Hello again,
This week is simply promo and flowers. There is half a substack ready, so I think you will see it next week.
The pre-order links for Lazy City are here. Pre orders are helpful because they basically tell bookshops that people are interested in and excited about the book early on, and this means bookshops give the book better placement and so on. Pre ordering the book does more for it than buying it after it's been out for a few months, even though the price is the same, is the way I understand it.
And here is a link to an event at the Edinburgh book festival with the lovely Michael Magee. Please come if you are in town :).
Things I Liked Recently:
This piece on how trauma came to occupy the space it does in our culture by Danielle Carr. It really explores the idea of trauma as a narrative and sense making device for people, and why it has come to be so.
Alicia Kennedy’s grubstreet diet (has there ever been a more perfect subject to article type match??) I am so excited about her book!!!! Alicia is one of those writers whose work expands the boundaries of the form in which she works, and so her food writing is also culture writing and personal writing and political commentary but somehow so much more than any of these.
The Martin Wong exhibition at Camden Art Centre is brilliant and so well curated, it seems like the gallery space was designed solely for this exhibition. I went for the second time recently and will go again before it leaves for sure.
Flowers: