There must be (some number!) of other good writers of long form prose in the UK who cannot get their work published. I don't mean, tossed into the dead space of the carnivores, Amazon/Kindle & co. I mean *published*. Where are they? How to find them?
Event
Filosofía
Almost magic hour
Literatura
Wow! What a fantastic bookshop!Libreria Rosario Castellanos CDMX fondodeculturaeconomica.com
Muralismo
Diego Rivera at Belles Artes, CDMX
Even if this was a reasonable policy - which it isn’t - are you really going to trust the Americans only to fly defensive missions from the bases? What are they going to say? ‘Scout’s honor?’
UK will allow US to use its UK airfields for "defensive" attacks on Iran, says the Guardian headline. I nearly wrote "Iraq". How did that one go, remind me? I can only assume Starmer is trying to completely destroy the UK Labour Party @labouruk.bsky.social once & for all
#Iran It's the final bankrupcy of Europe. How can we talk about Russian atrocities in Ukraine while poodling to America & Israel's carpet bombing of Iran? I feel absolute disgust with Starmer, Macron & friends
This one's for Holly, obvs @hollygramazio.bsky.social Comme un Roman, rue er, Paris, & fab bookshop www.comme-un-roman.com
Bugey, Mâcon, High Water Everywhere, that lovely Charley Patton song
Snow view
Fab to see snow in the mountains
Goodbye America
Tuesday's Le Monde, front page, below the fold. #goodbyeamerica says it all. Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland, ICE, Ukraine. Brute power, money, corruption, extraction, piracy, murder, genocide. What an unbelievably ugly story
I'm looking forward to being a peasant again, if only briefly, after weeks in the city
Modane & a little bit of snow, like Muswell Hill in a rare December. Sure. Carry on
The mountains look like snow was a once upon a time fairytale dream. All ripe for extraction, no doubt
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social just enjoyed your #ns twitter 1 year after piece on my long train journey, yeah it was fun a long time ago, but quite a *long* time ago :)
for all the shit that google is, afaik chromecast is the only viable option, but you can create a dedicated gmail burner account to try to keep google out of the rest of your life, just have to hold yr nose for an hour while you do the necessary #enshit
A beautiful late afternoon coming through Savoie, sun & blue sky, barely any snow to be seen. But this is (or was) the ski train
postroom a.k.a. kitchen table
Books going out, news sheet to bookshops, the other side of writing life! #partisan @thiefpress.bsky.social
Partisan / Ben Morris ISBN: 978-0-9927834-2-6
Partisan is published! Most of the supporter copies have now been posted, and if they haven't arrived they should be with you soon.
(pigeons have been joined by three green parakeets, but they are a longstanding local anomaly!)
i've got two kissing cuddling pigeons outside my window. very sweet, but i'm not sure they should be feeling it's *spring* quite yet?! problem, houston. it's absurdly mild in london? xx
Cover proof detail, PARTISAN, ISBN 9780992783426
Soft proofs approved, cover and text! Phew! PARTISAN is at the printer's, finally :)
@bigjosh84.bsky.social Thx for the follow!
On the train, little wintry scattering of yesterday snow as we come down between Chablis & Chalons
it's been ages since i was here, that's books for you!
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social thx for the follow back :)
@akscotland.bsky.social thx for the follow back!
#windows you arrive home after travelling & think, i know i'll make it happy & restart, yes yes really, then once it's all dark power on, up comes a message, Your device ran into a problem and had to restart. er yeah, i know that :)
#windows is such a #dogsbreakfast of an OS but i'm quite fond of it these days despite myself
@beckettreading.bsky.social fab, thx for the follow!!
