Chloë Houston
@chloehouston.bsky.social
Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise.
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Hooray to @thespectator1828.bsky.social and to Frances Wilson for nominating THE BOOK GAME, by elusive but deserving (and unrelated) Frances Wise, as a Book of the Year for 2025!
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@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hooray to @thespectator1828.bsky.social and to Frances Wilson for nominating THE BOOK GAME, by elusive but deserving (and unrelated) Frances Wise, as a Book of the Year for 2025!
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
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We are delighted to host a major international symposium occasioned by the publication of 'Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain' by Stefan Collini
⏰Thurs 30 Oct 2025, 2-7pm
📍Senate House, London
The event is free to attend
BOOK NOW ⤵️
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
⏰Thurs 30 Oct 2025, 2-7pm
📍Senate House, London
The event is free to attend
BOOK NOW ⤵️
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium
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October 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We are delighted to host a major international symposium occasioned by the publication of 'Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain' by Stefan Collini
⏰Thurs 30 Oct 2025, 2-7pm
📍Senate House, London
The event is free to attend
BOOK NOW ⤵️
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
⏰Thurs 30 Oct 2025, 2-7pm
📍Senate House, London
The event is free to attend
BOOK NOW ⤵️
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Warwickshire friends, please come to Waterstones Leamington Spa next Thursday and hear me and @adamwithbooks.bsky.social talk about The Book Game - I’d love to see you! Tickets via the link below, or message me.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Warwickshire friends, please come to Waterstones Leamington Spa next Thursday and hear me and @adamwithbooks.bsky.social talk about The Book Game - I’d love to see you! Tickets via the link below, or message me.
www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
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For one day only! The Book Game on Kindle for just 99p!
September 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For one day only! The Book Game on Kindle for just 99p!
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'Bacon’s utopian scientists have achieved miracles: they create artificial rain, snow and meteors.'
Chloë Houston on a scientific utopia admired by tech bros today
Chloë Houston on a scientific utopia admired by tech bros today
Wisdom of Salomon
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August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
'Bacon’s utopian scientists have achieved miracles: they create artificial rain, snow and meteors.'
Chloë Houston on a scientific utopia admired by tech bros today
Chloë Houston on a scientific utopia admired by tech bros today
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Thanks to the brilliant Frances Wilson (author of Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark) for these kind words about THE BOOK GAME
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@chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Thanks to the brilliant Frances Wilson (author of Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark) for these kind words about THE BOOK GAME
@chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
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Here "we" are -- that is, the two sides of Frances Wise -- signing THE BOOK GAME at beautiful Goldsboro Books off Charing Cross Road.
Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
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Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Here "we" are -- that is, the two sides of Frances Wise -- signing THE BOOK GAME at beautiful Goldsboro Books off Charing Cross Road.
Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
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Just finished the excellent The Book Game by Frances Wise. Highly recommend. Witty, observant, nicely satirical, knowing without being arch. Bravo,
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social)
lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london.
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
president Oxford Bibliographical Society
micro-essays ada...
adamwithbooks.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Just finished the excellent The Book Game by Frances Wise. Highly recommend. Witty, observant, nicely satirical, knowing without being arch. Bravo,
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
The Book Game is out today! Available in all good bookshops… @adamwithbooks.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Book Game is out today! Available in all good bookshops… @adamwithbooks.bsky.social
Out one week today!
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Out one week today!
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Could *you* construct an ideal society? 🛠️ 🌇
Craft your perfect world using past visions of utopias in art & literature at @chloehouston.bsky.social's stand The Utopia Experiment at the #CommunityFestival2025
Find out more about the festival! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
Craft your perfect world using past visions of utopias in art & literature at @chloehouston.bsky.social's stand The Utopia Experiment at the #CommunityFestival2025
Find out more about the festival! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
May 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Could *you* construct an ideal society? 🛠️ 🌇
Craft your perfect world using past visions of utopias in art & literature at @chloehouston.bsky.social's stand The Utopia Experiment at the #CommunityFestival2025
Find out more about the festival! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
Craft your perfect world using past visions of utopias in art & literature at @chloehouston.bsky.social's stand The Utopia Experiment at the #CommunityFestival2025
Find out more about the festival! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
And beyond delighted that the hardback of The Book Game has landed 💥💚🦚🌳 Out June 5th. @adamwithbooks.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
And beyond delighted that the hardback of The Book Game has landed 💥💚🦚🌳 Out June 5th. @adamwithbooks.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
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Delighted to have our edited collection in my hands today! Huge thanks to Laetitia Sansonetti, our series editor, and our commissioning editor Guy Carney at Brepols - and to our brilliant (and patient) contributors. And from me to my co-editors Ladan and Sophie, super colleagues both.
May 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Delighted to have our edited collection in my hands today! Huge thanks to Laetitia Sansonetti, our series editor, and our commissioning editor Guy Carney at Brepols - and to our brilliant (and patient) contributors. And from me to my co-editors Ladan and Sophie, super colleagues both.
Thanks very much to Tolhurst organic farm for having me over on Thursday to talk about utopias and the land. The first time I have discussed More’s men-eating sheep in close proximity to the real thing. #TheUtopiaExperiment #NotAllSheep
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thanks very much to Tolhurst organic farm for having me over on Thursday to talk about utopias and the land. The first time I have discussed More’s men-eating sheep in close proximity to the real thing. #TheUtopiaExperiment #NotAllSheep
Out 5th June, delighted to see The Book Game in @thetimes.com & looks like we have a new subtitle #shagginginthefolly
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Out 5th June, delighted to see The Book Game in @thetimes.com & looks like we have a new subtitle #shagginginthefolly
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It was a pleasure to deliver a keynote talk at the inaugural interdisciplinary symposium of the Utopia Experiment at the University of Reading yesterday! Special thanks to @chloehouston.bsky.social for the kind invitation. A great variety of papers and thought-provoking discussions!
April 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It was a pleasure to deliver a keynote talk at the inaugural interdisciplinary symposium of the Utopia Experiment at the University of Reading yesterday! Special thanks to @chloehouston.bsky.social for the kind invitation. A great variety of papers and thought-provoking discussions!
Thank you to all of our fantastic speakers at the Utopia symposium today, especially our keynotes @atasoyemrah.bsky.social and Chris Coates, talking here about his experience of living in communes & intentional communities. An inspiring day 😊
April 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thank you to all of our fantastic speakers at the Utopia symposium today, especially our keynotes @atasoyemrah.bsky.social and Chris Coates, talking here about his experience of living in communes & intentional communities. An inspiring day 😊
We are thrilled to be welcoming Dr Emrah Atasoy and Chris Coates to deliver keynote addresses at the inaugural symposium of The Utopia Experiment tomorrow at the University of Reading! Join us in Chancellors G04 or online (DM for link).
I am looking forward to contributing to the interdisciplinary Utopia Symposium at the University of Reading tomorrow! Thank you for the kind invitation @chloehouston.bsky.social! An important initiative: The Utopia Experiment! @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @utopianstudpsu.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We are thrilled to be welcoming Dr Emrah Atasoy and Chris Coates to deliver keynote addresses at the inaugural symposium of The Utopia Experiment tomorrow at the University of Reading! Join us in Chancellors G04 or online (DM for link).
Accidentally walked into an Eric Ravilious painting today and it was magic.
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Accidentally walked into an Eric Ravilious painting today and it was magic.
Delighted to be speaking at the 2025 Ceræ conference on Dreams, Visions and Utopias on 26 & 27 April. Do come or have a listen later. (And how marvellous is this detail from Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights?😍)
March 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Delighted to be speaking at the 2025 Ceræ conference on Dreams, Visions and Utopias on 26 & 27 April. Do come or have a listen later. (And how marvellous is this detail from Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights?😍)
Thanks for having me @memorients.bsky.social for this guest post on the material text in early modern European travel writing about Persia.
A special treat for you today! Guest blogger Dr Chloë Houston writes on Persian literary culture in early modern European travel writing:
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‘Not many Bookes’? Persian Literary Culture in Early Modern European Travel Writing | MEMOs
The manuscript text was everywhere in Persia, and it was highly prized and respected.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thanks for having me @memorients.bsky.social for this guest post on the material text in early modern European travel writing about Persia.
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In a turn-up for the books, the Telegraph makes the case for English and Humanities degrees. What next, Brussels sprouts voting for Xmas?
@englishassociation.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
@englishassociation.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
Reports of English literature’s death have been greatly exaggerated
The rise of AI is making a degree in humanities more valuable than ever
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 10:54 AM
In a turn-up for the books, the Telegraph makes the case for English and Humanities degrees. What next, Brussels sprouts voting for Xmas?
@englishassociation.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
@englishassociation.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social