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"We aren’t required to be like one another or even to like one another to be in relation. We just need to be willing to create and enter spaces in which solidarity is one of the possibilities."

The Art of the Impersonal Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

We are launching a book! Women's Historical Fiction Across the Globe is coming out soon and I'll be interviewing Dr Barbour at the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation on Feb 12. Get your free ticket at:
www.tickettailor.com/events/tclct...

"The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when it should inspire and elevate."

—Tom Waits

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

Francesca Wade on the long life of The Little Review

Amazing panel with @literatureireland at @booksupstairs. Fantastic reflections on identity, what/who gets translated and on being defined by others in our work. Is it 'magical' realism or is it just a frame of reference distinct from the usual white cisheteropatriarchal norms? ❤️

Una locura fabulosa. 🤯

Twice a year we make catalogues to share our upcoming books with booksellers and journalists and all kinds of interested (hopefully interested!) folk.

In recent years we’ve been commissioning illustrators for the covers: it’s become a real highlight for me to see what they come up with.

Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I kept thinking about this so much while reading Westover's Educated. I'd never read a memoir so concerned with a paratextual apparatus that highlights the author's concerns with the concept of truth.