Liam Hegarty

@liamhegarty.bsky.social

Writer, reader, runner (in theory) - northern lad up a mountain in Japan

And the arts organizations and publishers who will stand out for us, who will maintain their credibility, will be the ones we feel have our backs. We will pay attention to who they are. We'll spread the word. We need partners that we can respect, that we can count on. 23/

It has been a good reading year so far though (despite everything else). Highlights so far - The Topeka School, Ben Lerner, Another Country, James Baldwin, Human Acts, Han Kang (tr. Deborah Smith), Pity, Andrew McMillan, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning, Keiran Goddard. Ok, book karma rebalanced.

Finally picked up a well reviewed, prize winning novel I'd put down two years ago out of frustration and finally finished it. Nope. Nope. Nopity nope. Did not care for it. Not one little bit. Ahh. That's better. Carry on.

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's mass theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their large language model ‘AI’. Their trawl includes fourteen of my titles. If you live in Ireland and care about the arts, please sign. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

my.uplift.ie

Idea for a novel that's been percolating for the last while is becoming evermore interesting and evermore difficult and beyond my current skills and capacity and I'm getting more excited about it and oh damn I'm going to waste years on that once I finish the one I've just wasted years on, aren't I?