Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.
I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.
I'd welcome help building a strong application.
Thank you 💙🙏
Lovely place. Recommend popping into the church next door to see the Burne-Jones stained glass
Just thinking about Theo's speech to the immigration officers chokes me up - never not relevant, unfortunately.
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Happy 70th birthday Tessa Hadley, #BornOnThisDay in 1956!
From the archive, my thoughts on BAD DREAMS, an excellent collection of stories. Chance encounters, new experiences & unsettling scenarios abound in this terrific intro to her work! #BookSky 💙📚
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Hope you’re doing ok after all that…thought this might be of interest: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Montgomery Clift hearing confession in I Confess
I mean…
I left academia just after the pandemic - the prevalence of a belief in the aptness of the restaurant analogy is partly why. But even if you buy into that, going to uni during COViD was like going to a cafe during a power cut - you’re obv not going to get a hot dinner.
Josh O’Connor carries off the “slept in his clothes” look well
An excellent novel. Also being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social in the UK!
Have you ever seen the film adaptation, Jacqui? With Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman - very watchable (once you get past the fact that it’s obviously filmed in Dublin, not Liverpool)
Selected Modern Short Stories edited by Alan Steele and published by Penguin in 1937
Looking forward to getting my beak into this
My favourite was, "This is not a standard rejection..."
Leonard Cohen asleep
Quiet everyone, Leonard is sleeping
I would have given the I Was The Future Once Bursary a punt
Yeah, I always felt the lack of a Just Chugging Along Fellowship
I’m *so* looking forward to reading this
For me, the giveaway in the blurb-age about his new books podcast is when he says, “I’ve always loved books” - like Alan Partridge saying his favourite Beatles album is “The Best of the Beatles”
‘Terry’ is just so wrong.
I particularly enjoyed the bit where Jonathan (or whatever) had to change out of his bloodstained shirt and the wardrobe at the long-abandoned house contained one that fitted him just fine. Would have liked to have seen him trying to improvise a bandeau from an old tea towel
From the archive for Irmgard Keun, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, thoughts on GILGI, ONE OF US (tr. Geoff Wilkes).
A striking feminist first-person narrative set in Weimar-era Cologne. Fans of Jean Rhys & Christopher Isherwood would likely enjoy this! #BookSky 💙📚
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Sounds like a timely breathing space.
Forgive me for not keeping up, but have you left academia, Jessica?
In the UK, yes
A detail from St. Wilfrid & St. John Berchmans, a 1927 stained glass window by the inimitable Harry Clarke. Originally in the Convent of Notre Dame, Glasgow, and now in the Stained Glass Museum, Ely.
You’re not alone… There was a lot to like in that article.
Ah, didn’t realise that - may make a foray.
I tend to forget about Habitat now it's online only - they do still have some nice, reasonably priced bits and pieces.
Actually, one of my sets was purchased after you posted a link (a William Morris design from Habitat), so it’s mutual 😉
