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.

Yeah ours was a lot smaller, not much more than 30 - you could fit in more, but there are pretty hard constraints on space there. There's definitely a shortage of slightly bigger (and affordable, non-corporate) venues in Dublin...

Holy shit that is a haunting image:

We had a really good experience in Pearse Street library in November with the Dublin Small Press Fair, but it may or not be available/suitable for your purposes - happy to chat about this if you're interested

Lol. Not entirely sure I'd disagree

This is one of a handful of books published so far by translation-focused publisher Linden Editions (UK)

Infinite Jest?

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.

Looking forward to leaving the house for an hour on Sunday 🥳

open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

While reading SEIOBO, I stumbled across a blog in which a guy described his unsuccessful attempt to discover more details about the metal band that LK supposedly used to play in. It is unquestionably one of the most metal novels I've ever read

To be fair, I did just finish this 450-page chunky boi. My hot take: the Nobel committee were onto something with this fella