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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · 25d

I'm really very sorry to hear this, David - hugs and good vibes for whoever needs them.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Sep 16

Very sorry to hear this, David; many good vibes from this side of the Shannon.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Sep 2

Already something to look forward to next year...!

And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Sep 2

In January we will publish, for the very first time outside of Australia, LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE by Gerald Murnane.

Cruelly reviewed when first published, this collection of short fiction, Murnane’s first, is now regarded as one of the author’s best works.

www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Aug 28

There's something about Autumn that seems to call for academic pursuits, and I have 10 Tuesday evenings accounted for in one fell swoop!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Aug 15

Have you ever wanted to study the Gothic with me?

At a British university but online so it's accessible to you anywhere?

For a fraction of a usual university course cost?

With delicious delicious library access?

Come join me Liverpool uni starting October!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1831 - Continuing Education - University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Aug 28

Have just signed up - am very much looking forward to it!

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · May 22

Not on social media recently (🌞🌞= busy👩‍🌾); today's the 10th anniversary of my last day at OPCW. 10 years of the occasionally hair-raising plunge into horticulture that followed is compressed, for your entertainment, into about three minutes. (Not the day job. You know what a desk looks like..)

10th Anniversary

YouTube video by Bibliothèque des Refusés

www.youtube.com

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 29

Good Red Herring still popping up occasionally! Thank you @bookaneer808.bsky.social!

Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social · Apr 27

My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25

The Cleaner by Mary Watson

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Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social

#mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksky💙📚 #booksellerrecommends

My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25

The Cleaner by Mary Watson

#mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends

My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25

Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell

#mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends

My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 21

Someone knows all the right things to say....also means I can borrow the loan of The Empusium!

Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social · Apr 21

Good morning! Nice to have a bank-holiday start to the week. I finished Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) yesterday evening - terrific, as expected. Today, I will be combining work and pleasure, editing a WIP by @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social.

Cover of The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Fitzcarraldo Editions: 2024 (first published 2022).

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 18

Coincidentally, the birth and death dates of the outsider artist, Henry Darger, are also 12th & 13th April respectively.

Black and white photograph of the Outsider artist, Henry Darger, seated by some steps outside on a sunny day.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 18

Publishers reject in different ways (apart from those who opt for lingering silence 😠); I have had some kindly ones, but one that still tickles is one that sounds *hugely* sarcastic but probably wasn't: "It is entirely possible another publisher might be interested". Definite "yeah, right" vibe.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 18

On a day off, transcribing/finishing up. Found short story notes stuck in the back of a notebook, with this in the margin:
"Aim to do some sketchy sh1t, doo-dah, doo-dah/Hope I get away with it, o-de-do-dah-day". I'm not sure if this was my, or someone else's comment, on current public life, but...

Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 18

Meant to mark 12th & 13th April: death & birth dates respectively of Josephine Baker & Samuel Beckett. Both born 1906, long-term residents of France, awarded the Croix de Guerre, and (the real biggie) characters in a short story I've just written. #AmWriting #Beckett #Baker #SpeculativeFiction

Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 14

Am having great fun reading these epistolatory stories, written as (so far) transcript of 911 call, text msg, email, a journal (with framing letter), missing person documentation, concurrent letters (w/struck-out text), 8th century 'writings', and docs released under FOI. #AmReading #GothicArchives

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 13

We have abruptly returned to a more usual April: after a month (more?) of sun and virtually no rain, we've just had a short shower of...hail. But with rainbow.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 13

Latest book acquisition: Beckett's The Unnamable, purchased in @booksupstairs.bsky.social and read Eimear McBride's foreword in their café, snickering aloud at her description of Beckett's prose as having been "stripped to the bone and the bone itself boiled white."

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Apr 5

My OH saw this and said I look like I am on the command deck of a vessel that has just come under fire..!

Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 29

It's cold, windy, and rainy here today, and I have laughed inordinately at this.

NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 22

Congratulations to all!

Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social · Mar 22

Congratulations to the authors of the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize longlist!

Now live on our website: bit.ly/4bNzJi5

a man and a woman are dancing in a room with their hands in the air .

ALT: a man and a woman are dancing in a room with their hands in the air .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 18

Book post is always good, but Contributor's Copy Book Post is particularly good. Literature, The Gothic and the Reconstruction of History: The Past as Nightmare; ed. D. Renshaw & N. Cocks, Reading University, pub. Routledge. Ch. 9 (archives, M.R. & Henry James) by the blurry figure in the photo.

Author looking pleased with self, holding contributor's copy of Literature, The Gothic, and the Reconstruction of History, with bookshelves in background.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 18

Being on leave, splitting the day between horticulture and creativity, is just so...well, *me*. I can't think how the Good Fairy of Private Incomes managed to miss so ideal a recipient...Sleeping on the job, probably. Out partying with the Tooth Fairy.
#WritingLife

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 18

And usually good to authors. I was ordering a book over the phone once, and heard the bookseller shout at a customer "Hey, X - you can tell your partner we just sold another one!" That's a creative ecosystem for you...!

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Mar 18

Totally endorse. Word of mouth recs and hand-selling from dedicated booksellers are the lifeblood for small presses and writers at my level of the game. Both awards GS was listed for were chosen by booksellers and that's the ultimate seal of approval for me. No one knows the game better than them.

Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · Mar 18

The indie booksellers sell books on better terms that ultimately support the wider industry. It's like selling a house for people to live in versus stripping it for parts, copper, etc, and leaving nothing habitable.

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 18

Yet more! Never be stuck for a bookshop.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · Mar 18

Vibes & Scribes (Cork), O’Mahony’s (Limerick), Charlie Byrne’s (Galway), The Book Centre (Waterford)…

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 18

...and excellent Sheelagh na Gig (Cloughjordan), Halfway Up The Stairs (Greystones, esp. for children's), & The Winding Stair (an actual Bookshop on the Quays); all deliver, all have v. informed staff who *love* books, & W Stair & Books U have food.
@sheelaghnagig.bsky.social #BookshopsRock

Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · Mar 18

Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

Business Post @businesspost.bsky.social · Mar 18

Ecommerce giant Amazon goes live with dedicated Irish store

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 17

Who better to depict one of the national saints than a national treasure born on this day in 1889? #HarryClarke #StainedGlass

St. Patrick Preaching to his Disciples by Harry Clarke | Daily Dose of

A background history on "St. Patrick Preaching to his Disciples" by the Irish artist, Harry Clarke,

www.myddoa.com

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · Mar 17

St Patrick's Day seems an apposite one on which to discover (from James Joyce, as faithfully recorded in The Dalkey Archive) that the Holy Ghost is "merely an exudation of God the Father", the disappointment to the Holy Ghost Fathers having been acknowledged.
#TheDalkeyArchive #FlannOBrien