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Housmans Bookshop is a left wing radical bookshop in London since 1959. We frequently host fascinating authors, speakers, and other guests to talk about their work.
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Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn (opens the original)
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Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted throughout the British urban landscape, and overseas. Regular visitors to Housmans will have no doubt seen her recent piece Temenos just up the road from us, near Granary Square.We will host Liliane September 4th to launch the paperback edition of her brilliant bildungsroman Liquid Reflections. The book begins in 1958 with the talented and fearless Liliane Lijn leaving her
POETRY SPECIAL: Robert Glück reads at Housmans (opens the original)
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Housmans are beyond honoured, and slightly delightedly flabbergasted, to welcome the legendary writer Robert Glück to the shop for a reading. Robert, or Bob, is one of the most important writers working in the world today, in a career that spans many decades, poetry and cutting edge fiction; his work has been of profound importance to the contemporary queer literary landscape.
International Freak: ROBIN FARQUHARSON by M. Syd Rosen w/ Owen Hatherly (opens the original)
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M. SYD ROSEN AND OWEN HATHERLEY DISCUSS THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF COUNTERCULTURAL ICON ROBIN FARQUHARSON‘Rosen is an intergenerational talent. That is, he seems to move effortlessly across decades, from dark matter to illumination; gleaning, recovering, challenging, making new.’Iain SinclairBorn in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part of a new wave of intellectuals tasked with reimagining society in the wake of World War II—until a phone call from God brought ever
Book Launch: Turning Away by Benjamin A. Saltzman w/ Revd Dr Ayla Lepine (opens the original)
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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author, Benjamin A Saltzman, to Housmans for its UK launch. He will be in conversation with Revd Dr Ayla Lepine.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrut
The Plot Is On Fire: Manuela Zechner w/ Max Haiven (opens the original)
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We are delighted to welcome Manuela Zechner to Housmans to talk about her truly original and radical work in postcolonial eco-theory.As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for earthcare?The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy weaves stories, proposals, and analyses around a key domain of living reproduc
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