
Seán Hayes
@seanghayes
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editor, Fern Press @vintagebooks | founding editor @tolkajournal | views—insomuch as they can be—my own | he/him
Brixton via Dublin
Joined April 2011
Excited to be reading the book of the summer on the way to the sunny seaside! #Pan #FernPress #reading #summerbooks @vintagebooks @seanghayes 👁️👁️
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👁️ 👁️ Today we announce PAN by the acclaimed memoirist and cult writer Michael Clune (and my first acquisition for Fern Press)! A thrilling, subversive and darkly funny coming-of-age novel, PAN has fans in Maggie Nelson and Ben Lerner. Coming July! 👁️ 👁️ https://t.co/BBJlpEbBWl
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If you had told me when we first started @tolkajournal that, four years later, we would have Annie Ernaux on the line-up, well ... Feeling v grateful to announce the line-up of Issue Nine today, featuring some all-time favourite writers and exciting new talent. Pre-order now!
Announcing TOLKA number 9 🔥 Publishing this May, and available to pre-order here: https://t.co/tH4yjW97hw Proudly supported by @artscouncil_ie
#NewNonFiction #LiteraryNonFiction
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Great to see @katiekitamura’s AUDITION (April) included as a novel to watch out for in 2025! Can’t say it much better than Alex here: ‘I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today.’ 🥂
Novels to look forward to in 2025. Fruit of my November fiction fest. Some wonderful books here. Love writing this for @ObsNewReview and @UrsulaKenny
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Very excited to announce today PATHEMATA: OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH – a stunning new original work by Maggie Nelson, a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss – which we are proud to publish on Fern Press in May 2025! 🔵🟠 https://t.co/Nf3CsHs1nt
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Audition! An emotional, intelligent, intensely stylish novel that reads a bit like walking on quicksand: shocking, eerie, disorienting, and utterly immersive. I was floored by it. (Plus, you know I love Kitamura’s unshakeably elegant prose.) thank you @seanghayes for sending
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From one of our foremost public intellectuals, this week we have 10 proofs to giveaway of an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications
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I asked Emmanuel Carrere some questions for @GuardianBooks
‘Why do I have an interest in such horrible things?’: Emmanuel Carrère on the Paris terror attacks trial
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A writer I’m very grateful for these days, and a book I’m very glad he’s publishing soon
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This. Book. Coming April next year from @FernPress_ is so damn good. Gripping and subtle in the best possible way. You can pre-order here, treat yourself, and support the indie bookshops we all love. https://t.co/nTioxjnWO6
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Think this is my favourite cover so far! TOLKA Issue Eight, featuring new essays by Megan Nolan, Ralf Webb, Noreen Masud, Hanne Ørstavik (translated by Martin Aitken) and many more, publishes 22 November! Do consider pre-ordering a copy (or a few): https://t.co/lqxqukUbXO 🌊
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ISBN: 978–1–7398226–6–8 Issue Eight, published in November 2024, is available to purchase. It includes: Megan Nolan – And No Animal Is Without Enemy Noreen Masud – Quietly the World Shifts Hanne...
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Katie Kitamura fans, please make yourselves known! AUDITION, the new, gorgeously disquieting Möbius strip of a novel by the author of INTIMACIES and A SEPARATION, coming on Fern Press, May 2025. ♾️ ‘An original. Building an entire métier of her own’ RACHEL KUSHNER
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🌊 Announcing Issue Eight! We're delighted to reveal the line-up of our next issue, publishing in November and featuring some very fine writers, indeed! Be sure to pre-order your copy here: https://t.co/2K9rLhVQfR 🌊
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Isabella Hammad, RECOGNISING THE STRANGER “Facing the antagonists of misinformation, widespread censorship, and a military superpower backed by the United States…feels like trying to scale an incredibly large wall with your bare hands...’ 1/
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This short book by Isabella Hammad publishes later this week, and it is very, very good. I’ve read it twice in the last few days
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having fun then randomly remembering the book i’ve left on page 102 for 3 months now
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Copies of this vital essay by Isabella Hammad have landed, receiving the most incredible early praise: 'pitch perfect' (Max Porter), 'combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity' (Sally Rooney), 'a supremely gifted communicator' (@michaelmagee__). Publishing 26 Sept!
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Clearing out the shelves in preparation of @vintagebooks’s office move has sorted my weekend reading
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really thrilled that pankaj mishra is expanding on his brilliant LRB essay, "The Shoah After Gaza," with @penguinpress
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