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Thomas Pynchon is back - at 87.
After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, he returns with Shadow Ticket, a noir epic set in 1932, where detectives, fascists, and surreal conspiracies collide. 🕵️‍♂️📖 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
#thomaspynchon #literaryfiction #noir #newbook

See you in Manchester soon!!

Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann 2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...

We stand with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann in expressing deep concern for Irish poet Sarah Clancy and others detained from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

We call for their release and safe return home.

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The Madrid Review LIVE: Creativity, Purpose and Impact with Brian Walker · Luma Brian Walker, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, is an entrepreneur, doctor of public health, and educator who explores the relationship among…

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📚✨ Madrid is the world’s book capital this week! From Oct 7–9, IFEMA hosts LIBER 2025 — the 43rd Feria Internacional del Libro, a hub for publishers, authors, agents & book lovers.
#IFEMA #CHILE #bookfair #tradeshow #publishing #editing #translation

Shine a Light on Your Book: Join our Author & Poet Spotlight Are you a poet or author ready to share your work with the world? Whether you’re self-published, hybrid or launching your first collection, The Madrid Review wants to help your book get the attention ...

Promote your book with us in Issue 6 #author #promotion #poetry #hybrid #selfpublished
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Why are we asking for donations and subscriptions? Until now The Madrid Review has been free. From today, we are asking readers to subscribe and donate to help us continue the journey. Why? Well, basically the editor James Hartley wants to relax on a ...

We're now a non-profit association. Here's an explanation of what that means:
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John Julius Reel brings My Half Orange to life in Audiobook form American memoirist John Julius Reel, a longtime Seville resident, has just released the audiobook edition of his memoir My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville, giving fans a fresh way...

🎧 New release! Memoirist John Julius Reel brings My Half Orange: A Story of Love & Language in Seville to life in audiobook form.
#johnjuliusreel #seville #sevilla
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From Nevada to Madrid: Willie Vlautin and the Soul of The Delines Tonight in Madrid, storytelling takes the stage in more ways than one. Willie Vlautin returns to the city with his band The Delines, bringing their lush, cinematic soul-country sound to Canopy by Hilt...

Willy Vlautin of The Delines talks about his books and music (they are LIVE in Madrid tonight) on the blog today. themadridreview.com/f/from-nevad...
#thedelines #delines #vlautin #willyvlautin #books #singer #madrid #liveinmadrid #country #lush #soul #nevada

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Prose poem in the latest Schuylkill Valley Journal.

Carlos Battaglini (FDLL): "En Lanzarote hay hambre de literatura" La tercera edición del Festival de Literatura de Lanzarote (FDLL) tendrá lugar entre el 9 de octubre y el 3 de diciembre de 2025. El FDLL reunirá a ocho escritores destacados del panorama literario na...

✨ Hoy en el blog: la escritora Kate Tough entrevista a Carlos Battaglini, fundador del Festival de Literatura de Lanzarote (FDLL), que celebra su tercera edición del 9 de octubre al 3 de diciembre de 2025. 🌴📚 #lanzarote
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Why I Wrote 'His Devilish Art'. Henry Fuseli & me by Warwick Wise This Friday, Secret Kingdoms hosts writer and journalist Warwick Wise, who will be presenting his debut novel His Devilish Art (Ybernia). Wise, a former BBC and AFP reporter who has covered everything...

This Friday at Secret Kingdoms, Warwick Wise presents His Devilish Art, reimagining painter Henry Fuseli & his ties to Mary Wollstonecraft in revolutionary London. @ybernia-books.bsky.social
👉 Wise on why he wrote the book here: themadridreview.com/f/why-i-wrot...
#madrid #fuseli #shelley #london

A photo of the front cover of issue 1659 of Private Eye magazine with the caption “on shelves now.” The front cover headline reads “Labour’s Identity Crisis” and shows Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham talking. Burnham says, “I would like to lead the Labour Party,” to which Starmer replies, “So would I.”

Labour’s Identity Crisis

The new Private Eye is out now.

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Submissions open October 1st-14th
Poems only
Any theme
Word docs
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Send us a poem!
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They drop against the ends of names,
Not orderly, but any old how.
Henri, Mitchell, McGough- watch it mates,
The brackets, any day now.

Brian Patten

Spending the day with Gaudi in Barcelona…

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

Okay, funny bookstore category

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

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Vanessa Rubria Fabiano: Between Worlds, Between Histories Vanessa Rubria Fabiano return's to Madrid with her new collection Chinese on the Beach (Ybernia). On Wednesday October 1 at 19:30, she will appear at Librería Parenthesis in Lavapiés for a public conv...

Vanessa Rubria Fabiano's debut collection comes to Madrid! @ybernia-books.bsky.social
📍 @lib-parenthesis.bsky.social (Lavapiés)
🗓️ Oct 1, 19:30. In conversation with @morilloisolda.bsky.social
Co-hosted by @desperatelit.bsky.social
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#Chineseculture #madrid

Paul Cezanne
The Bend in the road
1905
oil, canvas

I've always thought she was singing about a one-winged dove. I had a completely different image in my head.

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

Gorgeous 😍

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

Text: new paperback edition pre-order available now, published by Canongate and in your favourite bookshops 09 Oct 2025 image: red book with white writing WITH LOVE, GRIEF AND FURY, Salena Godden on cream background with swirling flames, orange and red

red text on cream background, a verse from a poem titled 'Patient Creature'

"I long for you
the sound of you
I listen for your key
turning in the lock
your footsteps in the hall
your hello hello hello voice
I sit on the stairs and watch the door
and wait and listen and
wait and listen
and wait."

#withlovegriefandfury
paperback edition published
@canongate.co.uk 09 Oct 25

We strongly condemn the summoning of Egyptian poet Ahmed Douma for the fifth time in the past year by the Supreme State Security Prosecution on fresh charges. He was released on bail of 50,000 EGP. Egypt must end its use of judicial harassment to intimidate government critics. @penmena.bsky.social

Reminder: we have an online event tomorrow night to launch Andrew Hall's incredible debut novel, Green Laughing. And it's completely free to attend!

Grab your ticket here. It promises to be an interesting one! share.google/wpkOfQao8R05...
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