Gabriel Flynn
@gabrielflynn.bsky.social
My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is published by @sceptrebooks.bsky.social. Now doing a PhD at Warwick on Adorno’s aesthetics & writing a second novel. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Amateur footballer.
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Gabriel Flynn
@gabrielflynn.bsky.social
· May 22
My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.
I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.
I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
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On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
Group Chat - Lettrétage
Reading and discussion Busting the myth that novel-writing is a purely solitary pursuit, three Berlin-based writers who regularly read and critique each other’s work will talk about the intimacy of sh...
www.lettretage.de
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
Group Chat - Lettrétage
Reading and discussion Busting the myth that novel-writing is a purely solitary pursuit, three Berlin-based writers who regularly read and critique each other’s work will talk about the intimacy of sh...
www.lettretage.de
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
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Just half an hour in to Frankenstein: Tokyo Drift and I feel like it really badly wants to be a musical, in fact I think it should have been
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just half an hour in to Frankenstein: Tokyo Drift and I feel like it really badly wants to be a musical, in fact I think it should have been
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Writers are too precious about not repeating the same word in successive sentences. It is actually fine to employ identical terms in consecutive grammatical units
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Writers are too precious about not repeating the same word in successive sentences. It is actually fine to employ identical terms in consecutive grammatical units
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I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
The Booker Prize 2025
Many awards shortlists make a statement. Whether by accident or design, the clutch of books from which a given work is granted a particular gong are to one extent clear about – or at least re…
thestoryandthetruth.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
this story is absolutely wild – taz reports that tens of thousands of euros in Berlin public funds, designated for "combatting antisemitism", have apparently been paid out to some... extremely questionable companies
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
Zwölf Projekte haben Geld aus dem Topf der Berliner Kulturverwaltung erhalten. Eine Spurensuche der taz weckt Zweifel an der Kompetenz der Empfänger.
Geförderte Antisemitismusprojekte: Klüngel, Briefkästen und eine Immobilienfirma
Zwölf Projekte haben Geld aus dem Topf der Berliner Kulturverwaltung erhalten. Eine Spurensuche der taz weckt Zweifel an der Kompetenz der Empfänger.
taz.de
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
this story is absolutely wild – taz reports that tens of thousands of euros in Berlin public funds, designated for "combatting antisemitism", have apparently been paid out to some... extremely questionable companies
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
It’s giving 2009 post-hardcore album
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It’s giving 2009 post-hardcore album
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A very moving piece (as is G's novel Poor Ghost, that takes up this story more fully, and appeared earlier this year)
A piece I wrote about my dad, who died 20 years ago today. Published by The White Review in 2020.
www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/rock...
www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/rock...
Rockets and Blue Lights - The White Review
Click here to download PDF
www.thewhitereview.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A very moving piece (as is G's novel Poor Ghost, that takes up this story more fully, and appeared earlier this year)
I have a ticket for the sold-out Tortoise gig at Barbican on 22nd November and I can't make it. Would anybody like the ticket? I paid around £47, but I would accept whatever you can afford.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have a ticket for the sold-out Tortoise gig at Barbican on 22nd November and I can't make it. Would anybody like the ticket? I paid around £47, but I would accept whatever you can afford.
in a good mood today
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
in a good mood today
Political hope is the best feeling in the world. I haven’t felt like this since the early stages of Bernie 2020 and the UK general election in 2017.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Political hope is the best feeling in the world. I haven’t felt like this since the early stages of Bernie 2020 and the UK general election in 2017.
Londoners, who remembers that briefly omnipresent ad that was like ‘Hey, I’m Pip, watch me revolutionise social’? What was it and did it revolutionise social?
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Londoners, who remembers that briefly omnipresent ad that was like ‘Hey, I’m Pip, watch me revolutionise social’? What was it and did it revolutionise social?
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tonight!
Berlin book launch for Amateurs!
At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social
4 November
Spike Berlin
Goebenstr. 22
10783 Berlin
7-10pm
Tell your Berlin friends!
Reserve a free ticket here
spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...
At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social
4 November
Spike Berlin
Goebenstr. 22
10783 Berlin
7-10pm
Tell your Berlin friends!
Reserve a free ticket here
spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...
Book Launch: Joanna Walsh, “Amateurs”
On 4 November 2025 at Spike Berlin, former “Theory of Style” columnist Joanna Walsh will read from a philosophical history of the internet and digital creativity.
spikeartmagazine.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
tonight!
Me: I want to pursue a life of the mind
The life of the mind: I will employ good manual handling techniques and maintain appropriate posture while handling luggage
The life of the mind: I will employ good manual handling techniques and maintain appropriate posture while handling luggage
Getting back into the academic groove (filling out an 18-page travel risk assessment form)
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Me: I want to pursue a life of the mind
The life of the mind: I will employ good manual handling techniques and maintain appropriate posture while handling luggage
The life of the mind: I will employ good manual handling techniques and maintain appropriate posture while handling luggage
Getting back into the academic groove (filling out an 18-page travel risk assessment form)
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Getting back into the academic groove (filling out an 18-page travel risk assessment form)
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Can anyone recommend writing (journalistic or academic) on changes in the US TV and film industries in the past 5 or so years? Ie, on the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, influence of venture capital etc. Thanks!
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Can anyone recommend writing (journalistic or academic) on changes in the US TV and film industries in the past 5 or so years? Ie, on the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, influence of venture capital etc. Thanks!
Can anyone recommend writing (journalistic or academic) on changes in the US TV and film industries in the past 5 or so years? Ie, on the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, influence of venture capital etc. Thanks!
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Can anyone recommend writing (journalistic or academic) on changes in the US TV and film industries in the past 5 or so years? Ie, on the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, influence of venture capital etc. Thanks!
Off to find out whether anything can change my longstanding aversion to the films of Yorgos Lanthimos
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Off to find out whether anything can change my longstanding aversion to the films of Yorgos Lanthimos
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’In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.’
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
thebaffler.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
’In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.’
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
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They're going to take away "Andrew" too.
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They're going to take away "Andrew" too.
’In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.’
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
thebaffler.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
’In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.’
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
Loved this essay by Brace Belden in @thebaffler.com, maybe the best thing I’ve read about the podcast form
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They’re centuries ahead of us.
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
They’re centuries ahead of us.
A student to me just now: ‘You always flame me for my handwriting but yours is also not that good.’
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A student to me just now: ‘You always flame me for my handwriting but yours is also not that good.’
Enjoyed this review of Zadie Smith’s new essay collection by @houmanbarekat.bsky.social
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety
From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Enjoyed this review of Zadie Smith’s new essay collection by @houmanbarekat.bsky.social