Issue #9

• Ockhams out loud! >>Find out more about the books short-listed for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

• The short list for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. >>Start reading!

• A Landfall audio gathering!

• 'A journey around my room' in lock-down with Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral. >>Xavier de Maistre. 

• Breton Dukes's virtual launch of his book What Sort of Man? at an empty Woof (includes cocktails and music). >>What Sort of Man? will be here soon.

• Watch Great Apes (the play) by Will Self. >>Read the novel. 

• The writer's obligation in the Age of X. 

• Joanna Biggs talks to Thomas Jones about the life of Simone de Beauvoir. >>Becoming Beauvoir. 

• Anne Patchett on operating her bookshop in something equivalent to our forthcoming Level 3. 

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Issue #8

• "This isn't the end of the world." Jenny Offill and Mark O'Connell on history 'going about its business'. >>Weather. >>Notes from an Apocalypse. 

• Sarah Laing on Quarantoon with Dylan Horrocks. >>The Covid-19 Diaries.

• How Leonora Carrington rewrote the Surrealist narrative for women. >>Some books by or about Leonora Carrington. 

• Read NZ's Stay Home Book Club for young readers. 

• Don't Give Up the Fight — microfiction by Osama Alomar. >>Read Thomas's review of The Teeth of the Comb.

• Notes from Self-Isolation. 

• Some interesting discussions and reviews from Ark Books (Copenhagen's smallest bookshop). 

• Free NASA images. 

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Issue #7

• "Writing allows we to worry about stuff better." — Max Porter on Lanny, the pandemic and anxiety. >>Read our reviews of Lanny.

• Lavinia Greenlaw on the absence of light. >>Her latest books. 

• Post the view from your lock-down window on instagram (include the frame!) as a stay-home-and-save-lives activity. Use the hashtag #windowsontheworldinlockdown >>Based on Matteo Pericoli's book Windows on the World. 

• Tag your favourite bookshop to win a stash of BooksellersNZ tokens. 

• A feature on Landfall editor Emma Neale. 

• Join Hella Bauer's on-line Covid-19 writing group (Hella teaches a writing class at VOLUME (but this is not a writing class)).

• Beckett — a Quinn Martin production. 

• New Zealand typographer and hand-printer Tara McLeod on the joys of letterpress. >>His book.

• An important message from some librarians.

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Issue #6

• Lock-down letters from New Zealand authors. >>Ashleigh Young reaches for the cherries. 

• An interview with Vincent O'Sullivan by Majella Cullinane. 

• Eley Williams Spins. >>Attrib, could be yours after lock-down. 

• Kawakami v. Murakami: a feminist critique of Haruki Murakami's novels. 

• An interesting 2011 interview with David Vann, whose novel Halibut on the Moon is short-listed for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. >>A Halibut for you after lock-down. >>See the other short-listed books. 

• A brief history of books that do not exist. 

• Three-dimensional correspondence.  

• If you were a banana... >>(The book could be yours). 

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Issue #5

• Download the excellent VUP Home Reader, a free e-book (or PDF) compiling extracts from books (to be) published this year (and into 2021) by Victoria University Press. 

• Dan Slevin on the current precarious but hopeful state of New Zealand bookshops. 

• Olga Tokarczuk on what we might learn from the coronacrisis. 

• Gregory O'Brien on painting a poem during lock-down. >>Always Song in the Water is yours after lock-down. 

• What will happen to the novel after this? 

• An interesting article on Anna Kavan ("Kafka's sister"), who lived for almost two years in New Zealand.  >>Read Thomas's review of Ice. 

• On The Plague by Albert Camus. >>Have The Plague on your doorstep after lock-down. 

• Lots of good free stuff from The Paris Review. 

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Issue #4

• Diane Williams, writer of superb short stories, in conversation. >>Read Thomas's assessment of Williams's stories. 

• Win yourself some book tokens!

• New Zealand writers read.

• An extract from Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, which has just been awarded the 2020 Rathbones Folio Prize. >>We will get your copy to you as soon as delivery becomes possible again. 

• BookBound 2020, an antiviral literary festival (includes Max Porter, Sarah Perry, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam, Philip Hoare)

• Lars Iyer talks about his latest book, Nietzsche and the 'Burbs. >>Your copy can be delivered as soon as delivery is again possible. >>“What can we, who are incapable of thought, understand of what the inability to think means for a thinker?” Read Thomas's review of Iyer's first book, Spurious. 

• What are the possible effects of the pandemic on bookselling and publishing? What are your thoughts?

• What happens when book readers get bored during quarantine. 

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Issue #3

• Sarah Laing's Covid-19 diaries. Recommended!

• Eamonn Marra will be reading 2000ft Above Worry Level in its entirety live on Friday. >>Order the book for delivery as soon as the emergency has been downgraded. 

• Jenny Offill on how "the subtraction of weight" enabled her to write Weather. >>We will get your copy to you as soon as the situation has been downgraded. 

• 'Party Games', a short story by Emma Neale. 

• Step inside Tove Jansson's private universe with Sheila Heti. 

• The Stinging Fly have opened their archives dating back to 1998. Excellent Irish and international writing. 

• The Novel Prize, probably the best unpublished manuscript prize you will have the opportunity to submit to this year. 

• On-line jigsaw puzzles using the collections at Te Papa. 

Issue #2

• The first part of Voyage Around My Room, written by Xavier de Maistre during a 6-week period of isolation in 1790. >>Order the book. >>Are you writing an isolation text? 

• 'Between Sleeping and Waking' by Georges Perec. 

• Lynne Tillman leaves her house. 

• Submit to Starling (if you're under 25). 

• "To write, and to read, is to forever cross thresholds" (translation matters). 

• Sophie Lewis on the craft of translation. >>This Tilting World by Collette Fellous, translated by Sophie Lewis, will be delivered to you once the emergency has been downgraded. 

• Some excellent films (for free) at Kanopy — sign in with your library card. 

• Some books on shelves in large rooms. 

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Issue #1

• The Best New Zealand Poems of 2019, according to Hera Lindsay Bird.

• Becky Manawatu talks about her Acorn-Prize-shortlisted novel Auē. >>Your copy will be delivered as soon as the Covid-19 emergency has been downgraded. 

• Join the Translated Fiction On-Line Book Club! >>Sign up here. 

• You are invited to the virtual launch of Sado by Mikaela Nyman (published by Victoria University Press) >>Your copy will be delivered as soon as delivery is again possible. 

• Everything is Alive. Interviews with objects — how do they feel? 

• Free audio books and e-books from Nelson Libraries. 

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