Paperback edition of Wild Air is published today! Many thanks to all those who have read it & to 4th Estate Books for making this happen and for this beautiful jacket.

London: MOTHER NAKED launches 6th June. To celebrate, I'm reading at Waterstones Trafalgar Sq. alongside Goldsmith-winning Isabel Waidner, who is launching the paperback of their fantastic Corey Fah Does Social Mobility.

So 2-4-1! It would be nice to see you.

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In 2 weeks time we will have the launch of

Ghost Mountain Mumblin' Deaf Ro

In Dublin Hodges Figgis from 6pm.

Rónán will be in conversation with David Collard.

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This is a silly ask, I know, but does any Dublin mutual I have on here have the Saoirse kufiya from Hirbawi they can lend me to wear for the Dublin Literary Award ceremony? I’ve been on the waitlist for months and we have officially run out of time 😭 kufiya.org/product/saoirs…

There’re so many ways Steve Albini exemplified an anti-sell-out Gen X sensibility which simply does not exist anymore, or which might no longer even be possible.

One thing I kind of love about social media is that when an important artist dies, there is this moment where their work sort of explodes through the system, almost like a biological process of some kind, like a release of spores. It’s especially true of musicians I think

Everyone has their personal favourite Albini-produced album.

My review this week Irish Times Culture is Lucy Caldwell's captivating new collection Openings. Highly recommend Faber Books - shorturl.at/tKOQY

Do come!

@Moli in august company to launch the new edition of Archipelago with keynote
Late Heaney:Poetry and Place after the Nobel by Nicholas Allen

Some tickets still available for tomorrow's packed programme

So many taches and mullets these days. Can't keep track of whether they're ironic, post-ironic, retro chic, cosplay, straight-up no taste.

London friends, there's still a few tickets left for next Wednesday's reading and chat with the brilliant Lucy Caldwell 7pm Libreria London libreria.io/quickly-while-…

Lunchtime book shopping: While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer, translated by Katy Derbyshire pub Fitzcarraldo Editions

Hard to look at the Met Gala pictures without thinking 'why haven't you got hay fever, like the rest of us.'

Good morning and many thanks to all the booksellers

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A detail of my portrait of former Archbishop of York, The Right Reverend John Sentamu, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery.

When it really comes down to it, it's being able to combine getting published with creative freedom.

The Goon Show almost got itself a bargain there.

Aw no, that met gala joke Oscars thing is on tonight. Block, block, mute, mute.

You can see from the red VAR line behind him that he's clearly onside.