Carl Shuker

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High on her own supply? | New Zealand Listener - news - Read this story on Magzter.com Read this exciting story from New Zealand Listener October 4-10, 2025 issue. Patricia Lockwood's new novel doubles down and tests the patience of her devotees.

My review of the new @tricialockwood.bsky.social novel is up in the latest Listener:
(Paywall after tantalising opening mafraid)

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Poetry Updates

Author Pip Adam on keeping faith in the project – The Creative Independent Author Pip Adam discusses how to regain your voice when you lose it, balancing day jobs and creative output, and how place informs the work

Love this interview with Pip, so much wisdom here! 💚

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A red and white banner features a graphic of the Te Herenga Waka Press logo (THW) and text saying 'New website sale, 50% off all books published 1949-2022, throughout August, while stocks last.'

Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website.

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The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.

Books: Author Catherine Robertson with her latest picks We're going to talk about books, specifically what our critic Catherine Robertson calls her "to be read pile of shame" books, also known as those books you've bought and haven't yet got around to…

Catherine Robertston reviews Carl Shuker's The Royal Free on RNZ Afternoons:. 'It's the best thing I've read in years... Can't recommend it more highly... It's a tremendous piece of writing.' 💙
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Well done

Amazing

Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man

My book got the sweetest medal! www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-n...

If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers.

They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.

Yeah, I was asked to recommend good writing about sex, and yeah, I went there

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The odds of the new suicide prevention action plan succeeding are slim to none To truly reduce suicide rates, we need to think beyond rehashed policies that paper over the cracks in our system.

Vital perspective

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What We Fear Is Being Reviewed Maliciously John Gibb on The Royal Free by Carl Shuke

Landfall comes for THE ROYAL FREE. A long close read that almost gets it….

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“Were you there, sir?”

Gut Instinct - a Film by Doug Dillaman + Live Music Performance by Kyle Bruckmann | Shapeshifters Cinema A post-apocalyptic found footage instructional film on acid, Gut Instinct blends plausible science fiction, outrageous science fact, black comedy and intense visual freakouts in service of a singular ...

A week and a half until the international premiere of my post-apocalyptic found footage instructional film on acid GUT INSTINCT in Oakland, CA at Shapeshifters Cinema, complete w/ a circuit-bending audio set by Kyle Bruckmann (@issimo-sempre.bsky.social) and Q&A by me. Limited seats, don't miss out!

How is AI affecting New Zealand creatives? Four New Zealand creatives speak about the impact of AI on their work....

How is AI affecting New Zealand creatives?

ANNA SMAILL and CARL SHUKER Literary power couple Anna Smaill (Bird Life) and Carl Shuker (The Royal Free) talked with novelist Emily Perkins at Te Papa on 2 September 2024. They discussed their work, their life together, and…

Three of the best fictioneers feature on the latest Writers on Mondays episode!

America Bombs Iran A quick assessment of how America's offensive operations against Iran changes the character of the war in the Middle East.

VERY useful briefing on broader implications of US strike on Iran from @warinthefuture.bsky.social

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A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

I wrote about billionaire space dreams, interstellar inequality, and Pip Adam's extraordinary new novel, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Congratulations!

A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

So excited to see the ever-perceptive @robrubsam.bsky.social writing in @theatlantic.com today on @pipadam.bsky.social's "extraordinary" Audition, out in North America this month www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Ha that’s amazing Tina. The life.

Sample (just a sample) of the Smiths collection with period pricing

A present from my old friend to celebrate completion of the first draft of my new project. 39 for this and so much else over so long @ryskel.bsky.social

Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

Ouch.
"I groaned​ my way through The Emperor of Gladness. I writhed. I felt real despair every time I forced myself to open the covers. It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life."
Tom Crewe shines his hatchet in the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Two of my favourite NZ books of recent vintage - this and AUDITION by @pipadam.bsky.social - have been published in the States this month. Both urgent, challenging and rewarding. Check them out, Ameri-friends.

It’s publication day in the US for The Royal Free. I’m so proud of this book and grateful to be with Counterpoint Press who published geniuses like Ballard and Janet Frame in the US, and Evan Connell and David Markson. Thank you. I’m a lucky man.

"That’s the great thing about writing: the problems that solve the last novel will not help this novel in the slightest."

A knockout interview with the great @pipadam.bsky.social #pukapuka

This is the really scary language now. “Republican forces.”