You can pre-order my debut novel Dooneen on @bookshop.org here. It's my sixth debut novel. Pre-orders, as I'm sure you know, are essential to the healthy continuance of society. If you don't pre-order right now, you're basically destroying everything beautiful.

"It is still unclear where on his body or how many times he was shot, because the Israeli military has refused to return his body to the family and declined to answer any questions about his injuries." It is impossible to fathom the cruelty and cowardice of the Israeli army.

All the characters in a novel, even the trees of a forest, even the heavens are integrated into the life of the author, since they spring from him. The writer becomes conscious of the world he brings to life, he is its consciousness ... there are doubtless other types of writers ... Victor Serge

A deeply researched account of a writer now utterly forgotten. And a very moving read.

Arundhati Roy, in her statement withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival after Wim Wenders’s appalling press conference, shows, again, what artistic integrity looks like. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

My short story 'Arrival' with images and sound by Ian Maleney @fallowmedia.bsky.social. fallowmedia.com/2020/feb/arr...

I was thinking about the Babylon today, site of this memorable encounter the man himself playing his inimitable self ⬇️⬇️⬇️ youtu.be/NnwNhl2JK5E?...

As If - by Isabel Waidner. The double, acting, enacting, lives imitating lives, entanglements, absurdity, pain, joining, separating, loss, replacement. And a London specificity that I really liked. Out February 26th.

In Dublin with the dead and the rain.

Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it. @ndbooks.bsky.social

Novelist, essayist, critic and recently departed literary icon Gary Indiana would have turned 75 today.

Please enjoy this picture of Wisława Szymborska pointing out the way to the Cliffs of Moher in 2008.