Anakana Schofield

NYC Launch Event missed connections with tall girls Readings from: Gwen Aube Stephen Ira / Good Judy 563 5th Ave Brooklyn 11215 March 10 8:00 PM

❗BROOKLYN ❗

👯‍♀️ Mar 10 book party at Good Judy 👯‍♀️
🥵 for Missed Connections With Tall Girls 🥵

GWEN AUBE
w/ Stephen Ira and some TBA friends...

🫵 B THERE 🫵

🎉 Doors 7 🎉
🎉 Readings 8 🎉

We will have raucousness and books and maybe some beer

RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/missed-con... or just come 😊

Are we going to be in a different time zone to Washington and California now? Exciting. Except how will this effect basketball? I like us being in our own timezone. I think I'll go further and add my own personal timezone as 7.5 mins behind Pacific Time.
APT (almost pacific time)

"Simultaneously, this was a spectacular play on work and living conditions under present day capitalism."
Readers are speaking on Library of Brothel.
Come here, come in, they say.
We really, really want you to do that.

Pre-order Library of Brothel from your fave Independent bookseller.

God's great and smart readers are starting to speak on my new novel Library of Brothel.
"This was a great read! Fuck AI, and as always, power to the workers."

Nova Scotia budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector Program’s end is a major blow to independent publishers trying to carry the torch of Canadian storytelling

New: The elimination of Nova Scotia’s publishing funding has left the book sector reeling in a province that often depends on its independent houses to preserve its history and tell its stories.

Some worry it could set a precedent for other provinces www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Happy Birthday @jacquiwine.bsky.social !

Beware the super flu going around- mask up. It’s nasty even if you got the shot.

Deep sympathy to anyone waking up in -35 like Ottawa.

Oh God Arsenal are playing - disconnects entirely from the internet.

‘School could be quite cruel. Songs were a saviour for me’: Philip King on music, film and the essentiality of the arts In the week he brought Foo Fighters to Kerry, the man behind Other Voices says the Irish State cannot just pay lip service to the arts’ centrality

I interviewed the brilliant Philip King while I was down in Dingle earlier in the week: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Snowdrops grown in a pot.

Does anyone still post the #flowerreport? A variety of snowdrops gifted to us by a talented friend—the variety is called Mount Everest. 🤍

Come Spring - hurry up
“When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!”

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

This investigation into Epstein's connections to doctors who treated his victims is staggering: "If Mr. Epstein gave financial support, she said, there could be a naming opportunity: “The Epstein Floor for Women.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

MAGA will forget all about those antiwar promises; this war will be embraced by phony patriots as righteous, as God’s command, as all illegitimate wars are; and the domestic attacks on “enemies of freedom” will start soon, as soon as today.

trib.al/iGV6lUC

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive

I expect you’ve probably seen these & even if you haven’t, I’m not assuming you want to launch into an insatiable lighthouse bender, but just in case…

youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

youtu.be/1MYpjFvAcHI?...

May I with right and conscience make this claim?

Jesus Christ

Cú is monitoring the situation

Suddenly Last Summer is on criterion for another 24 hours. If you need some hot house.

This interview with Darryl, who I admire and love to listen to, really fascinated me. His final observation on Hardwick that “People should pay attention to what she read …And that she really wasn’t afraid to read anything, she was not afraid of any book…”

V interesting brief and moving mention of Sontag and that he doesn’t like a lot of the stuff written about her and says “she was not a fraud”.

US measles cases soar past 1,100

www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

Interesting distinction between writing critically about what interested her rather than what disappointed her.

Darryl Pinckney on Memoir, Friendship, and Elizabeth Hardwick In the first episode of our podcast Private Life, Darryl Pinckney talks with host Jarrett Earnest about his close friend and former teacher Elizabeth Hardwick.

www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

I will consult the 26 year old for insight and discover why he's not excluded.

Also, what exactly is the 25+ crowd? This is a fairly arbitrary age. Does this mean 25-32 year olds? Since everyone is supposed to be long married by 32, so they can get divorced by 40 in time for mid-life crisis?

The Vancouver Art Gallery and Thursday Dating are hosting an after-hours singles social Meet cute at the museum.

Why does it cost $39 to go on this date tho' ? Gallery admission surely isn't $39. Is there a singles tax here?
www.straight.com/living/vanco...

Gripped | Denied no longer | Literary Review of Canada Andrew Torry on finally reading Anakana Schofield’s “Martin John,” free will, and the powers of compulsion.

I love this idea of a reader coming to a book 10+ years after it was published and writing on it. This is how it should be. Literature isn't on some read me in 12 minutes schedule. It should also stand up 10 years after publishing.
reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

What Walter Benjamin Knew A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

"He seemed to believe, all the same, that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value and meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

This is such an excellent rebuttal to the (white nationalist) hand-wringing over birthrates dropping: The falling birthrate indicates young women's autonomy in deciding their futures, and also points to fewer teen pregnancies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...