Benjamin Myers
@benjaminmyers76.bsky.social
Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI. RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
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Special signed limited versions of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI (with sprayed edges) can be bought from indie shops only.
A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
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A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...
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This US goverment poster is from 1943. The Nazis burned books - this US goverment is banning them. Hard to imagine such a poster being produced now.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This US goverment poster is from 1943. The Nazis burned books - this US goverment is banning them. Hard to imagine such a poster being produced now.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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If you like the band GOAT there’s a very good price on their magnificent soundtrack to the Shane Meadows directed TV show Gallows Pole , coloured vinyl with a bonus 7” for £12.49 . Pagan psych/folk ,an favourite LP of mine this …. 🖤🧡
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The Gallows Pole: Original Score (Expanded Ltd Edition)
Rocket Recordings · Goat – The Gallows Pole: Original Score LP Following the original, digital only, release of Goat’s score for ‘The Gallows Pole’ TV series, we are now thrilled to announce an expand...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you like the band GOAT there’s a very good price on their magnificent soundtrack to the Shane Meadows directed TV show Gallows Pole , coloured vinyl with a bonus 7” for £12.49 . Pagan psych/folk ,an favourite LP of mine this …. 🖤🧡
rocketrecordings.com/products/the...
rocketrecordings.com/products/the...
1. This is the greatest thing that has happened to me (since I got my belly out on Countryfile).
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
1. This is the greatest thing that has happened to me (since I got my belly out on Countryfile).
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
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@wildtwin.bsky.social
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Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
BBC: "Sorry for suggesting Trump isn't very nice."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
BBC: "Sorry for suggesting Trump isn't very nice."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
So true.
The freedom of writing is the best part of being a writer.
Everything else is secondary.
The freedom of writing is the best part of being a writer.
Everything else is secondary.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
So true.
The freedom of writing is the best part of being a writer.
Everything else is secondary.
The freedom of writing is the best part of being a writer.
Everything else is secondary.
People just wandering around in Dryrobes like the whole world's a film set.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
People just wandering around in Dryrobes like the whole world's a film set.
Jamiroquai invented virtual reality, and therefore A.I.
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Jamiroquai invented virtual reality, and therefore A.I.
Little Edie is the greatest.
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Little Edie is the greatest.
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Buying books to read books to write books to.
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Buying books to read books to write books to.
I trust "citizen journalists" as much as I trust "citizen proctologists".
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I trust "citizen journalists" as much as I trust "citizen proctologists".
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I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking…
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Adelle Stripe on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Author Adelle Stripe talks to Glenn Fisher about her pick for the library, the 1978 memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
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November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking…
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
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Really enjoyed @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Jesus Christ Kinski - KK a touchstone for film geeks growing up in the Channel 4/Moviedrome era (‘wait, Nosferatu is in The Big Silence?’). Sections where The Writer becomes obsessed by his subject as compelling as the depiction of onstage mania. #BookSky
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Really enjoyed @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Jesus Christ Kinski - KK a touchstone for film geeks growing up in the Channel 4/Moviedrome era (‘wait, Nosferatu is in The Big Silence?’). Sections where The Writer becomes obsessed by his subject as compelling as the depiction of onstage mania. #BookSky
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
This is how I spend my time now.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is how I spend my time now.
Good luck to all the shortlisted authors of the best literary prize around.
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Good luck to all the shortlisted authors of the best literary prize around.
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You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Unclassified - Adelle Stripe's Listening Chair - BBC Sounds
Elizabeth Alker welcomes author Adelle Stripe into the Unclassified Listening Chair.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Does anyone here use a TENS machine and do you find that it works?
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Does anyone here use a TENS machine and do you find that it works?
Excellent news.
I voted for Mamdani so that he might sort out the dire parking situation in Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire, UK).
I voted for Mamdani so that he might sort out the dire parking situation in Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire, UK).
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Excellent news.
I voted for Mamdani so that he might sort out the dire parking situation in Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire, UK).
I voted for Mamdani so that he might sort out the dire parking situation in Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire, UK).
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident
Just published my first novel while *not* having a Twitter account.
Feels good.
The clout once given to that awful website by publishers, record companies etc now seems entirely laughable today.
Feels good.
The clout once given to that awful website by publishers, record companies etc now seems entirely laughable today.
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just published my first novel while *not* having a Twitter account.
Feels good.
The clout once given to that awful website by publishers, record companies etc now seems entirely laughable today.
Feels good.
The clout once given to that awful website by publishers, record companies etc now seems entirely laughable today.
Just had three steroid injections in my neck if you've ever wondered about the perils of writing...
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just had three steroid injections in my neck if you've ever wondered about the perils of writing...