Karol Lagodzki
@klagodzki.bsky.social
#Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel, finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.
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Karol Lagodzki
@klagodzki.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for including Controlled Conversations among the finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel! Congratulations to all the finalists Venita Blackburn, Michael Deagler, Samuel Kolawole, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio! #booksky
If you've read a book that touched you, the greatest thanks you can offer the author is a one-sentence review.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you've read a book that touched you, the greatest thanks you can offer the author is a one-sentence review.
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We Are Arrows #2 (written in 2012) and instead of watching the presidential debate i finally listen to the taylor swift album folklore (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We Are Arrows #2 (written in 2012) and instead of watching the presidential debate i finally listen to the taylor swift album folklore (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
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Great conversation at Morgenstern Books with @klagodzki.bsky.social last week. You can get signed books of PINEVILLE TRACE & CONTROLLED CONVERSATIONS at Morgenstern Books in Bloomington, IN!
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Great conversation at Morgenstern Books with @klagodzki.bsky.social last week. You can get signed books of PINEVILLE TRACE & CONTROLLED CONVERSATIONS at Morgenstern Books in Bloomington, IN!
#Publishing With this week's announcement about the closure of the book distributor Baker & Taylor, it's important to support independent presses that will lose their publisher services. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social is one such. Buy one of their books. Or five. #BookSky #Reading schaffnerpress.com
Schaffner Press – BOOKS OF SOCIAL RELEVANCE FOR DISCERNING READERS
schaffnerpress.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#Publishing With this week's announcement about the closure of the book distributor Baker & Taylor, it's important to support independent presses that will lose their publisher services. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social is one such. Buy one of their books. Or five. #BookSky #Reading schaffnerpress.com
Come by, it’ll be diverting! 😀 #booksky
Bloomington Readers! Join @klagodzki.bsky.social & I at Morgenstern Books as we discuss Pineville Trace and Controlled Conversations. Both novels feature characters on the run, escaping to realize freedom. What are they running from and toward, and why does it matter? 💙📚 #authors
October 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Come by, it’ll be diverting! 😀 #booksky
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"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...
Antiscience Is an Existential Threat
The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.
time.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...
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...
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.
www.nature.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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...
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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
September 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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.
This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.
September 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.
#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
@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
September 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#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
@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.
August 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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.
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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%
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%
August 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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%
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%
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"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
www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...
www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...
Guestwords: End of a Keystone Species? | The East Hampton Star
This fall a Horseshoe Crab Protection Act will land on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. It would ban harvesting these ancient creatures in New York rather than merely setting quotas, and this is vital to saf...
www.easthamptonstar.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"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
www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...
www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...
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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
Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy!
#Guinea
July 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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
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
July 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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
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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!
July 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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!
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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!
July 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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!
Check out the new paperback from @anandalima.bsky.social Craft is fantastic! #booksky
Yay! Yay! Yay! It's paperback day! Today Craft is officially out in paperback! (Almost) The same cover I love (can you spot the difference?), snazzy new orange spine... plus more travel and wallet friendly. I love it so much! 😍🧡🎉 Get one for yourself, loved one, secret crush and frenemies today!
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Check out the new paperback from @anandalima.bsky.social Craft is fantastic! #booksky
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Two Minnesota lawmakers are in grave condition following apparent “targeted” shooting, officials say
Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement
Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement
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.
abcnews.go.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Two Minnesota lawmakers are in grave condition following apparent “targeted” shooting, officials say
Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement
Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement
Bloomington, IN. Come and be heard. Saturday, Jun 14: Monroe County Courthouse. #nokings #democracy
June 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Bloomington, IN. Come and be heard. Saturday, Jun 14: Monroe County Courthouse. #nokings #democracy
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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.
June 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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.
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BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
June 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.