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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 14d

three retrospectives >> Steve Hanson manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...
>> David Vichnar www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen... >> Daniel Green www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/issue-five

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 10h

JONATHAN MARTIN on #goodreads
[rate the book > quote a firestarter🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥]
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 14h

JONATHAN MARTIN | *out 1 Nov* Equus Press

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 1d

my novel JONATHAN MARTIN has arrived at the publishers in Prague (photo courtesy of Louis Armand) | *out later this month*
ansgarallen.com/jonathan-mar...

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 10d

#Bernhard #interview

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 11d

preview of an interview for a forthcoming exhibition at the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library
ansgarallen.substack.com/p/global-ber... #UniversityofVienna #Bernhard

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 11d

cover reveal >> DRAG EDUCATION: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching by Ryan Tracy

[---book #3 in the Risking Education series co-edited by Ansgar Allen & Emile Bojesen---]

punctumbooks.com/titles/drag-... @punctumbooks.bsky.social #RuPaul #queertheory

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 14d

three retrospectives >> Steve Hanson manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...
>> David Vichnar www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen... >> Daniel Green www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/issue-five

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 14d

An extended review by David Vichnar on some of Ansgar Allen's recents www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen...

Ansgar Allen’s Experimental Fiction as Meta-Critique

Notes on The Wake and the Manuscript (2022); Plague Theatre (2022); Midden Hill (2025); Jonathan Martin (2025)

www.erratumpress.com

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 14d

the Division grows...

Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 14d

HERMESLANG / book #3 in the Academic Division / *out now* [pdf/pbk] www.erratumpress.com/hermeslang / book #4 coming soon...

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 15d

HERMESLANG by Spyridon St. Kogkas
erratumpress.com/hermeslang

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 15d

HERMESLANG by Spyridon St. Kogkas | *out today*
w. an introduction by Andrew C. Wenaus
www.erratumpress.com/hermeslang

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 21d

vom

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 21d

manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... @stevehanson.bsky.social

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 21d

in a day in a day in a day in a

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 22d

Good plan.

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 22d

Steve Hanson feels as though he's been there from the beginning, so to speak. Here he is on my forthcoming novel JONATHAN MARTIN (which he reads alongside The Sick List, Wretch, and Plague Theatre)
manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... @stevehanson.bsky.social

Jonathan Martin, London's Overthrow, verso

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 22d

THE POEMS: A NOVELLA by William Walsh | *out now*

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 22d

THE POEMS: A NOVELLA by William Walsh *out today*
www.erratumpress.com/the-poems @questionstruck.bsky.social

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 23d

A short review of an important book, doesn't do it justice but my time is limited. manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...

Burning Belief

Ansgar Allen – Jonathan Martin (Equus) Ansgar Allen is an important literary figure for the mid-21st century. His latest book, published by Equus, is ‘about’ Jonathan Martin, famous for setti…

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 23d

over at Global Bernhard a project to 'systematically map and contextualize international responses to the work of Thomas Bernhard' #UniversityofVienna #Bernhard
globalbernhard.univie.ac.at/en/authors/g...

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 23d

Here's the cover spread for the forthcoming title: Reference≠Endorsement by A J Moore
www.erratumpress.com/reference-en...

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 25d

I never thought I'd say it but it isn't anywhere near ludicrous enough. Or horrifying. Each subsequent day trumps it at local and global levels.

Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 25d

"This goes nowhere you'd expect, but incisively gets under the skin of the times we live in. Humorous, horrifying, compelling." -- Adam Paxman
www.erratumpress.com/last-days-of... @stevehanson.bsky.social

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 24d

"Sparkling, bright, challenging, haunting, ever surprising, and immensely gifted.” -- Lance Olsen
www.erratumpress.com/the-prodigio... @ericblix.bsky.social

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 24d

'Nobody knows how to scream anymore in Europe.' #Artaud