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We believe the way a story is told is just as important as the story itself. Picador Books provides a platform for voices that are often not heard - publishing new and challenging fiction, transfixing non-fiction and the best contemporary poetry. Partnering with Worms, a magazine outside of conventional publishing that works across form and genre to bring experimental female and non-binary writers to the literary topsoil, sees the emergence of a unique collaboration that seeks to unite all the eccentric bookworms and asks you to think differently about literature.
BOOK: Sea Change by Gina Chung
READER: Enya
SYNOPSIS: Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
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Archive
Threadworms, From the Archives: Estelle Hoy
From Worms 5, read an interview with the Berlin based writer Estelle Hoy on her novella Pisti 80 Rue De Belleville by Caitlin McLoughlin in full.
PASSION & PACIFISM
Eleanor Tennyson writes the story of a disenchanted couple looking to protest war. In a dystopic reality, not far from the here and now, WAR and its evils have led to a global celibacy trend amongst the human population. Will and Une are a young couple grappling with this new world order through a process of betrayal, resentment and anxiety.
I’LL BE YOUR BARTENDER: Barflies, Arthur Boyd AW24 Show
Online editor Arcadia Molinas takes us through Arthur Boyd's newest fashion collection 'Barflies', that debuted at Reference Point in February, and the café culture that inspired it. Can barflies, drifters, transcend their fate by coming together?
Worms Best Reads of March 2024
Featuring Hannah Regel, Rosanna McLaughlin, T. Fleischmann and Octavia Bright.
I Love You, Caryl Churchill
In the tradition of Chris Kraus, Jennifer Jasmine White writes a love letter to Top Girls playwright Caryl Churchill.
Worms Best Reads of February 2024
Paul B. Preciado, Eliot Duncan, Sophia Giovannitti, Nuar Alsadir.
The Melissa Broder Wormhole
Read an extract of Amelia Abraham’s interview with Melissa Broder, as seen in Worms 8 & read Arcadia Molinas’ experience reading Broder’s new book Death Valley.
Worms in Love
This is a story about Gelsomina, a senior French Bulldog on the brink of death who has just contracted parasitic worms. As she prods the nature of her existence, Gelsomina reflects on love, sex, death, and the monotony of her domesticated lifetime.
WORMS DIGEST
Nadia Bou Ali on Parapraxis, Bellies by Nicola Dinan, new Brontez Purnell, the Zone of Interest and much more…
THERE IS NO ESCAPE. Review by Delia Rainey
Delia Rainey reviews Samantha Sewell’s debut collection of short fiction ‘THERE IS NO ESCAPE.’
Gardening with Guy Debord
This eerie anti-fantasy about visiting Guy Debord at his chateaux in France, and being prey to his whims and reveries by Amy Grandvoinet comes as a response to Claire Carroll's piece in PROTOTYPE 5 . It includes leaf-sweeping, chess-playing, fountain philosophy, and a hatred of madeleines.
Worms Best Reads of January 2024
Jeanette Winterson, Eve Babitz, Julia Fox & Hannah Levene
The Body as the Crime Scene & Gothic Burial in Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou writes about Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega, translated by Saskia Vogel, and the tradition of female objectification, burial and repression in gothic fiction and beyond.
~*~**~*~**~*~MY FAVORITE BOOKS I READ IN 2023~*~**~*~*~*~*~~
Delia Rainey gives us her top 15 reads of 2023.
The Resurrection of Melissa Lee-Houghton: The UK’s Greatest (almost) Forgotten Poet Exposure/Ideal Palace
After a seven year gap due to personal difficulties and career highs and lows, Melissa Lee-Houghton returns from the edge of obscurity and personal precarity with a two-book collection Exposure/Ideal Palace published by Pariah Press.