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Publishing Director: Hamish Hamilton & Penguin Books. Future Library trustee. Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature
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We all need beauty and dark truth.
If you haven’t read CÉSAR AIRA, here is a great place to start — 3 short novels in 1, with a cover by —
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Author Arundhati Roy at Home…Somewhere in Delhi
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the ALI SMITHS are here! — paperback ‘Companion piece’ advances just in — bronze foil and Hockney’s felled trees —
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The exhibition 'L’arcobaleno riposa sulla strada' hosts the reading of 'X = Freedom', a poem for Meret Oppenheim by British writer Deborah Levy.
An Italian version of the poem will be read by Giulia Crispiani.
Info and bookings: istitutosvizzero.it/it/arte/x-free
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"There are times when our emotions are tattered, and the language that conveys them is also in tatters": Han Kang on her fiction in this week's issue.
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Read the first extract from HAN KANG’s ‘Greek Lessons’ — coming from Hamish Hamilton in April, translated by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won — in this week’s New Yorker —
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This week's fiction is “The Middle Voice” by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won). newyorker.com/magazine/2023/
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‘One gets tired of seeing stupidity triumph without a fight’ — Albert Camus
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Twenty years ago, somehow.
Thinking of W.G. SEBALD — Max — tonight —
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GREAT post day — ft the very first hardback of @fairfairisles’ intoxicating third novel, CURSED BREAD — just over a month till publication 
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NEW from ALI SMITH — a gorgeous, free-wheeling story in the mode and mood of her Seasonal novels, from .
‘Future, folded, waiting, possible,open…’
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'Above our small street three poplars in the distance flexed their spines against the shift of air … ' The writing is on the wall in Ali Smith's short story Wake. Read it exclusively at fictionable.world
#books #fiction #shortstories #reading #writing #writers
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Advance copies of MARLON JAMES Moon Witch, Spider King paperback — just in from printer 🔥
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'Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."'
Angela Davis, Marxist theorist, Black Panther affiliate, anti-racist activist, feminist, and prison abolitionist, was born #OnThisDay 1944.
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Happy birthday to ANGELA DAVIS
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Preparing for press — SUSAN SONTAG’s On Women — radical and radiant essays, introduced by —
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Founder of New Beacon Books John La Rose being honoured as the problematically named Black Boy Lane is finally renamed.
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of City Lights Bookstore!
City Lights was founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore and “literary meeting place.”
Connecting people through books has been our mission ever since.
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X = Freedom — A Poem for Meret Oppenheim by DEBORAH LEVY. To be read by Deborah Rome — 3rd February. Tickets on the institute website
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Treasure
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Goodbye Ronnie Blythe, 100 years of observing, listening and creating. A beautiful man.
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Blue Monday —
New novels from HAN KANG and DEBORAH LEVY, coming this Spring 🌀💙
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Pauline Boty’s ‘The Only Blonde in the World’, looking 💚 at Tate Britain, opposite Hockney’s ‘Splash’. Love to Ali Smith —
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We have exciting news... a very special limited edition of
's new novel "Close to Home" is now available for pre order . See 👇
noalibis.com/product/close-
This edition features a beautifully distinctive cover & exclusive interview with the author.
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NEW YEAR's Revol/sol/ution - Study Black Brit Lit in all its glory, scope and importance. Apply to the MA Black British Literature today. Taught by Suzanne Scafe, Marl'ene Edwin & Deirdre Osborne. Now in its 9th year ;
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Just in! — bound proofs of HAN KANG’s ‘Greek Lessons’ — the novel which followed ‘The Vegetarian’ in Korea — translated by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won, and coming from Hamish Hamilton this April 🌀
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Coming from Hamish Hamilton this March ⚡️
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Very excited to reveal the gorgeous and unsettling final cover of the UK edition of Cursed Bread! Out (very soon!!) on 2nd March, or available now to pre-order from the bookshop of your choice 
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Bound proofs of ’s radical reckoning with Britain’s flatlands, ‘A Flat Place’, in the arms of editor .
Publishing 04/23
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Day 2 report
7 January 2023
I wasn’t a happy child but I wasn’t an unhappy child either. Once I could read I was free. I could go to libraries every day, often accompanied by my mother, and I saw reading as a way out from my immediate surroundings.
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So good we used it on the cover of MY SEDITIOUS HEART. No one photographs Arundhati — or Delhi — like 🖤
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One late night in Delhi I spotted author Arundh!!!!!… why don’t I get lucky every Delhi night!
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On CLR James’ birthday, a letter from the Trinidadian intellectual to Edward Said from Aug 1987 thanking him for that Bach recording. Thanks to .
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The best books to read in 2023 — inc ZADIE SMITH and DEBORAH LEVY
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That's my reading sorted for the year - bring it on - poetry! twitter.com/ForwardPrizes/
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@BGArtsCentre was appointed as an @ace_national #NationalPortfolioOrganisation for the first time in 2022, allowing us to support even more Black artists to make bold & groundbreaking work from 2023 to 2026. We can't wait! #blackfutures #blackhistory365 #NewNPO #BGAC #BGAC2023
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