The Bangles really didn't land the follow-up.

Has the president suggested injecting bleach into the strait of Hormuz yet

Under a proposed gambling shakeup, children will only be able to access their Sportsbet accounts at recess and after school.

Ahab spots Trump

🌈 Announcing the Magabala Pride Fellowship 🌈 In partnership with Pride Foundation Australia, the Fellowship will award $10,000 to a First Nations storyteller to dedicate time to developing or completing a manuscript. 📅 Applications close 24 April 2026 👉 Apply now: bit.ly/4tjK50s

Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

Intrigued by this ambitious novel by Johanna Bell. Elastic, innovative approach to storytelling. And Jo Hunt should win all the book design awards. (Transit Lounge)

Join a monastery they said. Quiet contemplation they said. Now we know where Douglas Adams’s Electric Monk came from.

when you get up to the short story the collection is named after

I had the time of my life at the Griefdogg launch. Thanks everyone who braved the rain to attend. Thanks to my mates who performed a song we wrote for the night, Michael Heyward and Robert Skinner who spoke, MC Silas Moir and my choir buddies. Now going to hide away a while and think about it all.

In case you didn’t know, the new Harry Potter show directly funds anti-trans work - if that’s not aligned with your values, maybe it’s time to stop engaging with the franchise and show your trans siblings some love! 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

The man sitting next to me on the bus told me that he has started to memorise poems to improve his memory. He then recited the longest poem I’ve ever heard. So long in fact, that I had to say that we were at my stop, even though we were nowhere near it. I walked home in the pouring rain.

All welcome, bring your mates.

The legend Chong, outside Brunswick Bound bookshop.

Reading Alan Fyfe's rollicking 'The Cross Thieves' and he refers to May Wirth, the trickrider. She must have been something to see.

The council suggested, and I am not making this up, Lego exhibitions and renaming Ngununggula after Quilty himself to attract more visitors & funding. This is what the arts is up against on a daily basis. Good on him

Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.

Plenty to chew on in JM Field's remarkable The Eagle & The Crow (UQP)

I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.

Cannon by Lee Lai wrings the emotions til you feel like an old dishrag. Strong recommend. @giramondobooks.bsky.social

ME: hi GUY WHO PRONOUNCES GOING LIKE BOING: hey how’s it going

i'm sitting at home working and taking wee crying with happiness breaks looking at library opening photos. Fuck its been a long time between 'good news for Wellington' drinks. Libraries really are the best thing we invented as a species.

This is a fine @catrionamp.bsky.social review of @erinvincent.bsky.social 's outstanding book. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Werner wouldn't even need the trucks!

giving the books in the shop a good squeeze to find out which ones are raw and urgent

If you are in Our Nation's Capital or know someone who is. One month from tomoz. events.humanitix.com/michael-wink...

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

Just take this here piece of loose and wobbly present

Would love to see you there xx

Random folks sending me pics, so evidently there are now some copies of Griefdogg in the wild. Literally, in this case. (I'm thinking Blue Mountains?) Still 26 days til launch...

Oh, bless you mate. BH and Mildura are different beasts, but share the same sky, and you will recognise the landscape I hope. Delighted that Text has sent some copies out. Good to see it in the world, and thanks for the kind words.

Constellations: Not Writers Week begins tomorrow. Over 100 authors are participating in more than 50 events across 20 venues. And we have raised enough donations to pay them all ASA rates, plus print these paper programs. bit.ly/constellationsfestival for details January Tiser oped for scale

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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind While Painting the Front Fence.

Please listen to, and watch this. Several times. It is glorious. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

If only it were possible to wrest the microphone on Australian republicanism from the easy does it yacht club crowd at the ARM. The ARM promise that nothing would change in an Australian republic is yet another example of small target politics making itself irrelevant.

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

[writing love letter] My darling, how i long to caress you. When I hold you tenderly in my arms I become [glancing at The Immortal Cinema of Tom Selleck dvd box set I keep on my escritoire at all times] quigley down under

It's clear that the group behind these calls has *already decided* that half the artists in the Biennale are problematic. If they start cancelling exhibits this could easily destroy the Biennale.

In which the reviewer's labour brings rewards for the reader.

Erin Vincent, from the admirable Fourteen Ways of Looking.

Another excellent Upswell title, this memoir by Erin Vincent is mesmeric and moving. Recommended.

Still three months until this beauty hits the shelves, so mark it on the calendar. Confident in saying it's a book no-one else on earth could write because no-one else has Wayne Marshall's wild brain. It's a stunner.

Afterlife punishment of The Bon Mot—the hell of takes? (The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid by A. Valliard from Varoque Books.)

Me, randomly trying phone numbers: "I don't know who needs to hear this, but ..."