Brian K Goodman
@briankgoodman.bsky.social
Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
Ah, the exhilaration of book proofs in the inbox! _Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders_ is coming to fruition, opening new doors to our understanding of the post-World War Two Jewish World. With @labendz.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Keeping-Cont...
Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders
Amazon.com: Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders: 9781626712652: Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah, Labendz, Jacob Ari: Books
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Highly readable review of what promises to be one of the most "urgent" books of the year.
How did writers and artists working under authoritarianism respond to a widespread sense of political failure in the decades after 1968? Join us for a lecture by Brian K. Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social on "the antipolitical imagination". ⏰4 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/2rkvcr4m
The Antipolitical Imagination: The Story of a Dissident Idea between Budapest and New York
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Mark your calendars: on May 12, @quinnslobodian.com and I go deep on yuppies at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social www.harvard.com/event/dylan-...
Excerpt from Banning Books in America: Not a How-To (pub date today!) by @lydiamillet.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/what-happens...
What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned?
When a friend wrote to me some months ago that he’d heard a book of mine had been banned, I felt a surge of excitement. I’m not proud of this. The banning of a book is hardly a badge of literary me…
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Our little book on a big issue is out, with thought-provoking essays from @annieabrams.bsky.social, @lydiamillet.bsky.social, @briankgoodman.bsky.social, @electrostani.bsky.social, @jeremycyoung.bsky.social, @edrabinski.bsky.social, and more who are not on here--hoping people find it useful
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing@bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 6mo agoOut today: 'Banning Books in America: Not a How-To" edited by @samcohen.bsky.social Educators, writers, advocates, and librarians explore book banning in the U.S. across past and present. Get your copy: https://bit.ly/46j70zY
I can’t help myself! (Also, not quite what I argue, but I’m sure the reviewer couldn’t help themselves either.)
Sam Cohen@samcohen.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere's the bit on you
“Rubber bullets and book bans are weapons deployed against all of us.” Alumnus @samcohen.bsky.social confronts the censorship surge in “Banning Books in America: Not a How-To,” which includes a syllabus from his university course on banned books
New Collection Confronts the Rise of Book Bans in the U.S.
Alumnus Samuel Cohen gathers leading voices in “Banning Books in America,” a new collection of essays.
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Next month, I'm giving a lecture on "The Antipolitical Imagination" at the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (@iasceu.bsky.social). If you're in Budapest, join us! events.ceu.edu/2026-03-04/a...
The Antipolitical Imagination: The Story of a Dissident Idea between Budapest and New York
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Campaigns to disrupt progressive social movements. Government agencies violating the constitution. Unaccountable actions in Latin America. The Church Committee warned us fifty years ago. Our publication day is today. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
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Discount! Book event! Not clips of the president yelling at us!
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · 9mo agoAmerica First, at America’s first public university.
What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Also, I just discovered this thoughtful review from Peter Bugge in the flagship Czech-language journal ČESKÁ LITERATURA 😅 asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliterat...
Czech Literature
Czech Literature is a peer-reviewed professional scholarly journal published by the Institute of Czech Literature CAS. It is published six times a year and focuses on the history, poetics, contexts an...
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Brian K Goodman@briankgoodman.bsky.social · 9mo agowww.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter... (Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter... (Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)
The Nonconformists — Harvard University Press
How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some indescribable way, we are each ...
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Balint on Zipperstein's new bio of Roth: "Roth curated Penguin’s 'Writers From the Other Europe,' smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo Kiš, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Philip Roth’ Review: The Masks of a Writer
Roth’s fiction drew heavily on his own life and literary reputation in ways that blurred imagination and reality.
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🇭🇺 On this day in 1956, Hungarians rose up against Soviet occupation — and showed solidarity with the 🇵🇱 Polish (“lengyel”) nation, whose June 1956 Poznań protests had been crushed. 🎥 Footage: Blinken OSA Archivum, post-colorized by Colorful History (Színes Történelem) YouTube channel
Keep an eye out for this one from Hadji Bakara and @uchicagopress.bsky.social. It’s brilliant and necessary.💡 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
Writing for Dark Times
A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center. At Amnesty International’s headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaney’s “From the Republic of Conscience,” ...
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When I was researching my book in Prague, Ivan Klíma and his wife Helena invited me into their home and talked to me for hours over zázvorová limonáda. Their hospitality was just one reason their apartment was a first stop for visiting US writers like Philip Roth. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94
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