Andrew Gallix

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #27 —
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@andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Joseph Nechvatal, Tim MacGabhann @alinaetc.bsky.social Austyn Wohlers, reviews & more — now up ...

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AND! Monthly Dispatch #27 — ft. @addisonzeller.bsky.social @robrubsam.bsky.social @andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Joseph Nechvatal, Tim MacGabhann @alinaetc.bsky.social Austyn Wohlers, reviews & more ... — goes out Friday

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Or this. Best short i've ever done, got me a personal note from their ed of The New Yorker (!!) even though it was a no. UK print media wouldn't touch it, but @andrewgallix.bsky.social isn't scared of the tough stuff so he put it in the legendary 3:AM 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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What does it cost to produce a book? Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.

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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

Now That’s What I Call Fiction! Loren Ipsum out in the wild (ie. London bookshops). Waterstones Trafalgar Square Waterstones Piccadilly Waterstones Piccadilly Foyles Charing Cross Road London Review Bookshop Waterstones Tottenham…

Loren Ipsum out and about
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Loren Ipsum launch & in the wild

Thans so much!

Thanks so much for going to all the effort. Can’t wait to read Telenovela!

Andrew Gallix's novel in the window of Daunt books

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Loved going to the launch of Loren Ipsum this evening. Wonderful work by Dodo Ink and the great @andrewgallix.bsky.social

It’s the name of a character. Hope you enjoy the book!

Truth Bombing Review 31 is an online literary review.

A very thoughtful, in-depth review of Loren Ipsum by Oscar Mardell in Review31

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Thanks so much!

Librarians’ autumn picks 2025 Five librarians from across the UK pick their most-anticipated autumn reads.

Best of luck to @andrewgallix.bsky.social, launching his mind-bending satirical thriller Loren Ipsum this evening. One of the unsung heroes of the UK lit scene as i alluded to in @thebookseller.com this month.

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Loren Ipsum hits bookshops today. Woo-hoo!

Thanks so much @stuhennigan.bsky.social

Clicky clicky for 5 x essentual autumn reads feat. fiction from @andrewgallix.bsky.social, Nell Osborne, and stellar non-fic courtesy of @keithcameron2.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @joannapocock.bsky.social.

Thank you so much @stuhennigan.bsky.social for including Amateurs! (@versobooks.bsky.social) on your @thebookseller.com autumn picks list - in great company with @joannapocock.bsky.social, Nell Osborne & @andrewgallix.bsky.social
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Librarians’ autumn picks 2025 Five librarians from across the UK pick their most-anticipated autumn reads.

Stu Hennigan selects Loren Ipsum as one of his 5 autumn picks
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Librarians’ autumn picks 2025 Five librarians from across the UK pick their most-anticipated autumn reads.

Stu Hennigan selects Loren Ipsum as one of his 5 autumn picks
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Loren Ipsum — Andrew Gallix LE HARENG ROUGE The elements were leading him a merry dance. The wind, in particular, was winding him up. He paused to remonstrate with his umbrella, which seemed to have developed a mind of its ow…

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— Xiao Yue Shannon The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (trans. Julia Sanches)

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— an extract from @andrewgallix.bsky.social 's new novel LOREN IPSUM

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Loren Ipsum — Andrew Gallix LE HARENG ROUGE The elements were leading him a merry dance. The wind, in particular, was winding him up. He paused to remonstrate with his umbrella, which seemed to have developed a mind of its ow…

"He was glad to be back in Paris. As always. What’s not to like? […] he agreed to join his interlocutor at Le Rostand later on. They could even go for a stroll in the Jardin du Luxembourg, weather permitting… Yes, just like Beckett…"

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Loren Ipsum — Andrew Gallix LE HARENG ROUGE The elements were leading him a merry dance. The wind, in particular, was winding him up. He paused to remonstrate with his umbrella, which seemed to have developed a mind of its ow…

"Whether he was communing with God, steeling himself for the next stage of his pilgrimage, or simply weathering the weather, Loren knew not."
—from Loren Ipsum by @andrewgallix.bsky.social

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Loren Ipsum — Andrew Gallix LE HARENG ROUGE The elements were leading him a merry dance. The wind, in particular, was winding him up. He paused to remonstrate with his umbrella, which seemed to have developed a mind of its ow…

Loren Ipsum — @andrewgallix.bsky.social

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Loren Ipsum — Andrew Gallix LE HARENG ROUGE The elements were leading him a merry dance. The wind, in particular, was winding him up. He paused to remonstrate with his umbrella, which seemed to have developed a mind of its ow…

"The elements were leading him a merry dance. The wind, in particular, was winding him up ..."

Loren Ipsum — @andrewgallix.bsky.social

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back this week with a stacked September, incl. interviews with @alinaetc.bsky.social Tim MacGabhann & Austyn Wohlers; extracts from work by @andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff & Joseph Nechvatal; fiction from @addisonzeller.bsky.social & @robrubsam.bsky.social ...

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heads up ... we'll be back next with @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviewing @alinaetc.bsky.social , a review of Montserrat Roig's The Time of Cherries (tr. Julia Sanches) by Xiao Yue Shan, & an extract from @andrewgallix.bsky.social 's new novel Loren Ipsum ...

Doodles are the freewheeling emanations of our pixillated minds | Aeon Essays Doodles are the emanations of our pixillated minds, freewheeling into dissociation, graphology, and radical openness

I loved working on this piece on the doodle's place in modernism. Of esp interest to @andrewgallix.bsky.social @willrees.bsky.social
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Nice piece @marinabenjamin.bsky.social

For a flavour of ny fiction, here's a tiny Christmas ghost story, first published in 2022 in a micropress anthology by Massive Overheads, republishwled online at the legendary 3:AM magazine.

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