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Front cover of "The Divide" by Evan Morgan Williams

Says one reader: "I have read your stories, and they are alluring. And troubling. They will bear rereading." If that's your cup o' tea, grab one at your local bookstore!

The cover of the novel “The Names” by Don DeLillo

Currently reading THE NAMES by Don DeLillo

#books #booksky 💙📚

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Congrats, man!

I managed to photograph it in the wild on Route 7, my very own route into town. Look forward to riding it soon!

Congratulations!

Researchers praise ‘stunning’ results of new prostate cancer treatment Early trials of the drug VIR-5500 showed it shrinking tumours in some patients

More of this sort of thing, please. And faster!

View across river to Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial

View of Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial

Red Cross personnel on the bridge

Civic service at Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial. The minute of silence was shared at 12.51pm, and the names of the 185 people who lost their lives in the earthquake were read aloud with the HMNZS Canterbury bell tolled with each name.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the 22 Feb quake. Here are some pics from the Civic service at Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial. It's quite something to hear a bell tolled softly 185 times.

Memorial service to be held in Christchurch to mark 15 years since 2011 earthquake A minute of silence will be held at 12.51pm, the time the earthquake hit, then the names of the 185 people who died will be read aloud.

15 years

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A weather map showing rain in Christchurch

A programme for a concert titled A Rainey Day

A photo of six jazz musicians playing in a small hall

A list of musicians including four members of the Rainey family

Appropriate weather for today’s concert at the Arts Centre, A Rainey Day, featuring four members of the Rainey family

The cover of the novel “The Predicament” by William Boyd

Currently reading THE PREDICAMENT by William Boyd

#books #booksky 💙📚

Well worth 60 seconds of your time! 😂😂

JR’s new overnight sleeper train will connect Tokyo and northern Japan; will be private cabin-only For many years, the shinkansen has been time-conscious travelers’ go-to method for going from one region of Japan to the other. That doesn’t always mean that the shinkansen is the option that maximizes your sightseeing time, though, since while it’s often the fastest point-to-point way to get around, you’re still…

There’s a new one coming in 2027

Liked for the marriage, not the threatened closure.

Happy birthday, Reese! Hope your year is much more than OK.

Map

Frame in the red zone

River with ducks and rowers

Bridge

Rode the Ōtākaro Avon trail on Waitangi Day. More than 27km on the bike which isn’t bad when I haven’t been on my bike for yonks. It’s a wonderful trek from Barbadoes Street Cambridge Green through to Pages Road in Bexley right by New Brighton.

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking exhibition at British Museum says ‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class

There isn't a sigh hard enough for these dumbass headlines. Warriors were a SOCIAL GROUP, and later a legal classification. Gender was not relevant to whether one was part of a warrior group/family/etc. You might as well write: THIS JUST IN: WOMEN EXISTED! www.the-independent.com/asia/japan/b...

I've been following bitcoin crashes since 2011, i don't want to get my hopes up for this one

Wilkins has his own band, The Close Readers, and "close reading" is just what happens in the article 👆

And wasn't aware that their 2014 LP 'The Lines are Open' had garnered an A- grade from US critic @rxgau.bsky.social

theclosereaders.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

That’s wonderful. Hope you continue getting good news.

National milestone: It’s been 10 years since the Waitangi dildo strike When Josie Butler threw that dildo, she split our nation’s timeline into two eras: before dildo (BD) and after dildo (AD).

"In the weeks following the purchase, she and her flatmates trained hard at “dildo target practice”. “It was mostly us just throwing the dildo at each other unsuspecting around the house,” she explains." thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...
Top yarn by @haydendonnell.bsky.social @thespinoff.bsky.social

Another London, by Hari Kunzru Excavating the disenchanted city

If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...

The Clear Blue Sky - Evan Morgan Williams — Bulb Culture Collective “Oh, it’s definitely our story, Paul.”

The light is on for Evan Morgan Williams! @pahoehoe.bsky.social💡

“The Clear Blue Sky” is a moving story of tension, where the fractures between two people stand starkly against love.

Check out Evan’s amazing writing over at the site!

Very sorry for your loss, Greg.

Helena Bonham Carter joins Steve Coogan for The White Lotus season four The Oscar-nominated star of The King’s Speech will check in for the new season of hit comedy drama set in France

I missed the Steve Coogan announcement. Hope I’m still alive when this comes out.

What do Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump have in common?

As cultural critic @wdavidmarx.bsky.social argues in his book Blank Space, they are all representatives of a single MONOCULTURE that has taken over the planet...

Full convo HERE 👇🏻

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Review of The Divide: Stories by Evan Morgan Williams Evan Morgan Williams’ latest book, The Divide (Cornerstone Press February 2026), is a collection of short fiction rooted in the Mountain West. The stories collected here center on characters who fa…

New! Variant Lit’s Managing Long Form Fiction Editor @suzyeynon.bsky.social reviews The Divide by Evan Morgan Williams (@pahoehoe.bsky.social), out with Cornerstone Press in February.

variantlit.com/review-of-th...

Loved Woodface, came out when I was living in Japan and listening to it made me feel homesick. Was gutted when Tim left the band.

Nice. Well done, everyone. Can't see any way in which this could go horribly, horribly wrong, especially at a time when there's already so much conflict around 🤦‍♀️

'There are...general musings on what it means to be Chinese – like, do you “have it in you to hate the Japanese”?'