The Desperate Literature Notebook
The Desperate Literature Notebook
€8.00
Our notebook is finally out
Oxblood red lines with a blindstamped cover
120 pages
Out of stock
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‘Another Valentine’
Entradas | Tickets
No Category El 18 de Febrero Entradas Limitadas | Limited Tickets - 25
€1 con billete para el sorteo | €1 with raffle ticket*
Invitamos a Martha Sprackland, Kwaku Osei-Afrifa, Joe Dunthorne y Rodrigo García Marina para una lectura de San Valentín extramundana | We invite Martha Sprackland, Kwaku Osei-Afrifa, Joe Dunthorne and Rodrigo García Marina for an other-worldly Valentine's reading
EVENT IN ENGLISH y ESPAÑOLmascarilla obligatoria | mask obligatory *THE RAFFLE: Win feedback on three poems or a single short story (English ONLY)
Saber más:
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into twenty languages and made into an award-winning film. His second novel, Wild Abandon, won the Society of Authors’ Encore Award. His latest is The Adulterants. His first collection of poems, O Positive, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. He lives in London.
Rodrigo García Marina estudió el Conservatorio Profesional de Viola, el Grado en Medicina y en Filosofía. Acaba de realizar el Máster en Teoría y Crítica de la Cultura. Ha publicado La caricia de las amapolas, Premio de Poesía Saulo Torón 2017, Aureus, I Premio de Poesía Irreconciliables, Edad, I Premio de Poesía Tino Barriuso, El libro de los arquitectos, II Premio de Poesía de la Facultad de Filología de la UNED, y Desear la casa. Investiga, edita y enseña.
Kwaku Osei-Afrifa is a nonbinary writer and editor living in east London. A novella is coming out in June this year with Solaris, and they will start writing part two when the time is right.
Martha Sprackland is the founder of Offord Road Books and poetry editor for CHEERIO Publishing. Her debut collection, Citadel, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Prize.
€1.00
Casualties of Peace
Edna O’BRIEN
dedicated to Geraldine Chaplin
GIFTS, Literature, Rare items
Jonathan Cape, London,
1966
This particular copy is signed to Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin, who for many years lived in Madrid!
We acquired a good part of her Madrid collection last year and this is one of the treats.
Acquired before Edna O'Brien's passing, we removed the post-it note with her telephone number!
CONTACT US at hello@desperateliterature.com for more info or to book a visit!
€225.00
CONTACT US at hello@desperateliterature.com for more info or to book a visit!
€225.00
‘Eleven Stories 2026’
.pdf + print edition (PRE-ORDER)
Eleven Stories, GIFTS, Literary Prize, Literature ‘The Desperate Literature Short Story Prize remains a beacon for experiment in times when this is both increasingly rare and increasingly vital’ —Joanna Walsh
‘so structurally inventive’ —Ottessa Moshfegh
Eleven Stories 2026 collects the shortlist from our ninth short fiction prize and is available in either:- PDF - €2.5
- PRINT + PDF - €11 / a limited edition copy and the PDF to boot. **shipping is temporarily suspended due to Trumps tarifs and new EU shipping laws. It will recommence in the autumn.
Spanning continents, Eleven Stories 2026 collects stories of wit and transformation, from the playful to the experimental, covering everything from personal grief and reparation to coming-of-age oddities, meditations on writing in the age of AI, metatextual friendships, (sacre)religious delvings and more... Including work by: Mimi Kawahara (WINNER), Emily Roese (RUNNER-UP), Eric Baker (RUNNER-UP), Katie Assef, Saad Bin Iftikhar, Imogen Clarke, Christian Emecheta, Jennifer Green, Esther Leaming (DL RESIDENCY PRIZE), L. J. de Pedro (EU SALON PRIZE), Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe ABOUT THIS YEAR'S WINNING STORY:
‘devastatingly intimate...accomplishes something exceedingly rare.’ —Ottessa Moshfegh
PLEASE NOTE: for orders over 5 copies, please contact us at hello@desperateliterature.com
€2.50 – €11.00
COURSE:
Sylvia Plath & David Lynch – los relatos estadounidenses
25 Oct
No Category Sylvia Plath y David Lynch: los relatos estadounidenses Gudrun Palomino 25 de Octubre 13h-15h30
La visión de lo grotesco y lo visceral frente a la deconstrucción de la idealización del sueño americano vertebran tanto la obra de Sylvia Plath como la de David Lynch. De hecho, hay bastantes puntos en común entre los dos creadores, como la crítica a la sociedad estadounidense, la personificación de la violencia, el mundo onírico y el tratamiento de los dobles y la dualidad personal. En este taller, trabajaremos con algunos poemas, ensayos, la novela La campana de cristal y las obras pictóricas y collages de Sylvia Plath contrastándolos con escenas y guiones tanto de Twin Peaks como de películas como Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive y Blue Velvet, así como lienzos de David Lynch. Además, analizaremos las biografías de ambos artistas (Cometa rojo y Espacio para soñar) para ver en qué coincidían sus vidas y su forma de crear, y veremos influencias comunes como Francis Bacon y Kafka. Los materiales estarán disponibles tanto en inglés como en español (con mis traducciones de Sylvia Plath) y el grupo estará reducido a 15 alumnos/alumnas/alumnes. €30
€30.00