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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 1h

History of Public Transit Room, Library of Brothel.

Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 6h

We are binge reading and Proustmaxxing on the Haystack despite my medical calamity because we are tough bitches. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 18h

That is a tremendous dress Samira. I am sure Johnny agrees with me.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sad to hear that Linda Asher has died. Among other things, for NYRB she translated several Balzac stories included in The Human Comedy. www.nyrb.com/products/the...

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The Human Comedy

Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers...

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 18h

I do love a ginger cat. Wheezy is good cat name. But my favourite cat name was one of my mam's cats (not ginger) who was called Mr Chips. She had a goat called Zeus. A great woman for animals. God rest her lovely soul.

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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Evening sky

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 23h

All the artists I admire are such a strange combination of completely open and completely stubborn.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow. I assume it's a petit pickled onion.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fantastic own goal. I always find them very generous.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Coming up real soon (in 30 min)—online (Zoom) event with Barbara Trapido and Maggie O'Farrell on Trapido's novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack. Our new edition, with an intro by Mick Herron, is out today. events.zoom.us/ev/AgEU9Hf3L...

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Barbara Trapido and Maggie O’Farrell on ‘Brother of the More Famous Jack’

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Things are so bad today, I am potentially going to watch the England match.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Should clarify the blood relative didn’t write the review… God bless the woman who did. I am not having a good day today and it made me laugh.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I write my novels alone on Barrys tea and oatmeal. Sadly I never get high but this review, which a blood relative texted me yesterday was v funny. I hope people get baked & read my novel aloud together in groups like how they went to Cats the movie.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I was SO FAR AWAY from the level of high you need to be in order to even have the audacity to try to comprehend this novel. But the incredible amount of imagination and creativity required to pull it off deserves high praise, so for that - 4 very confused, I have no idea what this is, stars!” Um…

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mushrooms are such natural storytellers…

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s a shocking oversight that the mushrooms didn’t make it into the Library of Brothel. A new room must emergency open! I’ll approach the Front Desk. One great thing about infinity is it doesn’t ever stop at the final page. indeed the final paragraph is a train station … youtu.be/uHLWgaSPCcY

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Mycologist Answers Mushroom Questions From Twitter 🍄 | Tech Support | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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AKA Joy Poi @joyfulnesstoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anakana Schofield, a contributor for the Toronto Star, wrote on Saturday, September 19, 2026: “See the tech bros tempting us towards paying less for our services (we all want to pay less, don’t we?), yet they scoop up to 40 per cent in fees for doing very little toward supplying those services 1/

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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 01/10/2026

Come listen to these wonderful guest authors at #VWF2026! Purchase your tickets through writersfest.bc.ca 🎟️

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's in Vancouver, BC. I think Douglas Fir tree...Someone said it was a red belted conk, but it's quite dramatic.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you Frank! It's so beautiful and looks like a bunch of sneakers.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Any mushroom heads or mycologists on here who might kindly talk me through this beauty? #mycology #fungi #tree #mycologist

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next Jan I will be doing some events in the US. Libraries/Universities/Creative Writing teachers reach out to invite me 22seriousladies@gmail.com let's see if I am going to be in your area & can read or give a talk. Library of Brothel (NYRB) is a labour/housing crisis novel. V funny & relevant

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My visit may be in person or virtual depending where you are located. I am also happy to talk to students about my Binge Reading campaign and to encourage them to start chapters of their own. We have to take this lunacy back from the wombat robot mops. bingereading.substack.com

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Binge Reading: Anakana’s Newsletter | Substack

Reading, thinking, wondering and reading some more. Click to read Binge Reading: Anakana’s Newsletter, by Anakana Schofield, a Substack publication.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you are under 25 you can come my Vancouver Writers Fest Library of Brothel event for only $15! Everyone else it's $28 If you are a CW/Eng/HS teacher and you bring yr students & study my book, I will visit yr class. Just reach out direct 22seriousladies@gmail.com writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

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66. Anakana Schofield: Library of Brothel | Vancouver Writers Fest

Embark on a literary journey like nothing before in Anakana Schofield’s Library of Brothel. In a class with Beckett, Joyce, and O’Brien (The Guardian), Schofield’s absurdist creation is a cri de coeur...

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I knew you had to be a writer. What a lovely brother !

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What type of overdiagnosis though? False positives?

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wonderful game for Atlanta- the crowd so happy 🏀 #wnba

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Turn on the WNBA. V exciting game happening. 🏀

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s nothing more invigorating than a piece of criticism that actually expands on what a book is upto and furthers its ideas & ambitions rather than fails to find any language to talk about it and must resort to silly personal gripes like it’s a school report card or a restaurant review.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s an irony in the inference increasingly in recent reviews of fiction that a writer should just continue to write the same book when what we’d all like is some of the repetitive and predictable lack in reviews to cease. Not least because we have so few of them these days, ideas are imperative

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you registered? Why not. Come on!

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We are binge reading and deadline writing for the next 5 hours over on the Haystack ahead of the big WNBA matches tomorrow. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lighthouse admirers, adorers, appreciators and aficionados assemble!

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wings may have lost but I am undefeated and will read a few paragraphs of Arno Schmidt, which anyone who has ever read him knows this is a literary version of playoffs basketball.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pope says Library of Brothel is a v acceptable gospel for reading because it contains supplication x 9 and surrealism just like the Novena. Pope says Laughter & confusion are very good for the kidneys. Listen to your Pope, not the capitalists mogging the moon.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are binge reading/writing on the Haystack before the WNBA game starts at 6pm. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mid Oct they start here in BC - I asked yesterday at the Pharmacy

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Where’s the tropical weather they promised us last week?

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get yer tickets! I am doing 2 of the 90 plus events. Fri 23rd Oct night 8pm solo event with Mark Medley & a Sat panel with two other writers & moderated by Elee. (Typing this on the pavement none of the names are coming up) Bring your students CW teachers

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