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Celebrating 20 years of @HardCaseCrime !!!
Unbelievably good book
William Logan’s first ever piece for the @LRB lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
Worth revisiting this revealing profile of the socialite, networker, fashionista, cover star, occasional actor and even more occasional playwright, Jeremy O. Harris newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
No Judgement by Lauren Oyler review – modish observations from a rarefied world dlvr.it/T2xDks
Biopics about self-destructive men are about as hard to find as male Taylor Swift equivalents
Biopics about self-destructive men are about as hard to find as male Taylor Swift equivalents https://t.co/V24VBJSbxO
Of course the best way to help cultural coverage in the media is to stop writing for free on this or any other social media platform
Quite a contrast to my review of The Silkworm, ten years ago, where I accused Rowling of being too nice spectator.co.uk/article/j-k-ro…
Recent ultra-bland novel titles: Really Good, Actually. Normal Women. Normal People. Talking at Night. This Close to Okay. Joan is Okay. Okay Days. Everything’s Fine.
Not as wonderful as some are claiming. To begin with, we are asked to believe that the author was surprised to encounter fellow students who didn’t spring from precisely her own background. Can someone born in the late ‘80s, with a Tolstoy-reading dad, be this unworldly?
Not as wonderful as some are claiming. To begin with, we are asked to believe that the author was surprised to encounter fellow students who didn’t spring from precisely her own background. Can someone born in the late ‘80s, with a Tolstoy-reading dad, be this unworldly? https://t.co/S3167vEEIK
Christmas special opening 1996
Love Sight & Sound, but think it’s regrettable that the BFI’s magazine includes 22 films that *won’t be released in the UK in 2023* in a “best films of 2023”. The BFI’s magazine should support British cinemas: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
Recently spotted the @TheEconomist World Ahead in 2024 edition on sale for £9.99. The Christmas issue might break the £10 barrier. Perhaps a subscription is the way to go? £265 a year...
Recently spotted the @TheEconomist World Ahead in 2024 edition on sale for £9.99. The Christmas issue might break the £10 barrier. Perhaps a subscription is the way to go? £265 a year...
Britain's global brand, comprised of Harry Potter, Richard Curtis and the royal family, is often described as a success story. But it is transforming central London into something that resembles a themed retail park more than a city. From my latest Pathos of Things newsletter:
‘She clings to the lower case, that humble posture full of arch pretension.’ Dozens of great lines in William Logan’s latest salvo newcriterion.com/issues/2023/12…
Bin Laden sitting cross-legged beside his Christmas tree (Clive James, 2002)
Watching David Fincher’s latest bellyflop made me realise I have never once cracked my neck before a difficult task. Does it work?
A piece to savour, perhaps over a dry turkey sandwich at Joe and the Juice
A piece to savour, perhaps over a dry turkey sandwich at Joe and the Juice
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Belatedly posting: A few months ago I went to the Central African Republic, on what was supposed to be the first stop of a trip about small-time gold mining. This piece, out now in @Granta, is about what ended up happening granta.com/wagner-in-afri…
I prefer the first paragraph. The second is too ‘writer’. Might explain my limited appeal.
These two paragraphs changed everything for me – encountered them in @JonnyGeller's Ted Talk on writing youtube.com/watch?v=mD-uP2…
no one wants to draw attention to the fact that men overwhelmingly don't buy literary fiction (or the fiction you see in the books pages) and don't buy certain categories of non-fiction, rather than that men don't read women authors.
I mentioned Mary Ann Sieghart's remarks on fiction purchases in an essay broadcast on Radio 4's A POINT OF VIEW, as an excellent example of the base line fallacy. Sieghart had written, in the Guardian, that only 19% of purchases of Margaret Atwood's books were by men. I pointed+
They mentioned this in the Great Lives anniversary programme and it’s really interesting. There’s a similar reluctance by men to buy books by female authors.
“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.” Rest well, PA.
The Deuce was really good. It pulled off the neat trick of not romanticising 1971-83 in NY while underlining it was the last gasp of the individual. The sex trade & adjacent was hell but it was also a means for certain people to be free. Capitalism ate it like everything else.
What’s an HBO series (that’s not The Wire, The Sopranos or GOT) that y’all would recommend?
@RoisinCNorton A complete edition is in the works. It's being edited by Rosie Lavan.
When Daunt Books reprinted Celia Dale's books in the UK it was a nationwide phenomenon. When we republished them here in the US, the response was somewhat more muted. We wish people would give these a shot, they're truly chilling novels of domestic terror: valancourtbooks.com/a-helping-hand…
The Great When: A Long London Novel by Alan Moore October 1, 2024 amzn.to/4dgBuo1
A beautiful book by @wself about his mother –– coming in September and a must-read
@HarrySword Big fan of those first two Nebula LPs as well. All songs should be called Do It Now youtu.be/mM_VpcqUMg8?si…
Nah, this lede goes hard
This might be the worst lede I've ever seen in a book review.
@adamm0rgan Really? I don’t see what’s so terrible. I like that it’s provocative, that it has an argument. And that it doesn’t play by the unspoken rules of book world crit. It reads more like reviews from 30 yrs ago.
@StarsThumbs Please read The Program Era and then Everything and Less by Mark McGurl and get back to me.
@StarsThumbs ... but everyone who learns ballet doesn't intend to be a professional dancer. Same with music. You learn to express yourself, to be in creativity. Writing: the same.
Part of my role at the Brick Lane Bookshop has led me to start The BLB, a literary review newsletter. Submissions of reviews and essays up to 800 words are currently open.
@MarkdeSilva1 epic continental humorlessness and pretense are not good influences on our swine dealing language.
This series rules. If you've not read The Girl with the Long Green Heart (bottom right) you're really missing out.
Celebrating 20 years of @HardCaseCrime !!!
I was going through the archive looking for something else and came across this from Louis MacNeice...
Why we should abolish the Women's prize for fiction theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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