@michaeljarvie.bsky.social
Samizdat novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, editor.Translator of Georg Trakl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Working Class. Marxist. Atheist. Coming in 2026 Transformer: Writing the Black Country by Zero Books. linktr.ee/michaelkjarvie
As a poor working-class writer, I can't afford to buy new books. I get them secondhand instead.
Another way to get hold of a new book is via your public library.
I've just put in a request for Darlington Library to buy a copy of Keshed by Stu Hennigan.
Fingers crossed.
#booksky #libraries
We're in 1937 now, when the Nazi Zeppelin crashed and burned, just like the cover of the famous album.
It's an appropriate symbol for the Nazi regime, which will also crash and burn in 1945.
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social
I see you liked my demolition on Goodreads of the Doer book.
😀
One of those books is shit (I trashed it in my Goodreads review) but I’ve included it nonetheless. Remember, you can include films as well.
These are the comp titles for my WIP, The Sharp Judge:
• Hans Fallada – Little Man, What Now? (1932)
• Hermann Broch – The Sleepwalkers (1932)
• Anna Burns – Milkman (2018)
• Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
• Volker Kutscher – Babylon Berlin novels (2008-)
I always consider it a badge of honour to be blocked by another writer.
God and the devil are just different facets of the same entity.
Thought you might get that reference in. For the record, I hate panenkas. Not the book, obviously.😀
From my Black American friend:
"As to the war, we are in the grip of the silly religious nuts who think they will bring White Jesus back out of the sky abode early, if they wipe our x y and z Arab and Mid East countries."
I’ve read Ghost Signs and reviewed it favourably.
I’m shortlisted for the Crossing the Tees short story competition. I’m going to the award ceremony at Middlesbrough library in a couple of weeks time to see if I’ve been placed. I desperately need the money. It’ll pay a bill or buy me food.
My BBC evidence. Suck it up.
My thinking is that if the BBC tried to disqualify me I could easily make them look such discriminatory classist cunts they’d rue the day they tangled with me. I take no prisoners.
Since the deadline for the BBC Short Story Competition is fast approaching, here's how I'll be applying.
As a working-class writer, I've learned how to be resourceful and challenge that system that seeks to oppress me.
#booksky #writing #workingclass
I’ve entered this before. I’m sure they’d find a way of disqualifying me if I won.
newwritingnorth.com/event/newcas... There's a writers' conference in Darlington in May of this year. As a Darlo writer Jarvie won't be able to go because he can't afford it. Jarvie is used to being excluded by now, so fill your boots if you're middle class.
Barbie Goebbels.
Things you don't need as a writer:
Bookmarks and tote bags. So much middle-class shite.
An author website. Only have one if you can afford it. I can't afford one, so I do without. Beggars can't be choosers.
A book trailer. You've written a book not a film. Behave.
#booksky #writing
Lifetime royalties.
Not bad for a self-published book of Austrian poetry in translation.
#booksky #poetry #trakl
World Book Day, eh? Well, here's my bestseller.
Despite the classism inherent in the UK publishing industry, this working-class writer and translator refuses to be silenced.
To be a writer is to be engaged in Marx's class struggle.
#booksky #translation #poetry #trakl #marxism #workingclass
By the way, influencers are shallow cunts.
Glad the fuckers are hiding in cellars right now.
The evidence:
Ok. the Jarvie view.
The Epstein war will be over in a few more days. At worst, it might drag on for another week.
The paedophile will declare victory and cease the bombing, once he sees the petrol prices shooting up at the pumps in the US.
Then he might turn his attention to Cuba.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxSk... Quoted in my work in Progress "The Sharp Judge":
"Germany, we're weaving your funeral shroud."
When the new technology of emergent capitalism destroyed their livelihoods, the starving weavers had no alternative but to rise up against their oppressors.
Jarvie spreading the gospel on Twitter until the biker blocked me. He's a Christian. And demonstrates his love for Jesus by advocating violence and hating Johnny foreigner. He wants the Royal Navy to open fire on the boats. That'll teach 'em! ? Notice how he threatens to dob me in with Zero Books.
For information.
My Iran War email this morning.
Where are the praetorian tribunes when you need them? Caligula’s mad again.
Yep. His father was an Ashkenazi Jew from Eastern Europe.
Facts don’t care for your feelings.