thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-11-... This take is probably old, but I think this conversation would be less heated if these covers (sorry for cursing the timeline) were somehow good and/or the AI use were imperceptible. The fact that they're heinous makes it much easier and more fun to be outraged.
My emails, constantly
Hi, Āporo Press is publishing three books in the next year. Poetry by Nicola Andrews and Jo Bragg, and a novel by Laura Vincent.
If you’d like to support our indie effort to publish more Māori books we have a Boosted campaign. Mauri ora.
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Yes!! Very inspiring. I would love to see more versions. The friend who was doing screenings yesterday had been watching them since 6am. Full day of Eno.
Folly Journal. 🫥
Saw the Eno doco last night (one of the many many iterations). Genius!! Highly recommend to anyone who tries to make things.
I did not ask.
Phone call with mum: ‘People are driving around the supermarket car park, you know, going 40! Knocking over little old ladies… it’s easy to do once you’ve done it’
I have just seen this! Hilarious. (I would fail that exam)
right up your alley! I love your self-improvement substack, much more helpful than this guff
It's a Christmas miracle
Sat my driving test today (passed!). I loved the test guy, an older man with big moustache. He refused all small talk and my efforts for us to be friends. Wouldn't say how his day was going. He sighed once at a red light but was otherwise an enigma. It was very freeing, somehow.
The cover for Slim Volume by James Brown
We are delighted to have a new James Brown book on the way. July! teherengawakapress.co.nz/slim-volume/
*crying* Please. Academics. 'The internet' is not a valid source description for your photos.
This one is a bit better. (I hate to be the person who only posts beer photos and complains about needing beer all the time but it is being a Week)
this was a mistake
:/
Ahh … yes! I feel wildly reassured that you are in the same boat
Just remembered an essay I have to write for an anthology, in less than a week. Good luck to my future self
Thank you - I feel better!
Did a short poetry reading last night and it was fun and nice. But in her intro the lovely MC was like: ‘In these times we need poets to uplift and inspire us with their words’ and the poems I had prepared were about death and weed whacking and one was about a bad dream I had about green peas.
I think on day 1 you get to go for a swim and have a coffee and lie around, then *maybe* type half a sentence and delete it. Good luck with your sentence! :D
'theory and practical'! Excellent. I tried to learn around the same age, and couldn't get past my mum screaming and grabbing the wheel and somewhere along the line I decided I was incompetent and beyond hope. But now I am finding it is actually a lot of fun to learn a new and terrifying thing.
Well. Old in driving years! And, thank you. I honestly feel very silly to be so useless but am slowly getting better (emphasis on slowly)
Significant milestone in my old-person-learning-to-drive journey: drove to the dump and got a new recycling bin
I think it is actually not possible to ever be not behind and the only thing is to be at peace with it. Or, approaching peace. I am also speaking to the pile of manuscripts I am supposed to be reading right now :D
hooray! Congratulations. 💛
Loved this round-up, Claire. Truly epic. (Also the amount of reading you do is quite awe-inspiring)
The multi-layered multi-tiered systems the article suggests using are like some kind of nightmarish labyrinth. I would never get out alive
