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Occasional ideas about books and publishing from Sam Jordison, co-director of Galley Beggar Press, editor, author and journalist.
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No Room For Virginia Woolf (opens the original)
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According to The Guardian, Meta has just stopped a Spanish theatre company from running adverts about Virginia Woolf because “they relate to feminism.”The article explains that when the Barcelona-based-troupe tried to run adverts for a production of A Room Of One’s Own they were blocked because this work contains “social topics”. They asked Meta what was going on and were told: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are ce
At last a use for AI (opens the original)
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I know. I know. It’s not just good at wasting our time. There are already some other uses for AI.It’s good for depriving children of their cognitive skills. It’s good for destroying education.It’s good for ruining the environment.It’s good for enabling the billionaire class to further tighten the shackles they hold us in, to make our lives yet shittier. It’s good for making you wonder what on earth is wrong with your friends when they say to you: “Claude tells me” followed by some entirely unver
In praise of booksellers (opens the original)
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You might have heard the story about the day Hemingway liberated the Ritz bar in Paris? Papa swung into the city on August 25, 1945, claiming to be among the first people there after end of the Nazi occupation. He high-tailed it to the Ritz with a gang of Resistance fighters in a jeep mounted with a machine-gun. He intended to drive out any Nazis still lingering in the hotel. The manager told him all the occupying soldiers had already gone, so Hemingway searched the cellars, grabbed some brandy,
Digital Death (opens the original)
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Some time around 2000 years ago, there was clear out at the fort of Vindolanda, near Hadrian’s Wall, in the far North of the Roman Empire.Among the items left to rot were some old shoes, a broken pepper pot and a bunch of old letters, written in ink on wooden tablets.The letters were dated and ephemeral. Nothing anyone considered important: An invitation to a wedding; a complaint from someone who seems to have been excluded from a club; various bits of accounting for long-forgotten shipments of
News from Galley Beggar Press (opens the original)
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Hello!I’ve been quiet here on Substack recently because I’ve been busy amongst this lot:Those are copies of How Do People Stay The Same by Mark Bowles. They are being signed by the author, and also packaged up and sent off to Galley Beggar Press subscribers and people who have ordered copies direct. (They also get those rather fetching postcards.)Subscribe now<
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