Pub day for 'The Women Are Not Fine' is TODAY! So grateful for the warm welcome on my UK tour - thank you to Brazen books + @hachetteuk.bsky.social + Romilly Morgan + @agentbal.bsky.social + @ellasgordon.bsky.social + the team who made this possible!
Order here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Charmed as ever by @taffyakner.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
"I know there are many trans and non-binary people who will be feeling deeply worried today, caught in the midst of a media storm as they try to simply live their lives. To those people, I say: please know that I stand with you - today, tomorrow and always. The Green Party continues to support a policy of self-ID to allow trans people to live full lives free from harassment in the gender they know themselves to be. The judge emphasised in his speech that trans people are still protected under the law, but it is for government to now demonstrate how this will be achieved. I will work closely with human rights and LGBTIQA+ groups to understand the consequences of this ruling, and will not hesitate to press for changes in legislation if it is needed to protect the human rights of all.” - Carla Denyer MP, Green Party Co-leader - MP Bristol Central
I know there are many trans and non-binary people who will be feeling deeply worried today, caught in the midst of a media storm as they try to simply live their lives. Please know that I stand with you - today, tomorrow and always.
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
You are amazing Taffy xxx
I wrote about my friend's father, a Holocaust survivor, and how the stories you run the fastest from end up being the only ones that you were inevitably bound to write in the first place. I'm sorry for the delay. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...
I had a delightful time taking to @schreiberland.bsky.social on the brilliant We Can Be Weirdos podcast. I can't remember exactly what I said but subjects covered involved doomsday, ghost architecture, JFK, locked room mysteries, and scarves from parallel universes pod.link/1687199754
A promotional image for the book A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World, featuring an image of the book cover (the globe consumed by fire with a mushroom cloud obscuring part of the title) plus text inlcuding approving quotes from critics: "The End is here. "A great read... fills his timeline of unfilled apocalypses with wry humour and keeps the queue of plagues and judgements accessible." – New Scientist "Superb... Entertaining... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm." – Daily Telegraph "A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World – Out Now – Hardback, Ebook, Audiobook – https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld"
My book is OUT TODAY! It is about the apocalypse. Buy it now, before it becomes even more uncomfortably topical! Discover why all the critics* are raving about it!
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*2 critics
For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.
This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]
Had the pleasure of reviewing the long-awaited debut novel by Chris McQueer.
Read the review HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Great to see Chris, man of many talents and also haircuts, being interviewed about his gorgeous debut novel HERMIT in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social this week
oh I love it so. looking forward to celebrating pub with you on the 24th!
Two hardback copies of A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World, by Tom Phillips, sitting on top of each other. The cover shows a mushroom cloud expanding above a fiery Earth, the planet and the mushroom cloud respectively forming the "O" of "World" and very demurely hiding the "U" of "Fucking". It looks, I'm going to be honest here, absolutely banging.
Apologies that I will become insufferable for the next few months, but: my new book is now officially A REAL THING THAT EXISTS.
It's a history of the apocalypse. It's out on February 25 in the UK. Really hoping that... well, the apocalypse doesn't happen before then.
Fifty-one of women's worst nightmares are going to prison. Countless other nightmares remain at large.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Luv 2 see HERMIT in this gorgeous stack, thanks Alice!!
And good morning to this great news that the home team found my book notable! Thank you, @nytimes.com Books, I love you! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Crying over here! Thank you, @washingtonpost.com! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...
List of books My Family by David Baddiel (HarperCollins) The Postcard by Anne Berest, trans. Tina Kover (Europa Editions) Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Wildfire) Final Verdict by Tobias Buck (Orion) Spinoza by Ian Buruma (Yale University Press) Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni, trans. Paul Olchvary (Jonathan Cape) Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler (Faber) Eight Bright Lights by Sara Gibbs (Headline) Elena: A Hand Made Life by Miriam Gold (Jonathan Cape) Fervour by Toby Lloyd (Hodder) Sufferance by Charles Palliser (Guernica Editions) Alfred Dreyfus by Maurice Samuels (Yale University Press) The Safekeep by Yael van Der Wouden (Viking) Lublin by Manya Wilkinson (And Other Stories)
We’re very pleased to reveal the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize longlist. Comprised of seven novels and seven non-fiction titles, they cover a broad spectrum of opinions, style and content, interrogating what it means to be Jewish in multiple ways.
Huge congratulations to the wonderful @taffyakner.bsky.social for hitting the Wingate Prize longlist!
The ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif make clear that to continue selling arms to Israel is to aid and abet war crimes. It is utterly indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘His response may be biologically determined’ is extraordinary lolllllll
A passage from the novel: She remembered a term she learned in a linguistics class for the way a word stops making sense if you stare at it for too long: semantic evacuation. That was what it felt like for Jenny. The world no longer had coherence. It was just a group of modules, diffuse components that dissolved into each other before you could even understand what you were looking at. The outdoors was a painted perspective of disparate objects. The houses were just bricks + doors + knobs + windows. The cars were just body + wheels + go. The people were cogs on an airport people mover. Look at the word boat sometime. You'll never unsee the way it just falls apart in front of you. Everything was its parts; nothing was its sum. People who don't know the term semantic evacuation sometimes call this feeling depression.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise.
First post! @jrf-uk.bsky.social I've been thinking about how paid & unpaid care intertwine, and so how any future care system will rely on unpaid care.
Very excited about new work we're funding from Emily Kenway deepening our understanding of how & why we can't design out unpaid care 👇
