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Small Small Publisher Art and Literature | Artist Books

Author and Artist Generated

Founded by Peter Lyssiotis 1980.

Novel | Man Alone https://www.asterismbooks.com/product/man-alone

Original profile cover artwork Scarlett Hesterman Sykes
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MasterThief Press @masterthiefpress.bsky.social · Oct 13
We're being inventive with our book distribution. The inevitable happened, our book, Man Alone is no longer distributed through the smaller bookstore circuit. We've arranged for the last copies to be at a 2nd hand bookstore. Go to Fully Booked 824 High Street, Thornbury. Get it cheap; and it's new.
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The police may well have been under resourced going in. But unless these christian fundamentalists and their buddies - the sovereign citizens become proscribed terrorist organisations and go on watch lists, only then will intelligence be gathered on their weapons

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Australia news live: coroner delivers Wieambilla inquest findings saying police Glocks ‘woefully inadequate’ in ambush
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November 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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No doubt Huang and the Henchmen will be sipping champagne and cocktails somewhere secure when the BS is finally realised and the merry-go-round stopped for the rest of us.

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‘We excel at every phase of AI’: Nvidia CEO quells Wall Street fears of AI bubble amid market selloff
Jensen Huang opens earnings call with attempt to dispel concerns after his $5tn firm beat Wall Street expectations
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November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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You'd never expect the people of Brighton to care about anything other than themselves. A few high rises in their comfy places. This is what gets them out on the streets. The solution to the housing problem bothers them enough to protest.

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The Age on Instagram: "Bayside has become a housing battleground. Residents marching in Brighton on Sunday rallied against the Allan government’s housing agenda, which includes a plan to allow build...
Bayside residents are rallying against plans to introduce high-rise buildings, citing concerns about population growth, infrastructure, and community impact. The proposed developments have sparked deb...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Russia's AI Powered Robot is very realistic. Falls over from too much vodka. Bears a strange resemblance to Putin. Could it be a love child?

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Russia’s humanoid robot falls moments after unveiling
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November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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If only we had some form of envoy or such tasked with, say, combatting antisemitism, maybe they could let us know their thoughts on this
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament ByPatrick Begley November 8, 2025 — 2.46pm Save Normal text sizeaLarger text sizeaVery large text sizea Police allowed a neo-Nazi rally targeting Jewish groups and people to be held outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning, two months after new laws banned the public incitement of racial hatred. More than 60 members of the National Socialist Network attended the event outside parliament, which began at 10am and included a large banner that read “Abolish the Jewish Lobby”. A National Socialist Network rally held outside parliament. A National Socialist Network rally held outside parliament. Credit:Flavio Brancaleone Premier Chris Minns has announced he will hold a press conference at 3.10pm, after the Herald witnessed the gathering outside parliament and sent questions to NSW Police, Police Minister Yasmin Catley and the premier. Attendees wore dark uniforms with the NSN insignia stitched into the shoulders of their jackets. Some partially obscured their identities with hats or sunglasses. Many showed their faces, a sign of growing boldness by parts of organisation. Two NSN leaders spoke, criticising not only Jewish groups but Jewish people in general. They used a number of antisemitic tropes about power and influence while speaking in favour of authority of “the white man”. One speaker promoted a highly offensive and baseless claim about antisemitic attacks carried out this year, which this masthead has chosen not to repeat. At the end of the speeches the group chanted, “blood and honour”, a Hitler Youth motto.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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"Penny auction at foreclosed Michigan farm (1936). At penny auctions farmers would conspire to offer low bids, resulting in a low return to the creditor. The final buyer would then return the property to the destitute farmer. Hangman nooses served as a warning to squirrelly bidders."

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Penny auction at foreclosed Michigan farm (1936). At penny auctions farmers would conspire to offer low bids, resulting in a low return to the creditor. The final buyer would then return the property to the destitute farmer. Hangman nooses served as a warning to squirrelly bidders. This haunting photograph from 1936 captures a penny auction at a foreclosed farm in Michigan, one of the most defiant and ingenious acts of resistance to emerge during the Great Depression. When banks repossessed farms after families could no longer meet their mortgage payments, local communities often took matters into their own hands. Farmers would gather in large groups and agree beforehand to bid only pennies on each item — from livestock to land — driving the auction prices down to virtually nothing. The final “buyer,” usually a trusted neighbor, would then return the property to the original owner, ensuring the family could remain on their land. The nooses seen hanging in the background weren’t decorative; they served as chilling warnings to outsiders who might attempt to outbid the crowd. These were not empty threats — solidarity and survival left little room for betrayal. The penny auctions became powerful symbols of rural unity and defiance. They weren’t just about saving one farm, but about preserving a way of life, one desperate bid at a time. Added Fact: By 1933, more than 200,000 farms were foreclosed across the Midwest, sparking organized movements like the Farmer’s Holiday Association, which fought to halt foreclosures entirely.
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong" Writes David Gerard's T-Shirt. Not so much Artificial Intelligence, but Artificial Inflation.
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Just read, all the good stuff, alone with your thoughts and the thoughts of the writer. Listening to Harold Bloom talk about deep reading as a relationship to our past and the healing of the self in troubled times makes more sense than a committee of experts.

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Harold Bloom On The Transformative Power Of Reading
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November 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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How do we in Australia live our entire lives without community? Yet the Dutch design spaces in their cities like the woonerf, where the car comes second to people.

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Life on a Dutch Woonerf (Living Street)
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November 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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It never gets old

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Selling Books in a Country That Cannot Read
Rabat - Sprawled on a rug, under the shade of a street-side tree, Mohammed Aziz began taking his revenge by re-reading one of the nine books he owned.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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From the Book of hours, Flanders, c. 1485 CE
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Always gets a laugh at the office

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November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Film can be educational.

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Luis Buñuel's recipe for a dry martini - from "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"
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November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Go Blue Jays
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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To anyone interested in Art Books, we certainly are, check out Sarah Bodman's newsletter.
sarahbodman.bsky.social Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · Oct 27
The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 169, November 2025 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/
63 pages of Exhibitions, Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops, Opportunities, Events, New Artists' Publications, Reports & Stop Press! Cover: Boabooks, Geneva, Switzerland.
Cover page photo of Boabooks store in Geneva, Switzerland and front page of the Book Arts Newsletter No 169, November 2025 with exhibition info.
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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There's hope for humanity yet. Maybe people will stay home, stop the kind of tourism that narrows the mind, fly less, trash less destinations, find a life.
kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · Oct 20
This is incredibly sad and pathetic.
techcrunch.com TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Oct 18
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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We're being inventive with our book distribution. The inevitable happened, our book, Man Alone is no longer distributed through the smaller bookstore circuit. We've arranged for the last copies to be at a 2nd hand bookstore. Go to Fully Booked 824 High Street, Thornbury. Get it cheap; and it's new.
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The exhibition of Peter Lyssiotis' decades of practice in the art of the book will run for twelve months until June 2026 at the Matheson Library, Monash University. The works on display comprise the artist's works held in the Monash Archives.

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Silence is no Refuge
A Monash University Library exhibition celebrating the work of “master thief” and artist Peter Lyssiotis. Explore his 40-year career through hand-crafted artists’ books and a rich personal archive to ...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Putting this enjoyable review of Man Alone by Glenn Russell out there again.
Still a couple of copies left down at the Asterism Online Bookshop, classified these days under "Philosophical works" Fitting.

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Man Alone by Nick Petroulias
Milan Kundera observed, "Most protagonists of great novels do not have children. Scarcely 1 percent of the world's population is childle...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment.

Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical.

Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity.

See⬇️🧵
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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September 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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You have to love the way Pio speaks and reads his poems. This interview with publisher Ivor Indyk shows the multifaceted thought processes at work in his poetry.

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PiO in conversation with Ivor Indyk
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September 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.”

Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.
“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal
Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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The deputy editor speaks

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“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal
Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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A few people have been dusting off Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance. Simply, tolerating the intolerant is a mistake. And we're in the middle of that right now as a free country. Time to stop tolerating the nazi types, the bigots, the fascists, the hateful that seem to be everywhere.
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
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September 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM