The victory of the 🇪🇸 midfielders. And a reason to re-read @sashahemon.bsky.social beautiful essay about that moment of transcendence “when all your teammates occupy the ideal position on the field.” (And, via soccer, about so much more: immigrants, rain, connection to the world bigger than us.)

If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder

‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’ Aleksandar Hemon in Granta 108: Chicago

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It is hard to write anything of substance if one inescapably assumes that what you might spend years thinking through and constructing will sink to the bottom of a sea of nonsense, where it will be scraped by the PsychoAI or some such thing.

Jasmin Mujanović@jasminmuj.bsky.social · 3w ago

It seems like there are ever greater reasons to write, and an ever diminishing reading public. A greater need for patience and deliberation, but only the appetite for furious cacophonies. And everywhere little princelings ruling over shattered, empty lands.

Most of all, Lindsey Graham should be remembered as a passionate defender of rapists.

DNC Vows To Replace Graham Platner With Establishment Rapist

Živa istina. True story. radiosarajevo.ba/metromahala/...

MALI ŽIVOTOPISI | Semezdin Mehmedinović: Pčele Aleksandra Hemona

Prošle sedmice, u Tuzli, u posjetu mi je došao prijatelj. Aleksandar Hemon. Sjedili smo u Gradskoj kafani i razgovarali, uglavnom o književnosti. Ali moje prvo pitanje njemu bilo je: "Nedostaje li ti ...

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Trump is on the phone with Infantino, insisting that Belgium does not exist, so that the US won the game by virtue of the absence of Belgian existence. You gotta believe, America!

The US Womens Soccer Team aren't whiny little bitches who cry about having to sit out a game after getting red carded. I guess that's why they've won four FIFA World Cups and the US men have never won one.

It's quite poignant to see Ronaldo straining to release a tear at the end of his last game in a Portugal shirt, but cannot, what with Botox and all.

Not that there was ever a chance of my supporting the US team, but this seals it in perpetuity. Vive la Belgique!

Ben Jacobs@jacobsben.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

Yet another great day in America for checks and balances. Not to worry, Chuck Schumer has a plan.

Ob izidu slovenskega prevoda romana Svet in vse v njem je Aleksandar Hemon prejšnji teden obiskal Slovenijo. Pogovarjala sva se o jeziku, vojni, migracijah, Jugoslaviji, Trumpu, glasbi, mladih in zakaj brez ljubezni človeštva preprosto ni. @tednikmladina.bsky.social www.mladina.si/249467/ljube...

Counterpoint: I looked up who some famous Americans are, and we got Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking up who some famous Bosnians are, and we got Aleksander Hemon and Gavrilo Princip

Hemon in Vojnović zdaj.

Hemon & Vojnović danes na Vodnikovi domačiji o vohunih, kreolskih jezikih ter prihodnosti literature & glasbe - ti dve bosta obstajali, dokler bomo ljudje. Pol pa še en u izi didžej set za konec 🎶🎵

Rodbina.

Damjan Zorc@sikkpuppi.bsky.social · last mo.

Hemon in Vojnović zdaj.

There was a time when all that love made sense. / And yet, we are back home now, reproducing / clichés, reshaping the ancient mistakes, / blending snot with tears to repaint the stairs. Read "The Spies" (Issue 31) by Aleksandar Hemon below.

The Spies

ALEKSANDAR HEMON <br> I’ve learned that a small amount of painkill / blooms into a heartbreak, just as the moon / sinks in the ocean, smears and dissolves, / depleted by the longest of hopeful nights.

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Always had a thing about spies. A poem in The Common.

The Common@commonmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There was a time when all that love made sense. / And yet, we are back home now, reproducing / clichés, reshaping the ancient mistakes, / blending snot with tears to repaint the stairs. Read "The Spies" (Issue 31) by Aleksandar Hemon below.

Titi Henry's wife is from Sarajevo, Ibra's father was Bosnian. They sang "I am from Bosnia, take me to America" to each other.

Taking part in a pre-WC event at The Africa Center NY later today. Come! www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-... If you can't come, you can stream it: www.youtube.com/@AfricaFiveS...

Africa Is a Country World Cup Salon + Special Issue Launch

Africa Is a Country comes to New York to celebrate Africa at the World Cup and discuss the political fault lines of international football.

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🌈📚 📖 The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents Affiliate Link ebook bookshop.org/a/100590/978... print bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #historical #literary #gay

The World and All That It Holds: A Novel

A Novel

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🌈 6 adult books that embody queer resistance

If we're still around in the fall, I have a book of poetry out in October. I figured poetry is where the money is. www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/godspo...

Godspotting by Aleksandar Hemon - Copper Canyon Press

Godspotting by Aleksander Hemon explores the normalization of violence, new beginnings as a refugee, and Hemon's birthplace of Sarajevo. These poems illuminate the natural human desire to figure out o...

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Happy Pride month!

Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore@wolfwyld.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌈📚 📖 The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents Affiliate Link ebook bookshop.org/a/100590/978... print bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #historical #literary #gay

In Princeton, we’re meeting lots of neighbors who haven’t voted yet. But the primary is where your vote is most powerful! Democrats and unaffiliated voters, cast your ballot by 8pm! SamForNJ.org

New campaign signs dropped. These say I'm a scientist. Get yours! SamForNJ.org

Fucking A! To sacrifice a minority population for some vague political goal is inherently fascist. Dems can dress it up all they want, but being anti-trans is fascist.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Domestically I am tired of democrats being chicken shits about this. I don’t care how it polls. I don’t care if swing state soccer moms get squeamish about it. I don’t give a single fuck. This is a non-negotiable.

The gutter racism that’s been unleashed and the destruction of decades of civil rights justice is the work of the nyt’s Sulzberger as much as it is that of Trump, Roberts, Alito, Musk, Thomas, Kennedy and Johnson et al He handed them the weapon willingly. He keeps pushing lies to this day.

Happy to report that the recent issue of The Common includes a poem of mine: www.thecommononline.org/the-spies/

The Spies

ALEKSANDAR HEMON <br> I’ve learned that a small amount of painkill / blooms into a heartbreak, just as the moon / sinks in the ocean, smears and dissolves, / depleted by the longest of hopeful nights.

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Look what's cooking at Copper Canyon Press!

Friday April 24: "Islands" by Aleksandar Hemon. "We got up at dawn, ignored the yolky sun, loaded our navy-blue Austin with suitcases, and then drove straight to the coast, stopping only on the verge of Sarajevo, so I could pee."