Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham.com
Writer (HELLO, STRANGER, Granta 2022) & philosopher. In Pingtung, Taiwan, with a foot in Scotland. Professor @ Parami University, Myanmar. Director @windandbones.bsky.social
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham.com
· Dec 12
Somehow, I've not yet mentioned this on Bluesky. But my latest book, "Hello, Stranger" (Granta 2022) is about how most of the 8 billion people on this planet are strangers. So dealing with strangers is one of the central problems of human life.
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Had a dream last night that Nick Cave popped in to borrow a duster. I offered him a J-Cloth, but he regretfully declined, saying he wanted a proper duster or nothing at all.
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Had a dream last night that Nick Cave popped in to borrow a duster. I offered him a J-Cloth, but he regretfully declined, saying he wanted a proper duster or nothing at all.
Definitely still a thing. I love it.
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Definitely still a thing. I love it.
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Our co-director @willbuckingham.com talking about literature and translation at the Taipei International Book Exhibition. Featured in the Liberty Times 👇
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【藝術文化】聚焦台北國際書展國際交流面 探討台灣文學轉譯 行銷全球 - 自由藝文網
2026年台北國際書展第4日，國際交流活動密集展開，台灣文學如何被翻譯、被理解並走向世界，亦成為今年書展的觀察焦點之一。由客家委員會與書林出版合作完成的《寒夜三部曲》英文全譯本，歷時3年完成，完整呈現《寒夜》、《荒村》、《孤燈》3部作品，讓英文讀者首度得以閱讀這部橫跨3代、描繪日治時期至戰爭年代台灣
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February 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Our co-director @willbuckingham.com talking about literature and translation at the Taipei International Book Exhibition. Featured in the Liberty Times 👇
art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...
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In the news, in a tiny hat. Talking about literature and translation in Taiwan.
art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...
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【藝術文化】聚焦台北國際書展國際交流面 探討台灣文學轉譯 行銷全球 - 自由藝文網
2026年台北國際書展第4日，國際交流活動密集展開，台灣文學如何被翻譯、被理解並走向世界，亦成為今年書展的觀察焦點之一。由客家委員會與書林出版合作完成的《寒夜三部曲》英文全譯本，歷時3年完成，完整呈現《寒夜》、《荒村》、《孤燈》3部作品，讓英文讀者首度得以閱讀這部橫跨3代、描繪日治時期至戰爭年代台灣
art.ltn.com.tw
February 8, 2026 at 1:02 AM
In the news, in a tiny hat. Talking about literature and translation in Taiwan.
art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...
art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...
I am also almost entirely incapable of rational thought after 9.47 pm, so I just sit in front of zoom with a vacant, distant look.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I am also almost entirely incapable of rational thought after 9.47 pm, so I just sit in front of zoom with a vacant, distant look.
A disadvantage of working in an online university (Parami) with faculty across the world, and finding myself in the easternmost time-zone, is that I have to attend meetings at 10pm on Friday night.
My meeting outfit tonight will be pyjamas with a jacket thrown over the top. It fools nobody.
My meeting outfit tonight will be pyjamas with a jacket thrown over the top. It fools nobody.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
A disadvantage of working in an online university (Parami) with faculty across the world, and finding myself in the easternmost time-zone, is that I have to attend meetings at 10pm on Friday night.
My meeting outfit tonight will be pyjamas with a jacket thrown over the top. It fools nobody.
My meeting outfit tonight will be pyjamas with a jacket thrown over the top. It fools nobody.
They did an amazing job on the design. It has all kinds of neat little features, fold out inserts and so on.
February 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
They did an amazing job on the design. It has all kinds of neat little features, fold out inserts and so on.
3. Inside cover, with grid of letters, reading "Mastery of the Everyday"
4. Open book with large image of woman standing with hands behind her back. Text reading "Holding back to attack: sticking to your principles"
4. Open book with large image of woman standing with hands behind her back. Text reading "Holding back to attack: sticking to your principles"
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
3. Inside cover, with grid of letters, reading "Mastery of the Everyday"
4. Open book with large image of woman standing with hands behind her back. Text reading "Holding back to attack: sticking to your principles"
4. Open book with large image of woman standing with hands behind her back. Text reading "Holding back to attack: sticking to your principles"
Agh! So tired after travelling that I forgot the alt text. Okay. Here are some descriptions of the four images...
1. Book cover in grey and yellow, with title, Mastery of the Everyday.
2. Open book with contents page. Yellow pages, black text.
1. Book cover in grey and yellow, with title, Mastery of the Everyday.
2. Open book with contents page. Yellow pages, black text.
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Agh! So tired after travelling that I forgot the alt text. Okay. Here are some descriptions of the four images...
1. Book cover in grey and yellow, with title, Mastery of the Everyday.
2. Open book with contents page. Yellow pages, black text.
1. Book cover in grey and yellow, with title, Mastery of the Everyday.
2. Open book with contents page. Yellow pages, black text.
So nice to finally see this in print. A series of interviews with Taiwanese indie bookshop owners, talking about their strategies for survival. I did the translations into English, and learned a lot about the Taiwan book trade. The design of the book is fabulous.
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 AM
So nice to finally see this in print. A series of interviews with Taiwanese indie bookshop owners, talking about their strategies for survival. I did the translations into English, and learned a lot about the Taiwan book trade. The design of the book is fabulous.
It is. I'm terrible for leaving my backpack hanging open, and people always tell me.
February 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
It is. I'm terrible for leaving my backpack hanging open, and people always tell me.
I’m really interested in the question of why this happens much more in some places than in others. I’m sure there are multiple answers, reasons working in parallel, but I’m not sure what these reasons are.
February 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I’m really interested in the question of why this happens much more in some places than in others. I’m sure there are multiple answers, reasons working in parallel, but I’m not sure what these reasons are.
My wallet is normally a horror-show of scruffy disorder. For the first time in years, I feel like a proper, upstanding citizen.
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
My wallet is normally a horror-show of scruffy disorder. For the first time in years, I feel like a proper, upstanding citizen.
I lost my wallet in Taipei. It was returned to the police station. Not only that, but all the cash and cards were still there, and had been removed, catalogued, and put back with such neat orderliness that I'm tempted to lose my wallet more often, if only to take advantage of this extra service. 😍
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I lost my wallet in Taipei. It was returned to the police station. Not only that, but all the cash and cards were still there, and had been removed, catalogued, and put back with such neat orderliness that I'm tempted to lose my wallet more often, if only to take advantage of this extra service. 😍
That should, of course, be the Taipei International Book Exhibition. 😀
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
That should, of course, be the Taipei International Book Exhibition. 😀
Up in Taipei for a spell, and it's nice to be here. In between some tasty Malaysian food, and a very good Long Island iced tea, I've spent the evening practising hard, so I can sound at least relatively coherent in Mandarin on a panel tomorrow at the Taiwan International Book Exhibition.
February 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Up in Taipei for a spell, and it's nice to be here. In between some tasty Malaysian food, and a very good Long Island iced tea, I've spent the evening practising hard, so I can sound at least relatively coherent in Mandarin on a panel tomorrow at the Taiwan International Book Exhibition.
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Taiwan cuteness here in Pingtung! @willbuckingham.com and I showing our first visitor around.
February 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Taiwan cuteness here in Pingtung! @willbuckingham.com and I showing our first visitor around.
Oh, Nina…. You are right up there on my list of things that make life incomparably better. #NowListening
February 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Oh, Nina…. You are right up there on my list of things that make life incomparably better. #NowListening
Terrific Sunday morning jazz here in Pingtung with singer YenTing Lo and pianist 林亮宇. Tickets a snap at 50元. I'm so glad I went.
YenTing Lo
來自台灣的爵士創作歌手、作曲家、編曲家。
2019年10月25日發行個人第一張全創作專輯《葉片之上》。
Jazz singer, songwriter, arranger and flutist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, graduated from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2019.
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February 1, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Terrific Sunday morning jazz here in Pingtung with singer YenTing Lo and pianist 林亮宇. Tickets a snap at 50元. I'm so glad I went.
Here's something I wrote on temple #divination in #Taiwan, the gamification of choosing, why belief isn't really a big deal, and why we can still find ways of choosing better, even if there are no better choices...
Divination and the Art of Choosing Well (Part II of II: Gamifying Hard Choices)
Divination without belief? On the practice of playing with prognostications.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Here's something I wrote on temple #divination in #Taiwan, the gamification of choosing, why belief isn't really a big deal, and why we can still find ways of choosing better, even if there are no better choices...
As is well-known, dreams about levitation are highly auspicious, harbingers of great fame and success. Well, last night, I dreamed that I was levitating, while a cat curled asleep on my lap. And the omens here are clearly off the scale.
January 26, 2026 at 11:47 PM
As is well-known, dreams about levitation are highly auspicious, harbingers of great fame and success. Well, last night, I dreamed that I was levitating, while a cat curled asleep on my lap. And the omens here are clearly off the scale.
Nice to see that 2026 is keeping up its strong commitment to being completely normal.
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Nice to see that 2026 is keeping up its strong commitment to being completely normal.