Richard Beard

This will be really good.

For all UTM questions, see contact details at www.universalturingmachine.org. Not envisaging illustrations at this stage.

Publishing today!

Memoirist and teacher @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Inspired by her own experience, as well as interviews with fellow memoirists, she shows how you can turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery. ✍🏼 #booksky

Advance review copy of my novel Dooneen, out from Fitzcarraldo Editions next year.

There are a few of these floating around out there. Please be careful.

Start with trying to fill in a few memories, seeing which years attract and which not so much. And you can join over here for fuller discussions:

Seven days later Last Sunday’s event in Presteigne’s Assembly Rooms was the first time in almost three months that I was allowed out from hospital.

This was a brilliant event and some special editions of The Breaking Wave by @mrmarchant.bsky.social are still available. Follow the link, catch the wave.

INTO BEING: A reading list

We asked author @lilydunn.bsky.social to compile a list of books by the authors she interviewed for her new book, 'Into being'.

Full list on our Blog now, and you can also shop the full list on @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social' @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now.

Looked up 'expansion pack'. You're right!

‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the same

In this piece there's an excellent summary of The Universal Turing Machine, and what it's for.

Two books by Uwe Wittstock, translated by Daniel Bowles: FEBRUARY 1933: The Winter of Literature & MARSEILLE 1940: The Flight of Literature

Cannot recommend these two books highly enough. Absolutely fascinating for anyone interested in politics, literature, art, resisting fascism, etc etc. Beautifully done.

The Football Association’s 1993 takeover of women’s football – A Hobson’s Choice In 1993 the Women's Football Association (WFA), the organisation which had run women's football in England for 24 years, ceded control of the sport to the Football Association (FA). This has often ...

The first results of my FIFA-funded project are out in the world!

⚽ Why the FA's takeover of women's football from the WFA in 1993 was a "Hobson's Choice" for the WFA, & a moment of disempowerment for #womensfootball

⚽ It's open access & available here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.

Welcome! A home for anyone who wants to write a memoir and isn’t sure where to start. Full details of how to get involved:
www.universalturingmachine.org

A big superimposed copy of Luke’s book, The Book of Jonah, “emerges” from the sea.

Reminder that my new poetry collection (my SEVENTH because I apparently cannot take a hint) is available from Picador www.panmacmillan.com/authors/luke...

A safe space Writing memoir can be exposing, but Substack is a good place to experiment, says Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father.

In @thebookseller.com today, author @lilydunn.bsky.social on how writing memoir can be exposing, but Substack is a good place to experiment.
Read it here: www.thebookseller.com/comment/a-sa...
Lily's new book 'Into being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform' is out next month.

Author opens online memoir platform for submissions

Novelist and memoirist Richard Beard (‪ @richbeard.bsky.social‬ ) is launching “the first-ever mass participation online memoir” on 8th September 👇 #BookSky

Breaking Wave No. 1 Montgomery Infirmary Blues

Ian Marchant's final novel The Breaking Wave exists now as a pre-publication special edition, for reasons too miserable to mention. Except by Ian himself, of course.

imarchant.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

A most discerning reader. Thank you Steve, happy travels!

Certainly a more unusual photo ... the beautifully designed and constructed toilets at the Nursery End at Lord's were built in the late 1890s and demolished to make way for the new Edrich Stand in 2019. They were considered to be classic examples of Victorian enamelware

In her latest book, acclaimed memoirist, teacher and mentor @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.

'Into being' shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world. #booksky #memoir

Chased by a black helicopter — a jungle adventure story In the Green Heart, Richard Lloyd Parry’s debut literary thriller, plunges a young family into peril in a foreign land

“Journalist writes novel” is about as interesting a headline as “Dog bites man”, but Richard Lloyd Parry’s debut novel In the Green Heart is a good, nasty, thought-provoking entertainment.

My review:

Thanks Lynn, and thanks Matt ... 'a collaborative work of collective autobiography, which, well, is just fcuking great' ... can't say fairer than that.

Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

Will AI put fiction writers out of work? Authors Naomi Alderman, Curtis Sittenfeld and more on why artificial intelligence is stirring fears for the future of book publishing

“It’s almost taboo among writers to say, ‘I am interested in finding out what a person could do with this technology.’”

I spoke to @naomialderman.bsky.social, @richbeard.bsky.social and Sarah Hall about what AI means for novelists, in this week’s @ftweekend.com Books Essay:

YouTube video by Hal Hartley WHERE TO LAND - Official Trailer

NEW HAL HARTLEY

Into Being by @lilydunn.bsky.social is about the transformative power of writing memoir. It serves not only as a starter kit for those interested in writing and reading memoir, but it's also for anyone who is already writing or teaching, to expand and enhance their understanding of the art. #booksky

'This is how they train them, this is how they think life works.'

Why AI makes writers even more important than we always thought we were.

Excellent piece by @john-self.bsky.social in @ftweekend.com

Thanks Luke, that's very kind.

RB is one of my very favourite 21st century British novelists and this is a beautiful take on the memoir I’ve been losing myself in this morning:

A summer of reading Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas share the books they’ve enjoyed in the summers of their lives.

'A most original masterpiece'.

The Universal Turing Machine, as recommended in Engelsberg Ideas.

engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-sum...