Managed to read half of issue 3 of FALLOW. This is by 20thC anarchist poetry Katerina Gogou (trans. Konstantina Georganta)

Impossible to predict, as a parent, exactly when your kid will intensely demand your attention for an uninterrupted hour - and when they will, instead, retreat into a self-constructed cave to draw comics, thereby allowing you to read your book

A Prominent French Publisher Is Dismissed, Alarming Authors and Media Watchers - Publishing Perspectives After 26 years at the helm of Éditions Grasset one of France’s most prestigious publishing houses, publisher Olivier Nora was ousted. Now over 130 Grasset authors want to leave, too.

publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/a-pr...

Unclear at this juncture whether the açai bowls played a role in the garda operation

4 books in and I'm still waiting for someone to calculate some volume

also what you should do is Follow The Account for the exciting! new! ucd winifred carney centre for organising and labour research

Sadhbh O'Neill: Fuel protests can’t derail Ireland’s climate plan. Neither can data centres If global oil prices soar past $100 a barrel, it will be impossible to shield the Irish economy - or anyone reliant on fossil fuels - from the impact

"The government has been dismantling or weakening the climate policy framework by adding carbon-intensive projects to the National Development Plan, dropping or delaying public transport investment & weakening climate law...We will all end up paying for this."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

EV Arts Patronage Tranche - Marginal REVOLUTION EV Arts Patronage Tranche This is a new tranche of ad hoc awards, given out more like prizes, without applications, to writers, creatives, and intellectuals who are not supported by the current system...

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Patrick Collison is financing Helen DeWitt's work on experimental information design-inspired texts, if I'm understanding the latest developments in international literary patronage correctly

'We support entrepreneurial scholars and practitioners who turn market-oriented thinking into practical solutions that shape institutions and improve lives' - what was the plot of Lightning Rods? Close enough!

This is excellent and helped me clarify what I have been grasping towards as I've tried to make sense of the last week in Ireland and the left's response.

Whatever skills I have as a translator came from the million+ words I translated down the translation mines. If all the unglamorous grunt work disappears there won't be anywhere to learn

"militant action has won concessions" could as easily be said about burning down IPAS Centres. I have a lot of time for Paul but this is hopelessly naive

See you all at the Hungarian parliament techno rave in half an hour

Reports indicate he watched almost 1/3 of the Satantango adaptation on his phone while queuing

How Ireland's far-right movement got involved in the fuel protests and tried to hijack them While many are protesting fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

a good, readable timeline of far right involvement in the fuel protests from Stephen McDermott here

www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

Muslim Sisters of Eire, at the GPO last night.

FALLOW issue 3; RUINS, CHILD by Giada Scodellaro; THE POSTHUMOUS BOOK OF SHAHRAZAD by Raquel F. Menéndez (trans. Robin Munby); ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME IV by Solvej Balle (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell)

Pleased to report that the bookshops are still open

If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks

Mad that this is day four where if they had Palestine flags or were Debenhams workers, they would have been beaten off the street days ago.

Siege day 4
www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

Before you drive, check www.tiitraffic.ie

In Dublin: @livedrive.dublincityfm.ie plus 103.2 FM, 7-10 am, 4-7pm.

For Luas: www.luas.ie/travel-updat...

Buses: www.dublinbus.ie/news/central...

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Best of luck, #SpéirGorm

€1,000,000 prize awarded to Samanta Schweblin for her book 'Good and Evil and Other Stories' by AENA,"The World's Leading Airport Management Company".

I wonder if she has to make a video.

www.aena.es/en/narrative...

Join us for a PhD Research Showcase on ‘Irish Writing in Translation,’ convened & chaired by Dr Tim Groenland (UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Research Ireland Pathway Fellow; & HI Member) | W 15 April, 1-2pm | HI Seminar Room/H204 | tea & coffee provided | ALL WELCOME!
@groenbot.bsky.social

British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller

This is fantastic. Gwendoline Riley can continue to write exactly what she wants without worrying about publishers’ advances, at least for a while. In light of what I said last week, her artistic bravery has been rewarded. H/t @eggsbened.bsky.social for the news. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

This is as desperate as a 1980s Beach Boys album (lead single: "Hangin' Around")

László Krasznahorkai, SZATAŃSKIE TANGO

Paul Murray, ZĄDŁO

Róisín O'Donnell, GNIAZDO

Czesław Miłosz, FICTION OR A LONG DREAM: SELECTED POEMS

Some editions from a Polish bookshop (I brought home the bilingual Miłosz edition)

Tired: reading 1984 for a glimpse at our near future

Wired: reading RIDDLEY WALKER

Very excited to have a chapter published on Don DeLillo's Underworld, waste, and 90s limitlessness in this edited collection from @plutopress.bsky.social
Available for pre-order now!

All is not lost