feel like this should go without saying but if you work in comms/media for a major politician and a journalist writes something about them you do not like, do not dm your complaints to the journalist. Just as a matter of you looking stupid etc

uncle just called his skin cancer specialist “the butcher from Buchenwald”

should I take out a bank loan to fund a small press? cbf with grants anymore

man...after all the rave reviews, the good sales, the prize shortlistings, the festival appearances, my public profile etc...i do not understand why i can't get a literary agent in this country. what more do i gotta do, honestly???

won a capybara chef on the claw machine today. Goodbye, NSW

boomers will have the most intimate conversation imaginable on speaker phones while holding the phone to their head regular style

you must belittle australian book critics who have not read and reviewed Nock Loose. They are weak willed, and their publications are false and pitiable.

i hate gay halloween. what do you mean you're Christopher Pyne?

you shall refer to him only by his new official title: Nonce Andrew

who are some non-Australian pubs/writers I could send Nock Loose to be reviewed? help me out

addicted to Smashing Machine soundtrack…

lovely photo i took at the Meanjin wake of the Overland editors gloating about vanquishing their foe

oi read this substack.com/home/post/p-...

I need to get big and strong like my hero, Smashing Machine

please don't tell me The Mastermind is skipping theatres in Perth, and will only be shown at Perth Festival, my least favourite place to see movies...

wrote about the national humiliation fetish for YNR. Check it out!

genuine question: if you're travelling interstate for a writer's festival, should that festival cover the cost of your transport to and from the airport? i kinda took it as a given.

are American liberals moaning because one of their new boys - who was a member of a paramilitary deaths quad sent out to enact proto-genocides for the burger Reich - turned out to be a Nazi?

baby boomers and Gen x are probably the two most blessed generations in human history, and they used their dumb luck to doom the world.

who has worse narcissistic BPD - Trump or Rudd?

the thing about David Marr is that he comes from a class of journo who has to believe it is the most honourable and noble profession on the planet lest they be nut-tapped by the realisation they are lizards who have wasted their lives on mastering guff

Trump telling Kevin Rudd he doesn't like him is probably the most relatable I've ever found him (besides when he's moaning about lights being too bright)

a regional writer's festival at Pine Gap could be just the thing to save OzLit...

apologising in advance for this week's Battler episode, where I debut my new character "Wokey Allen" (woke Woody Allen)

it is kinda dispiriting when you see the biggest cultural publications/websites for normies in Oz repeatedly reviewing mid books they don't even seem to like (simply because the authors' agents/publishers have more access) while ignoring all the exciting debuts* and more etc out there rn

some thoughts on the ABC top 100 books www.instagram.com/reel/DQAwQGj...

The #1 book about a gigolo twink who works a glory hole at NASA

it's too easy to do heel kayfabe in OzLit. feel like a Nelson in a room full of Martin and Millhouses.

there's an Australian publisher who clearly uses canva for all their book covers (but one notable one) and they are honestly the most shamefully ugly looking books available rn, to the point where the writer's have every right to kick up a stink.

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The Books Purchaser

NOCK LOOSE out now

"Edra le men, men na guil edwen, haer o auth a nîr a naeth" (roughly translates as "buy NOCK LOOSE")

would love a literary agent to sell my critically acclaimed fast-selling debut novel to the UK/US market. One who gets my vibe (bogan Pynchon), preferably. Should I look beyond Australia? any help is greatly appreciated!

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

need a social media site that isn’t owned by Americans (innately evil from birth)

the reality is, I remain on Twitter for Gaza. It is the best place for direct news/updates from Palestinians by a country mile, unlike here, where they are all but absent and repeatedly censored and banned.

can’t believe it took you this long to leave that website run by admitted nazis and join this website run by closeted nazis

NOCK LOOSE out now

it's so funny they've got Tony Abbott on some big comeback tour as if every normal person (ie anyone who doesn't work for the Murdoch press) doesn't remember what a hugely unlikeable freak and loser he was

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece. Feel free to add your own.

every bookstore I go into tells me NOCK LOOSE is selling like hot cakes, which is nice!

Tim Heidecker is so good at this.

via @cormacmccafe.bsky.social [JUN 2022]: www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...

I think pash/pashing is one of the best australian/nz words. lets all agree to start using it more

I think Australian writers write unadventurous books because they are largely unadventurous readers.

I’m really curious about the root of the tedious/boring voice that is dominant in Aus writing, and the way certain publishers and publications make you bend towards it. Is the origin postgrad studies? Creative writing courses? Private schools? A national love of mediocrity and midwittery? Weigh in!

I wrote about Big Basic over on YNR.

I declare war on Basic Art and the Basic People that pummel is with it. Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...