to go

Someone oughta write a history of Dallas Theological Seminary

wonder what his answer is !!!

Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.

medium shot man in a overcoat face slightly hidden by large Reiss microphone

man on a dais (? I would like it to be a dais) with two Reiss marble block microphones

two men in evening dress and a woman in an evening gown leaning over to speak into the blocky white marble microphone

man in a darkened room speaking towards yet another Reiss microphone

microphones in late Weimar films

Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)

where were you when they came for Schröders Data Shop

“If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence.”

sign that says free market waffles

free market waffles

For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature.

www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

The painter Lenbach’s family leers from an old picture frame

terrifying family

“so schmeckt frische”

a sign at den gamle by that says there are also toilets here

there are also toilets here

I also finished @gabrielflynn.bsky.social's book, Poor Ghosts last night, and it's incredible. A brilliant and moving novel about class, family, home and the changing face of Manchester. Out in May – don't sleep on it!