Raymond Williams

@rtwilliams16.bsky.social

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Blogger at Ballasts for the Mind, Book Club Admin for Black Men Read and creator of The Zora and Baldwin Challenges. Opinions are my own.

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Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism. .. more

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Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · 15d

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · 22d

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · 29d

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Oct 14

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Oct 7

Part 2 #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Oct 7

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky Part 1

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Oct 1

October 2025 Book Club Pick: Black Men Read Book Club will be reading Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com #booksky #bookclub #blackmenread

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 30

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky #nonfictionbooks

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 23

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky #nonfiction #newbooks

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 16

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? 2/2

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 16

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? 1/2 #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 9

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? 2/2 #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 9

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? 1/2 #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 3

A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone

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Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Sep 2

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Aug 26

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Aug 19

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Aug 12

New nonfiction books out today and this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Aug 5

New nonfiction books that were published this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Aug 2

August 2025 Book Club Pick: Black Men Read Book Club will be reading That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor edited by Damon Young #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Jul 29

New nonfiction books that come out this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky

Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Jul 27

Great article, “He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.” by Aishvarya Kavi #booksky

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

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Author DL White @booksbydlwhite.com · Nov 19

Definitely Karin Slaughter
Tayari Jones
Eric Jerome Dickey
Terry McMillin
John Grisham (someone tag RT Williams when he gets here. He'll LOVE this one)
#Booksky #blackbooksky

Eva @noveldeelights.bsky.social · Nov 19

Shall we share 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books of to celebrate 🦋 taking off? Here’s mine… 💙📚

📚 Karin Slaughter
📚 S.J. Parris ( @stephmerritt.bsky.social )
📚 C.J. Sansom (sorely missed)
📚 Jane Casey ( @janecasey.bsky.social )
📚 C.J. Tudor ( @cjtudor.bsky.social )

NickiMags @ Secret Library Book Blog @nickimags.bsky.social · Nov 19

Good morning to all my new followers! Shall we share 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books of to celebrate 🦋 taking off? Here’s mine…

📚 Jodi Taylor
📚 Lisa Jewell
📚 Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social
📚 Richard Osman @richardosman.bsky.social
📚 Julie Caplin