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Margaret Killjoy interviews Ursula K. Le Guin (2007)
Margaret Killjoy is an author and podcaster. Her most recent book is anarchist witch school novel The Sapling Cage, published by the Feminist Press. She hosts the podcasts Live Like the World is Dying and Cool People Who Do Cool Stuff, and writes the Substack newsletter Birds Before the Storm, where she recently republished this interview with Ursula K. Le Guin from 2007. The headnote below covers this interview’s publishing journey, why Killjoy is resharing (and giving Silver permission to re-reshare it)...
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) x Silver Press
July Events ☀️ Celebrating After Sex, The Debutante & Quantum Listening
It's a triple-goddess-event July for Silver Press, with a chance to celebrate three of our titles, new and old, in three great spaces (plus look out for merch). Join us for some or all and have a Silver summer...
- WRITING AFTER SEX, Thurs 11 July, 7.30pm, tickets £5/10: join us at the 💞Vagina Museum🫶🏽 in their fabulous new premises for a night of abortion poetry and conversation with poets Holly Pester and Amelia Loulli, AFTER SEX editor Alice Spawls, and co-chair of the Abortion Book Club Joe Strong. PLUS!...
Welcome Spiral House Editions!
Spiral House is Silver Press’s new imprint: a home for books exploring art, poetry, transformation and ways of knowing. Spiral House launches on the summer solstice 2024 with a new edition of Quantum Listening by the legendary composer Pauline Oliveros, introduced by IONE and Laurie Anderson and with images by Aura Satz.
We're celebrating the Spiral House Solstice with a special online discount from 20-27 June 2024. When you pre-order one (or more!) copies of Quantum Listening, you will get 15% off Silver Press titles (discount applied at checkout), and your...
‘Witty, anarchic and sexually frank’: Ali Smith on Nell Dunn’s Talking to Women
Talking to Women was the book Nell Dunn published between Up the Junction (1963) and Poor Cow (1967). Like them, it was unprecedented for its era, and era-forming. In it Dunn idiomatically transcribes nine informal interviews she recorded with young women she happened to be around in the year 1964, friends across the class system, from factory worker Kathy Collier to socialite heiress Suna Portman, with a particular eye to women marking themselves out creatively, against the odds....