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Stu Hennigan

@stuhennigan.bsky.social

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Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027) #MDANT https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan https://stuhennigan.substack.com/

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 4

A pinned thread about my new novel, Keshed, publishing on 12th Feb 2026 with @ortacpress.bsky.social. Pre-orders available now from all the usual bookshops/websites. See thread for some early pre-press takes from some AMAZING writers and links to other stuff.

www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 55m

@joannapocock.bsky.social 👀👀👀👀

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1d

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

(Jen this ain't for yilour benefit but would like to refer folk who don't know me to Poe's Law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s... in case you're after kicking my ass for expressing scandalous opinions about translation)

Poe's law - Wikipedia

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

someone invents a translation bot to do all that easy work for you 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Her, the world's his oyster now, you can make a mint as a translator. I just laugjed my ass off and went, mam, i made seventy five quid in royalties last year and translators make even less money than writers do 😳😱

Probably cos you're all unskilled and shit, keeping the office chairs warm till

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

💯💯💯💯💯💯

I don't know why it's so hard to grasp for people. "Lol, can't AI do it?" "Er, no......."

You'll appreciate this Jen, my cousin has just aced a load of top-level Japanese language qualifications. His mam is prone to exaggerate, but my mam reported earlier this week that my aunty had told

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Transatlantic musical coimcidences/gigs etc so i would be MAD if i was one for someone else 🤣 Lit life is bonkers like that, i love it

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Can't promise anything as exciting as that but me n Terri are an amazing double act and (not that i'll be drinking cos nearly 5 yrs #sober) there'll be festivities in some hostelry or other after. Lemme know if you're coming, won't bore ya with any more but got a few other stories about

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Of 7"s too, and i used Michael Cronin's ID to get smokes - there was a girl literally giving away 20 decks of Marlboro to anyone with US ID so even tho i was like 10 yra older than the band and had my UK passport (i was 32 at the time) they wouldn't give me any. So he gave me his to flash instead 🤣

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

We'd seen Ty + Thee Oh Sees a few times here, fairly recently before we went, when we rocked up the bar was empty apart from Charles Mootheart Ty's other guitarist and he just went, holy FUCK what are YOU doing here? Righteous night. Great show, got trashed with the bands they gave me a couple

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Haha wtf. Where in the US are you? 2012 we did a Cali road trip but saw Ty Segal, Thee Oh Sees and Tijuana Panthers were on for $10 so took a 6 hr desert detour and watched them do a blistering show in a parking lot behind some shithole Vegas diverbar in the middle of NOWHERE

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

New link.

www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Ah thanks pal. I asked for a bit of the text changing and one of the buying options wasn't working so this must be the amended one.

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

If you keep your eyes peeled i think the "men don't read books by women" chat is afoot again, which can fuck aaaaaaall the way off. Reductive much? Fuck's sake. *Without* even getting into the thing about gender having more than 2 variations 🤪🤪🤪

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

Got my 90s grungeboi cardies out 💯💯💯💯💯

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

Alexievich 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 And Hilary, OBVS. Not a purple proselytizer, me, as a rule, but Angela Carter too, the kinda prose you could eat like the world's richest chocolate cake, stuffed with lysergic jelly tots 🤣😀

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

I DO have a soft spot for Magda Szabo 😳🤣 but i work in libraries and she was a random shelf discovery years back. No more Hungarian literary shapes to be thrown from here but i'm sure there won't be a lack of them elsewhere 🤣

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

And anyone who's not is 100% part of the fucking problem 🙏✊️

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 2h

You must read The Lasting Harm - and bookshops , you must stock it

The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 3h

For @luciaoc.bsky.social attending every single day of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial was no easy feat. Video of our Book Shambles panel discussing The Lasting Harm with Lucia, @robinince.bsky.social & @bechillcomedian.bsky.social is up for Patreon subscribers now at patreon.com/cosmicshambles

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Proper maverick 🤘

𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · 3h

Happy birthday to AL FUCKING JOURGENSON

He created, contributed to, and/or inspired a huge amount of my favorite music of all time. Here's to Buck Satan.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL

Playlist - HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL - 10 items

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

To be a great translator you have to be a great writer too, i don't know why people don't grasp this fundamentally obvious point; as if you guys just sit there with a dictionary swapping one word for another.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

HUMAN SLAVES IN AN INSECT NATION 😱

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry 😳😫

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

💪🤘

Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 3h

Y'all gonna trip TF out when you learn that Pynchon won the Nobel while he was living under the assumed name of Krasznahorkai.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 3h

love this; more of the books that have gone into the book malarkey

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI, list here of 60 books linked to Keshed in some way. Fiction, poetry, non-fic.....proper range of stuff for the curious seeker 📚📚📚📚📚

uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...

How To Get Keshed and Influence People

A list of titles related to Keshed.

uk.bookshop.org

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Thnx man. You find anything you like?!

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