Pleasingly complementary covers.

The second part of the interview with @ailsacox.bsky.social is out today! In this episode, we discuss more famous pieces of short story writing advice. Listen here to find out of they are facts or fiction! www.spreaker.com/episode/more...

'A poet's death fills other poets with dread.' Harrison was on roaring form here. www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...

Folk rock's 'Sister Ray.' (And Danny Thompson holds it together.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0M...

Big inhale--hold it!--...and SIGH. Autism is not a disease, it is a neurotype. It may have been first documented in the 20th century, but it's probably existed forever. Being weird isn't a crime, and just b/c ppl aren't like you doesn't make them ill or broken. Being treated like trash does.

I waited years, paid taxes, paid into the NHS and spent thousands to get permanent #leavetoremain. And this frog-man can just take it away if he's elected b/c he's jealous of ICE? How does that work? Do I get a refund? So naive to think it could never get as bad as 🇺🇸 here. Cherishing my 🇨🇦 passport.

New episode! Meet @ailsacox.bsky.social, short story writer and Professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK). In this episode, we discuss famous claims about short fiction and short story writing… are they facts or fiction? Listen here to find out: www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...

I did a podcast! (Everyone has to at some point.) In this one I have a fun chat with Lena Mattheis from the Queer Lit Podcast about Rose Glass' neo-noir #LoveLiesBleeding (not exactly literature but definitely #queer). Thanks for inviting me, Lena!

If you want to celebrate Arvo Pärt's 90th, but aren't in the mood for tintinnabuli, try this one. kohilarecords.bandcamp.com/track/camera...

On Autechre's 'Quaristice.' thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Loren Ipsum — @andrewgallix.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/04/l...

I am on the crossing where Jean-Paul Belmondo dies after being shot in A Bout De Souffle by Jean Luc Godard - this appears in my essay on film locations in the new anthology The Carbon Arc - available now! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...

Trailer for the astonishing new novel from Guillermo Stitch, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming Bloomsday 2026! Preorders are live at https://thecoastofeverything.com and  https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything.

Film people (and philosophers!) - don't miss this one.

Quid each. God bless charity shops.

Regular readers will know that I collect short stories set on trains. This one by Agota Kristof is a fine addition to the canon.

Ban SUVs.

#booksky #comingsoon #guillermostitch2026

Drone music using actual drones. songsfromtherubble.bandcamp.com/track/sheel-...

It's great when someone does one of these that is actually interesting, and makes you want to go and discover stuff. (Apart from boxing, maybe.) observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social for this review in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social - a ‘surreal joyride’ indeed.

My review of C.D. Rose’s superb new novel, We Live Here Now, is in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social.

I often think about how Derrida's terminology has been misread and hollowed out. 'Deconstruction' has been taken to mean 'the opposite of construction' and can now refer to an apple crumble where the crumble is served next to the apple; 'hauntology' now means 'things from the 1970s.'

What is it that most says 'Autumn's on its way' to you? A chill in the air? Birds gathering on telephone wires to fly south? School uniforms in shop window displays? Or me putting a call out for contributors to A Personal Anthology when it returns in September? Love short stories? Prove it!

Quite the strangest 7" I might have ever found: a-side is a recording of French baroque composer Marin Marais' 'Tableau of a Lithotomy', then the b-side is a recording of a drug salesman telling a doctor why he should use their new laxative.

To go with the flow, or not: We Live Here Now by C. D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social @melvillehouse.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/08/12/t...

The banality of employment, the mundanity of routine. Number 13 from Young Mancunians - ‘Night Shift’ #booksky #iamwriting

If you fancy something a little bit different then I recommend trying We Live Here Now by @cdrose.bsky.social @melvillehouse.bsky.social Set in the art world this is a erudite and witty read bookliterati.com/we-live-here...

Our summer submission window at Minor Literature[s] ( @minorliteratures.bsky.social ) is open for the month of August for nonfiction, fiction, and experimental. If you have an essay that you think might be at home with us, you can find the details here: oleada.io/publication/...

I've been getting called 'too clever by half' since before I was ten years old, so it's almost reassuring to hear the New York Times saying it too. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...

On the Ramblings today, I’m happy to take part in the blog tour for the marvellous Where We Live Now by @cdrose.bsky.social from @melvillehouse.bsky.social - it’s a stunner! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/w...

I am absolutely delighted to be kicking off the #BlogTour for the weird and wonderful #WeLiveHereNow by @cdrose.bsky.social today, on #PublicationDay 🎉 Out now from @melvillehouse.bsky.social 🖋💙📚 brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-l...

We're now open for fiction, nonfiction and experimental submissions at Minor Literature[s] for the month of August. For essays see details here: oleada.io/publication/...

The submission portal was being stupid [or maybe it was me, yeah, probably me] but everything is good & ready now. Send your experimental work my way 👉 @minorliteratures.bsky.social Do it Do it Do it Do it

'We Live Here Now' is now in shops. You know what to do.

For fans of The Square (and possibly The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) we have some mail for you! We love receiving weird fiction! #WeLiveHereNow by @cdrose and #BigTime by #JordanProsser @deadinkbooks @melvillehouse

'We Live Here Now' is a 'pick of the summer crop' according to @bigissue.com Many thanks! www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Glad to be one of the crew on this ship (with my story ‘When viewed from the head rather than the foot’). Pre-order details below.

The Big Issue picks @cdrose.bsky.social's new novel, We Live Here Now, as 'one of the best books to read in summer 2025'! It has great taste. www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

This so-called 'genius novel' is out in a couple of weeks from @melvillehouse.bsky.social. You can bother your nearest independent bookseller, or get 25% off if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/we-live...

Missing ships, missing artworks, missing persons… I loved CD Rose’s new novel We Live Here Now, which has echoes of M John Harrison, JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and … Martin Amis, but is also thoroughly and delightfully its own thing. Me in today’s Telegraph:

@stuhennigan.bsky.social - you might like these stories!

'Next Episode,' a short novel by revolutionary and Grand Prix driver Hubert Aquin. A tale of an imprisoned revolutionary trying (and failing) to write a novel. Little known, and highly recommended.

Nomeansno featured at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. (@jahduran.bsky.social might be impressed?)

Generative AI in education is a mass con to make venture capitalists even wealthier. It’s being pushed on us by some of the stupidest / least principled people to ever involve themselves in higher ed.

Jeez, I know Sally Walker made up a lot of the stuff in her book, but I didn't realise The Salt Path strained credibility this much. You think giant scorpions and fearsome Krakens might have set off some alarm bells at Penguin.

Less than a month to wait.

A chapter from my PhD exegesis, defining Young Mancunians as a short story cycle, and justifying this definition as part of a wider context - to make the case for short fiction as having as much value as the novel. #writingcommunity #iamwriting #writers #youngmancunians

Is this true @edgehillprize.bsky.social?