Tim Groenland
@groenbot
Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Only 650k to live by the side of a motorway inside a wedge of brie, bargain www.myhome.ie/residential/...
Two cashiers separately voiced their approval of my discerning taste as I was buying this. A real "dad in the record store" win
Took a moment this afternoon to appreciate our brave Irish heroes and their enormous republican hands
If you're in Dublin tomorrow, please come to @molimuseum.bsky.social where Joanna Walsh and Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz will talk to me about their books Amateurs! and Judith Butler & Film We'll talk critical theory, creative practice, publishing, and audience Free tickets here: moli.ie/events/first...
Not sure I've seen this done before- a short story in the form of Notes on Contributors, by Thomas Morris (in the new Stinging Fly)
This was responsible for my one globally viral tweet before I left the other place. Touched a nerve
Spent a couple of days in Leuven, Belgium there. Went back to the botanical gardens to see my favourite sign in the world
Browsing publisher catalogues here www.lindeneditions.com/milk-and-blood
I'm enjoying this - a good mix of classics and established authors (Schulz, Lem, Tokarczuk, Gombrowicz, Huelle) and contemporary writers I'd like to read more of (Miłkowski, Dehnel, Masłowska). Main takeaway so far is that I urgently need to read more by Magdalena Tulli
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
Some editions from a Polish bookshop (I brought home the bilingual Miłosz edition)
Leaving the pub last night I encountered this fella standing patiently, as if waiting for a feckless owner
Commiserations to all the other nations who failed to qualify for the world cup