Happy publication day to Keeping the House.
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Words on hiding in plain sight, set around and away from the north London heroin trade. Supermarket academics. The way cPTSD can spin time from us. Cabbages.
Grateful. With @andothertweets and shot by Richard Dixon, lostintottenham.
SALES OF SALLY ROONEY BOOKS SURGE IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND AFTER PUBLISHER STOPS DISTRIBUTION: @IrishTimes@SeaninGraham22
The Irish Times are reporting this morning that there has been a surge locally in the sales of Sally Rooney Books following the decision by her publisher to stop distribution of her books in Britain and the North of Ireland due to her support for Palestine Action.
The Belfast Independent Bookstore "No Alibis" (on Botanic Avenue) ran out of her books at 11am yesterday morning (Friday).
Other independent local stores who are continuing to sell her book include:
@LittleAcornsBks (Derry)
@BridgeBooksDro1 (Dromore)
@sally_rooney
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several independent bookshops in the North of Ireland including No Alibis in Belfast and Bridge Books (@BridgeBooksDro1) are continuing to source and sell Sally Rooney’s books because they stand on the right side of history and not with the regressive, authoritarian laws and legislation of the British state
they are able to do this because the North has dual access to both UK and EU markets (thanks Brexit) and can order books through Irish distributors (Argosy etc) meaning that they are technically operating outside UK jurisdiction (any revenue made off Sally’s books in this case would be Irish revenue / sales)
so hypothetically, if there was an owner of an independent bookshop in Britain who wants to put two fingers up to the British government and this ridiculous law, you could do what the bookshops here are doing and source Sally’s books through those same Irish distributors…
just a thought…
and sure if you’d like to tag your local bookshop below / share this post, and if they want or need advice or more clarity about this… I know a guy, that’s all I’m saying
Sally Rooney's books can no longer be sold in Britain due to her support for Palestine Action.
She refused to withdraw her support for the direct action group which targeted the Israeli arms industry, costing her the royalties from all of her UK sales.
https://t.co/Yybcw7BXv0
Anne Carson asks what it meant to write on the sky; in my context, the question becomes, What does it mean to live beneath a sky turned into a weapon?
Alaa Alqaisi @arablit
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For anyone wanting to know more about Anne Carson, this is an excellent introduction and appreciation of her by another great Canadian poet:
https://t.co/kCl6O0i6SO
Sarah Chihaya on why Anne Carson's “The Glass Essay” "is indisputably the greatest breakup poem ever written." As fine an essay as you'll ever read. https://t.co/xkYvW5iBtH
This one goes out to all of the tumblr kids reblogging that “I’ll take care of you / it’s rotten work / not to me, not if it’s you” exchange from her Euripides translation
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
It took a little longer than expected, but we have finished the Gaza Geolocation Map. Every clip in the archive whose location we know is placed on a map of Gaza, so you can see where the footage was filmed.
It includes:
35,200+ videos and photos placed on the map.
Sources and the original post for every clip
Node map links & suggested leads
Our built-in AI iris can navigate the map
Fully searchable index
Filters by area, date, type of attack and precision
UN satellite damage survey layer (UNOSAT)
Built-in reverse image search links for each node
Downloadable dataset (CSV, GeoJSON and Google Earth)
It can be accessed here: https://t.co/4irNy85XQW
Please re-share and help us break out of the algorithm prison.
We will keep placing more of the footage as our researchers work through the rest of the archive.
Thank you to https://t.co/c8bmQF2iME, GeoConfirmed, @AbuLocation and @NemoAnno, whose geolocation work is credited on the map.
God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out.
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Here’s an excerpt from my new (prose!) book. It’s from the opening essay, which addresses 兔儿神/the Rabbit God, a queer Chinese deity from my home province of Fujian.
In Cahoots with the Rabbit God is out on Dec. 1 from @Noemi_Press. Preorder now: https://t.co/wlT6tMm9H7
The homeless woman murdered in Central Park was a beloved artist and birdwatcher who made beautiful pieces dedicated to birds. She went by Lee Rogers, but also was known as Elise Bainbridge Hill. Her art was awesome. I hope her life story is shared and not just the grisly details