I am up in Boston on Thursday reading at t4t! Very excited to head north see some of you there maybe?

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

My new website's now fully up and running, with 1000s of images ( growing all the time) free to view, all of which can be bought as prints, or originals where available www.martinrowson.com

Did the pursuit of equality, accountability, meritocracy, and an end to misogyny, sexism, homophobia, and racism piss off milquetoast patrician (white)man? Oh, bubba

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Oh, life pairage is truly honour the great, the munificent, the moral, the upstanding members of UK society

OH WAIT GIFT LINK here U go

So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.” /1

Good news, writer-folk! The authors' class-action lawsuit against Open AI FOR FUCKING STEALING THEIR WORK has overcome the first hurdle as OAI failed to get it dismissed before trial. Anthropic lost their lawsuit. One down, one to go... www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

December xmas tour of Ireland with Beth Orton ! ! ! Tickets on sale Thurdsay at 10 AM

Also very relevant to the people living (if you can call it living) in the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.

Above and beyond his collaborations with Miles, DeJohnette released numerous solo recordings, collaborated with Anouar Brahem and was the beating heart of the Keith Jarrett Trio - a truly extraordinary musician

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

Paul Eddington in ‘Crash’ for Thames Television, 1974. celluloidwickerman.com/2025/10/24/t...

Spending this evening rewatching this, probably for the first time since it was broadcast in 1977 – since which time it has haunted me

After the rain

We are so sad to hear that Dave Ball, the keyboard genius of Soft Cell, has died. He was an electronic pop pioneer and with Marc Almond made a unique catalogue of songs, completely original in sound and content. Our love and condolences go to Marc and all those close to Dave. Neil and Chris xx

Please mark your calendars and share with friends! An evening of readings and mingling—in the heart of Washington DC. This will serve as a fundraising celebration of Central Asian and Southeast European literature and literary translation!

A nice little site - #Furcups™ everywhere🤣

I know some cis people probably think we never stop banging on but if you'd paid more attention to the horrifically vile stuff journalists have been saying in newspapers about trans people for the past 10 years, you'd probably be less shocked they're writing about mass deportations today.

A Republic of Consciousness Prize spotlight on bold fiction and independent publishing – Rodrigo Fresán and Mark Haber talk to Lori Feathers at Hay Festival Forum Dallas. 📸: Kyle Montgomery

Missed this morning's #Storytime? Here it is, all cleaned and polished... ko-fi.com/post/The-Fly...

Full house opening night. 💜 Thank you, BHM, for coming out to support tandem solo shows by wonderful Bella Milroy and I. Thank you, Grand Union, we are overwhelmed. Up at Birmingham School of Art until Nov 27. Virtual walkthrough & more info coming soon via GU.

I can't remember what put me onto this novel but having read it I'm a dedicated Alice Zeniter fan and eagerly waiting for more work of hers to be translated @terribleman.com peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/l...

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

The museums are being shutdown. Are we great yet? Everyone’s being fired. Are we great yet? Food is rotting in our fields. Are we great yet? The market’s crashing greatly. Diseases are now running rampant. At what point aren’t we great? Our military’s in line at food banks. So super great.

It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

“It wasn’t even that [my mother] chose not to blow up their life together—she didn’t have the explosives to make it happen.” Wonderful piece that the brilliant, and destructive John Cheever, as husband, father, gay man trapped in his time.

I finally got to 'Rosy and John' on my list, and it was great. I wasn't sure, considering the size (not a good way to pre-judge a reading experience!), that it'd be an interesting addition to the series but it certainly is. I'm putting together a bitesize episode on it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Mone took a leave of absence from the House of Lords in order to "clear her name", perhaps now that’s failed, she could perhaps flog the ermine on eBay.

Nice to be longlisted for this translation prize on #internationaltranslationday2025 www.cercadorprize.com

A los literarios. A los audiovisuales. A los técnicos. A los médicos. A los jurados. A los intérpretes. A los que hacemos lo que podemos con la situación que tenemos (tarifas, plazos, conciliación y la IA de las narices). A todos: ¡Felicidades! ❤️ #DíadelaTraducción

The videos* coming out of the peaceful protests in solidarity with Palestinians, in London, are hair-raising. Ordinary Brits, protesting genocide, being arrested for terrorism offences. This is the behaviour of a fascist states. The bravery of these ppl in standing for what they believe in*

If you don't personally know a trans person I'm asking you to read this. If you haven't sat next to a trans person at a bar who just got out of the hospital from being placed into a coma after an attack I'm asking you to read this. If you don't know what a pogrom is I'm asking you to read this.

Exciting news 📣 The Feminist Translation Network will be at the Birmingham Literature Festival next month with some brilliant events. Don’t miss 'Translating South Asian Literature: A Feminist Approach with Kavita Bhanot'✍🏽 Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bir...

Democrats think the American people deserve health care. Republicans would rather shut down the government than lower health care costs.

A spokesperson for the Spectator said: “The Spectator allows its readers to make their own minds up on controversial questions. Regulators are not there to police what is acceptable speech.” Maybe they should read the IPSO guidelines on “inaccurate, misleading or distorted information”

What a shock that all the journalists who for two years smugly said they wouldn’t call it a genocide unless the UN does, are still not calling it a genocide after the UN did

Anti Fascists are now designated terrorists in the United States. Anti genocide protestors are now designated terrorists in the UK. All the decent people are going to end up in jail. How the fuck did we end up here?

My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers. Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza. Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Our colleague Alex Andriesse is on the shortlist of the Italian Prose in Translation for his work on Cristina Campo's The Unforgivable and Other Writings. Yay for Alex! And the other translators, original writers, books, and publishers. Thanks to @littranslate.bsky.social and the judges.

Cartoon by @knecessary.bsky.social.

We are absolutely thrilled to share the news that SAD TIGER by Neige Sinno, translated by Natasha Lehrer, was included in this year's longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature! www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Entre el genocidio, los bombardeos a lanchas y botes civiles, la trata de personas para satisfacer a presidentes y billonarios, el secuestro de migrantes en las calles, y la frivolidad con que la prensa hegemónica habla de todo esto, tienen la esperanza de que nos quedemos aturdidos por el ruido.

I am not seeing this news spread on Bluesky yet, so just wanted to share. Truly fantastic that this is happening.

Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!

I look forward to Sam Altman boohooing about how his business model can’t survive without copyright theft