This is a noble Polish tradition but of course some AI-powered startup wants to ruin everything www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Please enjoy a few moments of Home Alone (Kevin sam w domu), dubbed in the Polish style

Crispy out

predictions for youth culture in 2026: - grabbing nettles with bare hands - saying "who loves ya, baby" like telly savalas - sudden interest in "the supercosmos," the universe that surrounds our own - chainmail vs platemail subcultures clash

Moderately white Xmas in Poland, at least for a day

With Alex Dunst, I edited a special issue on the question of literary value. Silkworms, angels, utopias, Edouard Louis, Thomas Pynchon, and much more. www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...

I won again this Xmas, simultaneously earning the family a free trip to something ominously called 'Playzone' and setting up another year of top banter about my winning run with the school principal

Santa made a 6/7 joke when he came to school yesterday. 6/7 has now been fully coopted by authority

Wrote about books for the Year in Review for Art Review @artreview.bsky.social On corporate publishing, small presses & the many excellent books that were published in this otherwise cursed year 2025 artreview.com/shitty-cakes...

On a bus, heading into town with a hastily-scrawled list of vague ideas for last-minute bits and a deathwish

I have an extremely niche question related to post-WWII Cameroonian poetry & a writer name Jean Ikelle-Matiba. Is there anyone out there in our beautiful world who knows his work?

I have a new (open access!) article in Contemporary Women's Writing on US writer Arlene Heyman, who started publishing in literary mags in the late 1960s and published her first novel ARTIFACT in 2020, at the age of 78: academic.oup.com/cww/article/...

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

Final moments of THE ARTIST (2011), the woman beside me in the film institute screen 2 turned to her friend and said in a loud earnest whisper, "He's French!!"

Today's haul from Dublin Art Book Fair. Books by Folded Leaf, Skein, Kyklàda press, Stereo Editions

"He's at the Christmas market now. 14 euros for a loaded fries, they're charging. 7 euro for a cookie" - spoken into her phone a short time ago by a lady on a Dublin Bus

urgent request: can anyone point me to recent studies showing strong trust in higher ed? (I know the ones that point to low trust) esp. student trust, public trust thanks so much for any leads

I have a new (open access!) article in Contemporary Women's Writing on US writer Arlene Heyman, who started publishing in literary mags in the late 1960s and published her first novel ARTIFACT in 2020, at the age of 78: academic.oup.com/cww/article/...

Finally getting some time for all the books I picked up at @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social

Enjoyed this panel on class and masculinity in Dublin at the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair. Thanks to @skeinpress.bsky.social for the invite 🙏 #poetry #dublin youtube.com/watch?v=HdZi...

Kid pointed out this cloud in the shape of Ireland on the way to school this morning 🍀

The bit in the third Calculation of Volume book where an academic gets trapped in Groundhog Day and spends weeks happily catching up on his emails and feedback and proof corrections...☠️

That book is Steve Bannon’s inspiration, a fascist novel. Just openly laughing at everyone they hate

10/10 moon out there this evening. Fulgent, clear, resolutely unphotographable. Right out of the top drawer

One of the conversations I had several times during last weekend's small press fair was about how few venues there are in Dublin that are amenable to certain types of cultural/community events; how few large-ish venues around that won't charge you 5-10k to take over the space for a day or two

What

Tomorrow! Tickets still available

Son reports with relief that "only 5 kids in my school like 6/7 now". The bubble is bursting

Delighted to be shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize, together with Karen Fleetwood for our translation of Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door, pub. by @bullaunpress.bsky.social. Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes!

Shoutout to the incomparable @eireannmor.bsky.social, who journeyed across land and ocean in the middle of her semester to run a small press fair* with me this weekend 💫 *If we may be permitted to say so ourselves? - a bloody good small press fair

The vibes have been immaculate. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us today ❤️

so lovely to see everyone this evening—please come tomorrow (Saturday 29th) to the Pearse Street Library from 10-4 and see just a fraction of the amazing book culture available in Ireland and from abroad! #DublinSmallPressFair2025 dublinsmallpressfair.com

We are ready

Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have been planning this for the best part of two years, and it's just about to happen! The library looks beautiful, the publishers are setting up, the books are waiting for you. Drop in if you're in Dublin this evening or tomorrow!

Started actually posting on Instagram for the very first time to promote this small press fair and I've never felt older. What is a "reel." Why do pictures have to be that size. I'll kill you

numbers 5 and 6 are, 16 months later, making their way into the worl--and I just ordered more postage than I can reasonably afford so watch your mailboxes for these and letters too

sneak peek at new stuff/recent reprints:

Just updated the Plaintext Distro site with the new zines we will have next week at the Dublin Small Press Fair! Check 'em out: plaintextdistro.neocities.org And check out the event if you're in Dublin!

🎫 Tickets are live 🎫 We're delighted to be part of the December First Fridays at @molimuseum.bsky.social – talking to @groenbot.bsky.social Groenland about the art of editing, followed by readings from our stellar Issue Ten contributors! moli.ie/events/first...

I'm looking forward to speaking to the @tolkajournal.bsky.social editors in @molimuseum.bsky.social on Friday December 5th! I'll be asking them about their experiences of making the first ten issues of one of the best literary journals around. Free booking link below.

a little write-up in Totally Dublin! thanks for asking us to talk about the #DublinSmallPressFair2025, and for taking the time to include us! www.totallydublin.ie/arts-culture...

Many thanks to Dublin Small Press co-founders Tim Groenland and Éireann Lorsung for this generous mention @rte_culture! www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

and!

presses! presses! presses! distros! #DublinSmallPressFair2025 is this Friday 6-9 p.m. and Saturday 10-4 at Pearse St. Library in Dublin!

Exciting news ~ TL/TH in book form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨ Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May) peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...

Excited to see some of you in Pearse Library this Friday and Saturday at the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚 Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚 Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚

We are so delighted to be taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair later this month ✨️ Come along to Pearse Street Library on November 28 and 29 to say hi, browse our wares and celebrate all of the amazing indie publishers, literary magazines, writers, zines and-

Top-tier promotional materials for the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, happening at Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November. All welcome, admission free. Hope to see some of you there.

have just won the Oscars of small-press-fair publicity; thank you @longbarrowpress.bsky.social