Here’s a few more faves from me:
Miriam Toews
Gwendoline Riley
Barbara Comyns
Claudia Piñeiro
Helen Garner
Toni Morrison
Ana Paula Maia
Wendy Erskine
Lucy Caldwell
Adelle Stripe
Joanna Pocock
Ann Patchett
Tessa Hadley
Isabel Waidner
No worries. Loved it. Hope it sells millions and wins the Booker ✊🏼
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Ethel Mannin’s AN AMERICAN JOURNEY is being republished in May by Boiler House Press thanks to Brad Bigelow who is the force behind @neglectedbooks.com
There is a story here: Back in 2023, I had been posting photos from my trips on the Greyhound bus. Brad saw them & got in touch asking if I… (1)
Raced through this. Read it, if you haven’t already. Full of truth and heartbreak. Cheers @stuhennigan.bsky.social
#LetterboxdFriday! Here are my #LastFourWatched #filmsky
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
Bumrah is just too good
White paperback of Keshed by Stu Hennigan on a small black table with a cup of tea. Outside the National History museum in Kensington, London.
Getting Keshed in Kensington #getkeshed
Good this. I know no-one here needs telling but the more Islam and Muslims can be demystified and shown as what they are, just people going about their day like we all do, the better. If one person with unsavoury views sees this and goes oh right, that’s how it works, that’s fine it’s done its job.
Beta Band, Tricky, Sir Richard Bishop…..
The Children’s Bach is amazing too 😁
Great. I didn’t know much about the case, and the 3 writers offer an innovative approach. I love Helen Garner.
Book stack: Evan S. Connell Mrs Bridge ON the Greenwich Line Shady Lewis MY EAR IS FULL OF MILK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING FOR LAUREL & HARDY LESLIE JAMISON SPLINTERS Restoration Ave Barrera Slags emma jane unsworth Passion and Affect Laurie Colwin Vigil George Saunders THE MUSHROOM TAPES HELEN GARNER, CHLOE HOOPER, SARAH KRASNOSTEIN ALI SMITH GLYPH ADAM THORPE ON SILBURY HILL DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK JOSEPH NGUYEN SPIDER MAN Jonathan Hickman: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN FAMILY BUSINESS ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN THE PAPER ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN MARRIED WITH CHILDREN
February 📚
Does this include or exclude Christopher Harborne, the billionaire Thai resident and dual citizen, who spends most of the year in Thailand for tax reasons and is the biggest donor to reform UK?
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Yeah, I’m in. What are the hours like?
Another two managers before the end of the season might work?
Got Supersonic tickets! 🥳🖤
Cheers Tom, great idea. I’m recommending the fantastic artwork of @catherinegogerty.bsky.social
Keep the good news coming! 😃
Dreamt I was in an episode of Doctor Who and the new Doctor was…… Mat Baynton #youhearditherefirst
I suspect people would have liked to vote Green in previous elections, but worried it was a wasted vote for a minor party. Maybe that changes after last night?
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The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.
You'll never sing that, etc...
Happy birthday/ retirement Claire! 🎉
A quality book pile there 👍🏼
Tonight’s film: Women Talking. Sarah Polley does a good job of translating the fantastic Miriam Toews book into a film, keeping the tight focus and small story / big picture ideas.
Okay, UK writers and book folk, we need to be talking about this. It’s a big (bad) deal.
Nicholas Witchell has arrived at New Scotland Yard with a fishing rod, some chicken and four cans of lager
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