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Tim Groenland
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Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · Jul 18
Here's something that me and Evan Brier have been working on for ages: a special issue on editors in postwar US literature, full of essays by brilliant scholars. Delighted to see it published! post45.org/sections/iss...
Issue 9: Editing American Literature - Post45
Edited by Evan Brier and Tim Groenland
post45.org
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megireid.bsky.social
Corporate publishers spend an incredible amount on marketing, and small and midsize publishers have to make up this giant gap with earned publicity (especially awards and book REVIEWS). Every national book review outlet that closes feels like a death knell for independent publishers.
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Such an important initiative.
jackmirkinson.bsky.social Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 1d
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
groenbot.bsky.social
Smash the machines. Throw them in a hole in the ground and fill it with rocks
January 31, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Commissar, reassuring the Dutch people that life would return to "normal" if they cooperated. He then introduced measures to stop resistance, and after a general strike in Amsterdam, summary executions began.
sepia toned photo of Dr. Seyss-Inquart sitting at his desk wearing glasses and a dark suit.
January 30, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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theotherone012.bsky.social
Holy shit that is a haunting image:
dumbfuck federal agent knocking on a journalist's door to arrest her
January 30, 2026 at 3:07 PM
groenbot.bsky.social
"To think of all the times I've lied to a poet!"
Mariusz Szczygieł, NOT THERE (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
To think of all the times I've lied to a poet! A poet never gives you a poem to read - they shove it under your nose. And then shamelessly question you: "Don't you like it?" And telling a poet "Your poem leaves me cold" would be like spitting in their face. But you have to say something. So I've come up with a wonderful lie. "You know what," I tell them, "to feel a poem properly you have to tune its rhythm to your own rhythm, as Kapuściński once said. But I'm finding it harder and harder for my inner rhythm to harmonize with any poetry at all. It's as if I were doomed to some awful, vulgar rhythm from the outside, from the street, from TV... So I'd really better not desecrate your poem with my clumsy reading." "I understand you perfectly," says the poet, becuase they too think that apart from their poems everything in the world is unbearable. In fact, poets are usually quite happy to find that someone else is prepared to express their reservations about reality, just as they do.
January 29, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
These companies want to take everything that is required for people to communicate with one another and exercise our capacity to operate in a democracy and sell it back to us as automated algorithmic decision making that will ultimately penalize us for reasons we’re prevented from seeing.
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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paddyduffy.bsky.social
People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.
January 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM
groenbot.bsky.social
Today's vibe: submitting a funding report while looking out the window at constant rain, soundtracked by this mix (forlorn instrumentals punctuated by snatches of intense gloomy Hungarian dialogue)
www.nts.live/shows/sounds...
Sounds on Screen: Béla Tarr & Mihály Víg 13th January 2026
Playing Soundtrack. Musical selections from the filmography of renowned Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, soundtracked by Tarr's friend and composer Mihály Víg. Vig composed music for Tarr's films beginning...
www.nts.live
January 29, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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lkonstan.bsky.social
Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now?
There is no real middlebrow any more.
www.chronicle.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social
We are saddened to learn of the death of Eric Huntley. An inspirational force in partnership with his wife Jessica, they were at the heart of black radical publishing and bookselling in the 70s/80s. We remember their activism with the International Book Fair and the Bookshop Joint Action Committee
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 AM
groenbot.bsky.social
There was some disrespect, in fairness, but we're generally pretty relaxed about this and rarely bring it up
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d
teaching "The Conditions of the Working Class in England" for the first time in a while and turns out I had well and truly forgotten how historical figures used to post about the Irish on main
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
groenbot.bsky.social
One aim for this year: read a few chunky novels. Going to have a go at this one from @sinoistbooks.bsky.social
OLD KILN by Jia Pingwa, accompanied by lego man for scale
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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tupped.bsky.social
Please note: This has been Ireland’s immigration policy for over 20 years.
January 28, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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groenbot.bsky.social
Honoured to be in this issue of @memoiresdulivre.bsky.social on visibility & publishing, eds @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social & @julienlf.bsky.social

Me & @michaelakralova.bsky.social wrote about publishing & translation, focusing on the sexy topic of metadata :-)

www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
Data, Discoverability, and Translation in the UK and Irish Book Markets – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
An article from Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, on Érudit.
www.erudit.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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taylordahlin.com
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
groenbot.bsky.social
"We continue to receive calls where the ruling seems to have changed the culture of acceptance and kindness to rejection and hate of Black and brown LGBTQ+ people"
thejoytuckclub.bsky.social Phoebe @thejoytuckclub.bsky.social · 8d
This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 AM
groenbot.bsky.social
They are losing. And they have many more losses to come
nickmiroff.bsky.social Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 8d
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:07 AM
groenbot.bsky.social
I refuse to believe that Gerald Murnane is real
He often shifts between such withholding and the kind of intimate disclosure that we might now call oversharing. His infamous archives—which are held in a series of filing cabinets that he sleeps next to on a foldout cot and swag—contain materials that he does not wish to be released until after his death. These archives hold all of his published and unpublished writings and correspondence, as well as highly personal information, including a 20,000‑word essay detailing past actions he finds shameful, a horse‑racing roleplaying game that he has been playing for several decades (known as the “Antipodean archive”), and even, apparently, his penis measurements. The archives could be viewed as the most extreme possible experiment in autofiction, or an extended, textual mode of avant‑garde performance art, as if Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” were stretched across an entire lifetime. However, even some of his friends have found his archives simply disturbing. The author Barry Oakley described his reaction upon discovering that Murnane’s archives included a record of his bowel movements and descriptions of 1000 pornographic images he found erotic. Oakley told Murnane that the archives “were both extraordinary and somewhat disturbing” and reflected a tendency toward “solipsism”; this led, in his view, to the end of their friendship (for a second time).
January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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This is fun - some nice recommendations from @chadwpost.bsky.social, and some love for @tramppress.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/a...
A 2026 Irish Book Preview
Podcast Episode · Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast · 26/01/2026 · 1h 26m
podcasts.apple.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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averyedison.com
𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—wax was a bad call. I should’ve flagged heat resistance as a 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 instead of assuming you’d stay within 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴. That one’s on me.
January 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM
groenbot.bsky.social
"The capture and warehousing of humans is now at the centre of an institutional transformation of federal police power"

- among many other insights here
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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dmbmeg.bsky.social
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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tupped.bsky.social
No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland.

Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.
pradaldi.bsky.social Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 11d
358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%.
tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu

☑️Belgium 103%
☑️Finland 100.5%
☑️France 296%
Ireland 58.7%
Italy 79.8%
Netherlands 31%
Poland 51.4%
☑️Spain 111.9%
Sweden 81.6%
Number of signatures per country
January 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM