Moushumi Ghosh
@moushumighosh.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor | fmr associate editor
@TulikaBooks | Russian lang & lit learner | Words: The Drabble, Muse India, Pratham, NDTV
@moushumi.ghosh on Instagram and Threads
@mou_shumi on X.
@TulikaBooks | Russian lang & lit learner | Words: The Drabble, Muse India, Pratham, NDTV
@moushumi.ghosh on Instagram and Threads
@mou_shumi on X.
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Big thank you to @moushumighosh.bsky.social for the recommendation of this, which feeds my growing obsession with Japanese detective fiction of the twistiest kind.
(Mystery of a different kind is why this new book is covered with baked-in black stuff all over it. Yes, I did try to wipe (!) it off.)
(Mystery of a different kind is why this new book is covered with baked-in black stuff all over it. Yes, I did try to wipe (!) it off.)
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Big thank you to @moushumighosh.bsky.social for the recommendation of this, which feeds my growing obsession with Japanese detective fiction of the twistiest kind.
(Mystery of a different kind is why this new book is covered with baked-in black stuff all over it. Yes, I did try to wipe (!) it off.)
(Mystery of a different kind is why this new book is covered with baked-in black stuff all over it. Yes, I did try to wipe (!) it off.)
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Wow writers. My online life-writing course ‘Things We Think With:Evocative Objects‘ with the brilliant @saloneurope.bsky.social has almost sold out. Join us 26/11 for exercises and talk about Proust, objects, archives and Annie Ernaux. Do book now and can’t wait to see you there ! (All links below)
🏃♀️ 2 PLACES ONLY left now on this online course with @susannacrossman.bsky.social! 🏃♀️
Join writers from around Europe thinking about the use of memory, objects, archives, and history in life writing.
Join writers from around Europe thinking about the use of memory, objects, archives, and history in life writing.
Explore memory enhancement and how we use objects, archives and history in life writing in our new course:
Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with @susannacrossman.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Wow writers. My online life-writing course ‘Things We Think With:Evocative Objects‘ with the brilliant @saloneurope.bsky.social has almost sold out. Join us 26/11 for exercises and talk about Proust, objects, archives and Annie Ernaux. Do book now and can’t wait to see you there ! (All links below)
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
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Final cover for Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, publising in Oct. by @sevenstories.bsky.social in the US and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social in the UK. Available for preorder now
August 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Final cover for Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, publising in Oct. by @sevenstories.bsky.social in the US and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social in the UK. Available for preorder now
Contrary to a reader's expectations that we might find in letters the writer "at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without a thought for appearances," Hardwick wrote about literary correspondence in 1953,
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#TheDolphinLetters25
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#TheDolphinLetters25
August 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Contrary to a reader's expectations that we might find in letters the writer "at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without a thought for appearances," Hardwick wrote about literary correspondence in 1953,
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#TheDolphinLetters25
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#TheDolphinLetters25
Lowell and Hardwick's separation was conducted mostly through letters in the summer and fall of 1970. A practical reason for writing ... was the expense of transatlantic calls and the uneven quality of reception ... (1/2)
#TheDolphinLetters25
#TheDolphinLetters25
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Lowell and Hardwick's separation was conducted mostly through letters in the summer and fall of 1970. A practical reason for writing ... was the expense of transatlantic calls and the uneven quality of reception ... (1/2)
#TheDolphinLetters25
#TheDolphinLetters25
"Almost everyone understands how one would want to leave America temporarily," Lowell wrote to Hardwick that April. (April 27, 1970)
#TheDolphinLetters25
#TheDolphinLetters25
August 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Almost everyone understands how one would want to leave America temporarily," Lowell wrote to Hardwick that April. (April 27, 1970)
#TheDolphinLetters25
#TheDolphinLetters25
The Dolphin Letters collects the correspondence between Hardwick and Lowell during the last seven years of Lowell's life ... and offers a portrait of two writers at a time of intense personal crisis and creative innovation.
##TheDolphinLetters25
##TheDolphinLetters25
August 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Dolphin Letters collects the correspondence between Hardwick and Lowell during the last seven years of Lowell's life ... and offers a portrait of two writers at a time of intense personal crisis and creative innovation.
##TheDolphinLetters25
##TheDolphinLetters25
Until the end of her life, Elizabeth Hardwick wondered what had happened to the letters she wrote to Robert Lowell during the 1970s.
#TheDolphinLetters25
#ElizabethHardwick
#RobertLowell
We will find out.
#TheDolphinLetters25
#ElizabethHardwick
#RobertLowell
We will find out.
August 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Until the end of her life, Elizabeth Hardwick wondered what had happened to the letters she wrote to Robert Lowell during the 1970s.
#TheDolphinLetters25
#ElizabethHardwick
#RobertLowell
We will find out.
#TheDolphinLetters25
#ElizabethHardwick
#RobertLowell
We will find out.
“How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage. - A 2019 review in the New Yorker of The Dolphin Letters.
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#TheDolphinLetters25
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#TheDolphinLetters25
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August 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage. - A 2019 review in the New Yorker of The Dolphin Letters.
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#TheDolphinLetters25
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#TheDolphinLetters25
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'I paint in order not to cry'
- Paul Klee
The same could be said for writing
- Paul Klee
The same could be said for writing
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
'I paint in order not to cry'
- Paul Klee
The same could be said for writing
- Paul Klee
The same could be said for writing
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Announcing the 2nd edition of Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth!
Updated with a new introduction on the accelerating violence underpinning Putinist indoctrination.
As a treat, Waterstones are giving a pre-order 25% discount. #WPreorder @HurstPublishers
Updated with a new introduction on the accelerating violence underpinning Putinist indoctrination.
As a treat, Waterstones are giving a pre-order 25% discount. #WPreorder @HurstPublishers
July 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Announcing the 2nd edition of Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth!
Updated with a new introduction on the accelerating violence underpinning Putinist indoctrination.
As a treat, Waterstones are giving a pre-order 25% discount. #WPreorder @HurstPublishers
Updated with a new introduction on the accelerating violence underpinning Putinist indoctrination.
As a treat, Waterstones are giving a pre-order 25% discount. #WPreorder @HurstPublishers
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I am glad to see this quote from Hannah Arendt in many places these days. Worth thinking about!
June 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I am glad to see this quote from Hannah Arendt in many places these days. Worth thinking about!
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cutting off Russians from the internet - the shiny tool that makes people gooey-brained for the Kremlin - just as Putin is trying to hype them up for Victory Day reveals the huge problem: they can't both create a metanarrative of war and indulge the chaos of the internet culture that spreads it.
2/ Russian authorities will likely test their ability to completely disconnect large areas of Russia from the internet on May 9 under the guise of protecting Russian Victory Day celebrations. isw.pub/UkrWar050725
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Cutting off Russians from the internet - the shiny tool that makes people gooey-brained for the Kremlin - just as Putin is trying to hype them up for Victory Day reveals the huge problem: they can't both create a metanarrative of war and indulge the chaos of the internet culture that spreads it.
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TIL that an uncredited (but reimbursed) collaborator on Wilhelm Speyer's play A Hat, A Coat, A Glove, which was filmed in 1934 as Hat, Coat, and Glove (and again in 1944 as A Night of Adventure) was none other than ... Walter Benjamin.
May 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
TIL that an uncredited (but reimbursed) collaborator on Wilhelm Speyer's play A Hat, A Coat, A Glove, which was filmed in 1934 as Hat, Coat, and Glove (and again in 1944 as A Night of Adventure) was none other than ... Walter Benjamin.
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Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
March 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
Sufism was an esoteric system, partly because it was continuously accused of being heretical, partly because it was held to be incomprehensible to those who had not received the necessary spiritual training.
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
March 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sufism was an esoteric system, partly because it was continuously accused of being heretical, partly because it was held to be incomprehensible to those who had not received the necessary spiritual training.
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
The name Attar is the same word from which we derive 'attar', meaning a distilled scent, in phrases like 'attar of roses':
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
March 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The name Attar is the same word from which we derive 'attar', meaning a distilled scent, in phrases like 'attar of roses':
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
#Attar25 #TheConferenceoftheBirds
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“He (Arkady) remembered his dead wife. “Left us too soon!” he whispered sadly. A plump gray-blue pigeon landed on the roadway and scuttled off to drink from a puddle by the well. Nikolai Petrovich watched it, but his ear was already picking up the sound of approaching wheels.”
February 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“He (Arkady) remembered his dead wife. “Left us too soon!” he whispered sadly. A plump gray-blue pigeon landed on the roadway and scuttled off to drink from a puddle by the well. Nikolai Petrovich watched it, but his ear was already picking up the sound of approaching wheels.”
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Without the mother hen the young chicken is vulnerable, here it’s also seemingly unaware of the cat. A reference to the fact that Nikolai’s son Arkady is also motherless? The symbolic meanings of the chick are new beginnings, spring, fertility and new life.
February 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Without the mother hen the young chicken is vulnerable, here it’s also seemingly unaware of the cat. A reference to the fact that Nikolai’s son Arkady is also motherless? The symbolic meanings of the chick are new beginnings, spring, fertility and new life.
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This drowsy domestic setting would likely make anyone lapse into daydreaming! In the original Russian text it’s a ‘цыпленок’, a chick or young chicken. Now we now it’s spring, probably late spring, since the chick is already fat.
February 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This drowsy domestic setting would likely make anyone lapse into daydreaming! In the original Russian text it’s a ‘цыпленок’, a chick or young chicken. Now we now it’s spring, probably late spring, since the chick is already fat.
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The sun beat down, and a smell of fresh warm rye bread wafted out from the shady entrance hall of the inn. Our Nikolai Petrovich lapsed into daydreaming.
February 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The sun beat down, and a smell of fresh warm rye bread wafted out from the shady entrance hall of the inn. Our Nikolai Petrovich lapsed into daydreaming.
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Nikolai Petrovich let his head droop and stared down the ancient steps of the inn. A fat little speckled chicken was strutting sedately by, tapping its big yellow claws along the steps; a muddy cat was curled up coyly by the railings and glared at the chicken balefully.
February 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Nikolai Petrovich let his head droop and stared down the ancient steps of the inn. A fat little speckled chicken was strutting sedately by, tapping its big yellow claws along the steps; a muddy cat was curled up coyly by the railings and glared at the chicken balefully.
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#FathersAndSons #Turgenev25 For a blog post I once looked up all the birds that feature in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, and their symbolic meaning. I’d like to share my findings in this read-along. Here we go! 🧵
February 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#FathersAndSons #Turgenev25 For a blog post I once looked up all the birds that feature in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, and their symbolic meaning. I’d like to share my findings in this read-along. Here we go! 🧵