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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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The Key to Bluebeard’s Study: Anna Biller and Gothic’s Live Burial of Women
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou writes about Anna Biller’s Bluebeard’s Castle, containment and the gothic genre in relation to female bodies and space.
Worms Best Reads of October
Featuring Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin, Maya C. Popa and more…
Fangirling and Facing the Shadow Self: Opening Up a Can of Worms with Sheena Patel
Clair Humphries reviews the first episode of Opening Up a Can of Worms with Sheena Patel.
Worms Best Reads of September 2023
Featuring Nell Zink, James Baldwin, Kate Morgan and more…
Books Are Hot
Dalya Benor writes about the commodification of intellectualism, “hot girl books” and the phenomenon of book curators.
Poet Elida Silvey’s Compost Heap
Elida Silvey shares some of her poetry, written in Compost Library’s WRITE what’s RIGHT sessions.
Worms Best Reads of August 2023
Featuring Rachel Aviv, Deborah Levy, Julia Armfield and more…
Worms Best Reads of June 2023
Featuring Susan Finlay, Carmen Maria Machado, June Jordan, Haruki Murakami and more…