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Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

going to start a thread of (nice) Pity reviews just to keep them all in one place (photo from David Coates)

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Full performance of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys. Her smile at the beginning is the best.

Annual Alasdair Gray fiesta approaches 🪩💃🏾🕺🏼

Cover reveal! The Life Impossible is out everywhere this summer and can be preordered now. My first novel in four years.

Trauma is everywhere. As a concept it's salience cannot be denied. It frames public debates on education, criminal justice and health. It's cited as a root cause of addiction, countless mental health problems and relationship breakdowns. It's the topic of countless media, whether

Roll up, roll up #grayday

Mary Costello’s new collection is out this week. As Joyce Carol Oates observes it’s exceptionally good on our relationship with animals

When BARCELONA came to Dublin… The happiest of publication days today to Mary Costello and all at Canongate publishers with BARCELONA, a short story collection already excepted in the New Yorker and drawing comparisons to James Joyce.

Lot of love in the room last night at Hodges Figgis for Mary Costello’s launch. Barcelona is born!

Come along!

Geoff Dyer’s memoir coming this time next year, folks.

The Book Festival in Kyiv has started

The race is on for book festivals to find a substantial funding source that is not in some way ethically compromised. Best of luck with that.

Wherever you stand on FFB and BG I would encourage you to read Anna’s thread. We have a problem to solve together cc The Ferret

Always nice to stumble upon a Canongate review in my Saturday reading - but more so when it’s as dazzling a write up as this Kevin Barry review from Sandra Newman: “I doubt that anyone will publish a novel this year that is at once so beautiful, so lovable and so much fun.”

The PERSON UNLIMITED book tour begins in Bristol on 1st July at @bookhaus2 with Edson Burton, closely followed by London on 3rd July London Review Bookshop with Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 and Bradford on 7th July Bradford Literature Festival with Polari Literary Salon Paul Burston @paulburston.bsky.social More info: linktr.ee/personunlimite…

Lovely motor. Lovely hair. Lovely clothes. Doing very well for himself … as Musk knows, and as plenty of journos know, there is money to be made in stirring up hatred and telling people all their problems will be solved if we just other the others and see where it leads

A huge thanks to Dr Gavin Francis and Francis Bickmore for an all-encompassing conversation about The Bridge Between Worlds to celebrate its launch last night. Thanks also to everyone who joined us and snapped up a book or a cupcake (or both)! 🌉