While I may own more steam train recordings than is strictly necessary, I read a sleeve note like this and have to buy another.
C.D. Rose
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Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3
Out now! The first title in Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images & poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. Buy the pamphlet + poster here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-...
Relative letter frequency in The Odyssey, indicated by thickness of white wave, alphabetical, top to bottom.
best bit advice for submitting fiction to @minorliteratures.bsky.social is the one fewest people follow: know what we publish and don't just send whatever cos it's open ... recent pieces here: minorliteratures.com/category/fic...
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Posts about fiction written by @MinorLits
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minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2w agoFICTION ( @tobiasvryan.bsky.social )
London! I will be reading in you. This Sunday, 3.30pm, Ellie's Bar on Kingsland Road. (As part of the Soho Reading Series.)
'Ian and I were getting to know each other ... We were planning to do some music together...' Surely one of the great 'what ifs.' www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
’Ian Curtis didn’t have a chance’: the Durutti Column on departed friends, Factory Records and fun with Morrissey
As they release their first album in 16 years, the Vini Reilly-fronted band answer your questions on sandpaper record sleeves, having Harry Styles as a fan and inventing a new style of guitar music
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In the @thetls.bsky.social, re @guillermostitch.bsky.social, 'The Coast of Everything,' and the necessity of messy, drunken literature.
References to rain in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847), in order of occurrence.
There on the horizon…could it be…yes....the Sale Boat! ⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚 Wednesday, July 15 (tomorrow), all books on our site are 30% off. That means most titles are going for under $20, and many for less than $15.
Happy Bastille Day! Post a French banger grandveymont.bandcamp.com/album/persis...
Persistance et changement, by Grand Veymont
1 track album
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Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is looking for short stories for its forthcoming special issue ‘Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors’. Deadline 1st December and guest edited by Elsa Court, Nina Ellis and Sonya Moor: www.intellectbooks.com/short-fictio...
Short Fiction in Theory & Practice
Short Fiction in Theory & Practice; Short Fiction in Theory & Practice provides an international forum for all those writing, reading, translating or publishing the short story, in all its diversi...
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Sylvia Purr-lath appreciating ‘Light Across the Plains,’ forthcoming from @sharonduggal.bsky.social and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Whoops, sorry, I'm clearly blowing things out of proportion. The UK HE sector will be fine. Why, just today I saw this ad for an associate film lecturer. Thinking of applying--too bad my machete is currently in the shop!
“The older I get, the more I distrust discourse”: An Interview with M. John Harrison — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/06/18/t...
“The older I get, the more I distrust discourse”: An Interview with M. John Harrison — Cristina Politano
In M. John Harrison’s most recently published novel, The End of Everything (Serpent’s Tail, 2026), the reader encounters a narrative that is as chaotic and combative as its title sugges…
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Tonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there.
A fun & fabulous evening at the launch of @guillermostitch.bsky.social new novel #TheCoastOfEverything Loved seeing him turn the tables & interview @davidcollard.bsky.social about it & @cdrose.bsky.social & Johnny White Really Really were fantastic 👏👏 The best Monday evening 💛📚💛 #books #booksky
Celebrations marking the publication of Guillermo Stitch's long-awaited novel The Coast of Everything. Tonight: London launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-... Tuesday: Allender Calendar podcast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Wednesday: Dublin launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-for...
The Coast of Everything — Literary salon and comedy performance
An intimate evening of fiction, conversation and live comedy.
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Guillermo Stitch@guillermostitch.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to @writing.ie for running this piece.
Cover versions of Fall songs are rarely a good idea, but this - by Elaine Mitchener and Elizabeth Kenny, voice and (I believe) theorbo - is remarkable. (Here, from 32:00) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 3 in Concert - Wigmore Hall 125th Anniversary: Elaine Mitchener & Elizabeth Kenny - BBC Sounds
Wigmore Hall 125th Anniversary: vocalist Elaine Mitchener joins lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.
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“Studio at the Wall” - information for people in East Berlin was provided by mobile transmitters from the West near the wall. Photographer unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin
A massive thank you to whoever left this at Todmorden station. It has found a good home.
Launch events for Guillermo Stitch's colossal novel 'The Coast of Everything' kick off in London on Monday 15th June at The Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place. Joining the author will be myself, Johnny White Really-Really and C. D. Rose. Free, but you need to book: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-...
Beauty, Burning: The Condition Of Music — Daniela Cascella ( @erratumpress.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2026/05/21/b...
Beauty, Burning: The Condition Of Music — Daniela Cascella
What is beauty? The question emerged, viscerally and persistently. It pierced with the ancient force of a presence and a summoning. Here I am. Come. The answer does not answer but hosts and conside…
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