Browsing publisher catalogues here www.lindeneditions.com/milk-and-blood

"their time on the course is the subject of popular lore and adaptations"

New podcast episode: Irish Writers and Literary Institutions feat. Suad Aldarra, Kevin Power, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, with @molimuseum.bsky.social This was a great conversation! radio.moli.ie/r/irish-writ...

Topics discussed include: how to navigate institutions; how can artists make a living, and what funding models can enable this; who gets to be an Irish writer; literary prizes, yea or nay; what would you change if you were supreme ruler of literary culture?

Topics discussed include: how to navigate institutions; how can artists make a living, and what funding models can enable this; who gets to be an Irish writer; literary prizes, yea or nay; what would you change if you were supreme ruler of literary culture?

New podcast episode: Irish Writers and Literary Institutions feat. Suad Aldarra, Kevin Power, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, with @molimuseum.bsky.social This was a great conversation! radio.moli.ie/r/irish-writ...

The age of US cultural hegemony is officially over

Every university should have broad subject coverage; that's what a university is

We're excited to share a new dataset, The Playboy Fiction Index, by Nora Shaalan. It includes metadata for +1,000 works of fiction that appeared in Playboy between 1953-2020—featuring authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, and more. data.post45.org/posts/playbo...

HELP!--PEDAGOGY! I'm teaching a new lit & film course called "Fictions of Writing and Publishing" about representations of cultural production. Think watching "You've Got Mail" paired with reading Percival Everett & Mona Awad novels. What critical-theoretical lit & film readings would you teach?

Yes....ha ha ha

Is the entire Post45 site down? Potentially a disaster for a specific type of guy

New piece on the LSE Impact Blog on why finding books in translation is still so hard — and why the problem isn't content but infrastructure. Nearly 90% of the ISBN-verified editions in Zenòdot appear in only one of its 23 sources.

The real story here is how much academics need to do get a pay rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Duke U Press has made available the first 30 pages or so of "The Future of Totality," including our Introduction and the wonderful Foreword written by Kim Stanley Robinson. www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

"the denigration of minorities and non-whites in the name of Ireland . . . is compensation for inadequate supply of public goods, as well as a message to the government and transnational racial capital."

I'm enjoying this - a good mix of classics and established authors (Schulz, Lem, Tokarczuk, Gombrowicz, Huelle) and contemporary writers I'd like to read more of (Miłkowski, Dehnel, Masłowska). Main takeaway so far is that I urgently need to read more by Magdalena Tulli

Reading Alice in Wonderland to my son, had forgotten there's an egregious stage irishman in there

Rosencrantz and Grogustern

Hate this

Report notes that 'Crete is more than 800km from Israel' www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION is out today! Today marks the culmination of a decade's worth of work on this project: I conducted my first interview in fall of 2016. I'm so thrilled to share it with you.

Our first event took place in Sheffield on 27 April 2006, which makes 20 years of Longbarrow Press. Thanks to all the poets, artists, readers, audiences, and many others who have been part of this project. Some reflections from last year: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory

Is there anything worse than when your child goes through a phase of doing "magic tricks"

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

I'm doing some research on how current publishers (not editors) conceptualize their work. If you know of anything written (by UP publishers I imagine most likely?) I'm eager for citations! cc @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @lbmcgrath.bsky.social

Unforgivable

Enjoying the spin that George Eliot dot org has put on her husband’s suicide attempt

tomorrow!

Managed to read half of issue 3 of FALLOW. This is by 20thC anarchist poetry Katerina Gogou (trans. Konstantina Georganta)

Impossible to predict, as a parent, exactly when your kid will intensely demand your attention for an uninterrupted hour - and when they will, instead, retreat into a self-constructed cave to draw comics, thereby allowing you to read your book

Unclear at this juncture whether the açai bowls played a role in the garda operation

4 books in and I'm still waiting for someone to calculate some volume

also what you should do is Follow The Account for the exciting! new! ucd winifred carney centre for organising and labour research

"The government has been dismantling or weakening the climate policy framework by adding carbon-intensive projects to the National Development Plan, dropping or delaying public transport investment & weakening climate law...We will all end up paying for this." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Patrick Collison is financing Helen DeWitt's work on experimental information design-inspired texts, if I'm understanding the latest developments in international literary patronage correctly

'We support entrepreneurial scholars and practitioners who turn market-oriented thinking into practical solutions that shape institutions and improve lives' - what was the plot of Lightning Rods? Close enough!

This is excellent and helped me clarify what I have been grasping towards as I've tried to make sense of the last week in Ireland and the left's response.

Whatever skills I have as a translator came from the million+ words I translated down the translation mines. If all the unglamorous grunt work disappears there won't be anywhere to learn

"militant action has won concessions" could as easily be said about burning down IPAS Centres. I have a lot of time for Paul but this is hopelessly naive

See you all at the Hungarian parliament techno rave in half an hour

Reports indicate he watched almost 1/3 of the Satantango adaptation on his phone while queuing

a good, readable timeline of far right involvement in the fuel protests from Stephen McDermott here www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

Muslim Sisters of Eire, at the GPO last night.

Pleased to report that the bookshops are still open

If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks