Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’
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Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’
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Powerful piece in this week’s Sunday Times Magazine… and a puzzling one on the same paper’s property page.
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Some personal news: after 17 wonderful years at the New Statesman I’ve decided it’s time for something new.
Grateful to brilliant colleagues past and present. Here’s my farewell column from this week’s magazine. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...
State of the Union? This one's worth listening to...
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Could be another one I find myself recommending -- along with Anne Lamott's 'Bird by Bird'...
deskboundtraveller.com/great-advice....
Do you know the story of Mary Ann Patten? Author of #ToTheEdgeOfTheWorld Tilar J. Mazzeo chats to Dr Sam Willis about her incredible journey through treacherous waters for The Mariner's Mirror podcast:
bit.ly/4qY2bDX
‘An absolutely brilliant book’ Dr Sam Willis
'... government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits.' Sinclair Lewis in 'It Can't Happen Here' (1935).
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Longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2025:
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/.
Rory MacLean talks to @thebookseller.com about travel writing, the Sherborne Festival (sherbornetravelwritingfestival.com) & the journeys made for his forthcoming book, which were prompted by the death of his wife:
www.thebookseller.com/features/ror....
Sinclair Lewis, in 'It Can't Happen Here' (1935), did warn us...
05.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sinclair Lewis, in 'It Can't Happen Here' (1935), did warn us...
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Join us for an evening of conversation and music with Neil Hegarty and Iarla Ó Lionáird to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Allen’s Late Heaney.
📅 Saturday 28th February
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️£15
Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx
@neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
On Radio 4 this afternoon, Paul Farley's adaptation of 'Walden', Henry David Thoreau's 1854 memoir of how he 'went to the woods, because I wished to live deliberately...'
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Must-read of the day from Marilynne Robinson in the FT Weekend.
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Rediscover Britain with me at @hatchards.bsky.social , Piccadilly on 4 Feb at 18:30 — an illustrated journey around the coast through photos, stories and adventure. I'd love to see you there! 🇬🇧📷 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rediscover...
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'Minneapolis', the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP... #Minneapolis
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"The star’s urgent and to-the-point protest song is not subtle about its target and right now that’s why it works so well," writes Matthew Cantor.
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Short list for the new £10,000 Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing:
deskboundtraveller.com/short-list-f....
Travel Photographer of the Year winners for 2025:
www.tpoty.com/2025-winners/.
Travel Photographer of the Year winners for 2025:
www.tpoty.com/2025-winners/.
This is going to be a really special series!
12+ literary icons (including Rebecca Makkai, Nathan Hill, & more) writing about a Chicago book from the past 10 years that exemplifies what our city & its literary culture is today.
We're building a portrait of a new literary renaissance in Chicago!
I am pinching myself!
So grateful to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and Soft Skull for all their support in getting this book out into the world. I wish all the @bookcritics.bsky.social finalists the best of luck! What a wonderful bunch of writers to find myself among.
#greyhound #bookcriticscircle
The Power of Poetry with things falling apart and anarchy let loose, it was only poetry, he found, which had any use, so he reached for his copy of The Complete Works of Yeats and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
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Reminded, by a newsletter from @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social, that Ronald Blythe, whose archive has been acquired by the British Library (theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/british-library-acquires-archive-ronald-blythe), figures himself in the Slightly Foxed archive: foxedquarterly.com/ronald-blyth....
15.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0What a fabulous collection of travel books to come this year. Here’s another to add to the list: Wayward Women, out 29 January, by Rhonda Carrier and Tracey Davies @traceydanger.bsky.social and published by Bedford Square.
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Always the way, at this time of year. As soon as you publish a roundup of forthcoming books (deskboundtraveller.com/words-from-the-road-for-2026/), you learn of a couple more you'd certainly have included. See deskboundtraveller.com.
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Pico Iyer's spent half a century travelling the world. In @nytimes.com he writes about 'an invitation to a very foreign country, a film set': nytimes.com/2026/01/09/travel/marty-supreme-movie-cast-pico-iyer.html.
12.01.2026 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
11.01.2026 11:41 — 👍 158 🔁 84 💬 6 📌 3Looks like a great bill in May for the @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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