Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/10/09/books/nobel-prize-literature-krasznahorkai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #awards #books #literature #nobelprize #laszlokrasznahorkai #hungary

BANNED BOOKS WEEK
5–11 October 2025
Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned in Scotland’s Central Region school libraries. The Education Committee said
“There are some harmful words in it … Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed”
But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #BannedBooksWeek #censorship #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
would thi prisoner
in thi bar
please stand
fur thi aforesaid crime
uv writn anuthir poem
awarded the certificate of safety
by thi scottish education department …
—Tom Leonard, published in GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)
2/3
#Scottish #literature #BannedBooksWeek #censorship #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
This newspaper hoarding – hung by Tom Leonard here on his bookcase – was described by the author as
“the only ‘trophy’ I ever got for my poetry that continues to give me some pleasure, when I remember it.”
3/3
https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/journal/blog-march.html
#Scottish #literature #BannedBooksWeek #censorship #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
5–11 October 2025
Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned in Scotland’s Central Region school libraries. The Education Committee said
“There are some harmful words in it … Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed”
But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #BannedBooksWeek #censorship #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
would thi prisoner
in thi bar
please stand
fur thi aforesaid crime
uv writn anuthir poem
awarded the certificate of safety
by thi scottish education department …
—Tom Leonard, published in GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)
2/3
#Scottish #literature #BannedBooksWeek #censorship #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
5–11 October 2025
Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned in Scotland’s Central Region school libraries. The Education Committee said
“There are some harmful words in it … Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed”
But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #BannedBooksWeek #censorship #poem #poetry #TomLeonard

Haruki Murakami’s world of quakes, cults and odd encounters resurfaces in Tsuyoshi Inoue’s feature “After the Quake.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/25/film/after-the-quake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #harukimurakami #afterthequake #311 #earthquakes #greathanshinearthquake #nhk #japanesefilm #literature
“Archipelago of the Sun” meanders across the Baltic Sea in search of a disappeared Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/24/books/yoko-tawada-archipelago-of-the-sun-trilogy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #yokotawada #margaretmitsutani #translation #books #literature
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Today, 20 September, is Batman Day. You’d think there would be a signal or something but
Anyway, here’s “Batman’s Aff His Nut”, by Robert Florence
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #comics #comicbooks #Batman #BatmanDay


“There’s a strange closeness you feel when reading (Osamu) Dazai, as if you know him, as a friend,” says "Retrograde" translator Leo Elizabeth Takada. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/22/books/osamu-dazai-new-translations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #osamudazai #translation #japaneseliterature #books #literature #sambett #davidboyd
Today, 20 September, is Batman Day. You’d think there would be a signal or something but
Anyway, here’s “Batman’s Aff His Nut”, by Robert Florence
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #comics #comicbooks #Batman #BatmanDay


A quick keek at some of Batman’s Scottish adventures: swinging about in a short kilt in “The Lord of Batmanor” (1953), & a potentially fabulous but sadly under-utilised comic-book crossover with The Broons in Batman: Scottish Connection (1998: ✍️ Alan Grant & 🎨 Frank Quitely)
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #comics #comicbooks #Batman #BatmanDay


Today, 20 September, is Batman Day. You’d think there would be a signal or something but
Anyway, here’s “Batman’s Aff His Nut”, by Robert Florence
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #comics #comicbooks #Batman #BatmanDay



Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade
Kafka:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
Felice Bauer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Bauer
Books by Kafka at PG:
Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade
Kafka:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
Felice Bauer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Bauer
Books by Kafka at PG:
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - 5/10
All summer I had been waiting to read this but held off to save it for my holiday. Well, I finally had that holiday and, unfortunately, ended up really disappointed.
Maybe my expectations for this were too high and I'm being unfair, but this just didn't do anything for me.
The structure was complicated and detracted from the story and the ending felt incredibly rushed and pointless. In the rush, the character who we come to know and follow through most of the story is suddenly cast aside as soon as moral conflict arises.
A shame.

This took many, many revisions. Far more than I normally do.
not the chariot, or the escaping fire of our port
https://subspacewagon.systems/not-the-chariot-or-the-escaping-fire-of-our-port/
With the Guppe groups now gone, please feel free to follow the fedigroups.social poetry group.
#SharingIsCaring#Poetry#PoemADay#PoetryLover#Poem#TodaysPoem#WritingCommunity#PoetryCommunity#PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting#WritersOfMastodon
This took many, many revisions. Far more than I normally do.
not the chariot, or the escaping fire of our port
https://subspacewagon.systems/not-the-chariot-or-the-escaping-fire-of-our-port/
With the Guppe groups now gone, please feel free to follow the fedigroups.social poetry group.
#SharingIsCaring#Poetry#PoemADay#PoetryLover#Poem#TodaysPoem#WritingCommunity#PoetryCommunity#PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting#WritersOfMastodon

" Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the ‘purely financial decision’ to close Meanjin has raised eyebrows." (Catriona Menzies-Pike - Crickey News)
The Literary Australia icon had but two part-time staff whose remuneration would be crumbs to the highly paid Chancelor and Vice. So the Q is, what financial imperative would make MEAJIN a liability to foreclose? Then there's the whole question of Meanjin's contribution to the literary sector and academia. Yep, agreed, something is fishy to this whole saga.
#MeanJin#Writing#WritingCommunity#Literature#Arts
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/meanjin-closure-financial-reasons-melbourne-university-press/
Edited Link (it may be hours before the articles is released from subscriber paywal, be patient)
" Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the ‘purely financial decision’ to close Meanjin has raised eyebrows." (Catriona Menzies-Pike - Crickey News)
The Literary Australia icon had but two part-time staff whose remuneration would be crumbs to the highly paid Chancelor and Vice. So the Q is, what financial imperative would make MEAJIN a liability to foreclose? Then there's the whole question of Meanjin's contribution to the literary sector and academia. Yep, agreed, something is fishy to this whole saga.
#MeanJin#Writing#WritingCommunity#Literature#Arts
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/meanjin-closure-financial-reasons-melbourne-university-press/
Edited Link (it may be hours before the articles is released from subscriber paywal, be patient)