At the launch of @markabowles.bsky.social great new book 'How Do People Stay The Same' from @galleybeggars.bsky.social, which I recommend to you all
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A tremendous, thoughtful review of @markabowles.bsky.social How Do People Stay The Same in @thespectator1828.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/a-su... "A fascinating formal experiment... In its very disjointedness, Bowles’s bracing book gets closer to the messy truth of life than do most novels."
A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed
Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay the Same. Both are about a Bradford-born writer with a love of travel, philosophy and espr...
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A tremendous, thoughtful review of @markabowles.bsky.social How Do People Stay The Same in @thespectator1828.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/a-su... "A fascinating formal experiment... In its very disjointedness, Bowles’s bracing book gets closer to the messy truth of life than do most novels."
A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed
Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay the Same. Both are about a Bradford-born writer with a love of travel, philosophy and espr...
spectator.com
Just listened to this & it's great ⬇️* *completely unbiased view as a NZer obvs. 🙃
Across The Pond Podcast@acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 2w agoThis week, Lori and Sam discuss The Garden Party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield. Did we like it? Did Sam think it's one of the greatest things ever? Can we not quite believe we've only just read it? I think you can guess the answers: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
Not content with stealing our books, the AI industry has also started stealing our identities. My latest Substack on the new ways AI is wasting the time of everyone in publishing: samj.substack.com/p/at-last-a-...
At last a use for AI
Wasting everyone’s damn time.
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This week, Lori and Sam discuss The Garden Party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield. Did we like it? Did Sam think it's one of the greatest things ever? Can we not quite believe we've only just read it? I think you can guess the answers: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
145. Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" - Across the Pond
In this special episode, Lori and Sam dig deep into the life of Katherine Mansfield and discuss three of her wonderful stories: At the Bay; The Garden Party; and, The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
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London book people, readers & writers. 10th September the immensensly talented @markabowles.bsky.social will launch his extraordinary novel Why Do People Stay The Same published by brilliant @galleybeggars.bsky.social. I WISH I could be there so do go, promise you won't regret it! luma.com/xe3uwolv
Book Launch: How Do People Stay The Same · Luma
London launch for How Do People Stay the Same. Mark Bowles will be reading from his book and talking to Ella Clark of Goldfinch books. There’ll be music,…
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Like Wil E. Coyote on Roadrunner Short Story September is upon us. Here I talk all things short story, practice, a festival, favourite collections, and the @galleybeggars.bsky.social short story prize drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-short-s...
On Short Story September
Prizes, prompts, collections and all that.
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10th September at Nest and Vine, Queens Rd Peckham. If you haven’t already, please dm or email me if you’re coming. Bowles.mark@gmail.com Hope to see you there!!
Mark Bowles@markabowles.bsky.social · 3w agoOnly just seen this, but Peter was an example of the small press spirit. Before we set up, and with such generosity, he spent an afternoon guiding us through the A-Zs of publishing - from AI sheets to typesetting, contracts to the importance of a good distributor: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Peter Tolhurst obituary
Other lives: Founder of Black Dog Books, publishing titles celebrating East Anglia’s cultural landscape
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Now on order for my library too so I can get it into other readers' hands. @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Playlist. All songs mentioned (with one exception) in How Do People Stay the Same: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Pr...
How Do People Stay the Same
Playlist · Bowles.mark · 15 items
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Exquisite photo, hilarious text: “[Woolf told Vita Sackville-West] that I was a ‘devil woman’” … (Gisele Freund, Life in Photographs)
It was an absolute thought-inciting pleasure speaking to the brilliant and amusing @susannacrossman.bsky.social for the online launch of How Do People Stay the Same @galleybeggars.bsky.social, and here it is online so you can listen too: app.box.com/s/pu14ca4v5v... #howdopeoplestaythesame
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Latest Substack is up: On Marketing Yourself and Being Exhausted. Including: @galleybeggars.bsky.social In Praise of Booksellers, some praise of booksellers, @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social, a little bit about being exhausted, indie presses. Etc. drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-marketi...
On Marketing Yourself and Being Exhausted
Don’t believe everything you read. Just some of it.
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I am now regretting that I missed the obvious headline: "Be More Beach." But I'm sharing it here because it also strikes me as an admirable approach to life.
Max Cairnduff@maxcairnduff.bsky.social · 4w agoGreat article by Sam.
An article in praise of booksellers. (Features some high-register prose for an article that is also about cash-registers... and business rates. But, you know what? I really mean it.) samj.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
In praise of booksellers
Why the UK government (and everyone else) should support bookshops.
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Join us tonight, for the online launch of @markbowles.bsky.social brilliant new novel How Do People Stay The Same. I’ll be in conversation with Mark talking about the self and time and novels and more. for info contact @galleybeggars.bsky.social . All details below.
Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · last mo.Roll up, roll up! I will be interviewing @markabowles.bsky.social for the online launch of the excellent How Do People Stay The Same 20/08 7pm BST. @galleybeggars.bsky.social are opening up 15 extra places, on first-come-first-served basis. To claim a place email info@galleybeggar.co.uk - be quick!
Don’t miss this conversation with friends of EWS @susannacrossman.bsky.social and @markabowles.bsky.social ✨
Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · last mo.Roll up, roll up! I will be interviewing @markabowles.bsky.social for the online launch of the excellent How Do People Stay The Same 20/08 7pm BST. @galleybeggars.bsky.social are opening up 15 extra places, on first-come-first-served basis. To claim a place email info@galleybeggar.co.uk - be quick!
Very much enjoyed this chat with Sam and Lori. Have a listen!
Across The Pond Podcast@acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 4w agoThe wonderful @markabowles.bsky.social is on the podcast talking about his (in my very unbiased opinion) MAGNIFICENT new novel How Do People Stay The Same: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Out now from @galleybeggars.bsky.social
The wonderful @markabowles.bsky.social is on the podcast talking about his (in my very unbiased opinion) MAGNIFICENT new novel How Do People Stay The Same: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Out now from @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Across the Pond
Across the Pond is a podcast about the most discussed and anticipated books on both sides of the Atlantic. Texas indie bookstore owner Lori Feathers and UK publisher Sam Jordison bring their unique pe...
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More than 200 independent booksellers have called on the government to give small bookshops the same business rates relief as pubs as part of prime minister Andy Burnham’s plans to rid the high street of “vape shops, betting shops and rogue operators” 👇
Bookshops call on PM Andy Burnham to offer them same tax relief as pubs
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Delighted to be interviewed by @susannacrossman.bsky.social for the online launch of How Do People Stay the Same. A few places left!!
Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · last mo.Please share friends, I am interviewing @markabowles.bsky.social for online launch of the brilliant How Do People Stay The Same 20/08 7pm BST. I can't wait. @galleybeggars.bsky.social are opening 15 free extra places, first-come-first-serve. To claim a place email info@galleybeggar.co.uk - be quick!
Roll up, roll up! I will be interviewing @markabowles.bsky.social for the online launch of the excellent How Do People Stay The Same 20/08 7pm BST. @galleybeggars.bsky.social are opening up 15 extra places, on first-come-first-served basis. To claim a place email info@galleybeggar.co.uk - be quick!
Genuinely one of the best podcasts I’ve stumbled across this year. (How I missed that Sam was doing a pod and has been for five years is beyond me). What’s great is that the contemporary books they chose are those that are doing something interesting with the form while I’ll telling good stories.
Across The Pond Podcast@acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Hello! We do have an account. And thank you very much for this. Glad you like those books too! They were great people to interview.
1/ "Putting things online is a horrible combination of all too permanent and worryingly ephemeral" -
Sam Jordison@samjordison.bsky.social · last mo.Posted this at the weekend on the fragility of digital culture, the fact that very little online lasts forever (except the stuff that shames and/or embarrasses you.) Also features vague memories of various lost websites… samj.substack.com/p/digital-de...
Posted this at the weekend on the fragility of digital culture, the fact that very little online lasts forever (except the stuff that shames and/or embarrasses you.) Also features vague memories of various lost websites… samj.substack.com/p/digital-de...
Digital Death
Is anything you've written online going to survive?
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Currently reading, rereading the brilliant new novel How Do People Stay The Same by Mark Bowles published by @galleybeggars.bsky.social . ❤️🔥. Highly recommend my friends.
