Keith Ridgway
@rid9way.bsky.social
forthcoming - Dooneen / June 2026 from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
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Keith Ridgway
@rid9way.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
Great news. Thinking about the hundreds and hundreds of courageous people who were arrested, and of the hunger strikers, and of the reason for all of this - stop arming Israel.
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Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation
Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation
Palestine Action’s co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group's ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds.
news.sky.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Great news. Thinking about the hundreds and hundreds of courageous people who were arrested, and of the hunger strikers, and of the reason for all of this - stop arming Israel.
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My short story 'Arrival' with images and sound by Ian Maleney @fallowmedia.bsky.social.
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fallowmedia.com/2020/feb/arr...
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM
My short story 'Arrival' with images and sound by Ian Maleney @fallowmedia.bsky.social.
fallowmedia.com/2020/feb/arr...
fallowmedia.com/2020/feb/arr...
Very good conversation about influence, access, power, money, and the ambient (to the point of near invisibility) nature of corruption in British public life. @piercepenniless.bsky.social talks to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @ethanshone.bsky.social.
On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power
When Peter Mandelson was a minister in Gordon Brown’s government he passed confidential advice to Jeffrey Epstein, who had recently been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution. This is among…
pca.st
February 11, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Very good conversation about influence, access, power, money, and the ambient (to the point of near invisibility) nature of corruption in British public life. @piercepenniless.bsky.social talks to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @ethanshone.bsky.social.
Manchette is so great. His politics, his simultaneous experimentation with form and edge of the seat plotting, his sense of humour, his general fearlessness. And Nada is fantastic. Contains probably the greatest shootout scene ever set to paper.
All anarcho-Marxist killer, no filler. A fantastic novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Paperback of the week: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
In the 1970s, Manchette reinvigorated French thrillers with his chaotic energy and leftist politics, as deployed in this tale of ragtag revolutionaries
observer.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Manchette is so great. His politics, his simultaneous experimentation with form and edge of the seat plotting, his sense of humour, his general fearlessness. And Nada is fantastic. Contains probably the greatest shootout scene ever set to paper.
February 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Great book. Krisztina Tóth's Eye Of The Monkey. About state power, personal power, power and its morbidities, how disgusting power can be. Great translation again from @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Great book. Krisztina Tóth's Eye Of The Monkey. About state power, personal power, power and its morbidities, how disgusting power can be. Great translation again from @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
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I was thinking about the Babylon today, site of this memorable encounter
the man himself
playing his inimitable self
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youtu.be/NnwNhl2JK5E?...
the man himself
playing his inimitable self
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youtu.be/NnwNhl2JK5E?...
Werner Herzog's Stroszek (1977), Bruno S's song
YouTube video by Roger Halvarsson
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 10:22 AM
I was thinking about the Babylon today, site of this memorable encounter
the man himself
playing his inimitable self
⬇️⬇️⬇️
youtu.be/NnwNhl2JK5E?...
the man himself
playing his inimitable self
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youtu.be/NnwNhl2JK5E?...
As If - by Isabel Waidner. The double, acting, enacting, lives imitating lives, entanglements, absurdity, pain, joining, separating, loss, replacement. And a London specificity that I really liked. Out February 26th.
January 28, 2026 at 10:44 AM
As If - by Isabel Waidner. The double, acting, enacting, lives imitating lives, entanglements, absurdity, pain, joining, separating, loss, replacement. And a London specificity that I really liked. Out February 26th.
Found the playlist I made around the time A Shock came out, and put it on Tidal. Extraordinary how long ago that was, and how weird that time, how scrambled. Strange years. I should be dead.
Going to do one for Dooneen soon. It's the only reason I write to be honest - to do the playlists.
Going to do one for Dooneen soon. It's the only reason I write to be honest - to do the playlists.
A Shock // a playlist
Playlist - A Shock // a playlist - 11 items
tidal.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Found the playlist I made around the time A Shock came out, and put it on Tidal. Extraordinary how long ago that was, and how weird that time, how scrambled. Strange years. I should be dead.
Going to do one for Dooneen soon. It's the only reason I write to be honest - to do the playlists.
Going to do one for Dooneen soon. It's the only reason I write to be honest - to do the playlists.
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Keith Ridgway’s ‘Dooneen’ is an engrossing queer-in-all-ways thriller, an insurgent near-future haunting of our present, a vivid reimagining of Dublin, and a love and a loss story. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social June 2026.
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Keith Ridgway’s ‘Dooneen’ is an engrossing queer-in-all-ways thriller, an insurgent near-future haunting of our present, a vivid reimagining of Dublin, and a love and a loss story. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social June 2026.
In Dublin with the dead and the rain.
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In Dublin with the dead and the rain.
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
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Novelist, essayist, critic and recently departed literary icon Gary Indiana would have turned 75 today.
July 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Novelist, essayist, critic and recently departed literary icon Gary Indiana would have turned 75 today.
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Please enjoy this picture of Wisława Szymborska pointing out the way to the Cliffs of Moher in 2008.
June 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Please enjoy this picture of Wisława Szymborska pointing out the way to the Cliffs of Moher in 2008.