Karol Lagodzki

My wife says the same thing about me 🤣

Come by, it’ll be diverting! 😀 #booksky

My guess is that Orangio and Wormbrain shorted a bunch of Kenvue Brands stock well before their Tylenol announcement #crooks

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

No national coverage for this study, but it could be one of the most important things to happen in a while. Doing #climate #science while thinking like a lawyer. Vital. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

Polish, Dutch, German and Italian aircraft worked together last night to shoot down 19 Russian drones over Poland.

This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.

What’s frightening is that an average person misses 4 of these specific questions, including what fossil fuels are.

#Bloomington #Indiana
@wesblake.bsky.social is coming to town on Oct 10! Join us at Morgenstern’s at 6 pm. Plenty of notice, so no excuses :-)
#booksky

My wonderful wife @mlagodzki.bsky.social is taking off for a month-long residency, and my goal is to get down the words for the first draft of the next novel before the end of Sep. Over/under? Wish us both luck.

Felt like a pie chart was in order.

Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197

% of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095%

% of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%

"Real conservation means not just focusing on the plight of a single species but on the ecosystem in which it lives, supports others, and is supported." - Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet" in @easthamptonstar.bsky.social

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I hate Nazis

Absolutely mesmerizing. I can't stop staring at it.

This sucks. I'm sorry you're going through it. A piece of pie is the least the universe owes you.

REVIEW JACQUELINE NYATHI THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF VERONIQUE BANGOURA A NOVEL BY TIERNO MONÉNEMBO TRANSLATED BY RYAN CHAMBERLAIN To live, to die and to tell Should we protect the world from our pain, and our pain from the world, or share it far and wide? IN TRANSLATION, the idiomatic expressions and mannerisms of the original language can sometimes interrupt the reader's flow. But if that happens in the first pages of Tierno Monénembo's new novel, keep going. The tale of the woman who will be known as Véronique Bangoura is enthralling. On one of her daily jaunts with her wheelchair-using husband Véronique meets Madame Corre, who recognises the language she speaks as originating from Guinea. Madame Corre wants Véronique to tell her story- why she's in Paris and how she came to be (as Madame Corre mistakenly believes) a personal care assistant to the man in the wheelchair. Madame Corre, you see, has her own painful history to share, and suspects Véronique does too. From this shared place ofpain the women bond and come to understand one another across their seeming divide. The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura weaves its story around the atrocities that happened in Guinea under Sékou Touré from 1956 to 1982. In the moving retelling of of Touré's brutality through the lives (and many deaths) of Véronique and Madame Corre, Monénembo brings what would otherwise be a distant news story and past history to the present experience of the reader. Once any initial struggle with style in translation passes, the rhythm of this work begins to resonate, along with the singular voice of Véronique - an outstanding character who has survived a complicated past and escaped it through a series of unlikely events.

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social.

Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy!

#Guinea

Are you Black but grew up in a White family? If so, I’d really appreciate a chance to speak with you to get a sense for what it felt like. In complete confidentiality. Please DM me. Thanks!!! #novel #writing #fiction #characterization

Author photo of Josh Boldt standing on a rooftop parking lot in Lexington, KY. Quote says: “Boldt’s prose immerses and pulls the reader along with perfect pacing.” – Best Thriller Books

Throwback to the author photoshoot last year and the book review by @fullybookedinky.bsky.social for Best Thriller Books. New novel is finished and coming soon!

True. But lots of people will get hurt before sanity returns, and there is no satisfaction in I-told-you-sos even if we’re still here then.

We are pleased to announce that Boman Desai of Chicago, IL, is the winner of the 2025 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature for his novel BRAHMS COMES TO DINNER, which we will publish in June of 2026!

I don’t know about a movie or tv show, but what’s a novel without a deeply symbolic ceiling stain? One simply must have it. 😀

The omniscient narration by the camera might make the omission easier while preserving significance in film/tv. Few novels these days are written from the omniscient POV.

Check out the new paperback from @anandalima.bsky.social Craft is fantastic! #booksky

2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incident: Officials Police are investigating two shootings targeting elected officials in Minnesota that could possibly be connected, officials said.

Two Minnesota lawmakers are in grave condition following apparent “targeted” shooting, officials say

Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement

Bloomington, IN. Come and be heard. Saturday, Jun 14: Monroe County Courthouse. #nokings #democracy

Sounds like the stamp is on its way :-)

One pro immigrant protester being carried unconscious to the other end of the street here in Paramount, CA, was hit by a federal agency vehicle. Getting attention from protester medics.

SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity. Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement: "SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody. "We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it. "We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."

BREAKING

The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

The late exit poll results from #Poland not encouraging but within statistical margin. Still hoping for a win for #democracy and openness.

Noem urges Poles to elect Trump ally as CPAC holds its first meeting in Poland The Conservative Political Action Conference held its first meeting in Poland on Tuesday, just days before a presidential election between a liberal mayor and a conservative backed by President Trump.

We do not need anyone who “would lead Poland in a style similar to Trump.” It will be an anxious weekend, but I fervently hope to see Rafal Trzaskowski win. #poland #democracy #freedom
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In the mid to long term, the funding cuts will hurt all of us, not only those who are finding their work hamstrung today. #science #climate #resist (no paywall) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...