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Graham Caveney: In Conversation (with Will Rees)

29th April, 7pm, Altogether Otherwise

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Jot in Levenshulme

Station South

Every Other Sunday

11 - 4pm

Jot at Altogether Otherwise:

Book Shop Shelf

A small, eclectic and regularly changing selection of books from Jot Bookshop now available amongst the pottery and miscellaneous craft, home and cook ware at the brand new shop at Altogether Otherwise.

Open most days. Especially Saturdays!

6-10 Hanover Street, Manchester

ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT - '...as I clasped my Penguin Nietzsche, worn soft by incomprehension.' (Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal)

We launched jot bookshop & journal to lovingly assemble and sell shifting collections of books through our online shop and at various pop-up locations in central and south Manchester.

Beyond a shop, jot facilitates and fosters the coming together of a community of readers and writers in our locality and beyond.

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Jot Journal

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  1. Jot Newsletter #1 October 24

    Earlier this year, I picked up a book in The Whitworth Shop, with the instantly soothing title of ‘A Simpler Life’. Glancing over its table of cont...
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  2. Reading by Series: Wind, Water, Women

    Laura Mansfield   wind I like to read in series. I often get stuck more or less unwittingly on a particular theme or type of writing before notic...
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  3. Profundity Interrupted: giving poetry one more chance with Ben Lerner's The Lights, Granta Poetry, 2023

    Swen Steinhäuser   I am reading Ben Lerner’s The Lights (Granta Poetry, 2023). Poetry isn’t usually my thing. Or at least it wasn’t until recently....
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  4. Funny and at the same time sad: reading Natalia Ginzburg

    Swen Steinhäuser I have been reading three books by the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Ginzburg was already on my radar when I came a...
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