Total global immiseration. The only possible ways through are ones we make together.
Anakana Schofield
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🚨LIBRARY OF BROTHEL MAY 2026 Knopf Canada Jan 2027 NYRB “tips it off the cliff” Globe “One of the most adventurous writers working in English today” “sui generis” Award winning author of Bina, Martin John & Malarky www.anakanaschofield.com Wylie Hoops
I am thinking of raw dogging Anita Brookner’s biography …
Lydia Davis will the give the second annual 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 Autumn Lecture, titled ’Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Other Stoics’, on 28 October at the New School, New York City. Details and tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
Book tickets – The 2026 LRB Autumn Lecture in NYC: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius – The Tishman Auditorium at the New School
The 2026 LRB Autumn Lecture in NYC: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius – The Tishman Auditorium at the New School, Wed 28 Oct 2026 - Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Othe...
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: On Friday October 23 at 7pm, Patrick deWitt (author of The Sisters Brothers, French Exit, The Librarianist and more) joins us with his new book, Dodge City. Hosted by Anna Leventhal. www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18956/... @houseofanansi.bsky.social @leventhology.bsky.social
Vancouver big news! Tickets are now on sale for my Vancouver Writers Festival event Friday Oct 23 at 8pm moderated by @markmedley.bsky.social GET YER TICKETS 🚨 hot stuff! www.showpass.com/2026-festiva...
Thanks for asking, Anakana. ecmrecords.com/product/samu...
Samuel Beckett, Trevor Bača: Stirrings Still - ECM Records
Stirrings Still was Samuel Beckett’s last message in prose, completed in 1987, and first published the following year. More monologue than story, it comes from a narrator on the edge between life and ...
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I'm in London, UK til Saturday afternoon, if anyone wants to interview me about my new novel LIBRARY OF BROTHEL out Jan 12, 2027 from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and in Dublin next week, then NYC .. Drop me a line 22seriousladies@gmail.com or my UK publicist God knows I've plenty things to say.
It appears in 2026 we're back again with some insisting the novel must end at Middlemarch. Some days it's as though modernism never happened. This is the only work where you're requested to do it poorly to satisfy people's tame and dull appetites. We would never been this unambitious for visual art
I see the tineared numpties have, once again, taken to the pulpit. You're embarrassing yourselves and your lack of reading.
It really bothers when people dismiss victims of bigotry and discrimination standing up for their rights as being 'culture wars', much 'identity politics'. Civil rights, and the ability to live your life free of harassment and bigotry is a material, serious political subject.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoNormalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'
‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’
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Death toll from Nepal-Tibet flood reaches 750, with 3,000 still missing
Death toll from Nepal-Tibet flood reaches 750, with 3,000 still missing
Hundreds believed trapped in hydropower tunnels
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Despite all the technology and tapping ...you still have to spend an hour long distance international on the phone to the bank to sort out whatever bizarre up feck is happening. Honestly biscuit tins and trading in seeds would be more effective.
In a world of Eddies be a Bina (and maybe strategically take to the leaba.) Bina by @anakanaschofield.bsky.social 5 stars www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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The unflinching multidisciplinary artist has long welcomed new challenges. With the release of a new album and a new book, he embraces the role his career has been building toward: investigative poet. n.pr/3Sjwnhv
Saul Williams opens a portal between politics and possibility
The unflinching multidisciplinary artist has long welcomed new challenges. With the release of a new album and a new book, he embraces the role his career has been building toward: investigative poet.
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Vancouver possible blood moon sighting at 9.20pm
Yes, delighted to interview Andrew Durbin for @bombmag.bsky.social 💞
BOMB Magazine@bombmag.bsky.social · last wk.@andrew-durbin.bsky.social biography “The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek” ( @fsgbooks.bsky.social, 2026) is a portrait of the two gay artists tracing a changing queer world. Read Durbin’s interview by @mbsycamore.bsky.social. bit.ly/4ceutp2
A Status Yellow rain warning is in effect for a number of counties with spells of heavy rain and a possibility of thunderstorms forecast
Flooding in Kerry, several counties under yellow warning
A Status Yellow rain warning is in effect for a number of counties with spells of heavy rain and a possibility of thunderstorms forecast.
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If our lakes are being renamed, I will be renaming a number of NFL teams.
William Shakespeare@shakespeare.lol · last wk.O, be some other name!
To be overwhelmed by ignorance is a social condition of the Information Age. Looka dat!
Question for Brazilians in Ireland! Can you recommend a Portuguese-speaking solicitor in Dublin who can help a Deliveroo cyclist make a claim for a collision with a vehicle? (It was 100% the vehicle driver's fault.) He doesn't speak much English. #spéirghorm #speirgorm
Nearly 1,500 missing as rescuers struggle to reach survivors of Nepal-Tibet flash floods
Nearly 1,500 missing as rescuers struggle to reach survivors of Nepal-Tibet flash floods
Two Irish among those missing after collapse of glacial wall; helicopters drop aid and search for survivors
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