Edinburgh launch for Little Griefs complete! Next up: London in April. Free but ticketed: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-gri...
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Edinburgh launch for Little Griefs complete! Next up: London in April. Free but ticketed: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-gri...
And finally, ten of my favourite paintings, etc up for auction in London this week. Featuring Redon, Richter, Magritte, Nolde, Man Ray, Sargent and more! mathewlyons.substack.com/p/going-goin...
Then an essay remembering my week performing in a production of Christopher Marlowe's Massacre at Paris many years back.
mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-massac...
Some weekend reading from me. First up, a brilliant edition of the Writer's Bookshelf with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social.
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Let me get this straight: Howard Jacobson has written a novel about Israel, October 7 and Gaza protests - topics on which some may say we've heard enough from him - and it's pizzazzy, funny, and his best novel in probably 25 years?
Me on Howl, and how you needn't agree with a book to like it:
'Jacqueline Riding evokes late 19th-century London with an artist’s eye'
Read a review of #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social in the Mail Online and learn more about the working-class streets of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin.
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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A quote from TS Eliot against a light teal background. The text reads: 'Whether one is a prolific writer or not, the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself ... At any rate I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.'. – TS Eliot, letter to Henry Treece, 9 Sept 1943' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– TS Eliot, letter to Henry Treece, 8 Sept 1943
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
Now if we could all stop arguing about World Book Day costumes and buy some fucking books, that would be just lovely. www.hive.co.uk/Search/Searc...
Catch @jacriding.bsky.social on The Big Smoke Variety Show podcast, discussing her latest book #HardStreets and the working-class neighbourhoods of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin 🎧
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Oh my word, yes. I've only just finished scrolling. Some things I know. Much more that I don't. Thanks so much for opening my eyes!
Bloody hell. And I've just been scrolling through the channel. My heart has skipped so many beats it might as well as stopped. Not only and not least for the Lenny Bernstein…
I haven't looked into the channel at all. In fact, I never even think of YouTube channels as a thing… Thanks for the recommendation!
We happened upon this by chance and it's simply superb: perceptive, profound and at times deeply moving.
Grammarly are making AI impostors of living authors now as well as dead ones.
New on the Writer's Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...
I've started a Substack for bits and pieces. First post asks the pressing question of our times: What Would You Do Alone In A Cage With Nothing But Cocaine?
Watching books gradually be pushed to the margins of society is one of the stories of my life.
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
You really don't have to worry about that with me. I know very little about anything – and a lot of what I do know, I forget!
I haven't! Thanks so much for sharing.
From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millennia.
The Four Heavens by @davidsstuart.bsky.social is out now! 🎉
Learn more & order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Holding up a copy of a book, Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod, in front of two suburban semis and a speed bump
Wouldn't you LOVE to have me on your podcast/radio show/other modern communications thingy? Tales of the Suburbs is out next week, and it would be smashing to get word out as far as possible over the next few months via the medium of chat. Slide into my DMs or www.johngrindrod.co.uk/contact x
I’m looking to place my reporting from the Donbas - if you are an editor looking for a reported feature on the IDP crisis in Eastern Ukraine then HMU.
Also available for podcasts and such.
New on the Writer's Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...
Composite image made up of 6 frames, 2 images wide by side repeated 3 times, zooming in further on the faces each time. On the left, a woman holds her hand in the air to attract attention while kneeling next to a man who has fallen down clutching his chest, on the right, a serious-faced man holding a briefcase Woman: Y a t'il un docteur ici?. Man: Je suis docteur. Que se passe t'il? Woman: Une attaque cardiaque ! Man: Je suis docteur en philosophie ! Woman: Il va mourir... Man: Nous allons tous mourir. Translation in English: Woman: Is there a doctor here? Man: I am a doctor, what happened to him? Woman: - a heart attack Man: I am a doctor of philosophy Woman: He's going to die... Man: We're all going to die
I've only got 2 French jokes, this is the best
Yes!
Preaching to the converted on this site but really good hard clear evidence of AI’s hallucinations here:
DEFINITELY! ❤️
