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2025-04-10 10:20:03 UTC

'The Unnamable’s sole remaining vehicle was voice and, in finding it, the writer arrived at his ultimate form'
Eimear McBride introduces Samuel Beckett's stripped-down novel, The Unnamable:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/samuel-becketts-art-of-reduction
#books #fiction #reading #writing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-09 16:43:47 UTC

A new novel from Thomas Pynchon:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/09/thomas-pynchon-announces-shadow-ticket-his-first-novel-in-more-than-a-decade
But it he really "elusive"?
#books #fiction #reading #writing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-09 16:41:37 UTC

Every book is an adventure. Andrzej Klimowski sets off on a journey around his latest graphic novel, Edifice.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/andrzej-kilmowski-drawing-writing-graphic-novel-edifice
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-08 14:22:57 UTC

More congratulations, as the International #Booker announces its 2025 #shortlist
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2025
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-08 10:15:12 UTC

Give your friends and family a year’s free access to the best short stories and graphic fiction from all over the world:
https://www.fictionable.world/gift_subscription.html
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-08 07:01:51 UTC

"What tech companies are doing is neither 'fair use' nor 'fair dealing'. It is a blatant infringement of copyright."
Ambre Morvan tells Matilda Battersby that Meta's defence won't fly:
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/metas-fair-use-defence-for-training-ai-with-published-books-wont-work-in-uk-says-pa
#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-06 06:36:41 UTC

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… an interesting question. Two thoughts:
1. I think you're referring to Annie Proulx's excellent piece. That's not *us* saying something, that's *her* saying something. Her free speech, if you will.
You might like to check out some of the other things other contributors have freely said on our blog:
https://www.fictionable.world/blog_front.html
2. Short stories are connected to the world. Even SF, fantasy and romance are still reflecting our world back to us. So it's basically impossible for a story *not* to be political. (Even a story that studiously avoids politics is political, by endorsing the status quo.) So there's no way around it. Writing is political.
That doesn't mean every short story is *about* politics. And plenty of the stories we publish aren't really about politics at all.
You might also like to check out our archive:
https://www.fictionable.world/issues_front.html

2025-04-05 11:26:10 UTC

Billionaires are bending the knee to Donald Trump. It's time to defend democratic rights, says Annie Proulx:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/annie-proulx-donald-trump-plutocrats-free-speech
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #USPol #trump #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-05 09:52:22 UTC

From How to Be an Antiracist to Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The full list of #books removed from the Naval Academy #library
Via the Literary Saloon:
https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202504a.htm#hh7
#reading #writing #diversity #libraries #censorship #USPol #Trump #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-04 15:52:14 UTC

Lights, camera, but will there be any action at the Imperial on East 14th Street? Julian George dims the lights in The Movie Lovers.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-movie-lovers-julian-george
Image: Krish Shah
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-03 17:02:35 UTC

'The company has taken our books and used it to make money. It has money, but instead of paying us for our intellectual property instead of licensing a word, it's taking it all for free.'
Andrew Rogers talks to the authors standing up against #Meta
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70w24j7jk1o
#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-01 07:57:05 UTC

'Punctuation controls two things: logical separation and breath… Writers weigh each role differently.'
Matthew Zipf on Renata Adler's commas:
https://theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas
#books #reading #writing #fiction #punctuation #commas #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-31 16:39:33 UTC

Helga Schubert reflects on beginnings and endings in On Getting Up, translated from German by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/on-getting-up-helga-schubert-translated-by-aaron-sayne-and-lillian-m-banks
Image: Scott Walsh
#podcast #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #ShortStories #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-28 08:14:43 UTC

'Language is essential in the comic, and its physical appearance was as carefully crafted as the art itself.'
Nicole Rudick on how Futura captures the betwixt and between in Crockett Johnson's comic strip Barnaby:
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/barnaby-crockett-johnson-nicole-rudick
#books #reading #writing #comics #typography #design #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-26 11:02:31 UTC

'We're seeing a lot more media now about black love and black joy, instead of just black pain.'
The winner of Stormzy's #MerkyBooks new writers' prize, Abaka Debrah, on writing 'for the next generation of young black boys':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0drg78797o
#books #reading #writing #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-25 14:53:25 UTC

Can the word really encompass the world? Joanna Kavenna investigates in her short story Notes on the Future:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna/
Image: Spitzer Space Telescope
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #comics #translation #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-24 07:56:43 UTC

"I just didn't think you could make art and be successful."
Ann Patchett talks to Katty Kay about kindness, smartphones and bookselling. Christopher Luu writes it up #BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250320-ann-patchett-interview-influential-katty-kay
#books #reading #writing #fiction #bookshops #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-21 07:46:05 UTC

… turns out the French novelist Victor Hugo was also a talented artist.
An exhibition of his drawings opens today at London's Royal Academy:
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/start-here-victor-hugo
#books #reading #writing #novels #classics #art #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-20 20:57:21 UTC

'You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.'
Tyson Yunkaporta goes on an elliptical journey in The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband:
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-time-travelers-wifes-husband
#books #reading #writing #essay #story #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-20 15:28:10 UTC

Fictionable arrives on paper with a stylish edition of Diana Evans' story Broth, where three friends go out for dinner. But are they all ready to share?
Get your copy at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-20 09:37:51 UTC

The #PoetLaureate Simon Armitage goes gardening:
https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/faber-reveals-new-illustrated-collection-by-simon-armitage
#books #reading #writing #poetry #publishing #garden #illustration #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-19 13:33:09 UTC

When TV goes to Hollywood, you've got to watch the script, says Julian George.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/julian-george-movie-lovers-short-story-prose or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #fiction #podcast #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-19 07:47:04 UTC

… more congratulations as Samantha Harvey and Roz Dineen make the shortlist of the 2025 #climate #fiction prize:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/climate-fiction-prize-samantha-harvey-tea-obreht-abi-dare-roz-dineen-kaliane-bradley
#books #reading #writing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-18 09:01:12 UTC

'Here come Handbooks, a series of handmade micro-published collections of poetry, prose and images.'
Clare Pollard, Chris Meade, Will Ashon and more in glorious concertina editions:
https://blownrose.uk/handbooks
#books #reading #writing #poetry #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-18 08:36:43 UTC

'It opened up a whole new life for me.'
The UK is shuttering about 40 #libraries a year:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg117gdky1o
#BBC #books #reading #writing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-14 09:02:00 UTC

'To read is to put our selves at risk, to make ourselves vulnerable by welcoming the presence of an other into our psychic space'
Is #reading really good for you? Tara Isabella Burton investigates:
https://aeon.co/essays/how-books-can-sap-the-soul-and-poison-readers-with-ideas
#books #writing #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-13 11:54:46 UTC

Broth makes it across the river, with a first appearance in #NorthLondon
Get your copy of Diana Evans's 'lean, quiet and shocking' short story at the Book Art Bookshop on Pitfield Street N1, or at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #fiction #bookshops #publishing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-11 17:39:35 UTC

When you assemble stories from fragments of real life, you need to take the long view, says Helga Schubert.
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/helga-schubert-story-distance-fragments
#podcast #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-10 11:52:37 UTC

Time Out has spoken:
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/this-is-officially-the-best-bookshop-in-london-according-to-time-out-031025
What do you think, #London ?
#books #reading #writing #bookshops #publishing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-08 15:38:15 UTC

Lights, camera, but will there be any action at the Imperial on East 14th Street? Julian George dims the lights in The Movie Lovers.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-movie-lovers-julian-george
Image: Jason Dent
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-07 12:27:42 UTC

'There is something that we, the book industry, can do… And that’s to stop linking to your book on Amazon.'
Drew Broussard lays it on the line:
https://lithub.com/stop-linking-to-amazon-already
#books #reading #writing #bookshops #Amazon #publising #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-06 16:44:50 UTC

'Don’t you crave a return of indie culture? Don’t you hope for a resistance movement? Don’t you want to see a backlash to uniformity and standardization?'
Ted Gioia on the flattening of culture and the emerging #resistance
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-world-was-flat-now-its-flattened
#books #reading #writing #fiction #music #film #culture #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-06 14:33:38 UTC

A phone call is a signal from a life left behind in Rachida Lamrabet's Two Girls on Bicycles, translated from Dutch by Johanna McCalmont.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/two-girls-on-bicycles-rachida-lamrabet-translated-by-johanna-mccalmont
Image: Ian Noble
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-06 10:30:48 UTC

'If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.'
Miriam Balanescu on how Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa captured an era of collapse in The Leopard:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250304-the-leopard-the-1958-italian-novel-that-skewered-the-super-rich
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #classics #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-04 15:15:18 UTC

Helga Schubert reflects on beginnings and endings in On Getting Up, translated from German by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/on-getting-up-helga-schubert-translated-by-aaron-sayne-and-lillian-m-banks
Image: Dave
#podcast #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #ShortStories #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-04 10:21:05 UTC

… more interesting books:
https://womensprize.com/announcing-the-2025-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist
#books #reading #writing #fiction #BookPrizes #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-03 17:22:02 UTC

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2025-03-03 16:47:29 UTC

… calling Yorkshire…
Harrogate festivals announce three bursaries for under-represented writers to visit the festival and take part in creative writing workshops. Applications by 18 April:
https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/news/the-jane-gregory-bursaries
#books #reading #writing #fiction #CrimeFiction #CreativeWriting #DEI #UnderRepresentedVoices #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-03 14:45:28 UTC

Can the word really encompass the world? Joanna Kavenna investigates in her short story Notes on the Future:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #comics #translation #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-03 07:51:14 UTC

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… 85% of banned titles were #fiction
And why is fiction targeted? Because the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes is a direct threat to cruelty and division.
#books #reading #writing #fiction #USPol #censorship #bookstodon

2025-03-03 07:47:45 UTC

Book bans are not a hoax:
https://pen.org/report/cover-to-cover
#books #reading #writing #fiction #USPol #censorship #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-27 08:07:51 UTC

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…and here's the short story:
https://yalereview.org/article/krasznahorkai-angel-passed-above-us
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #Ukraine #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-27 07:57:21 UTC

'A dirty, rotten war is unfolding before my eyes. The world is starting to get used to it. I cannot get used to it.'
László Krasznahorkai talks to Hari Kunzru about #Ukraine and the ongoing #apocalypse
https://yalereview.org/article/l%C3%A1szl%C3%B3-krasznahorkai_interview
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-26 07:35:52 UTC

'There is an urgent need for more stories told *by* disabled people, rather than simply *about* disabled people'
Clare Richards introduces Words Without Borders disability issue:
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2025-02/face-value-translating-divergence-clare-richards
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #disability #AssumeThatICan #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-25 08:43:44 UTC

'… Never seen the mountain
so brown, laid bare and yellow, a soft
bellied cat…'
Jessica Abughattas responds to last month's #LAFires with the #poem Beautiful Altadena:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jessica-abughattass-beautiful-altadena
#books #reading #writing #poetry #ClimateCrisis #climate #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-24 19:49:28 UTC

'When commissioning non-fiction, it always used to be that you looked for expertise… but increasingly what is valued more is profile.'
An anonymous #editor lets rip on the fact-checking furore:
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/i-care-about-carelessness
#books #reading #writing #publishing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-24 07:48:20 UTC

Still a few of our numbered, signed, limited edition of Broth by Diana Evans left:
https://www.fictionable.world/pages/limited-edition-signed-copies-of-broth-by-diana-evans
Or you can get a copy for £5:
https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #publishing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-22 09:40:45 UTC

'This press release headline alone tells you that this is disinformation, or information intended to do harm, and it is propaganda, or information intended to promote a specific viewpoint.'
Kelly Jensen gets critical with a press release on #BookBans from the Department of Education:
https://bookriot.com/guide-to-critically-read-a-press-release-from-the-federal-government
#books #reading #writing #censorship #libraries #USPol #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-21 15:02:58 UTC

Lights, camera, but will there be any action at the Imperial on East 14th Street? Julian George dims the lights in The Movie Lovers.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-movie-lovers-julian-george
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-20 08:48:20 UTC

"Anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating."
Emily Temple on Edward Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art:
https://lithub.com/edward-goreys-great-simple-theory-about-art-is-essential-reading-for-writers
#books #reading #writing #fiction #art #philosophy #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-19 07:47:36 UTC

A phone call is a signal from a life left behind in Rachida Lamrabet's Two Girls on Bicycles, translated from Dutch by Johanna McCalmont.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/two-girls-on-bicycles-rachida-lamrabet-translated-by-johanna-mccalmont
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-18 08:50:26 UTC

Helga Schubert reflects on beginnings and endings in On Getting Up, translated from German by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/on-getting-up-helga-schubert-translated-by-aaron-sayne-and-lillian-m-banks
#podcast #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #ShortStories #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-17 16:14:10 UTC

Can the word really encompass the world? Joanna Kavenna investigates in her short story Notes on the Future:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #comics #translation #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-15 14:54:21 UTC

In a divided world, fiction can break through the barriers that keep us apart, says Rachida Lamrabet:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/rachida-lamrabet-fiction-perspective-choice-bicycles
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-14 08:32:00 UTC

More than 50 #exclusive #ShortStories as well as #blogs and #podcasts from #Pulitzer winners, #Booker winners, #InternationalBooker winners, #Eisner winners and the most exciting #NewVoices from all over the world.
Subscribe at https://www.fictionable.world/subscribe.html
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2025-02-13 14:49:24 UTC

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… it's got a ring to it…

2025-02-13 13:40:33 UTC

'Things are grim. I won't lie about the state of the nation. But in darkness, we find our communities. And our community is deep with the smartest, most educated cohort available: readers.'
Maggie Tokuda-Hall tells James Folta how Authors Against Book Bans fought off #censorship in #Florida
https://lithub.com/authors-against-book-bans-helped-defeat-attempted-library-censorship-in-florida
#books #reading #writing #libraries #USPol #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-13 12:20:38 UTC

Fictionable arrives on paper with a stylish edition of Diana Evans' story Broth, where three friends go out for dinner. But are they all ready to share?
Get your copy at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-12 12:10:38 UTC

Hats off all round – some great #books on this list:
https://womensprize.com/announcing-the-2025-womens-prize-for-non-fiction-longlist
#reading #writing #NonFiction #prizes #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-12 07:58:55 UTC

When TV goes to Hollywood, you've got to watch the script, says Julian George:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/julian-george-movie-lovers-short-story-prose
#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #fiction #podcast #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-07 13:16:20 UTC

'What secrets must they have held that Cassandra thought it best to burn them?'
Neil Armstrong on the mystery of #JaneAusten and her #letters
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250129-the-mystery-of-why-jane-austens-letters-were-destroyed-by-her-own-sister
#books #reading #writing #classics #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1twl…rsq4

2025-02-06 16:08:50 UTC

'Reading as a translator means rejecting the idea of foreignness wherever and however we can'
Lily Meyer reviews The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/damion-searls-philosophy-translation/
#books #reading #writing #translation #BookReview #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-05 07:55:31 UTC

Billionaires are already bending the knee to Donald Trump. It's time to defend democratic rights, says Annie Proulx:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/annie-proulx-donald-trump-plutocrats-free-speech
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #USPol #trump #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-04 10:21:26 UTC

… hats off all round:
https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/pen-translates-winners-announced-6
#books #reading #writing #translation #publishing #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-04 08:50:41 UTC

Lights, camera, but will there be any action at the Imperial on East 14th Street? Julian George dims the lights in The Movie Lovers.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-movie-lovers-julian-george
Image: Hermes Rivera
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-03 14:30:02 UTC

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… but with lots going on right now, perhaps it's a simple truth that needs saying.
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #diversity #DEI #USPol #bookstodon

2025-02-03 14:29:43 UTC

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… we're always pushing to do more, to do better. Last year we published our first story from a language of the African continent:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/first-date-esther-karin-mngodo-translated-by-jay-boss-rubin
But for us it's a straightforward matter of quality. If you don't look properly, if you don't look widely, you don't find the good stuff.
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #diversity #DEI #USPol #bookstodon

2025-02-03 14:29:20 UTC

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… that's a mission that's still at the heart of the magazine. On our about page we make clear that we're publishing "a wide range of tone and perspective":
https://www.fictionable.world/about.html
And on our submissions page we spell out that "We're keen to hear from perspectives that are currently under-represented on bookshelves in the UK and in the US, and we're also keen to find material first written in languages other than English."
https://www.fictionable.world/submit.html
And it's a mission that shapes each and every issue:
https://www.fictionable.world/issues_front.html
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #diversity #DEI #USPol #bookstodon

2025-02-03 14:28:45 UTC

… lots going on right now, so maybe worth going back to basics. Which in our case means back to the Kickstarter that got us going in 2022:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fictionable/fictionable
"We celebrate excellence wherever we find it, publishing diverse writers from across the globe to a global audience… We’re keen to hear from perspectives that are currently under-represented in English and American letters, and we’re also looking for writers who have not yet been published in English."
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #diversity #DEI #USPol #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-03 07:47:29 UTC

A trip to India is a chance to start again in No One Here Knows You by Ben Sorgiovanni. But will they find what they’re looking for?
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/no-one-here-knows-you-ben-sorgiovanni
Image: Debjoy Biswas
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-02 10:42:56 UTC

… a few tickets left for Diana Evans and Catriona Bolt at Chener Books on Tuesday 4 February:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diana-evans-and-catriona-bolt-tickets-1145493845929
Come talk female friendship, history and fiction.
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #essays #bookshops #SouthLondon #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-01 13:02:51 UTC

… keep it #legal
Get your copy https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #fiction #LegalDeposit #BritishLibrary #libraries #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-30 13:21:31 UTC

2025-01-30 08:08:02 UTC

… calling Leeds…
The translator Nicky Harman introduces Ling Shuhua, plus a workshop on writing about the self led by Yan Ge.
https://writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/writing-lives-from-china-in-the-1930s-to-britain-in-the-2020s/
#books #reading #writing #memoir #feminism #translation #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-29 13:20:27 UTC

A phone call is a signal from a life left behind in Rachida Lamrabet's Two Girls on Bicycles, translated from Dutch by Johanna McCalmont.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/two-girls-on-bicycles-rachida-lamrabet-translated-by-johanna-mccalmont
Image: Kai Pilger
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-29 08:38:15 UTC

'People were tired of reading stories about Africans migrating and living abroad.'
The Nigerian author who turned publisher:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/29/new-nigerian-writers-othuke-ominiabohs-novels-masobe-books
#books #reading #writing #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-28 10:24:06 UTC

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And if you're in south London, come join us on Tuesday 4 February:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diana-evans-and-catriona-bolt-tickets-1145493845929?aff=oddtdtcreator
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #bookstodon #events

2025-01-28 10:23:11 UTC

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Shoutout to Galley Beggar Press, Chener Books, Review Bookshop, Rye Books and of course Diana Evans and Catriona Bolt.

2025-01-28 10:08:09 UTC

'It’s really all about Diana’s knockout story'
Fictionable arrives on paper in the Bookseller:
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/diana-evans-short-story-broth-features-in-fictionables-first-print-edition
Get your copy at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans/
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-27 08:52:07 UTC

Can the word really encompass the world? Joanna Kavenna investigates in her short story Notes on the Future:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna/
Image: Smithsonian
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #comics #translation #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-24 17:35:15 UTC

Every book is an adventure. Andrzej Kilmowski sets off on a journey around his latest graphic novel, Edifice:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/andrzej-kilmowski-drawing-writing-graphic-novel-edifice
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-23 14:39:41 UTC

Lights, camera, but will there be any action at the Imperial on East 14th Street? Julian George dims the lights in The Movie Lovers.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-movie-lovers-julian-george
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-22 11:03:05 UTC

A trip to India is a chance to start again in No One Here Knows You by Ben Sorgiovanni. But will they find what they’re looking for?
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/no-one-here-knows-you-ben-sorgiovanni
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-21 18:04:40 UTC

A phone call is a signal from a life left behind in Rachida Lamrabet's Two Girls on Bicycles, translated from Dutch by Johanna McCalmont.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/two-girls-on-bicycles-rachida-lamrabet-translated-by-johanna-mccalmont
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-20 08:02:22 UTC

Billionaires are already bending the knee to the incoming president, Donald Trump. It's time to defend democratic rights, says Annie Proulx:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/annie-proulx-donald-trump-plutocrats-free-speech/
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #USPol #trump #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-19 16:24:32 UTC

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… sometimes it can be a struggle just to raise your head and look around, right? Maybe the key here is #community

2025-01-19 14:28:57 UTC

2025-01-18 17:26:15 UTC

Billionaires are already bending down to the incoming president, Donald Trump. It's time to defend democratic rights, says Annie Proulx:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/annie-proulx-donald-trump-plutocrats-free-speech/
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #podcast #USPol #trump #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-17 19:15:13 UTC

When you assemble stories from fragments of real life, you need to take the long view, says Helga Schubert.
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/helga-schubert-story-distance-fragments
#podcast #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-17 16:29:54 UTC

… news from #Flanders
https://www.flandersliterature.be/news/authors-abroad/fictionable-2025
#books #reading #ShortStories #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-17 08:40:56 UTC

Can the word really encompass the world? Joanna Kavenna investigates in her short story Notes on the Future:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna/
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #comics #translation #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-16 19:57:10 UTC

It's time for #Winter2024 with stories from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George.
Plus Annie Proulx calls for #writers to defend democracy and Andrzej Klimowski opens his #sketchbook
Catch it all at https://fictionable.world
#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-16 14:54:30 UTC

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… with thanks to Lillian for reading from her and Aaron's #translation

2025-01-16 14:52:47 UTC

So here they are, the marvellous #ShortStories for #Winter2024 from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Ben Sorgiovanni, Julian George and Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont.
#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #fiction #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-16 14:45:19 UTC

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… and that intriguing collection of #books ? Ask Ben Sorgiovanni…

2025-01-16 14:44:41 UTC

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… so that natty desk light? It belongs to Rachida Lamrabet…

2025-01-15 10:21:45 UTC

… our second #mystery contributor for #Winter has got themselves into a corner. But look at those #books
George Saunders, Eliza Clark, Jennifer Egan…
#reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #translation #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-14 15:31:06 UTC

… just a couple of days until Winter. Time for a couple of #mystery contributors.
Our first is keeping things tight: table, chair, papers, books and a few postcards for contemplation.
Natty fringe on that lampshade though…
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #translation #podcast #winter #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-12 11:26:30 UTC

… calling south London…
Join Diana Evans and Catriona Bolt on Tuesday 4 February to talk female friendship, history and fiction at Chener Books:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diana-evans-and-catriona-bolt-tickets-1145493845929
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #essays #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2024-12-20 10:15:03 UTC

… so it's the #Friday before #Christmas
How about some more #ThreeBooks ?
Tell us three #books you've enjoyed recently and we'll try to come up with another one you might like.
And given that it's the #FestiveSeason give us #ThreeBooks currently on your hard-to-buy-for friend's shelves and we'll see if we can give you some #bookshop #inspo
#reading #writing #presents #libraries #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57