Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés
@bibliorefuses.bsky.social
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Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
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Cocktail Time!🍸
-Base of irreal/speculative literary fiction
-Good dash of bureaucratic gothic
-Splash of ecocriticism (optional)
-Garnish with sprig of intertextuality
-Shake well & pour.
(For younger imbibers, replace items 1 & 2 with low fantasy & Irish mythology)
linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
-Base of irreal/speculative literary fiction
-Good dash of bureaucratic gothic
-Splash of ecocriticism (optional)
-Garnish with sprig of intertextuality
-Shake well & pour.
(For younger imbibers, replace items 1 & 2 with low fantasy & Irish mythology)
linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
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December 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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can't wait to hear who won the FIFA prize in literature
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
can't wait to hear who won the FIFA prize in literature
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!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban.
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban.
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
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OUR HAUNTED YEAR 2025
Our annual blog post looking back at what we did at Swan River Press this year.
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Our annual blog post looking back at what we did at Swan River Press this year.
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Our Haunted Year 2025 | Swan River Press
After another cycle around the sun, and as the darker days of winter approach, it’s time to look back at what we managed to accomplish this year here at Swan River Press. Along the housing front, the ...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
OUR HAUNTED YEAR 2025
Our annual blog post looking back at what we did at Swan River Press this year.
swanriverpress.ie/2025/12/our-...
Our annual blog post looking back at what we did at Swan River Press this year.
swanriverpress.ie/2025/12/our-...
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Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄
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LAUNCH: Banshee | Issue 20 | Books Upstairs
Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Dublin launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at Books Upstairs on Thursday 4 December at 6pm to raise a glass and to hear prose and poetry ...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄
booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...
booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...
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A grand day out with @bibliorefuses.bsky.social / @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social & @hardimanmk.bsky.social. Met @swanriverpress.bsky.social in the flesh (yes, books were bought), chatted pleasantly with @sinoistbooks.bsky.social, @renardpress.com & other publishers. 👏👏@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚
quick snaps as I ran around the Fair just before the doors opened yesterday—Antiphon Editions, Roberts Print, Mossy Press, and Cailleach Books. I will be spending more money than I had planned, which is the way of the small press fair! TODAY 10-4, Pearse Street Library, FREE ENTRY! come on down
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A grand day out with @bibliorefuses.bsky.social / @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social & @hardimanmk.bsky.social. Met @swanriverpress.bsky.social in the flesh (yes, books were bought), chatted pleasantly with @sinoistbooks.bsky.social, @renardpress.com & other publishers. 👏👏@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚
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Thank you!!
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Thank you!!
"The late 1960s also saw the introduction of free secondary education, a move announced so suddenly the Department of Education had to assemble a temporary poetry textbook…" The 'temporary' book was Soundings, so fondly remembered that it was reprinted well after eventual retirement from school use.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The late 1960s also saw the introduction of free secondary education, a move announced so suddenly the Department of Education had to assemble a temporary poetry textbook…" The 'temporary' book was Soundings, so fondly remembered that it was reprinted well after eventual retirement from school use.
Aaaah!😍
Something very lovely happened in our Science Fiction & Fantasy section the other week… 🥹💍✨
CONGRATULATIONS MAEVE & ADAM!!
Wishing you many years of happiness, adventure and shared stories – may your life together be even more magical than the books you browse 💫📚❤️
CONGRATULATIONS MAEVE & ADAM!!
Wishing you many years of happiness, adventure and shared stories – may your life together be even more magical than the books you browse 💫📚❤️
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Aaaah!😍
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Necromodernism - now that's a #Modernism I could really get behind!
Today in academic neologisms, I give you "Necromodernism". He includes Alan Moore's Jerusalem among the catalogue of "tomes" but doesn't say anything specific about it.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...
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Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing – 3:AM Magazine
These books are, in a sense, anti-cultural products: they demand time, patience, and acceptance of incompletion. In doing so, they enact a politics — not of slogans or themes, but of form itself. In p...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Necromodernism - now that's a #Modernism I could really get behind!
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In this Netflix series, Clare Danes plays an author whose novel is *two years* past the delivery date, but she asks for "another advance" from the publisher anyway.
It's so realistic!
It's so realistic!
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In this Netflix series, Clare Danes plays an author whose novel is *two years* past the delivery date, but she asks for "another advance" from the publisher anyway.
It's so realistic!
It's so realistic!
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On "The Yellow Wall-paper" and other works, phantom limbs, arsenic poisoning, and other ingestations vajra.me/2025/11/11/c...
Creeping by Daylight
On the Yellow Wall-paper, Deváté srdce, and arsenic poisoning.
vajra.me
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
On "The Yellow Wall-paper" and other works, phantom limbs, arsenic poisoning, and other ingestations vajra.me/2025/11/11/c...
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Companies and institutions have given up on the idea of service generally. Now, it’s all about training the customer to do the work for them – and most of us don’t want to work for the companies we’re paying for service.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
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As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
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Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Companies and institutions have given up on the idea of service generally. Now, it’s all about training the customer to do the work for them – and most of us don’t want to work for the companies we’re paying for service.
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I answered some questions about my #research for @unibonn.bsky.social, so now this short #interview exists:
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
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(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
In the Maze of Forms: The Curious Allure of Bureaucracy
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November 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I answered some questions about my #research for @unibonn.bsky.social, so now this short #interview exists:
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
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Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros!
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actualitte.com/article/1273...
Laure Hinckel remporte le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025
Porté par ATLAS, l’Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles, doté de 5000 €, a été...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros!
actualitte.com/article/1273...
actualitte.com/article/1273...
For me, Stoker's greatest work will always be his 1879 masterpiece, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland.
Bram Stoker, Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Theatre Business Manager, #BornOnThisDay in 1847, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
For me, Stoker's greatest work will always be his 1879 masterpiece, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland.
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Bram Stoker, Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Theatre Business Manager, #BornOnThisDay in 1847, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Bram Stoker, Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Theatre Business Manager, #BornOnThisDay in 1847, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
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I'm going to use this as the jonbar point in my upcoming alternate-history novel.
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I'm going to use this as the jonbar point in my upcoming alternate-history novel.
You know what you need in your life right now? A book featuring a hard-boiled badger cop padding along the mean streets of the city & the mean paths of the forest, a flickering candle of decency in a world of darkness; that's what. Remington Platypus is a delight. 🦡📙
The rumours are true: Remington Platypus is back in stock and available everywhere now!
A badger detective called Platypus taking on a gang of murderous crows to find out who is frankensteining monsters; what could go wrong?
Order yours here:
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A badger detective called Platypus taking on a gang of murderous crows to find out who is frankensteining monsters; what could go wrong?
Order yours here:
share.google/x1sEpaUzSyrX...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
You know what you need in your life right now? A book featuring a hard-boiled badger cop padding along the mean streets of the city & the mean paths of the forest, a flickering candle of decency in a world of darkness; that's what. Remington Platypus is a delight. 🦡📙
"An exceptional work, immersive, thought-provoking, and impossible to forget." This in a lovely email from Madison Clarke, a professional book marketeer who contacted me out of the blue. I'll go with that, Mads😁, just maybe not with the rest of it🙄
Find the exceptional work here books2read.com/FID/
Find the exceptional work here books2read.com/FID/
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"An exceptional work, immersive, thought-provoking, and impossible to forget." This in a lovely email from Madison Clarke, a professional book marketeer who contacted me out of the blue. I'll go with that, Mads😁, just maybe not with the rest of it🙄
Find the exceptional work here books2read.com/FID/
Find the exceptional work here books2read.com/FID/
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This made me laugh so, so hard.
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This made me laugh so, so hard.
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
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Virginia Faulkner was smart as a whip, funny as a heart attack, unfiltered in her cigarettes and opinions, and utterly uninterested in talking about herself.
So the last thing she would have wanted was for someone to write her biography.
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So the last thing she would have wanted was for someone to write her biography.
www.nebraskapress.un...
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Virginia Faulkner was smart as a whip, funny as a heart attack, unfiltered in her cigarettes and opinions, and utterly uninterested in talking about herself.
So the last thing she would have wanted was for someone to write her biography.
www.nebraskapress.un...
So the last thing she would have wanted was for someone to write her biography.
www.nebraskapress.un...