Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham.com
Writer (HELLO, STRANGER, Granta 2022) & philosopher. In Tainan, Taiwan, with a foot in Scotland. Faculty @ 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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A good reading list this, from the fabulous Jenna Tang.
Enjoy books from Taiwan in English translation! Here’s a fine short list from Jenna Tang. 🌴
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Literature in Translation from Taiwan: What to Read Next by Jenna Tang - Words Without Borders
Jenna Tang, translator of "Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise," recommends 8 books and short stories in translation from Taiwan to read now.
wordswithoutborders.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A good reading list this, from the fabulous Jenna Tang.
Here at Abu Dhabi airport, I’ve stumbled across the perfect last minute gift to slip into my hand luggage as I head home to the UK for Christmas….
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Here at Abu Dhabi airport, I’ve stumbled across the perfect last minute gift to slip into my hand luggage as I head home to the UK for Christmas….
Reposted by Will Buckingham | 白忠修
there is a crack in everything / that's why
most things have spiders in
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
there is a crack in everything / that's why
Reposted by Will Buckingham | 白忠修
I’ve updated my LinkTree with trusted Myanmar earthquake appeals (ie not ending up with the military dictatorship).
If you are able to give a large amount, please spread the donations among them to maximise distribution on the ground ❤️ linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MyanmarEarthquake
If you are able to give a large amount, please spread the donations among them to maximise distribution on the ground ❤️ linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MyanmarEarthquake
April 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I’ve updated my LinkTree with trusted Myanmar earthquake appeals (ie not ending up with the military dictatorship).
If you are able to give a large amount, please spread the donations among them to maximise distribution on the ground ❤️ linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MyanmarEarthquake
If you are able to give a large amount, please spread the donations among them to maximise distribution on the ground ❤️ linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MyanmarEarthquake
This is a wonderful photo!
I’m home, which means many hours with my grandfather’s stories, and this visit turned up this gem: the very first IBM computer arriving in Taiwan in 1967 (? the year was a guess)
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is a wonderful photo!
In an achingly cool coffee shop in Tainan, #Taiwan, reading Taiwan Travelogue, and drinking a coffee called Walter Benjamin (華特 · 班雅明). It is, it’s fair to say, a bit much).
December 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In an achingly cool coffee shop in Tainan, #Taiwan, reading Taiwan Travelogue, and drinking a coffee called Walter Benjamin (華特 · 班雅明). It is, it’s fair to say, a bit much).
Went to a fun workshop yesterday at Booboo (不不) arts space in Tainan, about the upstart book platform 3ook.com. Anyway, the upshot is that our @windandbones.com books are now going to be accessible on over there as well.
Taigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic - Hannah Stevens, Will Buckingham, Naomi Sím, Kiú-kiong, Elissa Hunter-Dorans, Lisa MacDonald
在臺灣的一座廟裡，一位唾液女神無影無蹤地消失。跨年夜的 Hogmanay 派對被一位不速之客打斷。在臺北，一位年長的先知預言將發生捷運攻擊。某位女子在法院度過一整天、返家途中，發現一隻羊被荊棘纏住。四個故事、四位作家、四種語言：蓋爾語、臺語、華語與英語。
Tâigael 是首創的協作寫作與翻譯計畫，匯聚來自蘇格蘭與臺灣的作家，共同探索語言、翻譯與文化。這四篇故事，穿梭於語言與文化之間，述說...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Went to a fun workshop yesterday at Booboo (不不) arts space in Tainan, about the upstart book platform 3ook.com. Anyway, the upshot is that our @windandbones.com books are now going to be accessible on over there as well.
In happier news, the Pingtung Christmas lights are entirely charming.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In happier news, the Pingtung Christmas lights are entirely charming.
Royal Mail have lost £80 worth of books that we had sent to us at @windandbones.com here in Taiwan. Their tracking number doesn't work. Meanwhile, their "contact us" pages are a labyrinth designed to avoid anybody getting in touch. It's hard not to think that they are awful by design.
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Royal Mail have lost £80 worth of books that we had sent to us at @windandbones.com here in Taiwan. Their tracking number doesn't work. Meanwhile, their "contact us" pages are a labyrinth designed to avoid anybody getting in touch. It's hard not to think that they are awful by design.
Facebook has blocked me for violating their community standards. I'm guessing this is on the grounds that I've been posting images of our former Bulgarian foster cats, and sharing mild-mannered quips about philosophy, rather than calling for genocide or stuff like that.
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Facebook has blocked me for violating their community standards. I'm guessing this is on the grounds that I've been posting images of our former Bulgarian foster cats, and sharing mild-mannered quips about philosophy, rather than calling for genocide or stuff like that.
Bloody hell. Taipei is freezing. How do any of you survive up here?
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bloody hell. Taipei is freezing. How do any of you survive up here?
The night before last, I was at the beautiful BooBoo (不不) arts space in Tainan listening to indigenous singer, activist, powerhouse and all-round brilliant human Panai (巴奈). And if you don't know her, you should listen here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki5t...
巴奈Panai〈是誰 A Bird Without Feathers〉Official Music Video
YouTube video by 巴奈 Panai
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December 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The night before last, I was at the beautiful BooBoo (不不) arts space in Tainan listening to indigenous singer, activist, powerhouse and all-round brilliant human Panai (巴奈). And if you don't know her, you should listen here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki5t...
My last bilingual philosophy salon in this series at the Wansha Performing Arts Centre in Tainan, Taiwan. It’s been loads of fun. Our topic was utopia and philosophy.
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My last bilingual philosophy salon in this series at the Wansha Performing Arts Centre in Tainan, Taiwan. It’s been loads of fun. Our topic was utopia and philosophy.
The 6-year-old kid next door has acquired a guitar, and in the first, uninterrupted hour of playing, he is demonstrating a remarkably focussed commitment to avant-garde minimalism.
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The 6-year-old kid next door has acquired a guitar, and in the first, uninterrupted hour of playing, he is demonstrating a remarkably focussed commitment to avant-garde minimalism.
My latest on substack, about divination, making hard choices, and why it makes rational sense to go and talk to tǔdìgōng 土地公 if you want to wrangle Taiwanese real estate agents.
Divination and the Art of Choosing Well (Part I of II: Hard Choices)
On hard choices, divination, Taiwanese gods, and the arts of ingenuity and tenacity
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My latest on substack, about divination, making hard choices, and why it makes rational sense to go and talk to tǔdìgōng 土地公 if you want to wrangle Taiwanese real estate agents.
Today's motivational thought from the Zhuangzi: 巧者勞而知者憂，無能者無所求: "The skilful toil, and the wise are fretful, but the incompetent want for nothing..."
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Today's motivational thought from the Zhuangzi: 巧者勞而知者憂，無能者無所求: "The skilful toil, and the wise are fretful, but the incompetent want for nothing..."
Restricting human rights law and taking "tough action" on immigration, both policies that echo far-right talking-points, as a way to halt the rise of the far right? I despair.
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Restricting human rights law and taking "tough action" on immigration, both policies that echo far-right talking-points, as a way to halt the rise of the far right? I despair.
I'm so excited that this exquisite digital short is coming soon from @windandbones.com, written by our brilliant friend Martina Mustafova (pictured on the cover, in her pre-writing days).
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The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’, by Martina Mustafova
A meditation on death, loss and legacy, Martina Mustafova's The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’ is an exquisitely nuanced essay that brings together...
books.windandbones.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'm so excited that this exquisite digital short is coming soon from @windandbones.com, written by our brilliant friend Martina Mustafova (pictured on the cover, in her pre-writing days).
books.windandbones.com/product/bulg...
books.windandbones.com/product/bulg...
Teaching nonfiction writing to my students in Burma, I love the glimpses of different worlds: an immigration office that "smells of wet umbrellas and photocopier ink", or an exquisite description of looking out over the fog in Taunggyi, swaddled in a thick sweater and nursing a mug of coffee.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Teaching nonfiction writing to my students in Burma, I love the glimpses of different worlds: an immigration office that "smells of wet umbrellas and photocopier ink", or an exquisite description of looking out over the fog in Taunggyi, swaddled in a thick sweater and nursing a mug of coffee.
Planning to move house here in Taiwan. A friend suggests I go to seek the help of 土地公 / tǔdì gōng, the local earth god. I ask whether I should speak to the god of the place I'm leaving, or the place I'm moving to. My friend says either is okay because the tǔdì gōngs "keep their data in the cloud."
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Planning to move house here in Taiwan. A friend suggests I go to seek the help of 土地公 / tǔdì gōng, the local earth god. I ask whether I should speak to the god of the place I'm leaving, or the place I'm moving to. My friend says either is okay because the tǔdì gōngs "keep their data in the cloud."
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas... and in celebration, I'm going to be up in Taipei at the Great British Christmas Festival 英倫聖誕嘉年華, doing some writing workshops for both adults and children with the lovely folks at House of Story Wear. Come and join us! www.accupass.com/go/gbcf2025
Great British Christmas Festival 英倫聖誕嘉年華｜ACCUPASS 活動通
🎄 The Great British Christmas Festival｜英倫聖誕嘉年華 🎄
2025年12月12日至28日，「House of Story Wear 永續百貨」將攜手英國在台辦事處、英僑商務協會與渣打銀行，在大稻埕歷史街區打造一座充滿光與暖的英倫聖誕村。活動亮點包括：聖誕樹點燈儀式、設計禮品選物、戶外英國餐酒市集、兒童手作課、親子故事時間、創意寫作工作坊、VIP之夜等，融...
www.accupass.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas... and in celebration, I'm going to be up in Taipei at the Great British Christmas Festival 英倫聖誕嘉年華, doing some writing workshops for both adults and children with the lovely folks at House of Story Wear. Come and join us! www.accupass.com/go/gbcf2025
This guesthouse keeps on getting better. A fellow guest knocked on my door and thrust some cash into my hand, saying it was from the landlady, so I can buy bantiao 版條 noodles for breakfast from the stall next door.
When you receive instructions like this, you know you have chosen the right Airbnb.
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This guesthouse keeps on getting better. A fellow guest knocked on my door and thrust some cash into my hand, saying it was from the landlady, so I can buy bantiao 版條 noodles for breakfast from the stall next door.
When you receive instructions like this, you know you have chosen the right Airbnb.
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
When you receive instructions like this, you know you have chosen the right Airbnb.