The Art of the Journal: A conversation about small press publishing, artistic communities, art and writing -feat. Órla Goodwin, Rita Hynes, and Brendan Mac Evilly radio.moli.ie/r/art-of-jou... Episode 3 in Books and Their Makers, my occasional podcast series with @molimuseum.bsky.social

The Art of the Journal: A conversation about small press publishing, artistic communities, art and writing -feat. Órla Goodwin, Rita Hynes, and Brendan Mac Evilly radio.moli.ie/r/art-of-jou... Episode 3 in Books and Their Makers, my occasional podcast series with @molimuseum.bsky.social

Random question: I have a vague recollection of an American short story about immigrants who bring their gods with them. By a female author, maybe early 20th century? (I realise this is also the plot of the novel American Gods). Does anyone have a title or author for this? Or am I hallucinating it?

Hermes bag: 20k Documented donations to the Iona Institute from far-right groups like the Novae Terrae Foundation: at least 25k? The grassroots desire for an alternative voice: priceless

Fun thing about teaching contemporary publishing is that you can throw the day's headlines into your slides for tomorrow

There is no open airspace for paper planes to travel

My aunt in the UK (retired NHS nurse, not generally known for menacing society) was arrested this morning under the terrorism act after participating in Palestine solidarity demos

Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

ACLA paper submissions are now open! Consider submitting to my seminar, co-organized with Matthew Eautough, on "Literary Translation and Its Institutions"! www.acla.org/seminar/b718...

#academicSky and ##IrishStudies hivemind - can you recommend me an irish contemporary short story set on a university campus?

Love to find #inspiration inside my italian chocolate 💫

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

Difficult to see AI coming back from this

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us. www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

Our brave councillors are all that stands between us and the most horrifically US-pilled election of our lifetimes

President Michael D Higgins said some of the EU's strongest members are "deciding to stay silent in watching emaciated children in what is a human, manmade, really atrocious infliction on people" in Gaza

Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Reminder of date change!

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share

RIP king youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

This is obviously an incredibly disturbing phenomenon, but - the Dylan sad face ☠️

Heard my first "you can't even have an Irish flag these days or people think you're some sort of racist" in the wild today. Didn't enjoy it

"One easy thing that I believe all book reviewers should do is to always refer to the author and translator with an ampersand within the review itself..." @chadwpost.bsky.social on reviewing translated books worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

ok, having checked a bunch of editions i now reckon there was a section of text removed from the uk edition of american psycho. it’s a bit which says bono is the devil so maybe there was a worry about uk libel law?

Our Lady of the Terminally Online

This hits even better when you see the statue in the reply

'By integrating gen AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but..outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to...capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit'

Polish fridge in my local Supervalu has been shut down and rebranded as an Italian one. Am currently composing an indignant letter to the paper

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

What's happening TODAY (!) in Gaza City is as shocking as anything from the last two years: the deliberate, genocidal destruction of entire tower homes. It's not that buildings are more important than ppl. But in full view of the world, US-Israel is brazenly & cruelly making Gaza uninhabitable.

And a response to the original opinion piece today: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... (unpaywalled: archive.ph/l0f3k).

Rather buried in here is the extraordinary-in-the-context statement: “The publication recently secured a $2m grant from Creative Australia to fund its next two years of operation”. The plot doth thicken... #Meanjin www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

“or do you want to discuss on zoom” NO I AGREE!! SOUNDS GREAT

So many bangers, this fucking guy

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

This is a small but significant win for Ireland. bsky.app/profile/were...

The Poetry Foundation invited me to write an essay remembering Alice Notley (1945-2025). I'm grateful for the space to remember her in this way. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

My new book - co-edited with Loïc Bourdeau - is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30 if buying on the EUP site. Please ask your libraries to order this in, we’d really appreciate it!

I've spent this week in the east of Romania, where my dad lives these days. The grapes are almost ready

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Revealed: Some men may be standing upright and demonstrating their use of opposable thumbs solely to LURE women back to their Sex Caves

Has anything in recent years reliably brought as much hilarity into my life, as much priceless levity - as much jouissance - as Manchester United? I think probably not

"These stories fit my thesis that the real AI jobs crisis is that the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of 'powerful AI' encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have" www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.

This is arriving just in time to go straight onto the reading list - from Rachel Noorda and @corinnanorue.bsky.social

if I'm reading this correctly: out of almost 9k private properties newly registered in Dublin last year, over two-thirds were registered by owners of 10 properties or more