Alan Lessik
@lessikwriter.bsky.social
Berlin-based Novelist, Zen practitioner, figure skater, 🌈
Member of Berlin Queer Writers Circle
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Member of Berlin Queer Writers Circle
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250,000 people demonstrated in Berlin today against the extreme right wing and their collaborators in Germany.
February 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
250,000 people demonstrated in Berlin today against the extreme right wing and their collaborators in Germany.
The 101st and 102nd countries that I have visited. Any good guesses? Both are in Europe. One has two co-leaders who serve 6-month terms. The other has a leader who is an artist.
November 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
The 101st and 102nd countries that I have visited. Any good guesses? Both are in Europe. One has two co-leaders who serve 6-month terms. The other has a leader who is an artist.
November 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM
The fabulous Make the Dark Night Shine Patchogue Book Reading crew from Patchogue-Medford Public Library. 🙏🏽👏Patchogue-Medford Public Library
November 21, 2023 at 12:33 AM
The fabulous Make the Dark Night Shine Patchogue Book Reading crew from Patchogue-Medford Public Library. 🙏🏽👏Patchogue-Medford Public Library
Only in Philadelphia.
November 21, 2023 at 12:26 AM
Only in Philadelphia.
Trenton Makes-The World Takes. The best city slogan ever. When we would cross this bridge as a kid going to my grandfather's house in Philadelphia, my imagination lit up of the entire world showing up in the grand city of Trenton.
PS. This shows up in Make the Dark Night Shine.
PS. This shows up in Make the Dark Night Shine.
November 21, 2023 at 12:21 AM
Trenton Makes-The World Takes. The best city slogan ever. When we would cross this bridge as a kid going to my grandfather's house in Philadelphia, my imagination lit up of the entire world showing up in the grand city of Trenton.
PS. This shows up in Make the Dark Night Shine.
PS. This shows up in Make the Dark Night Shine.
I just met the coolest guy reading in Patchogue tonight.
November 15, 2023 at 8:56 PM
I just met the coolest guy reading in Patchogue tonight.
"We make up stories, which we call our life" My last reading of Make the Dark Night Shine on the west coast was at the Santa Cruz Zen Center. I gave a dharma/reading to the sangha and had many interesting questions and observations about the statement above and another--Not-knowing is Most-intimate.
November 3, 2023 at 8:54 PM
"We make up stories, which we call our life" My last reading of Make the Dark Night Shine on the west coast was at the Santa Cruz Zen Center. I gave a dharma/reading to the sangha and had many interesting questions and observations about the statement above and another--Not-knowing is Most-intimate.
What does it mean to be Japanese-American when you never met your Japanese father? At 91, my Aunt Nina came to believe her father was looking for her in the 30s Her eyes gleamed in the thought that she was loved after all and I had the vision for Make the Dark Night Shine. @georgetakei.bsky.social
October 29, 2023 at 12:03 AM
What does it mean to be Japanese-American when you never met your Japanese father? At 91, my Aunt Nina came to believe her father was looking for her in the 30s Her eyes gleamed in the thought that she was loved after all and I had the vision for Make the Dark Night Shine. @georgetakei.bsky.social
My fireside reading at the Olympia Women's Club. Rapt audience, great questions and I sold all of my books with several people buying copies for friends and family. Thanks to my cousin Linda Malanchuk-Finnan for sponsoring me here.
October 27, 2023 at 11:38 PM
My fireside reading at the Olympia Women's Club. Rapt audience, great questions and I sold all of my books with several people buying copies for friends and family. Thanks to my cousin Linda Malanchuk-Finnan for sponsoring me here.
"So, my Nina, the daughter who I have never met, the daughter whose voice only exists in my imagination , the daughter whose presence has been a dream, I hope to give you my last story. "
Make the Dark Night Shine.
bit.ly/45CL7bM
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @nyreader.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social
Make the Dark Night Shine.
bit.ly/45CL7bM
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @nyreader.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social
October 27, 2023 at 6:36 PM
"So, my Nina, the daughter who I have never met, the daughter whose voice only exists in my imagination , the daughter whose presence has been a dream, I hope to give you my last story. "
Make the Dark Night Shine.
bit.ly/45CL7bM
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @nyreader.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social
Make the Dark Night Shine.
bit.ly/45CL7bM
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @nyreader.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social
"I have decided to write what i can remember, what i imagine remembering and what I would have liked to remember" from the opening of make the Dark Night Shine."
October 26, 2023 at 7:38 PM
"I have decided to write what i can remember, what i imagine remembering and what I would have liked to remember" from the opening of make the Dark Night Shine."
Standing room only crowd tonight at Fabulosa books for Make the Dark Night Shine www.instagram.com/reel/CyxEjnU...
October 24, 2023 at 4:38 AM
Standing room only crowd tonight at Fabulosa books for Make the Dark Night Shine www.instagram.com/reel/CyxEjnU...
As an author, self-doubt comes easily. Then a view like this appears.
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @lgbtwriterfilmdork.bsky.social
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @lgbtwriterfilmdork.bsky.social
October 23, 2023 at 1:27 AM
As an author, self-doubt comes easily. Then a view like this appears.
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @lgbtwriterfilmdork.bsky.social
@bcdreyer.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @lgbtwriterfilmdork.bsky.social
I am excited to begin my book tour for Make the Dark Night Shine.
SF 20 Oct 7:30p SF Zen Center, 300 Page St
SF 23 Oct 7:00p Fabulosa Books 489 Castro St
Portland, OR 24 Oct 7:00p Heart of Wisdom Zen Center, 6401 NE 10th Ave
Olympia, 26 Oct 7:00 p Women´s Club, 1002 Washington Street SE
SF 20 Oct 7:30p SF Zen Center, 300 Page St
SF 23 Oct 7:00p Fabulosa Books 489 Castro St
Portland, OR 24 Oct 7:00p Heart of Wisdom Zen Center, 6401 NE 10th Ave
Olympia, 26 Oct 7:00 p Women´s Club, 1002 Washington Street SE
October 20, 2023 at 2:25 AM
I am excited to begin my book tour for Make the Dark Night Shine.
SF 20 Oct 7:30p SF Zen Center, 300 Page St
SF 23 Oct 7:00p Fabulosa Books 489 Castro St
Portland, OR 24 Oct 7:00p Heart of Wisdom Zen Center, 6401 NE 10th Ave
Olympia, 26 Oct 7:00 p Women´s Club, 1002 Washington Street SE
SF 20 Oct 7:30p SF Zen Center, 300 Page St
SF 23 Oct 7:00p Fabulosa Books 489 Castro St
Portland, OR 24 Oct 7:00p Heart of Wisdom Zen Center, 6401 NE 10th Ave
Olympia, 26 Oct 7:00 p Women´s Club, 1002 Washington Street SE
Make the Dark Night Shine is a love letter from a father to the daughter he never met. Set between the two world wars in Constantinople, Paris, Japan, New York and London, the book explores the many worlds a life can inhabit and the hidden worlds we find in ourselves.
youtu.be/frUkQOt5AjI?...
youtu.be/frUkQOt5AjI?...
Make the Dark Night Shine
Make the Dark Night Shine is a love letter from a father to the daughter he never met and was inspired by my Aunt Nina Friedberg Uchida´s parents and Nina´s ...
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October 7, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Make the Dark Night Shine is a love letter from a father to the daughter he never met. Set between the two world wars in Constantinople, Paris, Japan, New York and London, the book explores the many worlds a life can inhabit and the hidden worlds we find in ourselves.
youtu.be/frUkQOt5AjI?...
youtu.be/frUkQOt5AjI?...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
George, it would be an honor to have you review my new novel. Please contact me if this is possible. Thanks. 🙏🏽
George, it would be an honor to have you review my new novel. Please contact me if this is possible. Thanks. 🙏🏽
The countdown begins-27 days until Make the Dark Night Shine is released. rebelsatori.com/product/make...
@nyreader.bsky.social @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
@nyreader.bsky.social @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
Make the Dark Night Shine
Cinematic in scope, this novel lyrically captures the world on the brink of war. As Kenzo builds his chosen family, larger forces threaten all.
rebelsatori.com
September 16, 2023 at 11:16 PM
@georgetakei.bsky.social
George, it would be an honor to have you review my new novel. Please contact me if this is possible. Thanks. 🙏🏽
George, it would be an honor to have you review my new novel. Please contact me if this is possible. Thanks. 🙏🏽
The countdown begins-27 days until Make the Dark Night Shine is released. rebelsatori.com/product/make...
@nyreader.bsky.social @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
@nyreader.bsky.social @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
Make the Dark Night Shine
Cinematic in scope, this novel lyrically captures the world on the brink of war. As Kenzo builds his chosen family, larger forces threaten all.
rebelsatori.com
September 6, 2023 at 3:01 PM
The countdown begins-27 days until Make the Dark Night Shine is released. rebelsatori.com/product/make...
@nyreader.bsky.social @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
@nyreader.bsky.social @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
Ich fande heute den Bekannten Heidelbergplatz Akkordenist.
August 25, 2023 at 9:02 AM
Ich fande heute den Bekannten Heidelbergplatz Akkordenist.
The airplane of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly fell out of a hospital window. The plane and its passengers died on Wednesday after falling from a window on the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital. The report said the plane had been in the hospital with mechanical problems.
August 23, 2023 at 8:20 PM
The airplane of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly fell out of a hospital window. The plane and its passengers died on Wednesday after falling from a window on the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital. The report said the plane had been in the hospital with mechanical problems.
Just moved over from the site that no longer has a name or ethics. Always interested in meeting other queer writers and authors as well as anyone else with a good story.
August 21, 2023 at 9:42 PM
Just moved over from the site that no longer has a name or ethics. Always interested in meeting other queer writers and authors as well as anyone else with a good story.