Simon Armstrong
@simonthebooks.bsky.social
Founder of Errant Books. Author, reader, editor into art, books, music, walking, nature.
Fresh books and zines instore now at errantbooks.com - Sacred Plants, Tanya from White Lotus, 10Foot, and a ten year research project on archetypal images. 📚💫
May 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fresh books and zines instore now at errantbooks.com - Sacred Plants, Tanya from White Lotus, 10Foot, and a ten year research project on archetypal images. 📚💫
Loving the cover of Covert Joy - selected stories by Clarice Lispector published by @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚💚
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Loving the cover of Covert Joy - selected stories by Clarice Lispector published by @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚💚
Cornbread, Philadelphia’s graffiti writing pioneer - the book (with free typeface!) available now at www.errantbooks.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Cornbread, Philadelphia’s graffiti writing pioneer - the book (with free typeface!) available now at www.errantbooks.com
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Gertrude Abercrombie once wrote, “Art has to be real crazy, real personal and real real, or it is nowhere.” Unjustly marginalized since her death in 1977, her darkly surreal work will hopefully be rediscovered by in a retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
hyperallergic.com/991689/gertr...
hyperallergic.com/991689/gertr...
March 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Gertrude Abercrombie once wrote, “Art has to be real crazy, real personal and real real, or it is nowhere.” Unjustly marginalized since her death in 1977, her darkly surreal work will hopefully be rediscovered by in a retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
hyperallergic.com/991689/gertr...
hyperallergic.com/991689/gertr...
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I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
Ursula Le Guin
YouTube video by National Book
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
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I am very proud to announce that Máret Ánne Sara is to create the next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, as Hyundai Motor extends partnership until 2036! @maretannesara.bsky.social
Máret Ánne Sara to create the next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, as Hyundai Motor extends partnership until 2036 – Press Release | Tate
www.tate.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I am very proud to announce that Máret Ánne Sara is to create the next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, as Hyundai Motor extends partnership until 2036! @maretannesara.bsky.social
No Straight Road Takes You There
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
No Straight Road Takes You There
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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The indie booksellers sell books on better terms that ultimately support the wider industry. It's like selling a house for people to live in versus stripping it for parts, copper, etc, and leaving nothing habitable.
Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.
Ecommerce giant Amazon goes live with dedicated Irish store
March 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The indie booksellers sell books on better terms that ultimately support the wider industry. It's like selling a house for people to live in versus stripping it for parts, copper, etc, and leaving nothing habitable.