Anakana Schofield
@anakanaschofield.bsky.social
🚨LIBRARY OF BROTHEL🚨 MAY 2026
Award winning author of novels Bina (NYRB, Knopf Canada, Fleet), Martin John and Malarky (Biblioasis)
www.anakanaschofield.com
Agent: Wylie
Words in Book Post, Guardian, Globe
Buy my books for everlasting life Hoops
Award winning author of novels Bina (NYRB, Knopf Canada, Fleet), Martin John and Malarky (Biblioasis)
www.anakanaschofield.com
Agent: Wylie
Words in Book Post, Guardian, Globe
Buy my books for everlasting life Hoops
Pinned
My recent essay on owls 🦉 in the Globe and Mail
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I read an Elizabeth Taylor (the novelist) book recently, written in the 50s and it had a passage about cinema-going which talks about 'seeing it round'.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I read an Elizabeth Taylor (the novelist) book recently, written in the 50s and it had a passage about cinema-going which talks about 'seeing it round'.
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Looking for a gift? Edward Carey (my ball-&-chain) is selling original drawings of birds (grackle, barn, owl, even curlews) here:
edwardcarey.bigcartel.com?utm_source=i...
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EdwardCarey
Original art by Edward Carey, author of Little, The Swallowed Man, Iremonger Trilogy, Edith Holler and B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils.
edwardcarey.bigcartel.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Looking for a gift? Edward Carey (my ball-&-chain) is selling original drawings of birds (grackle, barn, owl, even curlews) here:
edwardcarey.bigcartel.com?utm_source=i...
edwardcarey.bigcartel.com?utm_source=i...
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‘Daniel took it once and it killed him’: Grieving brother urges teens not to inhale solvents
‘Daniel took it once and it killed him’: Grieving brother urges teens not to inhale solvents
Daniel Maguire was 14 when he died after inhaling deodorant fumes
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
‘Daniel took it once and it killed him’: Grieving brother urges teens not to inhale solvents
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An unusual pink light spotted in the skies of north Dublin in recent weeks has caused much intrigue, with many mistaking it for the Northern Lights
What is the 'Aurora Berryalis' spotted over Dublin?
An unusual pink light spotted in the skies of north Dublin in recent weeks has caused much intrigue, with many mistaking it for the Northern Lights.
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
An unusual pink light spotted in the skies of north Dublin in recent weeks has caused much intrigue, with many mistaking it for the Northern Lights
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Morning all.
A man pushes a bicycle laden with sea coal down a road in Hartlepool, County Durham in winter 1962. Photographer John Bulmer.
A man pushes a bicycle laden with sea coal down a road in Hartlepool, County Durham in winter 1962. Photographer John Bulmer.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Morning all.
A man pushes a bicycle laden with sea coal down a road in Hartlepool, County Durham in winter 1962. Photographer John Bulmer.
A man pushes a bicycle laden with sea coal down a road in Hartlepool, County Durham in winter 1962. Photographer John Bulmer.
The sound of the rain on the road is doing me in today. I must go back to poetic interpretations of every rain event like I did in 2006. I have lost my way and you can’t really battle it because there’s such a surplus of rain in November. Once you engage w it, it will somehow greet you differently
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The sound of the rain on the road is doing me in today. I must go back to poetic interpretations of every rain event like I did in 2006. I have lost my way and you can’t really battle it because there’s such a surplus of rain in November. Once you engage w it, it will somehow greet you differently
Many bad mornings make up a good life.
In the event you had one.
In the event you had one.
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Many bad mornings make up a good life.
In the event you had one.
In the event you had one.
Every. TEN. Minutes
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
One woman killed by someone close every ten minutes - UN
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Every. TEN. Minutes
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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From Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat, Said the Dead is a work of sublime intensity and tenderness. A book that is both history and ghost story. A book that will leave you gasping by its final page.
Coming on 21 May 2026. You can pre-order it now.
linktr.ee/saidthedead
Coming on 21 May 2026. You can pre-order it now.
linktr.ee/saidthedead
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
From Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat, Said the Dead is a work of sublime intensity and tenderness. A book that is both history and ghost story. A book that will leave you gasping by its final page.
Coming on 21 May 2026. You can pre-order it now.
linktr.ee/saidthedead
Coming on 21 May 2026. You can pre-order it now.
linktr.ee/saidthedead
I was happy to find this dance film as I had seen some extracts as it was made. www.nowness.com/series/in-mo...
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I was happy to find this dance film as I had seen some extracts as it was made. www.nowness.com/series/in-mo...
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Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true.
I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems.
Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.
I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems.
Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true.
I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems.
Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.
I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems.
Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.
Colin & I agree on 40s. I think we should all be in our 40’s twice over. Remove another decade
Either 20’s or 50’s.
Either 20’s or 50’s.
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
www.irishtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Colin & I agree on 40s. I think we should all be in our 40’s twice over. Remove another decade
Either 20’s or 50’s.
Either 20’s or 50’s.
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Canada is going to process zero new privately sponsored refugee applications next year. gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...
Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 159, Number 47: GOVERNMENT NOTICES
November 22, 2025, Part 1, Volume 159, Number 47, Canada Gazette
gazette.gc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Canada is going to process zero new privately sponsored refugee applications next year. gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...
Terrible people deserve each other.
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Terrible people deserve each other.
Misread that f word as felting and wondered how the hell they were proposing to degrade a ball of Lush Alpaca.
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Misread that f word as felting and wondered how the hell they were proposing to degrade a ball of Lush Alpaca.
A Year in the life of a moose calf documentary - I probably hold the world record for watching this film.
Name a film you've seen six times.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A Year in the life of a moose calf documentary - I probably hold the world record for watching this film.
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Starting my Butterfly Season 2025 thread. It will be a gradual thread this weekend and maybe into next week.
I must begin with my favorite butterfly photo this year. A difficult choice.
Macro of the very tiny male Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas)💙
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
I must begin with my favorite butterfly photo this year. A difficult choice.
Macro of the very tiny male Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas)💙
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Starting my Butterfly Season 2025 thread. It will be a gradual thread this weekend and maybe into next week.
I must begin with my favorite butterfly photo this year. A difficult choice.
Macro of the very tiny male Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas)💙
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
I must begin with my favorite butterfly photo this year. A difficult choice.
Macro of the very tiny male Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas)💙
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
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Hendrix was a huge SF nerd - I know this because I once commissioned a feature called Jimi Hendrix’s Five Favourite Science Fiction novels - so I’m in no doubt as to who is the biggest fan here.
If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hendrix was a huge SF nerd - I know this because I once commissioned a feature called Jimi Hendrix’s Five Favourite Science Fiction novels - so I’m in no doubt as to who is the biggest fan here.