Bryon MacWilliams

Writer of "With Light Steam" and "The Girl in the Haystack." Steam-maker. (Парильщик) Translator of Russian lit.

[Bryon MacWilliams @bryonmac]

Has it not been proven that #trauma only feels transcendental due to the ratio of the diameter which severs us to the circumference which makes us a whole?
— poet @diasporter, "Three Wrong Notes"
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“Perhaps, in the age of the #Anthropocene, when no #wilderness remains untouched, owning up to affinities is the best hope for #conservation. We are all #birds now.” — #DominicZiegler in @1843mag
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and at once I felt
there are so many years to fail
that to #fail them all, one by one,
would give me a double life,
and I took it.
— last stanza from #MaryRuefle’s “Crackerbell” in @WavePoetry collection, Dunce

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“Soon, in Pevek, the town’s community #steam bath, or #banya, will also be #nuclear-powered.” — @AndrewKramerNYT from #Russia's northernmost city
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I learned to live without hope
as well as I could, almost happily,
in the despoiled and radiant now.

— #poet #StephenDunn for his eulogist,
in advance, in @GeorgiaReview
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[Bryon MacWilliams @bryonmac]

“I noticed that she used this phrase again and again: 'in sauna,' rather than 'in the #sauna.' She’s not talking about a building, … she’s talking about a state of being.” — @_katherine_may_ (on @HanneLaw) in her #memoir, “Wintering”

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“My favourite #bathing guide” takes #readers "into a weird world of extreme heat and bizarre ritual, where people cram together, naked apart from their odd #felthats, to let a wizard’s aromatic #steam wash over them.” — @StackMagazines on #WithLightSteam in latest @hamammagazine

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“The authorities, of course, knew enough about the Konchalovskys: we were protected, somewhat… Nevertheless, the #swordofDamocles hung above us.” — #AndreiKonchalovsky #memoir in latest @LondonReaderMag
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"We #spied on the #sexual lives of others — perceived them not so much as real, but #surreal. Pure Kafka, perhaps. Or Buñuel." — Andrei Konchalovsky #translation in @mumbermag https://t.co/4wBlB97vk3

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"While very short and concise, ['The Girl in the Haystack'] is an excellent #Holocaust story of how one family survived with the help of good, courageous people." — Kathy Bloomfield, @JewishLibraries News & Reviews
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[Mark A. McKenney @MarktheSpaman]

Sweat Culture: A Case for Inclusion by Bryon MacWilliams ~ https://t.co/NdiZmomjvy via @saunasociety @bryonmac #sauna #banya #bathing

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In #AnastasiiaGerasimova’s urban fantasy of 2050 #Moscow the #banya and the #metro are one — a locus of transit and transition, where clothes are forbidden.
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... we are saying #thankyou faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is

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"I looked into his cruiser and ... the screen said: 'If black lives really mattered, they’d stop shooting each other.' I kept walking but then I turned back... I put my camera to my eye, I looked at him dead in his face and I got the photograph." — @mikeamccoyphoto in @1843mag

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“As I moved from book to #book I was struck the realization that people talk about war, … but very rarely talk about #happiness. There was a sense that people don’t talk about the essence of being human.” — #SvetlanaAlexievich (at 4:20) on #love

[BBC Reel @BBC_Reel]

Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people, asking intimate questions about love in Russia https://t.co/pRHWJaMtyi

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"Frankly, I wasn’t sure I was the best #writer for the #story, which was one of the things that moved me to write it." — interview with @BarbaraBietz on origins, #craft (and heart) of #TheGirlintheHaystack
https://t.co/esM2s6p9f5

[Murphy Writing of Stockton University @MurphyWriting]

@bryonmac offers some background on his recent book, The Girl in the Haystack, in this interview by @BarbaraBietz

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[JewishBookWorld @JewishBookWorld]

The Girl in the Haystack by Bryon MacWilliams https://t.co/KtDiSTLRoF

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"[Her] love for Brisko, ... the #dog she had never met, had never pet and only looked at from a distance, became just as imperative to her #survival as keeping still and quiet in the haystack.” — Randee Wismer in @writenowphilly
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[Write Now Philly @writenowphilly]

Our review of The Girl in the Haystack by Bryon MacWilliams. "One Girl’s Heartbreaking Reality in World War II."

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