C.D. Rose
@cdrose.bsky.social
Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
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If you haven't already received an invitation email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site Details of how to buy a copy will be shared with the audience. Join Oscar, @kevinboniface.bsky.social, @cdrose.bsky.social and myself to celebrate this unique and unclassifiable publication.
February 18, 2026 at 8:18 AM
If you haven't already received an invitation email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site Details of how to buy a copy will be shared with the audience. Join Oscar, @kevinboniface.bsky.social, @cdrose.bsky.social and myself to celebrate this unique and unclassifiable publication.
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This Thursday at 7pm GMT: the online launch of 'Delirious New Lynn; or, Portage and Euphoria, or, The Carryover' by New Zealand author Oscar Mardell, with @kevinboniface.bsky.social and @cdrose.bsky.social. If you haven't yet received an invitation email me via davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
February 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM
This Thursday at 7pm GMT: the online launch of 'Delirious New Lynn; or, Portage and Euphoria, or, The Carryover' by New Zealand author Oscar Mardell, with @kevinboniface.bsky.social and @cdrose.bsky.social. If you haven't yet received an invitation email me via davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
For the day and everything in it.
February 14, 2026 at 8:28 AM
For the day and everything in it.
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On tQ today, musicians in Iran and across the diaspora speak out about the recent uprising, the dubious and unhelpful conspiracy tendency from “anti-imperialists” in the West, and their hopes and (with Trump’s military build-up continuing) fears for the future
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
The Writing's on the Wall for the Betrayal of Iran | The Quietus
Roshi Nasehi speaks to Iranians at home and in the UK about what the left anti-imperialists hijacking the protest movement have got wrong.
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February 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
On tQ today, musicians in Iran and across the diaspora speak out about the recent uprising, the dubious and unhelpful conspiracy tendency from “anti-imperialists” in the West, and their hopes and (with Trump’s military build-up continuing) fears for the future
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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I started the day getting my hair stuck in the motor part of a hair dryer and ended it with this. Take that, Peter Hujar!
February 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I started the day getting my hair stuck in the motor part of a hair dryer and ended it with this. Take that, Peter Hujar!
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NEW WRITING on last year's Goldsmiths Prize winner, C. D. Rose's 'We Live Here Now' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social) - via Mark Fisher, the weird and the eerie, the value of artworks, and the rhapsodic flow of global capitalism...
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Better weird than eerie: C. D. Rose’s ‘We Live Here Now’
There’s an enduring modern attraction to the weird and the eerie. For Mark Fisher, in his book The Weird and the Eerie, the appeal of these two ‘modes’ is connected to ‘a fascination for the outsid…
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January 26, 2026 at 3:11 PM
NEW WRITING on last year's Goldsmiths Prize winner, C. D. Rose's 'We Live Here Now' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social) - via Mark Fisher, the weird and the eerie, the value of artworks, and the rhapsodic flow of global capitalism...
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lauriemcraeandrew.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/b...
Am permanently slightly disappointed to find Bodø/Glimt are a Norwegian footy team and not a harsh minimal techno duo with an exciting new 12" dropping via Sähkö.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Am permanently slightly disappointed to find Bodø/Glimt are a Norwegian footy team and not a harsh minimal techno duo with an exciting new 12" dropping via Sähkö.
Lots of interesting stuff here, but you really should check out the Yara Asmar.
Got a sale on for the rest of January. Any digital release is pay what you like and got heavy discounts on a bunch of amazing records. Tell all your friends!
hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch
hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Lots of interesting stuff here, but you really should check out the Yara Asmar.
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Throughout 2025, I documented everything I bought at the supermarket reduced counter, a project inspired by Georges Perec's Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four.
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Throughout 2025, I documented everything I bought at the supermarket reduced counter, a project inspired by Georges Perec's Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four.
An honour and a pleasure.
We put the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 to bed on Wednesday with @cdrose.bsky.social in fine form chatting to @asack.bsky.social.
The 2026 Prize launches on Wednesday 21st January. Panel announcement around 9am 📣🔥
The 2026 Prize launches on Wednesday 21st January. Panel announcement around 9am 📣🔥
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
An honour and a pleasure.
One for @julianisland.bsky.social?
best, strongest, most interesting, most influential instances of the LITERARY MANIFESTO?
(creative writing student wants to write one; they're reading Puchner and inspired by Wordsworth)
(creative writing student wants to write one; they're reading Puchner and inspired by Wordsworth)
January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
One for @julianisland.bsky.social?
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best, strongest, most interesting, most influential instances of the LITERARY MANIFESTO?
(creative writing student wants to write one; they're reading Puchner and inspired by Wordsworth)
(creative writing student wants to write one; they're reading Puchner and inspired by Wordsworth)
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
best, strongest, most interesting, most influential instances of the LITERARY MANIFESTO?
(creative writing student wants to write one; they're reading Puchner and inspired by Wordsworth)
(creative writing student wants to write one; they're reading Puchner and inspired by Wordsworth)
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I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
January 11, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
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I've finally found the time to watch recordings of some @nawewriters.bsky.social conference sessions and they're fabulous. I particularly love Chris Rose on Paratopia which, should we choose to see them, offer : 'a chance to reimagine and reenchant our environments.'🤩 #magical #inspirational #NAWE
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I've finally found the time to watch recordings of some @nawewriters.bsky.social conference sessions and they're fabulous. I particularly love Chris Rose on Paratopia which, should we choose to see them, offer : 'a chance to reimagine and reenchant our environments.'🤩 #magical #inspirational #NAWE
How strange that these two messages should appear right next to each other.
January 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM
How strange that these two messages should appear right next to each other.
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One more earlybird ticket available for our short story structure writing workshop! Taking place online with the fabulous Sarah Schofield of Edge Hill University
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January 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
One more earlybird ticket available for our short story structure writing workshop! Taking place online with the fabulous Sarah Schofield of Edge Hill University
fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/92392...
fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/92392...
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“Consisting of fourteen interconnected short stories, WE LIVE HERE NOW… gleefully, cheekily, playfully pokes fun at the contemporary art world.” @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews new work from @cdrose.bsky.social
We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose: Review by Ian Mond
We Live Here Now, C.D. Rose (Melville House 978-1-68589-201-2, $19.99, 320pp, tp) August 2025. If you’ll recall, my favourite book of 2024 was C.D. Rose’s magnificent Walter Benjamin Stares at the …
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January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“Consisting of fourteen interconnected short stories, WE LIVE HERE NOW… gleefully, cheekily, playfully pokes fun at the contemporary art world.” @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews new work from @cdrose.bsky.social
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We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose: Review by Ian Mond locusmag.com/review/...
January 1, 2026 at 4:32 PM
We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose: Review by Ian Mond locusmag.com/review/...
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28 December 1795 In protest over the suppression of public meetings for the discussion of political grievances, a ‘Thinking Club’ was formed at the Coopers’ Arms Manchester. 300 people joined that first meeting and were silent for an hour.
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
28 December 1795 In protest over the suppression of public meetings for the discussion of political grievances, a ‘Thinking Club’ was formed at the Coopers’ Arms Manchester. 300 people joined that first meeting and were silent for an hour.
Everyone in this house has gone for a snooze so I’m listening to this at very low volume.
December 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Everyone in this house has gone for a snooze so I’m listening to this at very low volume.
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Srsly, a brilliant show. Williams, Slate, @robdelaney.bsky.social et al (Robby Hoffman!) really knocked it out of the park. I plan to write about it in my book on female scepticism, which will hopefully be finished sometime this decade. Shit, I guess that means I'll have to resubscribe to Disney+.
The 50 best TV shows of 2025: No 2 – Dying for Sex
Michelle Williams put in a stunning performance in this tale of a dying woman’s quest to have an orgasm. It’s not just clever, tender and blackly comic – it’s a beautiful meditation on what it means t...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Srsly, a brilliant show. Williams, Slate, @robdelaney.bsky.social et al (Robby Hoffman!) really knocked it out of the park. I plan to write about it in my book on female scepticism, which will hopefully be finished sometime this decade. Shit, I guess that means I'll have to resubscribe to Disney+.
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My book of the year (so far!)
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My book of the year (so far!)
Tonight you will be visited by two spirits.
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Tonight you will be visited by two spirits.