Had a lovely time talking Doris Lessing and distrusting the university at @ucddublin.bsky.social Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature conference last week. Lovely people, panels, and setting: more conferences within walking distance of the sea please 🙏

wearing cowboy boots to the archive today

If you're hanging around #MLA25 I will be presenting Saturday 3.30pm on identity under colonial confinement in Doris Lessing’s archive - would love to see some friendly faces! In exchange I promise some saucy excerpts from Lessing's letters...

First book / Last book of 2024

a lone pint in Slattery's pub, Rathmines

lovely day at #NWiMS yesterday chatting Lessing, Woolf and archives, spent today rushing to finish my #MLA paper, and now am very very very happy to be scheduling my out of office

taught a nature writing seminar today and campus got the memo

this #ModWrite I'm using my 2 hour commute to try and answer a question Doris Lessing once put to her husband: "Do you think Lenin would have liked Virginia Woolf?" Gottfried didn't give her the answer she wanted, but maybe my #NWiMS paper will...

THE CONVERSATION (dir. Coppola, 1974)

read my latest for Critical Quarterly: 'The Clinch', a reappraisal of Martin Amis's London Fields onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....