Ob izidu slovenskega prevoda romana Svet in vse v njem je Aleksandar Hemon prejšnji teden obiskal Slovenijo. Pogovarjala sva se o jeziku, vojni, migracijah, Jugoslaviji, Trumpu, glasbi, mladih in zakaj brez ljubezni človeštva preprosto ni. @tednikmladina.bsky.social www.mladina.si/249467/ljube...

Counterpoint: I looked up who some famous Americans are, and we got Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

Hemon in Vojnović zdaj.

Hemon & Vojnović danes na Vodnikovi domačiji o vohunih, kreolskih jezikih ter prihodnosti literature & glasbe - ti dve bosta obstajali, dokler bomo ljudje. Pol pa še en u izi didžej set za konec 🎶🎵

Rodbina.

There was a time when all that love made sense. / And yet, we are back home now, reproducing / clichés, reshaping the ancient mistakes, / blending snot with tears to repaint the stairs. Read "The Spies" (Issue 31) by Aleksandar Hemon below.

Always had a thing about spies. A poem in The Common.

Titi Henry's wife is from Sarajevo, Ibra's father was Bosnian. They sang "I am from Bosnia, take me to America" to each other.

Taking part in a pre-WC event at The Africa Center NY later today. Come! www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-... If you can't come, you can stream it: www.youtube.com/@AfricaFiveS...

🌈📚 📖 The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents Affiliate Link ebook bookshop.org/a/100590/978... print bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #historical #literary #gay

🌈 6 adult books that embody queer resistance

If we're still around in the fall, I have a book of poetry out in October. I figured poetry is where the money is. www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/godspo...

Happy Pride month!

In Princeton, we’re meeting lots of neighbors who haven’t voted yet. But the primary is where your vote is most powerful! Democrats and unaffiliated voters, cast your ballot by 8pm! SamForNJ.org

New campaign signs dropped. These say I'm a scientist. Get yours! SamForNJ.org

Fucking A! To sacrifice a minority population for some vague political goal is inherently fascist. Dems can dress it up all they want, but being anti-trans is fascist.

The gutter racism that’s been unleashed and the destruction of decades of civil rights justice is the work of the nyt’s Sulzberger as much as it is that of Trump, Roberts, Alito, Musk, Thomas, Kennedy and Johnson et al He handed them the weapon willingly. He keeps pushing lies to this day.

Happy to report that the recent issue of The Common includes a poem of mine: www.thecommononline.org/the-spies/

Look what's cooking at Copper Canyon Press!

Friday April 24: "Islands" by Aleksandar Hemon. "We got up at dawn, ignored the yolky sun, loaded our navy-blue Austin with suitcases, and then drove straight to the coast, stopping only on the verge of Sarajevo, so I could pee."

O partigiano porta mi via O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao O partigiano porta mi via Che mi sento di morir

Tony Soprano: "Everything we see and experience is not all there is."

This is powerful and beautiful.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

The President of the United States posted this. That he will continue in office affirms that we are unfit to govern ourselves and our American experiment has failed. Too many of us are too stupid, cowardly and damaged to be citizens of a republic, let alone our elected representatives.

To learn more about how we can use science to save democracy - and use democracy to save science - go to SamForNJ.org!

Dog walks and people on the street: a New Yorker writer sees what it's like for a scientist to run for office. New: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

White supremacy is the essence of America, regardless of the party.

They knew exactly what they were doing. The myth of American moral exceptionalism spreads across the political spectrum--Americans do evil only if they're mislead, for they are basically good people. As Tony Soprano said to Dr. Malfi: "I'm basically a good guy."

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Some of us are not shocked and surprised. From 2016. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Meanwhile, Bosnia and Herzegovina defeats the mighty Italy and is in the World Cup. Resilient motherfuckers we are.

The government oversees safety of roads, flights, food, and drugs. It should do the same for AI. I’m a scientist who uses responsible AI to help parents with autism diagnosis. In Congress I’ll make sure this powerful technology serves us, not harms us. www.ft.com/content/7f63...

Authors to read when you're demoralized with the fascism and feel helpless Anna Akhmatova, Requiem Albert Camus, The Plague Serhiy Zhadan, The Orphanage Simone Weil, The Need for Roots Jacques Derrida, On Friendship Aleksandar Hemon, The World and all it holds Plz add to list

If you’re attending the London Book Fair this week, perhaps you’d like to check out this panel with Aleksandar Hemon, Rumena Bužarovska, and Ivana Bodrožić, moderated by yours truly? www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer...

Hey, I'll be at the London Book Fair next week, with the amazing Rumena Božanovska and Ivana Bodrožić. Come by! From the Fringes of Europe to the World: The Expansion of Global Literature Sponsored by book&zvook Literary Translation Centre Wednesday, 11th Mar 16:00 - 17:00

This is what Columbia paid Trump shitloads of money for.

Can confirm.

With the GOP led by Donald Trump and filled with rising stars like Matt Gaetz, some party insiders are suggesting that JD Vance will need to add more pedophilia to his background in order to secure the 2028 nomination.

What an honorable company for my book The Questions of Bruno to be in! Thank you, Ashraf Zagal! debutiful.net/2026/02/06/a...

The people who voted for Trump and GOP did not do it despite his racism, but because of it. That was the platform: fully restoring white supremacy. That is what they wanted. Don't let ass-wipe polls and ass-wipe columnists fool you. So fuck them all in perpetuity.

ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family

Dear Liberals, No, you don’t ever, ever have to forgive or forget what Trump voters have done. They can beg forgiveness and never get it and that’s ok. These people brought you mass ‘detention centers’ and government agents murdering citizens in the streets. Not ok. They can burn in hell. - God

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

There is no hope until Schumer, Jeffries and their ilk are gone. They are outright collaborators.

Suozzi voted for ICE funding last week and issued a preening self-congratulatory press release afterwards bragging about bucking the Dem Party on the vote. FAFO.

Hey, I've got a poem in The Common Online!

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

ICE etc got a lot of this power and funding because Democrats (Obama, Biden and Clinton) are afraid of being called soft on policing and immigration by the right and now Trump has weaponized it. There’s a clear lesson here about standing up for shit instead of cowering to racists and fascists.