Here it is! My first article in library and information science (i.e. my day job)! It was an absolute pleasure writing with @jaymam.bsky.social and Tove Lemberget, and I really do think green open access is a powerful way of making research accessible! doi.org/10.1177/0340...

This might be the last hurrah for my book, as the paperback is now out! I had absolutely no luck getting it reviewed anywhere, so here is my last ditch attempt to market my odd book about Max Stirner, modernism and manifestos: bloomsbury.com/au/ego-made-ma…doi.org/10.5040/9798...02

The Australian première of Existence is Resistance with @louisarmand.bsky.social in the heart of the nation's cultural scene (i.e. Townsville, northern Queensland), courtesy of @sudojournal.bsky.social with support from FALS and Mary Who? Bookshop

Essential reading.

You can take the girl out of radio but you can't stop her making a podcast! Season 1 of @editsannotations.bsky.social was launched this weekend at the Townsville Festival of Stories 🎉 Many thanks to my co-hosts @tenille.bsky.social & Mia-Francesca Jones Listen now: podfollow.com/editsannotat...

Probably the hardest thing I've ever written, but far from my best writing. Everyone is to blame. There are no easy solutions. Generations of young people will pay the price for our failures. Jade's a trooper. australianhumanitiesreview.org/2025/02/20/sit… doi.org/10.56449/14631���

In episode 5, Bethany speaks to Alli Parker and Tania Blanchard in conversation about their approaches to novelising family stories, including the challenge of telling personal stories to a public audience. https://buff.ly/4i5nIGJ

In this episode, Melanie Saward shares her knowledge of the industry, what it means to be a writer online today, finding literary community, the co-writing process, and hopping from one genre to another.

In this special feature episode, Tenille speaks with Alice Robinson and Kate Mildenhall about the related themes across their work: the environment, time, motherhood, and where technology may take us.  

In our second episode, Bethany chats with Hannah Kent about finding stories in the archives and the ethical considerations when it comes to speculating someone else’s story.

Join Mia in episode 1 as she speaks with writer and artist Manisha Anjali about Naag Mountain, a book born from a dream.

We have a podcast! Join Mia, @bethanykeats.bsky.social and me as we chat with some brilliant writers about their work!

Sūdō 2024 is here 🙌 Many thanks to my outstanding co-editor @tenille.bsky.social and our fabulous contributors from around Australia and the world. Grab a beverage, pull up a chair, and sit back with Volume 5 of Sūdō, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

very honored to tell you my short story "hit immunity" is on this!! thank you @sudojournal.bsky.social for having me 🩷 sudojournal.com/latest-issue/

Somehow, and despite my best efforts to detonate the journal after three issues (my plan from the outset) Sūdō Journal keeps on keeping on! Congratulations @tenille.bsky.social and @bethanykeats.bsky.social on the release of volume 5!

It's here! Huge thanks to my intrepid co-editor @bethanykeats.bsky.social - this is the fifth volume of ‪Sūdō Journal‬, but our first as editors, and it's been brilliant to work with you and all of our wonderful contributors!

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

Thank you so much for including me in the list! Wow! Here's the review in @jcucase.bsky.social you missed it (see what I did there?): aph.org.au/2024/04/book-r…

Suppose I had better do the shameless self-promotion bit on this one, too, since I have opened it. In case you missed it (months ago), this is (somehow) the second-most read article in the last 12 months in JAS? doi.org/10.1080/1444...

Containing that great Flanagan line "labels are for jam jars". And also: good on him! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure

What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work? What's the offer? $2,500 a book? Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself lithub.com/harpercollin...

Do we have enough OzLit people here to talk best books of the year? Hard to go past Kate Kruimink's Heartsease for me, or Kat Gibson's The Temperature?

I’m dealing w/ mortal dread by creating projects for myself—such as putting together a list of 2024 books/articles of literary criticism (broadly conceived) by contingent (NTT, indie) scholars for @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Spread the word! Tell me & @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social what you wrote!

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Great to see the programme up for Write Out West – the Western Sydney Libraries & Lit Festival, which includes a convo with Jen Craig! (+ a bonus exhibition is on re: Penrith & panthers, for all Panthers & the Museum of Fire fans!) www.penrithregionalgallery.com.au/events/jen-c...

I wish for a world where one day people get more upset by genocide than they do about decorative windows.

I think of these people as my blue correspondents, whose job it is to send me blue reports from the field. Maggie Nelson, Bluets (15)

‘Band-aid’: debt relief fails to address inequitable pricing of degrees, university students say www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sunday reading: Jeanine Leane's stunning new poetry collection Gawimarra: Gathering. "to learn that trees do not bleed when bark is taken - they give - / share - bear the scar to remember - to remind us / to always take carefully - gather only what is needed - / gather to return - return to gather"

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

Hilarious

I've been a bookseller for 18 years and I STILL get a thrill when this happens

And an Ozlit starter pack, woohoo!

Booksellers (along with librarians) are the best kind of people, so you should follow these fine folk!

Hello friendos Your librarian here with today's library tip Check out both the Libby and Hoopla app. Both offer ebooks and e-audiobooks. You don't need a Kindle to use them, you can read or listen on your phone, computer, and are compatible with Apple Carplay and Android Auto.

A must-read: ". . . when we make something, the end product isn’t the only thing that matters. In fact it may not even be the thing that matters most. There is also value in the act of making, in the craft and care of it."

This is good to hear indeed, though I’d still love to see a stronger policy with less wiggle room — we will *never* use your posts to train AI, etc But needless to say it’s miles better than the competition

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

"Just as universities need the humanities to communicate their value, new challenges will force us to wrestle with questions of what it means to be human and, more importantly, how to survive ourselves" A really insightful and inspiring piece by Kylie Message 👇 www.abc.net.au/religion/kyl...

This @harpers.bsky.social essay by Yiyun Li is the best thing I’ve read in a long long time. I’ll be keeping it close to hand as I return to my new novel.

BEST news to wake up to! This is amazing. Kudos to @theonion.com for following through on its truly awesome threat. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Last year ACU was the latest Uni to put their academics through a hunger games, a spill-and-fill scramble. It was needlessly cruel, claimed the jobs of close friends. Read this grand reckoning by @kfullagar.bsky.social, starting with @hannahforsyth.bsky.social. 🔥💜 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Multiple sources are now reporting LLMs aren't scaling as hoped—larger datasets and more compute aren't improving AI systems as fast. The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.

It’s only digital humanities if it comes from the Unsworthian region of academia, otherwise it’s just sparkling Humanities Computing

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Storygraph is fantastic! And has a much nicer interface than GR, to boot. I'll add a recommendation for Libro.fm for audiobooks as a brilliant alternative to Audible (which is also owned by Amazon/Bezos).

This is also true in Australia - around 40% of the year's sales are in December. Please support your local indie!