Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

Sally Rooney on the bullshit proscribing of Palestine Action by a bullshit government. And. By the way. I think this is how to use the platform granted to you by success. Expressing solidarity, criticising injustice, standing up. Instead of, for example, kicking minorities for billionaire kudos.

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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.

the time needed Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

Patrick Duffy is a new writer I got to work with on my @faberacademy.bsky.social Writing Fiction course a while ago. A really interesting writer. This is a great short piece of his currently available to read on oxonianreview.com. I think he also has something in the new @gutter.bsky.social

Really like the Turkish cover of A Shock. Out now (or soon) from Ithaki Yayınları @ithakiyayinlari.bsky.social Translated by Ata Türkoğlu