The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

It is Pay What You Can Day at Charleston in Lewes. The gallery is open from 10am. Support Scottish artists and Scottish storytellers. Happy St Andrew’s Day.

Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984 (Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)

📖 I’ll sign your books too, we’ll have the delightful @citybookshove.bsky.social with us! And you can order the sheeptastic indie special edition of No Friend to This House from them here, wherever you live: www.city-books.co.uk/products/pre...

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

Quite interesting piece about the Salt Path. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I'm so looking forward to the London launch of the Two Roberts @southbankcentre.bsky.social It's going to a celebration of queerness and art and love against the odds! See you there. And @edbookfest.bsky.social Aug 23 & @citybookshove.bsky.social Aug 27. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/dam...

my heart is a boat

'Good crime novels set up multiple layers of intrigue and a range of questions that demand answers' 🔎 Bestselling crime novelist and chair of @thecwa.bsky.social, @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social, shares his tips on how to set clues in your crime novel:

Bernardine Evaristo scoops Women’s prize outstanding contribution award

Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women | Laura Bates

#TheHiroshimaMen fits in well to the backlist.10yrs of my life. Met some incredible eyewitnesses along the way. See you soon at: @stanfordstravel.bsky.social @bordersbooks.bsky.social @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social @daunts.bsky.social @citybookshove.bsky.social

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Join us for an evening with the wonderful Juno Dawson to celebrate the release of the conclusion to the 'Her Majesty's Royal Coven' trilogy. 📆Tuesday 15th July at 7pm 📍Unitarian Church, New Rd, Brighton www.eventbrite.com/e/juno-dawso...

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’

Hosted by @citybookshove.bsky.social, author @laurieparsons.bsky.social will be in conversation with Phil Hubbard to mark the paperback publication of his award-winning book, Carbon colonialism. 3rd June from 7pm Tickets on sale now: www.city-books.co.uk/blogs/news/l... #booksky

From Faber the FAB Prize highlights new talent from underrepresented backgrounds with a publishing deal for the winner. Please share :)

Anyone who actually knows a trans person, anyone who is the parent or sibling or child of a trans person, knows what a terrible, retrograde decision this is by the UK Supreme Court. A ruling based on phantoms created by Rowling and her ilk, which has nothing to do with real people who will suffer.

The Government is siding with Big Tech over creators + as a member of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition, today we support the #MakeItFair campaign TODAY is the final chance to respond to the Gov consultation on copyright + AI + make your voice heard! writersguild.org.uk/fight-back-a...

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

good for him! work-life balance is so important

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin