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The best book I’ve read so far this year is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.
When poets write novels I always get very excited because they enter into their contract with words in a different way to other writers, with a certain level of distrust of language’s abilities, with an understanding of the disappointing paradox in metaphors, and with a playful abandon for convention.
This book is a great example of all of those things. It tore me open so many times and put me back together again, too. It’s got everything — family, identity, death, nationality, history, death, art, politics, death, love, war, did I mention death, and dreams where the dead speak to cartoon characters
#studyblr#studygram#studyspo#bookblr#books#booklr#bookworm#booktok#books and reading#bookish#bookstagram#book review#kaveh akbar#picador#martyr!#minimal
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Arthur Koestler - The Roots of Coincidence - Picador - 1976
#witches#coincidentals#occult#vintage#the roots of coincidence#picador books#arthur koestler#1976#picador#roots#coincidence
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Jean Dieuzaide (French, 1921-2003)
“Picador”, 1955
“El Cordobès, Toulouse”, 1967
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Pablo Picasso 🎨
Pablo Picasso - The Picador - 1900
Pablo Picasso - Lobster and Cat - 1965
Pablo Picasso - Bird on a Tree - 1923
Pablo Picasso - Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit - 1932
Pablo Picasso - Still Life: Fruit Dish and Pitcher - 1937
#art#photography#paintings#cubism#abstract#pablo picasso#picasso#picador#lobster#cat#still life#bird
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💛 First copy 💛
📖 Cant wait for you all to see my new book TWELVE PERCENT DREAD, out June 23rd in the UK and August 2nd in US & Canada, but you can get exclusive access to the first chapter by following the link below!
✨ https://www.panmacmillan.com/first-look-twelve-percent-dread
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the size of this book! it’s so cute!
#the virgin suicides#jeffrey eugenides#the vampire diaries#lj smith#books#bookblr#bookish#booksbooksbooks#picador#picador modern classics#coquette
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I asked myself: Haven't you always done your best with whatever you were up against? Haven't you given it your all, whatever came your way? Unfortunately, no. That's not how things had been for me. I had faked it the whole way. In all those years of doing whatever I was told to do, I had convinced myself that I was doing something consequential, in order to make excuses for myself, as I was doing right now, and perpetually dismissed the fact that I'd done nothing with my life, glossing over it all. I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I chose nothing. I did nothing.
- Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night, pp.185
#mieko kawakami#literature#literature quotes#novel#literary quotes#women in literature#literature in translation#japanese literature#all the lovers in the night#picador
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Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger (2022)
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Mike Davis, (1998), Ecology of Fear. Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, Picador, London, 1999 [then Verso, 2022]
#graphic design#sociology#urbanism#urban geography#history#historiography#economic history#book#cover#book cover#mike davis#picador#verso#1990s#2020s
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Reading this today.
#booklr#books#fiction#bookblr#book#mieko kawakami#all the lovers in the night#picador#japanese lit#japanese literature#reading
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The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced! Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. The covers shown are the British editions. We have copies of all the books that are available right now including:
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch will be published 12/23
#booker prize#shortlist#paul murray#chetna maroo#paul harding#jonathan escoffery#paul lynch#ww norton#macmillian#atlantic monthly#farrar straus giroux#knopf canada#picador
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Izarra means “star” in Basque. It’s a brand of liqueur that was created in 1906 in Hendaye, France by the botanist Joseph Grattau.
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Aire, verde y montaña.
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Picador at rest. Plaza de Toros, Valencia 🇪🇸. Marzo ‘23.
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Douglas Stuart || Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart || Young Mungo
Apparently it has become the custom at some universities to protect gentle souls by warning them against the content of some novels. ‘Be careful, Austen and the Brontë sisters are unfriendly towards women! Be careful, Shakespeare is a sexist racist!’ I am afraid Young Mungo might get a multitude of warnings, stopping those gentle souls from even giving it a try. And to be quite honest, in this…
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#reading is fun#Booker Prize#British writer#Douglas Stuart#economy#eighties#Gay literature#glasgow#Great reading#LHBTI literature#literature#Picador#unemployment#Young Mungo
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