Anna MacDonald

⚡️SALON NEWS ⚡️

For our June Salon, we’re thrilled to host Jeff Sparrow & Sam Wallman for what promises to be an entertaining conversation about their book 12 Rules for Strife.
When: 6pm Tuesday 4th June
Where: Bard’s Apothecary
RSVP to paperbackbookshop.events@gmail.com

The third and final book in our Autumn subscription is heading out today. Thank you to all of our subscribers! We hope you enjoy it somewhere warm or under a pile of autumn leaves. 🧡🍂🙏

Skived off for the length of a short chapter and a long black 💭

“There is gentleness in trouble, within ambiguity, in what is born, in what emerges and claims this nascent and suspended space.”

neighbourhood watch

I’ve been meaning to read it, so this is a lovely reminder. Kate Briggs also references Davey in Entertaining Ideas, from memory.

I had assumed a galah - there are a lot around at the moment - but I love the thought that it might be from a robin!

so delicate

Happy find at City Basement Books.

It wasn’t much fun, but at least we had power etc. It was some storm!

For lovers of great Irish literature, rich & daring language, complex & life-like characters & a huge, horrible, beautiful love story, Anna T urges you to try The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride.

Oh! Des thank you!! That means a great deal to me. 🙏😊

Thank you, Gordon! And yes, I had my one year anniversary on New Year’s Day. The last year feels at once very long and as if it has gone by in the blink of an eye. Also, I’m very sorry to hear about your homeward journey on Tuesday. What a day it was!

Thank you so much, Michelle! I hope you enjoy it 😊

Somehow, with everything else that was going on last year, I failed to notice that my novel came out in paperback in the UK. So it was a pleasure at the shop today to open a box in which a handful of copies were buried under other people’s special orders. I’m celebrating with my favourite ramen 📚🍜

evening walk

“Care is a deceptively simple four-letter word.”

Another gem from MA Biblioteque 💛

Over the summer, Anna M. read & loved Anne Truitt’s Daybook, a journal of the artist’s life & creative practice from 1974 to 1980. Wise, deeply insightful & fascinating as a document of artistic process, this is a book to treasure. 📚🧡

entwined 🪢

I have it in the selected essays edited by Geoff Dyer. It’s wonderful.

sun worshipers ☀️

made a new friend

as vital to our continued reading and writing, to the vitality of our languages, our cultures and experiences as the books themselves.” This Little Art p.58

I love this idea of “small contacts”. Small contacts with momentous impact.

#KateBeiggs24 1/2 “We receive these books newly made by the hands of translators, and the small contacts that those hands make, between translator and writer, reader and translator, language and language, culture and culture, experience and experience are, as Edith Grossman puts it,

good sky today

“This fatality (no photograph without *something* or *someone*) involves Photography in the vast disorder of objects - of all the objects in the world: why choose (why photograph) this object, this moment, rather than some other? Photography is unclassifiable because there is no reason to *mark* this or that of it occurrences […] [D]eprived of the principle of marking, photographs are signs which don’t *take*, which *turn*, as milk does. Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.” (p.6, trans. Richard Howard) (Wishing now that I’d snapped the baby’s bottle - half full of long-turned milk - that I saw and chose not the photograph yesterday.)

The rabbit hole continues 🕳️

More supporting texts. I love it!

currently

Thank you!

“a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye” - this is the only way to walk/look/see/feel, I reckon. 🖤

I loved this, too - “the histories of writing labor”, and the way she honours this.