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Babak Lakghomi

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Author of SOUTH (2023, Dundurn Press) and Floating Notes (2018, Tyrant Books) https://linktr.ee/babakl

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Thank you! Happy to be in such wonderful company. Hope you enjoy the book

09.11.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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NYC haul

18.05.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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March and April reads

29.04.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Indie bookstore day picks

27.04.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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January and February reads

28.02.2025 08:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Babak Lakghomi SilkwormsMom brought home silkworms and placed them in a pastry box at the top of the closet. Dad and I found a mulberry tree on our street and gathered some leaves to feed the worms. They lifted me t...

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01.02.2025 07:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"'If you leave now, I'll kill us both,' she said."

In this week's miCRo, @babaklak considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.

https://buff.ly/3CnLVZu

29.01.2025 12:45 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The cover for β€œFloating Notes” by Babak Lakghomi which features overlapping dark and light blue triangular shapes resembling mountains or waves.

The cover for β€œFloating Notes” by Babak Lakghomi which features overlapping dark and light blue triangular shapes resembling mountains or waves.

Took a break from Solenoid last night/today and read @babaklak.bsky.social’s Floating Notes which was great.

26.12.2024 20:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The White Room by Babak Lakghomi β€” Terrazzo Editions Babak Lakghomi is the author of South (Dundurn Press, 2023) and Floating Notes (Tyrant Books, 2018). His writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Electric Literature, Fence, Southwest Rev...

A new story up at the new literary magazine Terrazzo! Thanks to Gina Nutt

www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...

08.12.2024 17:04 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Favourite 2024 reads

07.12.2024 16:05 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In five days! I’ll be reading with some greats! @ambersparks.bsky.social @babaklak.bsky.social

06.12.2024 21:07 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu β€” SARABANDE BOOKS Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.πŸ–€
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

23.11.2024 16:13 πŸ‘ 1033 πŸ” 211 πŸ’¬ 190 πŸ“Œ 34
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Read Jody Chan’s Boycott Giller Speech On Monday night, the gala for the Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award, took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel. The Giller Foundation has been dogged by controversy …

Read poet and organizer Jody Chan’s Giller Prize boycott speech: β€œHere, today, we throw our labour into the gears of the death machine.”

22.11.2024 15:30 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Forgive me for being late to and so continuing this trend. I really love these people, though (as well as many more of you whom it won't let me add)!

go.bsky.app/E1svDV8

22.11.2024 19:12 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 8

Happy Birthday!!

20.11.2024 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of a page at the end of an edition of Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet (translated by Jordan Stump). There’s an interview at the end of the book.

A picture of a page at the end of an edition of Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet (translated by Jordan Stump). There’s an interview at the end of the book.

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This is an interview with Marie Redonnet that appears at the end of this edition of Forever Valley (translated by Jordan Stump/UNP edition). In particular I’m drawn to:

β€œβ€¦a poetic power make visible that which has been neither described nor expressed by metaphor, but rather only evoked.”

13.11.2024 20:38 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From William Saroyan’s intro to his My Name is Aram

13.11.2024 19:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

so far i like this place b/c it is gentle & nerdy ❀️ imagine a social media site where ppl are just talking about books.

12.11.2024 14:43 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Next books to read

12.11.2024 15:42 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very much looking forward to it

12.11.2024 15:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Never intro'd self or announced my novel before, so why not. Novelist, book reviewer. Wrote a Taiwanese folk-horror novel, The Hell Screens. Second novel Daydreamers (see below) comes out July 2025 from Fiction Collective 2. There is a 25-year gap betweeen the two, which must be some kind of record.

09.11.2024 15:39 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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CanLit Responds Over 20 authors pull work from the 2024 Giller Prize

join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

11.11.2024 17:21 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Issue Eight (Omnibus) Reviewed in this issue: James Elkins, Weak in Comparison to Dreams (Unnamed Press) John Madera, Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press) Christina Tudor-Sideri, Schism Blue (Sublunary Editions) Babak Lakghomi...

Issue 8 of Unbeaten Paths is now available.
Reviewed in this issue:
James Elkins, Weak in Comparison to Dreams
John Madera, Nervosities
Christina Tudor-Sideri (@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social) Schism Blue
Babak Lakghomi (@babakl.bsky.social) South

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05.06.2024 15:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Little to See Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

A new story up at R&R Magazine! www.relegationbooks.com/article/litt...

23.01.2024 13:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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10 out of 10 if you like hallucinating while reading a book

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18.01.2024 19:00 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for reading it!

02.01.2024 21:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you, @babakl.bsky.social , and thank you, staff, wherever you are, for choosing BOX and SOUTH. πŸ’™πŸ“¦

19.12.2023 00:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Favourite 2023 reads!

Favourite 2023 reads!

13.12.2023 16:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good mail day @babakl.bsky.social

06.12.2023 18:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0