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Texas redux part deux.
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Texas redux.
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We can now finally offically say… HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Baba Was a Rolling Stone by Sama’an Ashrawi This last week we’ve been over in Texas at Hay Festival Dallas, where Sama’an had an event celebrating his debut book alongside his father Baba and mentor Bun B in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib… there was laughter and there was tears and it was amazing to see so many people engaged in the audience at Texas Theatre… Thanks to all who participated in this event, audience included… We sold out of books at that event but we’ve now received our allocation which we’re busy sending out to all of those who pre-ordered today… If you didn’t preorder we suggest you do something about that immediately as these books won’t be hanging around… And what a beautiful looking book it is - even if we do say so ourselves… Hardback with ribbon bookmarks… PLUS an incredible story… what’s not to love? ❤️💚🖤🇵🇸 #hayfestivaldallas @hayfestival @thewilddetectives @sam3an @texastheatre
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Super excited to announce @anna.whitwham will be our @aethoslondon x @weekofwonders Vol 3 author discussing her brilliant book ‘Soft Tissue Damage’ with @troubledstriker from @roughtradebooks ✨✨✨ 🥊 ‘A knockout.. the way Whitwham writes about violence and human bodies is joyously defiant and radically sensual.’ Emma Jane Unsworth (author of Slags) DM me for guest list - 7pm - 9pm Monday November 2nd
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Dallas ! You showed up in a major way ! We cried, we laughed, and once again every single copy of Baba Was A Rolling Stone found a home 😭🙏🏻 If you missed a chance to snag one, don’t fret, I heard @thewilddetectives will have it stocked. I need to extend my deep and sincere gratitude to @nifmuhammad and @bunb for joining us on the @hayfestival stage. I can’t imagine a better way to christen this book than with these three wise men who are most responsible for my growth as an author, an artist, and as a human, by my side. Thank you Hanif, thank you Bun, thank you Baba. Thank you @roughtradebooks for making sure this book got done in time for the festival. I also can’t imagine a better place to publish this book. First two photos by @aiyahmaraka 🫶🏻 Which cities should we bring the book to next ?!
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My love affair with the English continues . . .
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HOUSTON ! Thursday 10/15 ! 5:30-7 pm ! I’m so excited to be launching my book at my beloved hometown @cactus_music ! All the way from London I’ll be joined by my editor, the great @troubledstriker, and our talk will be led by my sweet friend and poet extraordinaire @ariskian. There might even be a cameo from Baba 👀 It would mean the world to me if we packed this place out. So please come and bring a friend and pick up a copy — I will sign every last one ! 2110 Portsmouth St PS announcing the next city very soon 👀👀👀
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When I was a wee nipper growing up the television show I remember everyone watching was Dallas, and the question they were all asking was… WHO SHOT JR? I have no idea who did shoot JR but I do remember there was some mad dream season that everyone was confused by… Anyway, ever since then it’s been a bit of a dream to one day visit Dallas and the Southfork Ranch and next week that dream is coming true because we’re heading to Hay Festival Forum in Dallas, Texas for a couple of events… First one is taking place at Texas Theatre on Sunday 18th October at 2pm… Centred around our latest publication Baba Was a Rolling Stone by Sama’an Ashrawi. Sama’an will be joined by his Baba as well as Houston-based rap superstar Bun B in conversation with poet/author Hanif Abdurraqib Then later on that evening myself and RTB editor, Will Burns, will be chatting with Michael Zilkha, head of Ze Books, at 5pm over at Wild Detectives IDEAS. We’ll be celebrating the cultural crossover of record labels-turned-book publishers… discussing the counter-cultural sensibility that a rock’n’roll back story bears on a literary imprint and why it’s so vital to the wider world of books and literature… With loads of other great events taking place over the festival weekend we’re not sure we’ll get to Southfork Ranch - might have to save that for another time… #hayfestivalforumdallas #cowboycountry #lonestarstate #zebooks
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October at OmVed Gardens 🍂 Swipe through to see what’s on, from Friday Live evenings and kitchen workshops to our Autumn Open Day, the Fermentation Celebration and a Samhain gathering to see out the month. 🔗 Tickets via the link in our bio. Subsidised places are available for many events. Emails us to find out more. ✉️ To be the first to hear about upcoming events, sign up to our monthly newsletter. #omvedgardens #highgatevillage #visitlondon #northlondon #autumnevents
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Happy 14th anniversary to the king of the Shaka 🤙 Amazing how many photos I have of you posing with the official hand gesture of Hawaii and we’ve never even been there… maybe we should start saving for the 15th anniversary 🌺
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A little late on parade here but we had a most enjoyable day and night @the_wake_uk over this bank holiday weekend… Our very own @troubledstriker was in conversation with @s_a_m_r_e_i_d talking about his book The Pin Jar as well as @owenwilliamsgreatpics talking about his book Atrocity Exhibitions. We watched a great set from old friends Hero Fisher and Adam Chetwood. Owen Williams then transformed from writer to front man of @_the_tubs_ and him and his compadres gave us a blinding set. The night ended with a wonderful and heartfelt performance from Badly Drawn Boy. Thanks for having us Jo and Danny @the_wake_uk P.S. If you were there and watched The Tubs perform you might understand why we chose this song as the soundtrack for this reel… let’s boogie!
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🇵🇸🎶COVER REVEAL🎶🇵🇸 BABA WAS A ROLLING STONE BY SAMA’AN ASHRAWI PRE-ORDER NOW COMING OCTOBER 2026 This October, we’re very excited to be publishing Baba Was a Rolling Stone—the brilliant first book from Sama’an Ashrawi. Sama’an is one of the most exciting young writers on culture in America who we’ve been keeping an eye on ever since we came across him on Twitter during lockdown. In a debut of wild scope, Sama’an Ashrawi’s Baba Was a Rolling Stone tells the stories of his father’s place within the nascent Palestinian rock’n’roll scene of the 60s, as well as the author’s own odyssey through the living history of American music and culture. Told in the voice of ‘the writer’, who attempts to track down a member of Al-Bara’em,(The Blooms in English), the revolutionary family band his father fronted in his native Palestine, now missing somewhere in America, Ashrawi’s tale takes the form of a series of road trips that act as the catalyst for discoveries and recoveries of diasporic family histories and the great traditions of American music. From the early blues through to New York hip-hop, hardcore punk, indie, classic funk and bleeding into stand-up, visual art, graffiti and fashion——Baba Was a Rolling Stone joins the infinite dots of American culture in a wholly new, wholly original way, and in apparently effortless, elegant prose, brings us a world of migrant America as influential as it is invisible. This is not just a book for our age, but truly a book for the ages——a book that contains all of Whitman’s American multitudes——and so, of course, that contains the whole world’s. “Baba Was a Rolling Stone is an achievement of a book, which traverses multiple landscapes—literal and emotional—with tenderness, thoughtfulness, vivid imagery and sharp storytelling. This book succeeds in answering the question of how we can see ourselves in our beloveds, across geography, across generations, across sound and song.”—Hanif Abdurraqib
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