The funeral entertainment orchestra performs tomorrow in Toruń and the day after tomorrow in Kraków 🖤 Photo: Adam Pluciński

Greatest singer-songwriter album of the twenty-first century

A few more photos from our Washington cemetery event. The event took place on the day of the shooting and served as a kind of antithesis to the language of polarization and violence. Photos: Leeya Mehta

1/2 I’m delighted, truly delighted, to invite you to our next event at the University of Oxford. This time, we’ll be discussing exclusion in the media space, and we have invited four outstanding guests to join the debate:

All we need is Cieszyn 🖤 Photos: Rafał Soliński, Grzegorz Krzysztofik, Wojtek Sieniewicz

In the lineup of the 10th anniversary edition of Washington’s The Cheuse Center festival were Colm Tóibín, Malte Herwig, and yours truly. Thank you for these moments, and I know I am repeating myself, but it was truly, truly wunderbar. Photos: Aster Equine Photography, Klara Kalu

The calm before the storm. Yesterday was truly wunderbar. Thank you for filling the theatre to the brim. See you tonight in Rožnov, Czech Republic. #soundcheck

Today, in this beautiful Lynchian space, our concert will open the Film on the Border festival.

1/5 My great, great dream came true: organizing an event that was a journey through two Washington cemeteries, Mt. Zion Female Union Band Society and Oak Hill, ending in the Oak Hill chapel, with readings of poems and essays there.

Working with Donald Russell and Soojung Paek is truly, truly wonderful + some of the results of this cooperation are already visible on these large sheets of notes. #georgemasonuniversity

This residence is exceptional in many ways, but what makes it truly special most of all is sharing it with Marta, Józek, and Franek.

Rest in peace, Gregg Foreman. You will be missed.

Live in The North? Fed up with the Friday night Gogglebox? Then drag yourself down to arguably the UKs best venue and get down to the Sounds…. Or summat! 😘 Tickets here… [email protected] 💃🏼 🕺🏼 💥

Happy b-day, Iggy!

Residence in Washington D.C. - start time.

1/4 Next week, I’d like to invite you to George Mason University for the event “Let’s Talk About Exclusion - Mason Scholars in Conversation with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.”

Hip hip hooray! I’ve just found out that my essay for World Literature Today is their most-read piece in 2026 (so far). Just a reminder: it’s an essay about Franz Kafka, Agnieszka Holland, but also about my beloved, much-missed shoes. You can read it here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Clear, globally relevant thoughts from Gdańsk on living in the bad times. The debut of poet and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social) at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/cats-and-mice/

1/4 This is my Washington, D.C. gig alert. I’ll be spending next week in Washington and Fairfax as part of a residency at George Mason University and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center.

amazing words from @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social: "Denunciation can be necessary ... But it is also easy. It is easy to denounce and then feel cleansed. It is harder to examine the smaller pleasures that gather around denunciation: pride, vindication, relief, the sense of standing above the fallen."

TODAY: NEWEST Hydra Grzegorz Kwiatkowski. “The cat does what the cat does. The harder question is what happens around it. How long can people watch before horror becomes routine? How long before outrage hardens into language, repetition, posture?” flaminghydra.com/cats-and-mice/

Welcoming to @flaminghydra.com a new contributor I've long admired: poet, activist and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social His debut piece starts out in Gdańsk, ends up in your own heart flaminghydra.com/issue-542/

1/3 I’m thrilled, truly thrilled, because my life as an essayist is entering a new chapter. I’ve been welcomed into the ranks of the writers at the wonderful @flaminghydra.com

band on the run

TVN will air a rerun of Piotr Jacoń’s program Bez polityki today at 8:00 PM.

Thank you so much for yesterday’s wonderful conversation at Sea You Music Showcase. Photo: Karol Kacperski

And this coming Thursday, I’d like to invite you to Gdańsk for the Sea You Music Showcase.

In April, I warmly invite you to a meeting at Rutgers University.

This is a Czech gig alert 🖤

cieszy nas że Wojciecha Waglewskiego cieszy Trupa Trupa 🖤 a my już zaraz zasmucimy i pocieszymy Toruń, Kraków, Cieszyn, Cisną, Czechy i tych dat zdecydowanie przybędzie do zobaczenia!

1/ George Saunders, one of the greatest living writers, sent me to Oak Hill Cemetery, above all through "Lincoln in the Bardo", where his magnificent novel is set and where Lincoln's son Willie was buried.

This is a second Yale Artist in Residence alert! I’m excited to share that I have been invited to spend another year, 2026 year, as an artist in residence at Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive! fortunoff.library.yale.edu/2026/03/27/g... Photo: Alicja Mongird

WOW! This is great news guys! Something to get excited about!! See u all soon I hope! 👊💥

Trupa Trupa played at a great little dive in San Pedro last year. They were a blast.

Ah yeah, great band! Grzegorz and I are well acquainted.

Hip hip hooray indeed!

Great news from the mighty Polish band Trupa Trupa here about their next album. (I commend them to @zachschonfeld.bsky.social given he'll appreciate the early Wire/Minutemen vibes among other things in their work.)

Yeah yeah YES! We just recorded our new LP! Photos by our invisible drummer. #moretocome

Good morning. I wrote a guest essay for the New York Times about the rise of "anxiety cinema," from Uncut Gems to Shiva Baby to If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. I argue that the more daily life feels like a panic attack, the more the great movies of our time are reflecting that feeling back at us:

Happy birthday to Nick the Great the best producer on Mother Earth we love you from A to Z and even more #nicklaunay

Yesterday’s concert at Łódź’s Debich Studio was intense, dark, joyful, and packed. Thank you for such a beautiful reception. The concert was filmed by students from the Łódź Film School, and the edit will be handled by Cold War editor Jarosław Kamiński. Photo: Wojtek Bryndel

Łódź 🖤

What a lovely invitation. Thank you, Agnieszka Holland. See you on Friday in Łódź!

A very special concert is coming up, celebrating the 95th anniversary of Radio Łódź, in the legendary Debich Studio!

1/ I’m really, really happy because my new essay has just been published in Project Syndicate - one of the world’s most influential outlets for opinion and analysis. Among its contributors are, among others, Timothy Snyder, Francis Fukuyama, and Timothy Garton Ash

Amazing - Trupa Trupa's Grzegorz writing in The Guardian about violence, history and David Lynch.

Onet invited me to a long, wide-ranging conversation. www.onet.pl/muzyka/onetm...

Tomorrow I’ll be a guest at Northwestern University, hosted by Professor Rachel Jamison Webster. It will be my second time meeting her Creative Writing students. The poster was designed by the wonderful Colin Pope.

Recording is underway for Trupa Trupa’s new full-length album. Video: Tomek Pawluczuk