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Appalling to find another international publishing house we'd respected let standards plummet by publishing a moribund, bourgeois Mancunian author. Twice now, in a matter of weeks. Editorial standards? Perhaps they're fulfilling an Arts Council quota or the like

All of our poetry titles can be found at the National Poetry Library, London

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Everything 'community hub'

Book's a lovely item, DESIGNED but easy on the eye, will defo give it a whirl

Arrivals!

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Beautiful new editions.

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Get yourselves down East Bristol Books. Doing things right.

Good to have a gander @stuhennigan.bsky.social 'Keshed' while I was there.

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We've got 3 ms we're keen on editing & publishing, but still lack a dedicated sales/repping team. Stasis & search will go on until we find one.

Our initial 3 titles were well received with national & international press & praise from contemporaries. Reflected with utter disinterest from our reps

Source is looking for New Work. No fee to submit. As part of our research for future issues, Source will be organising Zoom meetings with photographers to look at new photographic work. Open to photographers from or based in Ireland or the UK. Details at source.ie DL 27 February 2026.

The US editions' ending of 'A Clockwork Orange' renders the fable hugely bleak. They'd do well to revert to the British version. And ultimately realise its historical context & ingenuity.

Wasn't 'Wicked' pulled because it not a YA text? Haven't read it.

No book should be 'banned' obvs.

One for the lolz for any publishers from without the 'big five'.

The least flexible and responsive industry imaginable.

Let's all do tertiary-sourced artists books / glorified nostalgic flick books... and whatever happens, do not mention the original artists. 2026, thems the rules

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When in Rome, Rodney

Quite

Cover of the book THE BOOK BUSINESS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger

"It's fucked."

Are we all looking forward to Joyce Carol Oates' memoirs/journals or what?

Decent (as in functioning) alternatives to Google Search please?

Not Bing. Not Yandex. Not DDG. Not Ecosia.

We see the Wuthering Heights (book) backlash is afoot. Whoppers

A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature
— Margaret Drabble
Thames & Hudson, 1979

£2 from a Falmouth chazzer. Love the Drabble. Erudite.

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They really will let anyone into the RCA these days won't they?

Equidistant between Literary Writers & Editors and Queer Taylor Swift fans. Which is as it should be

Always good to see the books at the #ICA Bookshop in #London. Currently stocking LINDEN ARCHIVES and GOD'S FOX II.

shop.ica.art/products/god...

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@stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.social

'We don't deal with agents'. Is one for the lolz

Liverpool 1994 Garlands ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook Photographs may not be used without prior consent. @pariahpress.bsky.social @gaysof.bsky.social @liverpoolecho.co.uk @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social

Everyone's Lit. Insta:
'Here's links to my books'
Final link: Palestine Remembered

It is very 'North of England' content tbf. Thank you for diving in. Nathan Barley's still worth a watch.

And I now read EGGSLUT was founded in LA!

Knut Hamsun/Goebbels comes to mind with the news of Trump being gifted the Nobel by Machado.

YouTube video by Sky TV The Working Class

Ah, #EGGSLUT are launching with 'Manc Poetry' style ads. F*ck right off and take your battery/intensively farmed Nathan Barley eggs with ya.

Obviously haven't seen...
youtu.be/kA0gmw1uz6Y?...

Flann O'Briens, and not the usuals, 50p each. Falmouth chazzers from heaven.

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Extremely disappointing for a bookshop we've always bigged up, to avoid paying an invoice for months. Especially as the proprietor's just had two weeks in the Caribbean and splashed it all over Insta