Tim Groenland

Why was i programmed to feel pain*

*follow the fortunes of the Irish men's international football team

"Even though Mr Rimmington started to feel unwell after day one, he continued to feast on the chewy treats" relatable tbh

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

I've been published by 3 presses on this list and enjoyed books by many more.
If you're interested in commenting on or joining a roundtable on the future of small presses in the UK, link to the form is here: #smallpresspublishing #indiepublishing #ukpublishing
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

László Krasznahorkai, world author (I.) the system of literary translations in the 21st century

"By the 2020s, Krasznahorkai has become one of the vanishingly few living world-literary authors whose works are promptly & pretty much automatically translated into English." @andrask.bsky.social has a really interesting series on LK's route to "world authorship" open.substack.com/pub/translat...

Damn. I've been meaning to become a Krasznahorkai bro for years, but never got around to it; now I'll just look like some normie jumping on the nobel train

YouTube video by Anne Briggs - Topic Blackwater Side

It's Anne Briggs season, motherfuckers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZwi...

It might be good if the department for culture and Minsiter Patrick O’Donovan made a statement expressing solidarity for the several Irish artists who were in flotilla ships who have been detained by Israel over recent days.

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

I'm Alan Partridge S02 - E06 Alan Wide Shut Dailymotion video by Alan Partridge

This is amazing, I'm using it in tomorrow's class (full scene at the end here) www.dailymotion.com/video/x6v6y6o

In terms of locations outside the US, I'd imagine London was also well established on the mental map of New York editors, though? (It's also at least partly possible that this explanation helped him to gently reject someone...)

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

This is fantastic news for Irish artists. The key thing now is that the scheme remains randomly allocated, rather than decided by some committee of govt-appointed gatekeepers.
It also begs the question, if Basic Income works for artists, why not extend it to everyone?
www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Specifically, the great essay by @benfried.bsky.social on William Maxwell, which appeared in the special issue that I co-edited with Evan Brier: post45.org/2024/07/will...

"It’s hard to imagine New Yorker fiction without the contributions of the many Irish writers who have been published in the magazine, but the first notable Irish story didn’t appear until 1945, two decades after the magazine’s founding. That was Frank O’Connor’s News for the Church, which is set chiefly in a confessional in Ballygrogan, Co Cork. A couple of years earlier, as the scholar Ben Fried has noted, one of the magazine’s fiction editors, William Maxwell, rejected a story from a Tennessee-born writer with the somewhat rueful observation: “The story belongs to a world that is essentially remote from New York City. The editors have in their minds an imaginary map of Manhattan which includes, strangely, all of Connecticut and Long Island, Florida, New Jersey, Hollywood, and wherever New Yorkers go.” Quote from Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor of the New Yorker

Catching up on this recent piece in the Irish Times, I see that the New Yorker's editors are reading @post45.bsky.social

Wtf. Consider buying a book or two to show your support

Apparently that won’t be done??? #Aras25

I'm teaching a session on publishing and sustainability next week so have been casting around for similar material myself! The Indie Press Network (UK) has this guide that might be of interest too indiepressnetwork.com/2025/02/10/s...

Publishing Distribution Practices: New Insights About Eco-Friendly Publishing, Sustainable Printing and Returns, and Cost-Effective Delivery in the U.S. - Publishing Research Quarterly The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated and highlighted the problems and opportunities within the book publishing industry’s distribution practices. This is a summary of the Publishing Distribution Practices report, researched and produced in collaboration with Portland State University, Independent Book Publishers Association, and PubWest. This article addresses research and recommendations for becoming carbon neutral, delivering books cost effectively, utilizing print-on-demand, minimizing returns, and examining supply chain issues raised by the pandemic. Findings include starting with paper and emissions assessment for more eco-friendly publishing; emphasizing pre-orders, local and discounted delivery, trade organization membership, and POS systems for cost-effective delivery; limiting outsourcing to restrict supply chain disruptions; reducing print runs and promoting books more effectively to minimize returns; and utilizing print-on-demand for proof copies and gap runs.

There are sections on pulping and recycling in this: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

Piece is called "Live, laugh, toaster bath", artist is www.instagram.com/cherrysparks...

today, around your lunchtime or your afternoon rest time or your evening wind down, depending on your time zone:

A ghost holding a toaster in the bath, accompanied by a rubber duck

Dropped in to the Dublin Comic Arts Festival @dublincomicarts.bsky.social with my 7-year-old and he persuaded me to buy this toaster ghost

Are you a researcher working at a EU university? Are you fed up with our institutions turning a blind eye to genocide? Consider signing this. uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’ From fleeing Gaza City to a birthday in the family – Karim recounts a month in the territory

Goodness, this is writing.

Exclusive: Ireland poised to blunt sanctions on Israel under corporate pressure, say sources There is pressure from business groups concerned about the impact on investment.

Ireland’s Occupied Territories Bill being hollowed out at the behest of US and Irish business interests

Uninterrupted trade and investment being placed above compliance with international legal obligations and meaningful action to end atrocities in Palestine

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26!

(Cover reveal soon!)

Books and garlic mayonnaise, together at last 🤝

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Vibe Working is when I sit at home in my tracksuit completing low-grade administrative tasks with the new Cate Le Bon album on. No additional computing power needed

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