Literary Event
Events
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BOOK LAUNCH: GREASEPAINT by Hannah Levene
We are thrilled to be hosting the UK launch for Hannah Levene's thrilling new work of experimental lesbian fiction, GREASEPAINT! Drawing from her research into Butch Dyke culture and the Yiddish Anarchist tradition Levene's novel is like nothing else you'll ever read: in one of many bars, Frankie Gold sings while Sammy Silver plays piano […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: A Primer on Utopian Philosophy
How Ernst Bloch's work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. Housmans are delighted to welcome John Greenaway back to the shop after he so brilliantly helped us launch Bill Cashmore's fantastic 'We Hear Only Ourselves' last year. Billie will also be returning, this time to serve as John's interlocuter, as he launches A […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Love the World Or Get Killed Trying ALVINA CHAMBERLAND in conversation with JULIET JACQUES
Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Alvina Chamberland to celebrate the publication of her hotly anticipated autofictional work Love the World Or Get Killed Trying. Named a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon, Them, Ms. Magazine, Autostraddle, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Reporter, LGBTQ-reads, and Write or Die-Magazine. “Perhaps some hearts are so big they must […]
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Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism
Housmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. Without revolutionary change, humanity confronts a dystopian future of global heating, epidemics, and mass extinction. Yet, the mainstream 'solutions' on offer are either too modest or too risky, such as toothless […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects: OWEN HATHERLEY in conversation with LAURA GRACE FORD
Housmans are delighted to welcome Owen Hatherley and Laura Grace Ford to the shop to celebrate the publication of Owen's latest book: 'Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects.' These are two of our most beloved, and exciting, writers working at the thresholds of psychogeography, urban theory and radical thought. So we are particularly excited to be […]
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POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation.
Our speakers: Kate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter, her acting work includes The Krays, Mona Lisa, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: SISSY ANARCHY presents ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily’ by Misha Honcharenko, in conversation with writer, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’, Octavia Bright.
Housmans is delighted to welcome SISSY ANARCHY and Misha Honcharenko to the shop, to celebrate the publication release of Misha’s first novel, ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily.’ Writer, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’, Octavia Bright joins for a live conversation with Misha. About the book:Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing […]
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the87press presents HUMMINGBIRDS 2.0: a literary salon with Edgar Garcia, John Wilkinson and Calliope Michail
FeaturedHousmans are thrilled to be collaborating with the inimitable 87press to present Hummingbirds 2.0, a literary salon. Hummingbirds 2.0 features Edgar Garcia, John Wilkinson, and Calliope Michail; discussion will be chaired by Azad Ashim Sharma. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the […]
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GRIEF AND GOODNESS: A Conversation between Camille Sapara Barton and Sanah Ahsan
Housmans are delighted to be handing the floor over to two wonderful, warm and alert writers. Having each recently published books that address similar themes, Sanah Ahsan and Camille Sapara Barton will be joined in a conversation touching on topics of grief, sorrow, hope and community. This is promising to be a moving, powerful evening […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Kaisa Saarinen: ‘Maitonaut’
Housmans are delighted to be welcoming the Finnish poet Kaisa Saarinen, and a host of special guest readers, to the shop to lift-off her new hybrid collection of poetry and fiction Maitonaut (after the Finnish word for milk). Published by new_sinews editions, a new independent press edited by Steve Barbaro in Chicago. There is escapism, […]
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Resisting Mediocrity: Remaking the University
FeaturedIt's not easy being made redundant. It's an act of violent separation. Over the past decade, thousands of lecturers and researchers have experienced this attack on their income, autonomy and dignity; thousands more, at around 70 universities, are currently at risk of losing their jobs. Universities are in crisis – and 40% of institutions are […]
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POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches ‘apparitions (nines)’
FeaturedWe are very, very excited to be welcoming the legendary poet Nat Raha to Housmans for the official UK launch of her new book, apparitions (nines). A vital figure in UK, and wider Anglophone, vanguardist poetry for many years Raha's newest experiment in lyric writing promises to be characteristically invigorating. Reading alongside Nat we'll have […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY by Benjamin Barson
FeaturedThis is gonna be a good one...Jazz! Theory! LIVE MUSIC!! Housmans will be hosting the wonderful scholar and musician Benjamin Barson for the official UK launch of his seminal new book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: ‘The Picture of Contented New Wealth’ – Tariq Godard in conversation with Alex Niven
FeaturedIt's spooky season! Help us celebrate All Hallows Eve by welcoming Tariq Godard to the shop for the (re)launch of his acclaimed work of political horror: The Picture of Contented New Wealth. One of the most important and era defining satires on Neoliberal Britain written during the dying days of New Labour, and anticipating, in […]
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