Feirer ALLER SISTE dag i 30-årene 🥳🥳 på aller beste måte: på boklanseringen til @susannekaluza.bsky.social og @birgitskarstein.bsky.social 🏁 Bare å la den perla her fly! Verden trenger litt «vær grei, jobb hardt, tenk logisk og husk flokken» i monitor 🏆 @cappelendamm.bsky.social #reklameforvenner

It has begun 😳 #censorship #bookbans #freedomofspeach

Fantastic that an uncompromising three and a half hour movie can win three (!) Golden Globes!! Best drama, best actor AND best motion picture director. Huge congrats to director Brady Corbet and his Norwegian partner Mona Fastvold who has written this epic! 👏👏 #goldenglobes #thebrutalist

Finished the 1st book of the year on x-mas holiday, and what a read!! Recommend Alexei Navalnys posthumous biography «Patriot» to absolutely everyone. Such a page turner! A true crime (written by the victim himself) and deep insight into Russia, propaganda, Putin, dictatorships and true bravery 💙📚

Fin liten sak om boka vår i VG! Vi vet at stadig færre norske barn leser for glede, samtidig er mange barn interessert i sport. Derfor ville vi bruke idrett som inngang og ta barns nysgjerrighet om smått og stort om sport på alvor💪🏻⚽️🚣‍♀️👩‍🦽🎾 @birgitskarstein.bsky.social #boksky #barnebok

🎉Vi har skrevet bok! Om en måned kommer @birgitskarstein.bsky.social og jeg med barneboka «Hvorfor kan ikke dommeren score mål og 52 andre ting du lurer på om sport», men allerede nå er det mulig å forhåndsbestille en signert utgave her 🤗 bok.norli.no/hvorfor-kan-... #boksky #idrett #paraidrett

A blow to book banners! A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors. The law would have deputized librarians and booksellers as agents of censorship.

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In Arendal, Norway, reactions from 1 parent made the principal tell the librarian to remove Maia Kobabes «GenderQueer» from the shelves. It should be obvious but information is not harmful. No one is forced to read a book! The librarian resisted and the book is now back on the shelves, for now.

New Jersey is fighting back against book bans and just passed the «Freedom to Read Act”! Most books in the risk of being banned deal with LGBTQ issues or race. “Students feel the pain when the books that describe their lived experience were called disgusting, obscene, and depraved.” 💙📚 #bookbans

“Now they have laws where if Palestinian citizens of Israel like a social media post from Gaza, they could be arrested. And there's more and more cases of this happening where there's a crackdown on free speech within the ‘48 territories.” The free LitHouse podcast with author Isabella Hammad👇🏻 💙📚

Making a list, checking it twice and stacking up the Kindle for Christmas😍Karl Ove Knausgård, Olga Tokarczuk, Joyce Carol Oates and more! The annual list from @newyorker.com of the most recommended reads of the year is my favourite way to prep for the holidays: #booksky #literature

For years Christian Conservative forces have been attacking the abortion law in Norway. Today the Norwegian Parliament pushed forcefully back, liberalising key points of the law. Overjoyed to see that activism works! May this give hope to sisters around the world, still I fighting✊🏻

«Over the past two years, there have been over 200 bills in state legislatures proposing statewide book bans in school libraries or criminalized librarians for providing access to books that some people object to.» This could be nation wide. Project2025 lays out how a national #bookban could work.

«A book is always also an opportunity to remain in dialogue» 💙📚 Booker-winning author Jenny Erpenbeck in her (brilliant!) essay collection «Not a Novel» .

«Totalitarian regimes are never really as stable as they might seem» Listen to insightful analysis of history and totalitarianism by @margaretatwood.bsky.social in conversation with Booker prize winning Jenny Erpenbeck at the (free!) LitHouse podcast🎧 #booksky #literature

Så glad for partier som ser verdien av arbeidet litteraturhuset gjør for å spre interesse for lesing, bøker+kunnskap! Varm takk til @venstre.no og @gurimelby.venstre.no som har foreslått en økning til oss i sitt alternative budsjett (sammen med andre gode tiltak som Samlaget, OsloPride & Jurk) 🙏🏻

🧵Finished reading Aftermath by Harald Jähner. Great book on how to build up a country after a devastating war. Might sound like a depressing read in these days but actually gives hope on how it might be possible to rebuild war torn areas in like Ukraine or Gaza today🙏🏻 #booksky 1/6

«Asså i den outfiten der er jo du.. jeg håper bare du blir så full at du sovner for å si det sånn høhø». Åpenbart at Overton-vinduet for sovende jenter aka sovevoldtekt har flytta seg i enkelte miljø. Har du ikke har sett er det 18 min, etter at hun har sagt nei til å kysse: tv.nrk.no/se?s=dama-til

Actually an overlooked and important point not only in this context.

This week we have none other than BBC World Book Club visiting the House of Literature!🌟Tuesday they will tape a show with @anneholt.bsky.social, and Thursday evening with Maja Lunde, Oliver Lovrenski, Johan Harstad and Gunnhild Øyehaug. Want to be in the audience? It’s free! Check out these links💙📚

Censorship will begin - in the name of "anti-censorship"

Motivasjon!!❤️❤️

Missed the meeting of giants @margaretatwood.bsky.social and Booker winner Jenny Erpenbeck at The House of Literature? ❤️‍🔥(Or maybe you live on another continent!) It is now available on our free + ad free podcast LitHouse! 👇🏻 They talk about totalitarian regimes, writing, refugees, plagues and more💙📚

🧵Polar explorer and author Erling Kagge talking at the House of Literature about his new book about the North Pole (soon to be translated into English and 10+ other languages). A thread. #literature #arctics #booksky

🧵Book bans have tripled in the US the last year. Some great banned books to by as gifts: 1. GenderQueer - a graphic novel memoir by Maia Kobabe 2. Speak -a novel by @halseanderson.bsky.social 3. The Handmaids Tale - (what we hope will still be) a dystopic fiction by @margaretatwood.bsky.social

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

That‘s quite the Politico cover.

🧵1. Great evening with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social at the House of Literature Foundation in Oslo. The author of Autocracy Inc. (and more!) in conversation with Nils August Andresen about how dictators & authocrats operate, and what the world can do in response. Plus a shout out to BlueSky. A thread.

Didn’t see this comming! TikTok is now going to publish physical books now. 10-15 a year in the Young Adult segment. The CEO says: «Physical books are still overwhelmingly the most popular format, and certainly in specific genres, some of which we’re playing in, they’re still super important» 💙📚

Denne posten om «Farvel Rune» er så to the point😆 «In Norway or Denmark or wherever the hell, I guess you give your child a book with haunting illustrations of bloating corpses floating in the fjord.» vintagekidsbooks.blogspot.com/2011_09_23_a... Eksisterer det egentlig en mer beinhard barnebok?

Skriver klar asylsøknad @meretelie.bsky.social📚👇🏻

Great thread by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Looking forward to hearing her live Friday, when she will share more insight into autocrats and how they operate at The House of Literature in Oslo 📖

Now this is scary. «When the government speaks, it 'can freely select the views that it wants to express, including choosing not to speak and speaking through the removal of speech that the government disapproves» #booksky #bookbans

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

Love this! «A few years ago we were afraid of eBooks and Kindles taking over, but we’ve gone in a completely different direction. Not only are people buying physical books, but people want these beautiful hardbacks and may buy several editions simply to keep them»

🧵Great conversation with Palestinian-British author Isabella Hammad, at the House of Literature in Oslo, moderated by poet and editor-in-chief of Vinduet Priya Bains. A thread! #booksky #literature

Hei #BlueSkyNorge! NRK Kultur har bedt meg komme til dem for å forklare hva BlueSky er og hva det kan brukes til for bokfolk og kulturinteresserte i sær. Derfor lurer jeg på: Hvorfor er du her selv? Hva håper du å få ut av det? Og hva tenker du er potensialet?

Hørte det var fotball-twitters overgang til Bluesky som gjør at plattformen vokser. Det vil jeg ikke ha på meg: Det er @susannekaluza.bsky.social sin startpakke som lokket meg hit, jeg lover!

Tenker dette er det beste stedet å legge ut eventuelle tegninger av amerikanske politikere de neste fire årene.

This makes me so happy! A revival of the real brick and mortar book stores! The CEO says: «I think a proper bookstore has to be curated, and that is the essence of one of the core skills of what it is to be a bookseller»🫶🏻

"I remember when the phantom Kamala ad hit me. It drew me in with a photo of Vice-President Harris and a positive and appealing summary of her policies. Then the ad exposed me, to a policy that I would not like – and which the candidate did not in fact advocate." snyder.substack.com/p/the-phanto...

Great starter pack for everyone interested in politics, history and international relations👇🏻

“With the history of the Roman Empire as my model, plus the history of the French Revolution, there will be a power struggle between Vance and Trump. And I would bet on Vance to win that.” Listen to more history based scenario thinking by @margaretatwood.bsky.social at the free podcast LitHouse:

Forsøker å lage en oversikt over litteraturbransjefolk og forfattere, norske og internasjonale, som er interessante å følge på BlueSky. Hvem bør legges til? Foreslå gjerne andre, eller deg selv!

Ahh @buffer.com let’s you write + save drafts on BlueSky. For free. I already liked having a platform where it is allowed to share links again. Now it’s looking even better!

British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad talks with editor & poet Priya Bains on culture as resistance, theatre as activism and the ghosts that haunt us, Tuesday at The House of Literature.

Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature. Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.

@margaretatwood.bsky.social when asked how she came up «all this weird shit» in her novels: «It was not I who came up with this weird shit. It was the human race!» The entire 75 min talk is now available for free at the House of Literature podcast: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/l...