Finally got the chance to visit Voce Books in Birmingham Highly recommend! Great indie and curated selections.
Liam Bishop
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✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others. 🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages Linktr.ee/ripplingpagespod 👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
🍾Bit of a tongue twister this one! That moment when you’ve got a publisher must feel amazing…and Louisa Bello was certainly deserving of it after the long road to getting there. I’m not sure she expected it to end in a pub with @epoquepress.bsky.social
Friends…First time in Paris for a few years in September…let me know if you’ve any recommendations for culture and food!
Oh these short essays are so capacious from @cclarklewes.bsky.social @blackheraldpress.bsky.social There full of brilliant critical insights on language poetry and translation Also reflective moments about family, change and sentiment
Excellent pickups in recent days A couple of visits to the excellent Veranda Books near Marble Arch and Word on the Water by Kings Cross! @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @foundryeditions.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social
📚I’ve been trying to take some insights from my guests and put them into practice, and enjoying when there’s a bit of time and space to do so. My recent guests Deepa Anappara and Louisa Bello had some really interesting ideas about research. @oneworldbooks.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social
Here’s three things we learnt from Deepa Anappara after she joined me on the Rippling Pages to discuss THE LAST OF EARTH @oneworldbooks.bsky.social
New episode of the Rippling Pages is here It features one of the most determined stories I’ve ever heard to someone getting published And being inspired by a friend’s experience of schizophrenia and mental health Louisa Bello is here to talk about WHERE THE SHADOWS END @epoquepress.bsky.social
🌍Some of my favourite books are translations…. from Olga Tokarczuk, Constance Debre, Montserrat Roig, Yan Ge’s early work in Chinese, Han Kang… Here’s some more ive been reading for Women in Translation month Featuring books from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and Peirene
The barriers that writers from under-represented backgrounds face is discussed here by Deepa Anappara. I sat and listened as Deepa explained by some of the challenges she and other writers have faced in forging a writing career. Certainly thought provoking stuff…
In my Rippling Pages Patreon diary this month 🏠 Reacquainted with some old books after my parents moved house ⚽️ Alan Shearer football programmes ⛅️Behind the scenes on the latest episode…and a Booker Prize near miss… www.patreon.com/RipplingPage...
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Get your ears around today’s release with some bonus content of Deepa Anappara’s object of influence And you’ll also get a glimpse of the Rippling Pages Patreon Podcast For those who want to go deeper into the ideas behind books podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
At the core of Deepa Anappara’s book is a really personal experience that shaped it Which might be slightly surprising considering it’s set in the mountains of Tibet 150 years ago Also I’m so grateful when writers open up to me and so glad they feel comfortable to do so.
Whats a day in the life of a Rippling Pages Coffee Conversation look like? Well it looks a little like this…
Slightly ashamed my, Jon Fosse is a bit of a blot on my reading horizons and have not read him…what are your thoughts?
☕️I had coffee with Deepa Anappara and we recorded our conversation for the Rippling Pages We’re talking about Deepa’s novel, THE LAST OF EARTH @oneworldbooks.bsky.social It’s a truly beautiful novel set in the mountains of Tibet podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
A couple of the Booker Prize books I’ve read (I’ve started M John Harrison and picked it as a summer read in my latest Ask the Host!) I’ve read Makenna’s book a couple of times now. I really like it. It’s ethereal, spectral, dry…there’s a riff on the ego as a container in there which I love
⛰️These are the kinds of the summer reads that I love… A book has a bit of everything, but, most importantly, a ton of really good writing that makes you think deep and long about writing, travel and life… Deepa Anappara joined me to discuss THE LAST OF EARTH @oneworldbooks.bsky.social
Thanks to @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social Rippling Pages podcast for recommending 'Dad Had A Bad Day' 🎾 👍
🎾A convincing and compelling narrative voice is crucial to any novel – so how did Ashton find Ned’s? How how @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social discovered Ned’s voice in the latest episode as we spoke about DAD HAD A BAD DAY @dauntbookspub.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
@ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social shared with me the challenges of writing about something he is very passionate about – and very good at! A former tennis player himself, his artful taut novel set in a local tennis club is about when passion becomes obsession podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
🎾How does this novel about tennis lead to a descent into obsession and addiction? @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social joined me on the Rippling Pages to discuss his tight and taut novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY @dauntbookspub.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Writing about feelings is hard But Alice Hattrick happens to be very good at it And it’s essentially to the work they are writing Listen more as we discuss FANCY WORK @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
A slightly late 4th of July post…reading this retelling of an American epic by Xiaolu Guo
Thanks @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social & many readers for a great response to my new @aeon.co essay uncovering the secret world of modern French fire-tamers, their practice, belief, hospital work & tiny gestures of care. If, as Sontag writes, illness is metaphor, what is the symbolism of the fire?
Liam Bishop@liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis really is excellent from @susannacrossman.bsky.social on @aeon.co Craft and subject level, hitting a lot of notes for me to say the least Give it a read if you haven’t done so yet aeon.co/essays/who-a...
This really is excellent from @susannacrossman.bsky.social on @aeon.co Craft and subject level, hitting a lot of notes for me to say the least Give it a read if you haven’t done so yet aeon.co/essays/who-a...
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