New Science & Magic out inc. the 1st chapter of my novel ‘All Our Love’, & @wildtwin.bsky.social, Pete Paphides, Alex Pester, Kevin Rowland, Ann Nazario, Victoria Raftery, Matty Loughlin-Day, Eimear Kavanagh, Matt Lockett, Nik Kavanagh, Maya Chen & Fiona Bird. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
New Science & Magic out inc. the 1st chapter of my novel ‘All Our Love’, & @wildtwin.bsky.social, Pete Paphides, Alex Pester, Kevin Rowland, Ann Nazario, Victoria Raftery, Matty Loughlin-Day, Eimear Kavanagh, Matt Lockett, Nik Kavanagh, Maya Chen & Fiona Bird. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
I wrote about these steps for the 20th edition of Science & Magic, Violette’s brilliant magazine. This week’s also includes a brilliant piece from @seventydys.bsky.social
Read it here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
how it is at night
Harry Martinson, ‘Persuasion’, tr Lars Nordström
The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ & ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ intros by Yiyun Li & A.K. Blakemore. @mcnallyeditions.com in US. Two of my faves ‘The Dressmaker’ & ‘Harriet Said’ to follow.
Joe Brainard’s ‘I Remember’ (1970-1975) is a small book that is immense inside, not least because of the way it—generously, wittily, companionably—opens up the reader to their own worlds of memory and feeling. There’s no such thing as an everybody book, but this is one. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.
everything
Joe Brainard, ‘Poem’
the fluxing clouds
Thomas Ligotti, from ‘The Chymist’
I’m an auld fella now. Reckon I should finally get around to Daniel Deronda. Still hesitating over Trollope mind.
I read Parade’s End for the first time last year and found it exceptionally powerful and interesting. Thirty years since I read The Good Soldier and in a way glad I waited that long to read PE.
to change
Audre Lorde, ‘Stations’
One Step Beyond.
to change
Audre Lorde, ‘Stations’
this grass or horror or light
T.J. Clark, from ‘The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing’
Very much admired, among other virtues, how she created a profoundly recognisable sense of place without a lot of obvious signalling.
The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ & ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ intros by Yiyun Li & A.K. Blakemore. @mcnallyeditions.com in US. Two of my faves ‘The Dressmaker’ & ‘Harriet Said’ to follow.
Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels. As two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month, John Self reassesses her writing
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
A well-deserved, excellent review by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social in @nybooks.com of @drnaomibaker.bsky.social's 'Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century', which I edited for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The British Board of Shadow Classification has passed the following indistinct shape in the darkness as suitable for ages twelve and over. Parental guidance advised.
My first. I hope to start a trend.
this grass or horror or light
T.J. Clark, from ‘The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing’
being in the world
Pier Paolo Pasolini, from ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’, tr Stephen Sartarellli
being in the world
Pier Paolo Pasolini, from ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’, tr Stephen Sartarellli
