Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanStop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 20hI ❤️ Rae Armantrout. 1119
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanSharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Health targets. My #cartoon today #Health #NZpol 517865
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanCharlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In the 1960s a single parent could live in a lush country estate with two meadows, one with a lion and the other with a dragon. This is what they took from us. 19622
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“It is difficult to be so honest and so likeable, but Trinidad appears to do so with ease rather than artifice.” 🙂 031
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career. 6731134
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanMichal Kapral @mkapral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nobel laureate Anne Carson’s Grade 13 yearbook entry from Port Hope High School quotes Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Angell, Geothe, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Louisa May Alcott and Lewis Carroll. 122
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanMadeira Pince-Nez @caitlinsnark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of the highlights of my Whitcoulls career was when Paul Henry's book got remaindered and we had to rip all the covers off about 100 of them to send back to the publisher. My manager came over and said 'Caitlin, I have a job you're going to love every second of' 05013
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The new @catherinechidgey.bsky.social novel,The Starving Bride, appears this week, here reviewed by @ghostspecies.bsky.social: “it interweaves climate anxiety and the derangements of body culture with deeply disquieting results…” thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...thesaturdaypaper.com.auThe Starving BrideThe Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism. 033
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanIIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026RIP Wendy Harrex , publisher of New Women’s Press, then of Otago University Press, rescuer of Landfall in the 1990s, feminist and good sortoup.nzIn Memoriam: Wendy Harrex - Otago University PressWe are deeply saddened by the death of former Otago University Press publisher Wendy Harrex, who led the Press for 20 years and played a defining role in shaping it into the publishing house it is tod... 0101
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanAlice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hilary McPhee, a true trailblazer of Auslit, passed away yesterday. My tribute is up on @theconversation.com. With thanks to editor extraordinaire @jocaseau.bsky.socialtheconversation.comLiterary pioneer Hilary McPhee launched Helen Garner, published Cloudstreet – and inspired meHilary McPhee co-founded McPhee Gribble, the legendary Australian publishing house responsible for Monkey Grip, Puberty Blues and Cloudstreet. 0149
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanIIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026‘Testard made an offer for Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history Second-hand Time…there was no competition for the UK rights. His opening bid of $2,000 was rejected; he upped it a little and it was accepted. The following year Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature…’ft.comFitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earthJacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time 073
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanTom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There appear to be plenty of copies of Dirty Work in stock at indie bookshops through the motu, via Bookhub. Get amongst it And ideally buy from the tiniest shop in a tiny town that has been hit hard by this government's dirty policies bookhub.co.nz/p/dirty-work...bookhub.co.nzDirty WorkBuy Dirty Work by Nicky Hager from your local bookstore. Twelve years after they were exposed and discredited in the book Dirty Politics, some of ... 14426
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Maybe her forthcoming roman à clef about working in Key’s press office will reveal more… 130
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanBill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I seem to recall giving the launch speech for Dirty Work back in 1987 teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/dir...teherengawakapress.co.nzDirty Work1987 Welcome to the Happy World Hotel! Gina Tully – amateur acrobat, woman of conscience and manager of a bottom-of-the-cliff residential hotel – has to balance her ideas about how the world should be... 0157
Reposted by Fergus Barrowmanacid corbyn dallas @acidcorbyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Library holds for Dirty Work by the late Nigel Cox about to go through the roof 2235
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ake Ake Ake – A Forever Language. As we mark Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2026, here are some moments from the work of Hinemoana Baker, Ruby Solly, essa may ranapiri, Amber Esau and Tayi Tibble that reflect on the power, history, present and future of reo. 153
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's beautiful weather to get cosy inside a bookshop, Wellington! See you tonight 🌳 🌳 022
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanAnton Hur @antonhur.com · 16/09/2026Streaming nothing but Beoga, Lukas Graham, Finneas, and Aaron Rowe today and will forever associate their music with the hope they gave me this morning 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE 0434
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 14/09/2026Yeah, you don't gotta work out the nitty gritty of meteorology or agriculture before you start writing. You just need a few things that have connections, or you start with a few things and connect them. 220035
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mataura Laid was the best book paper we ever had 😔 140
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/09/2026From petrol pump attendant to Dylan-feted rocker and Judd Apatow muse: the delightfully unlikely life of Graham Parkertheguardian.comFrom petrol pump attendant to Dylan-feted rocker and Judd Apatow muse: the delightfully unlikely life of Graham ParkerFifty years ago Parker was hailed as rock’s next big thing, but he picked a different path: cult records, a Hollywood diversion, an aversion to stardom. Ahead of a UK tour, he looks back at his strange trajectory 33113
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanThe Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/09/2026How to eulogize—to honor—the dead? In “Flyover Country,” a couple stares down the loss of three beloved celebrities and wonders what’s become of their own lives. thebaffler.com/fiction/flyo...thebaffler.comFlyover Country | Walker Rutter-Bowman“Everyone is dying and it’s hard to keep up.” 011
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Lunchtime today! pip Adam, Terri Te Tau and Tim Corballis at Te Papa, 12.15 www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events...tepapa.govt.nzWriters on Mondays: Uncanny Valley – pip adam, Terri Te Tau, and Tim Corbalis | Te PapaThree brilliant novelists discuss their exciting and inventive new novels, writing the weird present, and possible futures. 022
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Oh dear, my post got adult-contented because of the bum on one of the Acorn Prize finalist covers 🤡 050
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I misread that as hākari, a ceremonial feast featuring vast amounts of food displayed in stacks or on stages. Which might do the trick. 000
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“Current weather on the island is cool and clear with a high around 12°C and light winds, making it favorable for ongoing local conservation and protective stewardship.” Googlesense. 020
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"In kluge..@pipadam.bsky.social is taking forms of (mis)communication developed in the era of late capitalism—the AI 'summary', the political soundbite, the toxic social media post—& detourning them, so that they can carry the weight of literature" Scott Hamilton www.reefshark.online/post/book-of...reefshark.onlineBook of the Week: klugepip adam, Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2026Reviewed by Scott Hamilton'No one else in New Zealand is writing like this' says Philip Matthews in an admiring review of pip adam's new novel kluge for... 053
Reposted by Fergus Barrowman💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Unbottled rage in 200 odd pages. Do it. #booksky @pipadam.bsky.social 0144
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanPhilip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Alarming juxtaposition on X/Twitter 062
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026kluge @pipadam.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026some of the lovely people who came to launch pip adam's kluge at the Aro Valley Community Centre last night, with pip in the middle. Thank you everyone, thank you @pipadam.bsky.social and thank you @bookhavennz.bsky.social 💚💙♥️💜 091
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“You look around and realise there are more of your bodies than the bodies who ruin your lives and you revolt.” 085
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Happy publication day to @pipadam.bsky.social and her 5th novel, kluge, out with @thwupbooks.bsky.social! What a reading experience this book is, believe me. And you can buy it with a choice of 4 different covers, courtesy of ace designer @toddatticus.com! teherengawakapress.co.nz/cdn/shop/fil... 0143
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Book of the Week: 'Bring me the head of Sam Altman' newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/13/b...newsroom.co.nzBook of the Week: 'Bring me the head of Sam Altman'Could we call this 'Bring me the head of Sam Altman'? On a political, satirical, experimental sci-fi novel that foretells a future in the war against AI. 010
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/08/2026(Without breaking a sweat I could cut that text in half, but there's a difference between a little judicious copyediting and telling a writer not to write like themself, something a lot of copy editors could stand to learn.) 2341
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 02/08/2026(I've never in my copyediting career worked on an eventually brilliant book that wasn't already brilliant when it was handed to me.) 1703
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I suppose “aligning the offering more closely with student needs” means textbooks only 😢 180
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I thought that I would be in heaven but I am only up a tree 020
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanIIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Not to be missed: Elizabeth Knox on her extraordinary memoir, Night, Ma, in Writers on Mondays next week. Knox talks with Ingrid Horrocks about illness, family, care, love, how we story our lives, the art and ethics of memoir, and the loneliness of unutterable experiences. Te Papa, 1215, free!tepapa.govt.nzWriters on Mondays: Night, Ma – Elizabeth Knox | Te PapaOne of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most acclaimed writers, Elizabeth Knox, discusses her incredible memoir of a calamitous time. 082
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Where it all began for Sam Neill, instead of concentrating on his law degree (and at my alma mata actually!) natlib.govt.nz/records/2252... 4308
Reposted by Fergus BarrowmanTina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Hey - in better news, I get to speak to these stunning humans about their debut books on Monday at Te Papa 12.15pm. How lucky am I? How lucky are you cos it’s free! (Joseph Trinidad above & Shariff Burke below). 083
