Lucy Mercer
@lucymercer.bsky.social
writer, Emblem (Prototype) & Afterlife forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo;🕯️
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Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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The industry is not supporting small-press publishers enough, not because it ought to, but because small-press publishing is the future of book production in this country, says Lucy Mercer in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
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November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The industry is not supporting small-press publishers enough, not because it ought to, but because small-press publishing is the future of book production in this country, says Lucy Mercer in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky
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"Small-press publishers’ passion for and understanding of literature, combined with the creative, diverse and alternative perspectives and spaces that they provide through their books, means that like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry."
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Small-press publishers’ passion for and understanding of literature, combined with the creative, diverse and alternative perspectives and spaces that they provide through their books, means that like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry."
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Erik Satie - the Minimalist Muse
Jude Rogers explores the unique legacy of composer Erik Satie, 100 years after his death.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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What thrills me the most about this win—I honestly can't stop reading up about it from across a continent and an ocean—is the prospect that leftist policies CAN find voters and the world CAN change
“No one like Mamdani has ever won an election where as many as a million people voted. This is akin to a socialist winning a medium-size state.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Zohran Mamdani Just Remade American Politics
There is no real precedent in U.S. history for his victory in New York mayoral race.
nymag.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
What thrills me the most about this win—I honestly can't stop reading up about it from across a continent and an ocean—is the prospect that leftist policies CAN find voters and the world CAN change
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the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan
Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF
Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF
UNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom".
www.rte.ie
June 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan
❤️❤️❤️ finally some good news
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
❤️❤️❤️ finally some good news
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The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse
June 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse
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💫 ANNOUNCING THE POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 💫
Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/anno...
Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/anno...
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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there’s a man who plays his flute to his dog when he walks it at night in the park next to my house. Can hardly see him in the gloom & his flute sounds like Totoro’s flute. I am convinced he is the Totoro of Croydon
June 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
there’s a man who plays his flute to his dog when he walks it at night in the park next to my house. Can hardly see him in the gloom & his flute sounds like Totoro’s flute. I am convinced he is the Totoro of Croydon
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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
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Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
June 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This entire thread is illuminating.
Moreover, that study indicates that the existential threat of AI wasn't necessarily to the profession of teaching (it is) but to the CAPACITY for our students to learn the skills we are trying to teach them. That study indicates that generative AI poses a serious threat to student learning CAPACITY.
June 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This entire thread is illuminating.
Kim Hyesoon reads from Autobiography of Death, trans. Don Mee Choi & in conversation w Will Harris @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk ✨
June 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Kim Hyesoon reads from Autobiography of Death, trans. Don Mee Choi & in conversation w Will Harris @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk ✨
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"When global consulting firm Nous Group arrives at a university, the company blueprint is always the same: weaken the academe, centralise power and cut staff."
Purely accidental that that's happening here, obviously. After they deemed Schools' autonomy a 'problem' nousgroup.com/case-studies...
Purely accidental that that's happening here, obviously. After they deemed Schools' autonomy a 'problem' nousgroup.com/case-studies...
June 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"When global consulting firm Nous Group arrives at a university, the company blueprint is always the same: weaken the academe, centralise power and cut staff."
Purely accidental that that's happening here, obviously. After they deemed Schools' autonomy a 'problem' nousgroup.com/case-studies...
Purely accidental that that's happening here, obviously. After they deemed Schools' autonomy a 'problem' nousgroup.com/case-studies...
lol
On the train home, @lucymercer.bsky.social and I sorted out the problems with contemporary culture, and the education sector especially, but I forgot to take notes. Sorry about that; I'm sure it'll all work out.
June 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
lol
Congrats to @olibasciano.bsky.social on the launch of his brilliant book OUTCAST @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Congrats to @olibasciano.bsky.social on the launch of his brilliant book OUTCAST @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨
Helen Bessette’s novel Lili Is Crying beautifully translated by Kate Briggs @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
is one of my new favourite books ever & it could be one of yours too
is one of my new favourite books ever & it could be one of yours too
June 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Helen Bessette’s novel Lili Is Crying beautifully translated by Kate Briggs @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
is one of my new favourite books ever & it could be one of yours too
is one of my new favourite books ever & it could be one of yours too
😂 couldn’t make this up honestly
June 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
😂 couldn’t make this up honestly
beautiful sumoud convoy is the future 💖
June 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
beautiful sumoud convoy is the future 💖
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"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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You can buy a copy of The Age of Olive Trees here:
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
All proceeds go to support the poet in Gaza.
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
All proceeds go to support the poet in Gaza.
June 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You can buy a copy of The Age of Olive Trees here:
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
All proceeds go to support the poet in Gaza.
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
All proceeds go to support the poet in Gaza.