BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240220T174201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T174346Z UID:54796-1710354600-1710360000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Launch of The Anthology of Mischievous Literature DESCRIPTION:This event is organised by the publisher. Please visit their Eventbrite page for tickets and more information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/launch-of-the-anthology-of-mischievous-literature-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_700787379_2011321086963_1_original.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240209T105650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T183128Z UID:53923-1710529200-1710538200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Infinite City by Niall Kishtainy DESCRIPTION:‘Glorious’ GUARIDAN \n\n\n\n‘Vigorous\, rigorous and eminently readable’ Thomas W. Hodgkinson \n\n\n\nLondon is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries\, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. \n\n\n\nHousmans are extremely excited to welcome Niall Kishtainy for a special talk in and around his acclaimed book The Infinite City. Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More\, the Diggers\, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence who threw coins stamped with the words ‘YOU FOOLS’ into the alleys of Holborn. To Ada Salter who was the first woman borough councillor in London and ignited the Bermondsey Revolution. To ninety-two-year-old Dolly Watson who became the queen of Claremont Road in Leytonstone during the Reclaim the Streets protests in the 1990s. These are inspiring tales of people who drew might from the city around them and fought for their ideologies in an increasingly transforming world. \n\n\n\nBeginning in the sixteenth century and stretching from the contemporary transformation of the East End docklands to the COVID lockdowns\, The Infinite City shows how London’s spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation. \n\n\n\nNiall will be delivering an exclusive presentation (complete with slides) followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nDoors: 7:00\, Event start: 7:30 \n\n\n\n As always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-the-infinite-city-by-niall-kishtainy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/91jHOvIdpFL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240322T184500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240322T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240227T154945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T175939Z UID:53927-1711133100-1711144800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Poetry: Lalah-Simone Springer DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be serving as the Central London stop on Lalah-Simone Springer’s UK tour in promotion of her brilliant new collection of poems\, An Aviary of Common Birds. \n\n\n\n An Aviary of Common Birds is Lalah-Simone Springer’s first collection of poetry. It is an emotionally raw work built on the poet’s deep wells of inner strength and heart-warming sensitivity. Springer’s poetry asks questions about love\, family\, community and working class relationships\, and at the heart of the writing is acceptance. An Aviary of Common Birds is a collection which is always there for the lonely\, reaching out a hand\, dreaming of a brighter future. \n\n\n\nJoining Lalah will be Foluke Taylor and Stanley Iyanu and there will be an open mic session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRAISE for An Aviary of Common Birds: \n\n\n\nAlive with the street songs of East London\, Lalah-Simone Springer’s searching\, tender poems speak through the sensory worlds of a first date ‘lesbian manicure’\,  the ‘shukka-shukka sound’ of competitive clothes-washing\,  the ‘sharp shock of pink\, juicy fruit’. Moving from loss and desolation into a new-found-land of queer rapture\, An Aviary of Common Bird’s voices capture the raw immediacies of desires and their fulfilments. Intoxicating and compelling\, these spaces of transformation\, liberation and self-claiming are urgently generous. \n\n\n\n— alice hiller\, bird of winter \n\n\n\nAn Aviary of Common Birds is a breathtaking collection. A celebration of Black womanhood\, queerness and the endz – these poems exude vulnerability\, and take us on a journey through love\, community\, and conviction. \n\n\n\n— Desree\, I Find My Strength In Simple Things \n\n\n\nA thought-provoking collection exploring memory\, relationships\, and the commonalities between people. Lalah’s care. Her love\, wit and frustration permeate through these poems. \n\n\n\n— Yomi Ṣode\, Manorism \n\n\n\nThis collection is connected to worlds beyond this time. Trust the invisible currents. I was led to history\, to other poets\, through love\, and lust\, and lostness and return. It was a timeless fluttering. \n\n\n\n— Deanna Rodger\, I did it too \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-lalah-simone-springer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240323T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240323T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240208T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T112901Z UID:53930-1711220400-1711231200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani DESCRIPTION:We are incredibly excited to welcome the seminal author and academic Amin Ghaziani over from Canada for a special talk at Housmans centering on his latest book Long Live Queer Nightlife: how the closing of gar bars sparked a revolution. A brilliant sociological intervention into the history of the ‘gay bar’ and its subsequent evolution into the ‘queer space’\, Ghaziani traces the evolution of the queer scene through site specific research in various London nightspots. ‘Radically inclusive’ in its argument\, the book avoids pessimistic rhetoric and instead makes the case for a vibrant queer present led by those too often left out of mainstream gay culture. \n\n\n\nAmin will read from the book and will then discuss some of its wider themes and his research\, followed by a Q&A. See you there! \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-long-live-queer-nightlife-how-the-closing-of-gay-bars-sparked-a-revolution-by-amin-ghaziani/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9780691253855.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240202T174719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T174842Z UID:54376-1711650600-1711657800@housmans.com SUMMARY:'How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It' with Joshua Dávila [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] DESCRIPTION:‘How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It’ with Joshua Dávila [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology \n\n\n\nIn this second session we’ll be hosting Joshua Dávila to talk about his work and book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. \n\n\n\nDávila has been working in the European blockchain space for the past five years and has been anonymously moonlighting as the one behind The Blockchain Socialist blog and podcast. While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism\, Dávila’s book Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes\, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy. \n\n\n\nDávila will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nBlockchain Radicals is published by Repeater Books\, a radical publisher based in London. You can pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration. \n\n\n\nUSE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKET \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it-with-joshua-davila/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/blockchain-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240307T163730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240323T153740Z UID:55217-1711652400-1711657800@housmans.com SUMMARY:A Thousand Little Machines: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi\, A/Traverso and the Movement of '77 DESCRIPTION:In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity\, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions\, belonging to the autonomia movement\, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered by novel experiments in communication\, in particular the printed word. Hundreds of revolutionary newspapers known as ‘movement sheets’\, would circulate Italy during those years\, acting as little machines to produce political subjectivity. \n\n\n\nJoin us for the book launch for A Thousand Little Machines: A/Traverso and the Movement of ’77\, with editors and contributors\, Jamila Squire\, Seth Wheeler and Nick Thoburn.The book contains the recollections of the autonomist militant\, philosopher and media theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on autonomia and the tumultuous events of ’77\, told through the pages of A/traverso\, the Bolognese movement sheet he produced with others between 1975 – 1981. \n\n\n\nIn texts translated into English for the first time\, presented alongside extensive archival material and stunning photographs\, this book explores the subversion\, exuberance and joy of the movement of ’77\, while raising important questions about the role of creative collectivity and experimental communication for militants today. \n\n\n\nThere will be drinks after the event! \n\n\n\nMore about the book here: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machines \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/a-thousand-little-machines-franco-bifo-berardi-a-traverso-and-the-movement-of-77/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-10.52.29.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T223000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240308T111642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T170804Z UID:55232-1711738800-1711751400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: GREASEPAINT by Hannah Levene DESCRIPTION: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 after a day job at the anarchist newspaper. The Butch Piano Players Union meets in the corner next to the jukebox. Laur smokes on the back steps\, sweaty thigh to thigh with Vic. Frankie’s childhood sweetheart Lily turns up at yet another bar to see a second Sammy play every Friday night. And before all that\, there’s always dinner at Marg’s. Fabulated out of oral histories\, anthologies\, as well as the fiction of the butch-femme bar scene and Yiddish anarchist tradition\, Greasepaint is a rollicking whirlwind of music and politics—the currents of community embodied and held inside the bar. \n\n\n\nJoining Hannah in our celebration are some of the chicest butchest trailblazers writing and performing in and around London today. They are: Evelyn Wh-ell\, and D Mortimer. \n\n\n\nYou don’t want to miss this one! Please book in advance to avoid disappointment! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is ticketed – see options below. If you choose Greasepaint + Event Entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to afford a ticket please email shop@housmans.com to reserve a free place\, no questions asked. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-greasepaint-by-hannah-levene/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643622132_FC-300x450-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240405T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240405T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240322T134705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T134708Z UID:55723-1712343600-1712354400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: A Primer on Utopian Philosophy DESCRIPTION:How Ernst Bloch’s work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans 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 Primer on Utopian Philosophy: How Ernst Bloch’s work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. \n\n\n\nThe utopian project lies in ruins\, but perhaps in our present moment\, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction\, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch\, whose complex and challenging philosophy is a primer for a philosophical renewal of the struggle for a better world. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-a-primer-on-utopian-philosophy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jhp6582e0074214c.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240202T175752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T122543Z UID:54387-1714069800-1714077000@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World\, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams and Alison Winch DESCRIPTION:‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World\, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams and Alison Winch \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology. \n\n\n\nIn this last session we’ll be hosting a panel discussion between Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams\, and Alison Winch to talk about digital power in the 21st century – the theme of Gilbert and Williams’ newest book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). \n\n\n\nHegemony Now explores how Big Tech and Wall Street have shaped the direction of politics and government as well as the neoliberal economy to benefit their own interests. However\, since the 2008 financial crisis this dominance is under threat and digital platforms offer new opportunities for counter hegemonic strategies to win back power. Hegemony Now outlines a dynamic socialist strategy for the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nJeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. \n\n\n\nAlex Williams is a political theorist and lecturer in digital media and society currently based at the University of East Anglia. \n\n\n\nAlison Winch is Lecturer in Promotional Media at Goldsmiths\, and of particular relevance to this topic is co-author of ‘The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power’ (Routledge 2021). \n\n\n\nThey will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nHegemony is published by Verso Books\, the largest independent\, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world\, publishing one hundred books a year. You can pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration. \n\n\n\nUSE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKET \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRESERVE TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/how-big-tech-and-wall-street-won-the-world-and-how-we-win-it-back-with-jeremy-gilbert-alex-williams-and-alison-winch/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/hegemony-now-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240402T150042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T140507Z UID:56016-1714330800-1714339800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Love the World Or Get Killed Trying ALVINA CHAMBERLAND in conversation with JULIET JACQUES DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nNamed a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon\, Them\, Ms. Magazine\, Autostraddle\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Bay Area Reporter\, LGBTQ-reads\, and Write or Die-Magazine. \n\n\n\n“Perhaps some hearts are so big they must constantly burst and break.” \n\n\n\nThrough playful poetic prose\, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina\, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity\, sexuality\, longing\, death\, love\, and how hard it is to remain soft when you’re a ceaseless target of straight men’s secret lust and open disgust. This novel tackles universal issues through a trans woman’s specific lens – insisting on these experiences speaking to far more than just issues of sexuality and gender. \n\n\n\nReaching its climax through an urgent wildfire scream-of-consciousness\, cry-of-love-manifesto\, Love the World or Get Killed Trying is a raw and vulnerable work of magical brutalist autofiction; abstract in the sense of poetically digging beneath the surface\, and experimental in the sense of trying to find out new things and express them in new ways\, while concretely asserting that if trans women one day collectively outed every man who seeks them out\, a full-blown revolution would ensue by nightfall. \n\n\n\nAlvina will read from the book and be in conversation with the brilliant Juliet Jacques\, followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nAlvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels. In 2015 Bokförlaget ETC published her co-authored book Allt som är Mitt: Våldtäkt\, Stigmatisering och Upprättelse (English translation: All that is mine: Rape\, Stigmatization and Reparation). The book received a grant from the Swedish Arts Council. In September 2018 her novel Utelåst – Uppväxt- nostalgi för freaks (Locked Out – A nostalgic account of growing up for freaks) a parody of the coming of age-genre\, was published by Dockhaveri Förlag. She resides between Athens and Berlin and has no real hobbies\, only intensity and serenity. Love the World or Get Killed Trying is her English language debut. \n\n\n\nJuliet Jacques (b. Redhill\, Surrey in 1981) is a writer\, filmmaker\, broadcaster and academic based in London. She has published six books\, including Trans: A Memoir (2015)\, two short story collections including Variations (2021)\, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 (2022)\, and a novella\, Monaco (2023). Her fiction\, journalism and essays have appeared in the Guardian (including her ‘Transgender Journey’ column\, longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011)\, New York Times\, Frieze\, London Review of Books and many other publications; her short films have screened in galleries and festivals across the world. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere\, hosted the arts discussion programme Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm\, and is a co-host of Novara FM. She has played football for Clapton Community FC\, Horley Town and Surrey. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:15 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying-alvina-chamberland-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/love-the-world-exterior-new-2-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240319T123100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T171029Z UID:55605-1714762800-1714773600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism DESCRIPTION:March 19\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. \n\n\n\nWithout 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 cap-and-trade programmes\, dangerous geoengineering schemes\, seaweed in cattle feed\, luxury electric cars\, and wildlife conservation bankrolled by billionaires. In their book Half-Earth Socialism\, newly released in paperback\, historian Troy Vettese and scientist Drew Pendergrass criticize such tepid solutions and offers instead a countervailing vision for the future.  \n\n\n\nHalf-Earth Socialism goes beyond critique to confront a series of difficult questions. What does a just and ecologically-stable society actually look like? How can we go past the colonial history of conservation and replace it with something democratic and grounded in indigenous sovereignty? If capitalism leads inevitably to environmental crises\, how can we organize production and distribution without markets? If we engage in economic planning\, what are the planetary boundaries that constrain our interchange with nature? Can we ensure planning remains democratic? In Half-Earth Socialism\, Vettese and Pendergrass demonstrate that thinking through such questions allows us to imagine a new kind of society that is not only desirable\, but also feasible and necessary.  \n\n\n\nIn this event\, Vettese and Pendergrass will will be joined in conversation by food transparency advocate Robbie Lockie\, co-founder of Plant Based News. Half-Earth Socialism argues that widespread veganism makes it far easier to save land for biodiversity\, renewable energy\, fossil-free agriculture\, and carbon dioxide removal. In addition to the other points of the book\, their conversation will touch on disinformation in animal agriculture\, the role of veganism within broader environmental and left-wing movements\, and the relationship between activism and media. \n\n\n\nAbout our speakers: \n\n\n\nDrew Pendergrass is a writer\, activist\, and climate scientist whose work imagines how humanity can democratically govern itself under a worsening environmental crisis. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University\, where he also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. His research uses satellite\, aircraft\, and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. Drew is currently working on a system that uses satellites to estimate real-time global emissions of methane\, an important greenhouse gas. He is the lead developer of CHEEREIO\, a free\, open-source software used by scientists to characterize the sources of a wide variety of pollutants. Drew is co-author of the book Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, along with historian Troy Vettese\, with whom he has also co-written articles for Architectural Design and International Labor and Working-Class History. In addition to his scientific publications\, Drew has authored various pieces of popular environmental writing for outlets including Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and Jacobin. \n\n\n\nTroy Vettese is a Ciriacy-Wantrup post-doctoral fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. from New York University and Masters’ degrees from NYU\, St. Andrews\, and Oxford\, and has held research fellowships at the University of Copenhagen\, the European University Institute\, and Harvard University. Troy has taught a variety of courses on environmental studies in connection with Marxism\, neoliberalism\, and critical theory at the University of Milan\, Lund University\, and the University of Copenhagen. Together with Drew Pendergrass\, Troy is the author of the manifesto\, Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, which has been discussed in Jewish Currents\, New Statesman\, Le Monde\, and the Ecologist\, as well as being translated into Swedish\, Italian\, Thai\, Korean\, and Spanish. He is currently writing a monograph on neoliberal environmental thought and editing a volume on Marxist animal studies. Troy’s popular writing has appeared in n+1\, the Guardian\, Jacobin\, Boston Review\, and Bookforum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRobbie Lockie\, a digital media innovator and food transparency advocate\, leads The Freedom Food Alliance\, promoting informed consumer choices and exposing industry practices. Their recent report unveils disinformation tactics in animal agriculture. As co-founder of Plant Based News\, Robbie raises awareness on veganism\, reaching millions monthly. Inspired by personal health challenges\, Robbie champions ethical\, sustainable living for a better world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-half-earth-socialism/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/getimage_db694b49-2f99-4e74-b6e8-b59be92d62f0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T223000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240409T152609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T100941Z UID:56179-1715367600-1715380200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Change Everything by Natalie Bennett DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Natalie Bennett to the shop to celebrate the publication of her new book of green political theory: Change Everything: How we can rethink\, repair and rebuild society. \n\n\n\nWe are living in a social\, political\, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and more balanced world. The decades-old political orthodoxy\, that greed is good\, inequality doesn’t matter and we can keep treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground\, has been a recipe for disaster. Our world needs a new vision\, the Green vision. From Universal Basic Income to free education\, from less stuff but more life\, to genuine democratic opportunities for all\, Natalie Bennett brings together a holistic\, hopeful and practical vision for the future.The foundations of Change Everything are conversations with many thousands of people. We need to engage millions to bring together the imagination\, talents and energy of all to rebuild and repair our societies. Then a positive future is within our reach. \n\n\n\n‘This book is a tonic! Positively bristling with countless common-sense solutions to restore human and planetary wellbeing\, Change Everything powerfully sets out what needs to be done and how to do it. Both practical and hopeful\, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer\, greener future.’Caroline Lucas MP \n\n\n\n‘Natalie Bennett is right. We have to change everything. But how? Sitting on our hands and hoping things will return to ‘normal’ is not an option . . . Natalie Bennett provides hope and inspiration by showing us how in a myriad of practical ways. If you want to “be the change you wish to see in this world”\, read this book’ Christine Milne\, former leader of the Australian Greens \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nNatalie Bennett was leader of the Green Party of England and Wales 2012-2016\, and entered the House of Lords in 2019. That’s meant a decade travelling the country speaking at public meetings\, in schools\, colleges and universities\, and hearing about the many great grassroots efforts being made to tackle our polycrises. She has degrees in agricultural science\, humanities and social science\, reflecting her passion for joined-up\, systems thinking\, rather than reductionist\, 20th-century-style approaches. She was editor of the Guardian Weekly\, chief sub-editor on the Bangkok Post\, and a volunteer at the Thai National Commission on Women’s Affairs. She grew up on the lands of the Wallumedegal people in northern Sydney. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-change-everything-by-natalie-bennett/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/F9wbVXSWMAApun-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240517T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240517T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240412T115637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T131300Z UID:56288-1715972400-1715983200@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Rentier City: ISAAC ROSE in conversation with NICK BANO DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome two authors whose work interrogates the most pressing problems of our time: the housing crisis\, the problem of landlordism and gentrification. \n\n\n\nIn Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis\, the author observes that in cities across the world\, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back. A good place to begin answering these questions\, Rose argues\, is Manchester\, England. Over the last thirty years\, corporate developers\, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image\, replacing its working-class communities\, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers\, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. \n\n\n\nThe Rentier City traces this story\, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities\, between rentier and rentee\, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in. \n\n\n\nSimilarly\, in Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis\, Nick Bano confronts a world where landlords always win and renters pay the price and asks\, what can be done? Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty\, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before\, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year\, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet the government’s only solution is to promote homeownership. \n\n\n\nAgainst Landlords shows that this crisis is not the product of happenstance or political incompetence. Government policy has intentionally split British citizens into homeowners and renters\, two classes set on very different financial paths. In the UK\, one out of every twenty-one adults is a landlord\, and it is this group\, and those who aspire to join it\, represented by the political class. Building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law\, Bano argues\, and reforms must sweep away the landlordism at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life. \n\n\n\nIsaac and Nick will read from their work and discuss the problems\, and possible solutions\, they both so brilliantly describe\, followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-rentier-city-isaac-rose-in-conversation-with-nick-bano/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Untitled-design-5-edited-1536x1086-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240419T154110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T125031Z UID:56381-1716748200-1716753600@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour' with Kim Kelly DESCRIPTION:On a rare visit to Britain\, Housmans welcomes journalist\, author\, and organiser Kim Kelly\, to speak about her book ‘Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour’\, and to discuss the current groundswell in US labour activism.“Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the working-class heroes who propelled American labor’s relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law.The names and faces of countless silenced\, misrepresented\, or forgotten leaders have been erased by time as a privileged few decide which stories get cut from the final copy: those of women\, people of color\, LGBTQIA people\, disabled people\, sex workers\, prisoners\, and the poor. In this assiduously researched work of journalism\, Teen Vogue columnist and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that history and shows how the rights the American worker has today—the forty-hour workweek\, workplace-safety standards\, restrictions on child labor\, protection from harassment and discrimination on the job—were earned with literal blood\, sweat\, and tears.Fight Like Hell comes at a time of economic reckoning in America. From Amazon’s warehouses to Starbucks cafes\, Appalachian coal mines to the sex workers of Portland’s Stripper Strike\, interest in organized labor is at a fever pitch not seen since the early 1960s.Inspirational\, intersectional\, and full of crucial lessons from the past\, Fight Like Hell shows what is possible when the working class demands the dignity it has always deserved.” \n\n\n\n“In FIGHT LIKE HELL you’ll find the true stories of people who have fought to win a better world for themselves and everyone else who has to work for a living.”—Jeremy Brecher\, author of National Bestseller Strike!“Meticulously researched and beautifully told\, [in FIGHT LIKE HELL] Kim Kelly has established herself as a true champion for the working class.”—Liz Shuler\, AFL-CIO PresidentAbout the author \n\n\n\nKim Kelly is an independent journalist\, author\, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018\, and her writing on labor\, class\, politics\, and culture has appeared in The New Republic\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The Baffler\, The Nation\,the Columbia Journalism Review\, and Esquire\, among many others.Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union\, The Real News Network\, and Means TV.Previously\, she was the heavy metal editor at “Noisey\,” VICE’s music vertical\, and was an original member of the VICE Union. A third-generation union member\, she is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalists Union as well as a member and elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America\, East (WGAE). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOur thanks to Seditionist Distribution for making this event happen https://seditionist.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/fight-like-hell-the-untold-history-of-american-labour-with-kim-kelly/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fight-like-hell.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240607T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240523T163402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T145225Z UID:57281-1717786800-1717792200@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Is this nationalism or some new horror?" Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sivamohan Valluvan on borders and labour in the emerging future DESCRIPTION:“Is this nationalism or some new horror?” Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sivamohan Valluvan on borders and labour in the emerging future\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe first conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya. Via their recently published The Futures of Racial Capitalism\, Gargi will explore with Vallu the place but also limits of nationalism in shaping emergent postliberal regimes of migrant labour governance and disposability. The nationalisms multiplying across the world\, cutting across conventional Global South-Global North geographies\, will be explored here. Intriguingly\, it is often the nationalist frameworks of bordering and labour management as innovated in other parts of the word (East Asia\, the Gulf States) that is steadily being exported to Britain. Probing questions will also be explored about how some of these new realities operate beyond the idea of nation\, allowing for transnational and tech-enabled infrastructures that organise stratified labour pools of disposable exploitation.PART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/is-this-nationalism-or-some-new-horror-gargi-bhattacharyya-and-sivamohan-valluvan-on-borders-and-labour-in-the-emerging-future/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/RC-NATIONALISM-POSTER.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240514T123202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T104732Z UID:56958-1718737200-1718748000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects: OWEN HATHERLEY in conversation with LAURA GRACE FORD DESCRIPTION: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.’ \n\n\n\nThese 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 able to get them in conversation at Housmans. Advance booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nA walk through the remnants of a social democratic America\, and an argument about its future.In the 1960s\, a novel ideology about cities\, and what was best for them\, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time\, it held that cities were at their best when they were driven from the bottom-up and when organic\, unplanned processes were allowed to run their course\, in a spontaneous “ballet of the street”. Cities were at their worst\, however\, when the state stepped in\, demolishing lively old neighbourhoods and erecting giant\, sterile\, empty “projects”. This book uses the method of this ideology ― walking ― to test how true it actually is about the “capital of the twentieth century”\, New York City\, with a brief interlude in the capital\, Washington DC.The “projects” that are walked in this book range from cultural complexes in Manhattan to New Deal-era public housing developments in Brooklyn\, Harlem and Queens\, from the social experiment of Roosevelt Island to Communist housing co-operatives in the Bronx\, from the union-driven rebuilding of the Lower East Side to DC’s magnificent Metro. For all their many flaws\, they prove that Americans could\, in fact\, plan and build fragments of a better society\, which survive and sometimes thrive today in one of the unequal places on earth. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects takes a hard look at these enclaves\, and asks what a new generation of American socialists might be able to learn from them. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nOwen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for\, among others\, the Architectural Review\, the Calvert Journal\, Dezeen\, the Guardian\, Jacobin\, the London Review of Books and New Humanist. He was culture editor at Tribune magazine and is the author of several books. \n\n\n\nLaura Grace Ford draws on psychogeography\, hauntology and the dérive\, her work interrogates the psychic contours of urban space with a particular focus on subcultural scenes\, marginal political networks and UK club culture. In 2011 Ford’s zine Savage Messiah\, was published Verso and reissued in 2020. Part fragmented novel\, part collage\, the book is both a polemic against the marginalisation of the city’s working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space. Ford’s practice spans painting\, drawing\, installation\, sound and publishing\, with an eye on the city’s emotional shifts. Ford’s work is held in public collections and is on the UK GCSE and A level syllabus. She has contributed to many publications including The White Review\, Frieze\, Art Review\, Afterall and Dazed\, as well as numerous academic journals. She exhibits and teaches internationally\, and is currently a Somerset House Studios resident. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects-owen-hatherly-in-conversation-with-laura-grace-ford/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Walking-the-street-cover-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240530T170245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T170252Z UID:57383-1719428400-1719433800@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Empire\, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism' Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book 'Uncommon Wealth'.      DESCRIPTION:‘Empire\, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism’ Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book ‘Uncommon Wealth’.     \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the second conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism Kojo and Vallu will explore contemporary English nationalism’s morose impasse\, an impasse that squats in the legacies of Empire but also bequeaths to its Establishment a particularly anachronistic worldview. \n\n\n\nVia Kojo’s book\, alongside revisiting thinkers like Tom Nairn and Paul Gilroy\, the conversation will chart the melancholic nationalism that has taken England’s political culture hostage. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will address how hubristic delusions are coupled to moribund fixations with English grievance and victimhood – all of which play upon colonial legacies but also weaken the country’s ability to adjust to the rise of new global powers and wider ongoing reconfigurations in the global economy. \n\n\n\nPART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/empire-decline-and-the-fate-of-english-nationalism-sivamohan-valluvan-in-conversation-with-kojo-koram-on-his-book-uncommon-wealth/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KOJO-KORAM-EVENT.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240716T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240716T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240621T145541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T152743Z UID:57978-1721156400-1721161800@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg\n\n\n\n\n\nAutonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Merlin Press exploring the infamous arguments and split within the International Working Men’s Association. The disagreements\, which gravitated between the two positions of Mikhail Bakunin’s horizontalist anarchism and Karl Marx’s hierarchical communism\, have repercussions which reverberate to this day. Join author Anthony Zurbrugg to discuss this infamous historical moment. There will be an illustrated presentation by the author\, outlining the scope and activities of the First International as it worked through difficulties in the aftermath of the Paris Commune of 1871\, The book addresses issues of class\, gender\, authority and ethnicity within labour and progressive movements in in Europe and in the Americas.The book will be available at a special launch price of £20\, down from its list price of £25. Entry to the event is free but please register via RSVP ticket link below\, or optional £5 solidarity ticket “The First International was founded with high ideals: ‘every individual or society joining it\, will recognise morality\, justice and truth as the basis of their conduct toward to all men\, without distinction of nationality\, creed\, or colour.’ By September 1873 it had split.Six regional federations supported one congress\, a few local sections and a Council in New York\, supported another. The congresses\, both meeting in Geneva\, brought together persons inspired by contrasting forms of organisation\, one federalist and mainly based on workplace organisation\, the other centralist\, supporting national electoral parties.Reports and newspaper articles (some translated for the first time) present rival perspectives\, influenced by Bakunin and Marx. These texts review issues of class\, gender\, authority and ethnicity within labour and progressive movements in Europe and the USA. ‘The congress of Geneva of 1873 has reset our Association on its true path\, working people have had enough of chiefs and bosses\, they want to take the management of their affairs into their own hands.’” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-book-launch-the-politics-of-solidarity-the-international-working-mens-association-1873-with-anthony-zurbrugg/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Politics-of-solidarity.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240514T151820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T134246Z UID:56984-1721415600-1721426400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation. DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE SOON. THOSE WITH TICKETS WILL BE REIMBURSED. \n\n\n\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!Housmans are delighted to hand the shop floor over to Kate Hardie and So Mayer who will be talking about about how they both use genre fiction to tell hard truths\, finding queer and feminist form for personal stories. We are also happy to be celebrating the paperback launch of Kate’s brilliant and haunting debut novel This Is Where We Live. Described in The Independent as ‘the most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work’ This Is Where We Live is a masterful work of contemporary\, and subtle\, gothic fiction: A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing. But her child needs to get to school. There’s a food shop to be done. Parents evenings\, play dates and pasta for tea. Raising her child alone\, she’s done all she can to protect them. But what if she’s the thing they need protecting from the most? \n\n\n\nKate’s interlocuter for the evening will be the inimitable So Mayer\, whose most recent work is the acclaimed short story collection Truth or Dare: a queer quantum tour through what was\, what is\, what could have been and may yet still come to pass\, a collection that braids high-wire believe-it-or-not memoir with cutting-edge science fiction (or is it?) from alternate timelines that vibrate very close to ours. Truth or dare? Both\, always. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur speakers: \n\n\n\nKate 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 and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry\, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. She is mother to one and lives in London with her husband. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel. \n\n\n\nSo Mayer is a writer\, indie bookseller\, film curator\, and pencil stan. Their most recent books are A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula\, 2020)\, a short essay on queer art\, censorship and resistance\, and (Litmus\, 2018)\, a poetry sequence about interwar masculinity\, technology and hats\, and their BFI Film Classics on Orlando is forthcoming. Their work across genres and forms has been published internationally\, including in Roxane Gay’s anthology Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture\, in several Criterion DVDs\, and in Ignota Press’s Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry. Plus their poetry once appeared on hoardings in Dublin. With Adam Zmith\, they collaborated on Unreal Sex for Cipher\, an anthology of queer SFFH\, and on the BBC Sounds podcast The Film We Can’t See\, a tour through queer film history. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-kate-hardie-in-conversation-with-so-mayer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240724T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240724T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240622T123343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240622T135011Z UID:57994-1721847600-1721853000@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch:'Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire' with Adam Greenfield DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: ‘Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’ with Adam Greenfield\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAutonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Verso\, an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. In this book Adam Greenfield\, author of Radical Technologies\, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs\, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece\, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava\, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish. \n\n\n\nReviews“Mixing clear-eyed\, unwavering analysis with deep compassion\, Lifehouse offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction”Jenny Odell\, author of Saving Time“When three emergencies — climate\, political and social – build together into the storm of our present we need to start thinking from the ground-up. In this we have no better guide than AG. Lifehouse constructs a much needed\, hands-on strategy for urban care. Read it and start planning.” Eyal Weizman\, author of Hollowland“A succinct\, unflinching assessment of the urgent conditions unfolding around us\, and a nuanced\, practical analysis of why and how we must take up immediate\, local\, collective direct action.”Dean Spade\, author of Mutual AidAbout the authorAdam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology\, design and politics with everyday life. Selected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics\, he previously taught in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Urban Design program of the Bartlett\, University College London. His books include Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing\, Urban Computing and Its Discontents\, and the bestsellers Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEntry to the event is free but please register via RSVP ticket link below\, or optional £5 solidarity ticket \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-book-launchlifehouse-taking-care-of-ourselves-in-a-world-on-fire-with-adam-greenfield/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lifehouse.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240710T115525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T164336Z UID:58322-1721934000-1721944800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube DESCRIPTION:SISSY ANARCHY cranks up the volume on confessional literature with a blistering new journal series. Brace yourself for genre-bending writers who burrow into the recesses of their psyches\, dragging out the raw\, unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface. \n\n\n\nFor our first journal\, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube\, an auto-essay journal that reflects on experiences of trans misogyny\, child sexual abuse\, sexual and gendered violence and the trauma this causes. \n\n\n\nTo be presented at Housmans Bookshop with special guest readers Fi Kube \, Hesse K.\, and Biogal\, alongside the release of a new special edition risograph poster bundle with artworks by Bug Shepherd-Barron\, Leomi Sadler\, and Jesse Glazzard.  \n\n\n\nAll proceeds made on the evening from the sale of posters will go to trans healthcare + you can use your posters at Trans Pride! \n\n\n\nABOUT SISSY ANARCHY \n\n\n\nSISSY ANARCHY is a platform about trans queer anarchism by P Eldridge and Caitlin McLoughlin. We understand anarchism as an ideology\, that is\, a set of ideas\, motivations\, ethics\, values\, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices. We include the abstract and theoretical understandings of anarchism as a basis for free thinking and understanding from activists\, artists\, writers\, poets\, archivists\, and many more\, as a conducive way toward conceiving a model for social transformation; which converges through the lens of trans queer theory and artistic practices against anti-trans\, anti-queer\, capitalist\, colonial\, racist\, ableist\, and discrimination struggles across the world. We strive toward SISSY ANARCHY being a platform that has a political practice which seeks final objectives. @sissyanarchy \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/sissy-anarchy-presents-the-release-of-knots-by-fi-kube/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KNOTS_EVENT-GRAPHIC-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240709T153057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T112735Z UID:58299-1722020400-1722029400@housmans.com SUMMARY:MAGAZINE LAUNCH: Modern Poetry in Translation DESCRIPTION:Poetry has always been critical to dreams of liberation. In these perilous\, and calamitous times\, we’ll hear from our poets about their liberatory dreams and rage. An archive of anger\, dissidence\, and rebellion\, this issue features poets and translators speaking truth to power from Palestine\, Ivory Coast\, Iran\, Nepal\, Argentina\, China\, India and various other places and languages.  \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome our readers Leo Boix who has translated Liliana Ancalao from Argentina\, Cristina Viti  who has translated Batool Abu Akleen from Gaza and Yě Yě who has translated Jike Ayou from China’s Sichuan province.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Poets: \n\n\n\nLEO BOIX is a bilingual Latinx poet and translator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His second poetry collection is forthcoming with Chatto & Windus (Vintage) in June 2025. \n\n\n\nCRISTINA VITI’S recent publications include Pasolini’s La rabbia (Tenement Press\, 2022) and An Anarchist Playbook (NoUP\, 2024)\, a series of texts co-translated in her workshop at King’s College. \n\n\n\nYĚ YĚ is the co-founder of Poetry Lab Shanghai\, and has had two collections of poetry published. Her words have appeared in the87press\, Pamenar Press\, Voice & Verse poetry magazine and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO THE RED CRESCENT \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available.If you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.Doors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/magazine-launch-modern-poetry-in-translation/ CATEGORIES:Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MPT_No2-2024-FRONT.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240530T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T164415Z UID:57362-1722452400-1722457800@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Disaster Nationalism" Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization DESCRIPTION:“Disaster Nationalism” Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe third and final conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Richard Seymour previewing his forthcoming book ‘Disaster Nationalism’ (October 2024\, Verso). The rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders like Donald Trump\, Jair Bolsonaro\, and Rodrigo Duterte\, the true peril lies elsewhere. They are but the political manifestations of a potent force – disaster nationalism. This mass cultural phenomenon\, propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, emerges from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. \n\n\n\nAt its core\, disaster nationalism fixates on images of catastrophe – the ‘Great Replacement\,’ Satanic ‘cabals’ – as explanations for its discontent. It yearns for an ‘end of days\,’ a reckoning\, a ‘storm’ as the QAnon faithful call it\, to bring an end to its suffering. This yearning is only heightened by the relentless onslaught of real-world disasters – from economic recessions to global pandemics and ecological collapse. \n\n\n\nWithin this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming phenomenon\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, this book offers a stark warning and a call to action. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself.PART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/disaster-nationalism-richard-seymour-and-sivamohan-valluvan-on-the-downfall-of-liberal-civilization/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/disaser-tight.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240710T121155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T144230Z UID:58329-1722538800-1722549600@housmans.com SUMMARY: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. DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nAbout the book:Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing the war on Ukraine during the ongoing militant invasion of Russian forces. Whilst writing Trap Unfolds Me Greedily\, he is the primary caretaker of his mother who suffers with severe health complications and is hospitalised. As a young queer man\, Misha sets out on a path of discovery in the face of continued atrocities and displacement. His strength to brave such abject horrors makes its way into his prose\, which is relentless\, merciless\, leaving no reader resolved. \n\n\n\nWritten with a deep intelligence and a fierce willingness to understand that which terrorises\, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily follows Misha as he succumbs to new forms of grief whilst navigating the complexities of the immigration system\, his queerness\, war crimes\, violence\, and bereaving the slow passing of his closest relative and protector\, his mother. With each phrase\, he turns toward the atrocities to make sense of his life\, weaving stories that sear with intimate complexity. \n\n\n\nIt’s deeper than raw and unflinching\, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily hurts as it rustles the literary canon and binds you to the suffering with Misha’s original voice; where he invites you to be witness to such powerful forms of sorrow\, asking: what does it mean to build a life of one’s own from the rubble\, in the wake of what remains? \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\nMisha Honcharenko is a Ukrainian queer artist and writer. He started his Instagram profile as a form of art diary\, combining weirdness in context of objects and landscapes\, exploring himself via photography for over a decade now. Skin of Nocturnal Apple is his first poetry collection published by Pilot Press in 2023. Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is his upcoming debut novel published by SISSY ANARCHY. @michgonch \n\n\n\nOctavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. Her memoir\, This Ragged Grace\, is published by Canongate and is out in paperback now. @octavia.bright \n\n\n\nSISSY ANARCHY is a platform about trans queer anarchism by P Eldridge and Caitlin McLoughlin. We understand anarchism as an ideology\, that is\, a set of ideas\, motivations\, ethics\, values\, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices. We include the abstract and theoretical understandings of anarchism as a basis for free thinking and understanding from activists\, artists\, writers\, poets\, archivists\, and many more\, as a conducive way toward conceiving a model for social transformation; which converges through the lens of trans queer theory and artistic practices against anti-trans\, anti-queer\, capitalist\, colonial\, racist\, ableist\, and discrimination struggles across the world. We strive toward SISSY ANARCHY being a platform that has a political practice which seeks final objectives. @sissyanarchyhttps://sissyanarchy.substack.com/ \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-sissy-anarchy-presents-trap-unfolds-me-greedily-by-misha-honcharenko-in-conversation-with-writer-broadcaster-and-author-of-this-ragged-grace-octavia/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Misha-Launch-Graphic-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240803T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240803T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240710T124802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T134059Z UID:58337-1722711600-1722722400@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press presents HUMMINGBIRDS 2.0: a literary salon with Edgar Garcia\, John Wilkinson and Calliope Michail DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be collaborating with the inimitable 87press to present Hummingbirds 2.0\, a literary salon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n The hummingbird is a surrealist motif that symbolises love and dialogue\, something which we wish to foster further within poetry and literature. Each salon event offers an intimate space for live poetry readings and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHummingbirds 2.0 features Edgar Garcia\, John Wilkinson\, and Calliope Michail; discussion will be chaired by Azad Ashim Sharma. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books\, 2019)\, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography\, Hieroglyphs\, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press\, 2020)\, and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press\, 2022). He is associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Wilkinson’s most recent books are the poem clusters Wood Circle (The Last Books 2021) and Fugue State (Shearsman 2023). His absentee memoir Colours Nailed to the Mast was published by Shearsman in 2023. An emeritus professor in the Department of English\, University of Chicago\, he now lives in Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalliope Michail is a London based poet and translator. Poems\, collages\, watercolour erasures\, translations\, etc.\, have appeared in various publications including Snow Lit Rev\, Penteract Press\, The Hythe\, Datableed\, Pamenar Press\, Lumin and Prototype. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook Along Mosaic Roads (the87press\, 2018). She enjoys collaborating with other poets and artists\, often for performances at the European Poetry Festival and Camarade series. In the fall\, she will start working on a PhD on the poet Iliassa Sequin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTickets are free\, but advanced booking is strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nTickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-20-a-literary-salon-tickets-932354335917?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the87press-presents-hummingbirds-2-0-a-literary-salon-with-edgar-garcia-john-wilkinson-and-calliope-michail/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image0.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240706T120202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240806T125235Z UID:58220-1723230000-1723239000@housmans.com SUMMARY:GRIEF AND GOODNESS: A Conversation between Camille Sapara Barton and Sanah Ahsan DESCRIPTION: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 and we are extremely excited. There will be readings\, conversation and a Q&A\, followed by an open mic session. Advanced booking recommended. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS: \n\n\n\nSanah and Camille will be in conversation exploring the relationship between goodness and grief – two central themes of their books. They will delve into the wild mysteries of grief tending and embracing uncomfortable emotions as a method to refuse the tyrannies of positivity and productivity culture. They will examine the role of whiteness and dogma in constructing our ideas of goodness. Troubling the binaries of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in queer activist spaces\, these writers emphasise the duty of repair\, relinquishing righteousness and community responsibility in tending to relational fractures.  \n\n\n\nFinally\, this event will dance in the gulfs between the publicly professed politics\, and what is lived privately\, inviting us all to grieve together in the messy in-between.” \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/grief-and-goodness-a-conversation-between-camille-sapara-barton-and-sanah-ahsan/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240824T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240824T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240803T131849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240809T130946Z UID:59053-1724526000-1724535000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Kaisa Saarinen: 'Maitonaut' DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nThere is escapism\, yes — but then there is transcendence. And the more MAITONAUT self-reveals the more we see hints of full blown eternity hidden within the blur of modern everydayness. Mixing poems and fiction and narrators with the fluidity of water becoming ice then vapor\, Kaisa Saarinen’s second collection self-escapes somehow in the midst of its very self-materialization. \n\n\n\nKaisa’s performance of Maitonaut fragments will be accompanied by guest readings from JD Howse\, Michael Kabasele & Bart Seng Wen Long.Our Readers: \n\n\n\nKaisa Saarinen is a former feral farmgirl currently based in London. She has previously published one collection of poetry\, fiction & photography (Voideuse\, Feral Dove 2022) and one novel (Weather Underwater\, Bellows Press 2023). JD Howse was born in Lancashire and raised in London. He has a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway\, University of London and works in Print Production. He works across poetry\, prose\, collage\, and film\, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. His poetry collections include Just Meat Not God\, Noises Again\, and This is a Dagger\, and his debut novel Distraction! is forthcoming. \n\n\n\nMichael Kabasele is a poet based in London. She writes poetry absolutely everywhere\, in locations including (but not limited to): at tables in pubs\, locked in the bathrooms of public areas\, by rivers\, by the sea\, on national rail trains\, on the Tube\, and even in her bedroom (sometimes). She writes poetry about absolutely everything— sometimes earnest\, sometimes gross\, sometimes sexy\, but always quite odd. Michael is a weird little girl\, and always has been. Above all\, though\, Michael is a poet. \n\n\n\nBart Seng Wen Long is an artist-filmmaker and independent curator. His practice involves moving images\, photography and performance\, and explores the political economy of desire through processes of fetishisation. His short story Queer Cinema was published in excerpt by Sticky Fingers. Bart is currently working on a long form research-based art project about rubber in Southeast Asia.  \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30Feel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-kaisa-saarinen-maitonaut/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MaitonautCover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240804T113424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T161102Z UID:59070-1725044400-1725053400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: EXAM NATION: Sammy Wright in conversation with Ed Vainker DESCRIPTION:Housmans look forward to welcoming teacher\, and former member of the Social Mobility Commission\, Sammy Wright. Sammy will be discussing his latest book Exam Nation: a first hand account of the struggles student and teachers face in the relentless pursuit of performance table ranking. \n\n\n\nIn Exam Nation\, Sammy asks the fundamental question; what is school really for? Current assessment infrastructure bases student merit and access to FE/HE almost entirely on pressurised performance. Sammy argues that exams function better as benchmarks for progress – like driving tests – than a definitive dictation on what doors open for whom. He asks: how best do we support those children who show an inclination towards vocational work\, and how should educators engage when education isn’t valued in the home? \n\n\n\nSammy interviews parents\, students and colleagues to get to the root\, digging into community\, complex developmental needs\, familial support structures and trauma (all possessing the ability to make or break a child’s performance). He isn’t anti-exams – recognising the true need for assessment – but believes schools are much more effective when focused on community integration\, fostering genuine engagement with subjects\, and preparing students for the realities of adulthood. Drawing upon twenty years of experience\, Exam Nation is hopeful as it is at times heart-breaking – a rallying cry for cross-sector critical evaluation. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-sammy-wright-exam-nation/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9781847927521-jacket-large.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240823T131216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T160327Z UID:59601-1725822000-1725831000@housmans.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Calvin John Smiley DESCRIPTION:Housmans are extremely excited to welcome the inimitable scholar\, sociologist and criminologist Dr Calvin John Smiley to the shop to discuss his work. Calvin’s brilliant writing concerns prison abolition\, race\, inequality\, and social justice and these will be the primary themes of discussion on the evening. He will be focusing especially on his two most recent book\, Defund: conversations toward abolition and Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry\, Race and Abolition. \n\n\n\nCalvin will be joined by Dr Becka Hudson from Birkbeck’s School of Historical Studies. Her work uses history\, anthropology and criminology to look at the interaction between psychiatry and imprisonment. \n\n\n\nThe evening will consist of a discussion which will then be followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30P.S. BYOB \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/an-evening-with-calvin-john-smiley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/preeti-insta-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210626 CREATED:20240816T122421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T120218Z UID:59414-1726686000-1726691400@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’ with Matt Kennard DESCRIPTION:‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’ with Matt Kennard (SOLD OUT)\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans welcome back investigative journalist Matt Kennard to discuss the new edition of this vital and staggering book\, which exposes the dark nature of modern geopolitics and neo-imperialism. \n\n\n\nWhile working for the Financial Times\, Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara\, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money\, and a reach much too close to home. \n\n\n\nOwing to the very nature of the Financial Times\, however\, Kennard was not able to publish these findings as part of his day job. Enter The Racket\, now in a fully updated second edition. This tell-all book\, reported from all corners of the world\, will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works-and in whose interests. Kennard reports not only from across the United States\, but from the United Kingdom\, the Caribbean\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. In doing so he provides startlingly clear and concrete evidence of unchecked\, high-level\, interrelated systems of exploitation all over the world. At the same time\, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket such as Thom Yorke\, Damon Albarn\, and Gael García Bernal\, Kennard offers a glimpse of a developing resistance\, which needs to win. \n\n\n\nNow more relevant than ever\, this 2nd edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. \n\n\n\nThere will be a reading from the book and discussion\, followed by a Q&A.Matt Kennard is co-founder\, and chief investigator\, at Declassified UK\, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London\, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington\, DC\, New York\, and London. He is the author of several acclaimed books including Irregular Army (2012)\, and co-author (with Claire Provost) of Silent Coup (2023). \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.Housmans cannot sell alcohol but please feel free to bring a bottle! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSOLD OUT! There are no more tickets available for this event.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... 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