Brian Dillon
@briangdillon.bsky.social
Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
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‘Leigh Bowery once planned to walk up to the bar at Taboo with an axe and chop off his own hand, but he chickened out.’
@briangdillon.bsky.social on the performance artist and London nightclub impresario, on show at Tate Modern until Sunday: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@briangdillon.bsky.social on the performance artist and London nightclub impresario, on show at Tate Modern until Sunday: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brian Dillon · At Tate Modern: ‘Leigh Bowery!’
For a while, Leigh Bowery touted himself as a legitimate if outré fashion designer, but it’s clear from the Tate show...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
‘Leigh Bowery once planned to walk up to the bar at Taboo with an axe and chop off his own hand, but he chickened out.’
@briangdillon.bsky.social on the performance artist and London nightclub impresario, on show at Tate Modern until Sunday: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@briangdillon.bsky.social on the performance artist and London nightclub impresario, on show at Tate Modern until Sunday: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
An excellent thread by @larapawson.bsky.social about this "overlooked men" dimwittery. Interesting that the Guardian piece about Conduit Books is backed up with old quotes from Murdoch editors/reviewers.
Are there some facts on men NOT getting published? On indie presses NOT championing men. I can think of several who champion men AND women. And perhaps lots of women are working in publishing because it's so badly paid? Statistics please, folks. Maybe it's true. But let's see the evidence.
New independent press to focus on male writers
Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
An excellent thread by @larapawson.bsky.social about this "overlooked men" dimwittery. Interesting that the Guardian piece about Conduit Books is backed up with old quotes from Murdoch editors/reviewers.
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
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April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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A little piece about bringing Fallow into the world of print, in the Irish Times today.
'It is a commitment to curiosity over time, a humbling dedication to desire and imagination and the pursuit of beauty. It’s also the most basic form of resistance: to look at the world and say, what if it was different?' 💚
@fallowmedia.bsky.social
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Fallow: Ian Maleney on migrating his literary journal from web to print
After 10 years in the frictionless space of the browser, it’s honestly kind of fun to be worrying about ink and paper and postage
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April 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A little piece about bringing Fallow into the world of print, in the Irish Times today.
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This May, spend a week in Devon exploring essays—a form with limitless possibilities. Tutored by prizewinning journalist, essayist and non-fiction writer @chitgrrl.bsky.social, writer and publisher Will Rees, plus special guest @briangdillon.bsky.social. More info: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Residential Writing Course: The Essay | One form, infinite possibilities | Arvon
What constitutes an essay, and why write one? Are there limits to what this ancient form can do, where it can go, or what it might contain? How do we know when an essay is done and how we might go abo...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This May, spend a week in Devon exploring essays—a form with limitless possibilities. Tutored by prizewinning journalist, essayist and non-fiction writer @chitgrrl.bsky.social, writer and publisher Will Rees, plus special guest @briangdillon.bsky.social. More info: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Aside from the fact that it's a very cool gold-topped cane, what a demented thing to write. Are they waiting for some smirking bearded (white) bro-infant in a too-tight suit to show them the way?
March 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Aside from the fact that it's a very cool gold-topped cane, what a demented thing to write. Are they waiting for some smirking bearded (white) bro-infant in a too-tight suit to show them the way?
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"A well-meaning focus on last words may miss a person’s last efforts at communication and connection. So too, perhaps unexpectedly, the words of the very young."
@briangdillon.bsky.social reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" for 4Columns: https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/bye-bye-i-love-you
@briangdillon.bsky.social reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" for 4Columns: https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/bye-bye-i-love-you
February 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"A well-meaning focus on last words may miss a person’s last efforts at communication and connection. So too, perhaps unexpectedly, the words of the very young."
@briangdillon.bsky.social reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" for 4Columns: https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/bye-bye-i-love-you
@briangdillon.bsky.social reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" for 4Columns: https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/bye-bye-i-love-you
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‘The best songs on 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 are the ones she co-wrote. The original mix was less spacious, more of itself, less of the time and more of her times.’
Lavinia Greenlaw on Marianne Faithfull: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lavinia Greenlaw on Marianne Faithfull: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lavinia Greenlaw · Short Cuts: On Marianne Faithfull
By the end of 1979, hesitation had given way to dread. We fully expected to be facing the end of the world. Margaret...
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February 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
‘The best songs on 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 are the ones she co-wrote. The original mix was less spacious, more of itself, less of the time and more of her times.’
Lavinia Greenlaw on Marianne Faithfull: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lavinia Greenlaw on Marianne Faithfull: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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They’ve DerryLondonDerried the Gulf of Mexico
Hey Google, WTAF?!
Here in Europe land we want no part of this nonsense
Here in Europe land we want no part of this nonsense
February 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
They’ve DerryLondonDerried the Gulf of Mexico
David Johansen, the last of the New York Dolls, has stage four cancer and a broken back, but lives in a country where even a wildly famous musician and actor cannot afford healthcare. You can help him and his family here. www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...
February 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
David Johansen, the last of the New York Dolls, has stage four cancer and a broken back, but lives in a country where even a wildly famous musician and actor cannot afford healthcare. You can help him and his family here. www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...
For @nytimes.com I reviewed LIVE FAST, by Brigitte Giraud; translated by Cory Stockwell. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...
Book Review: ‘Live Fast,’ by Brigitte Giraud
In the 2022 Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s husband, while tearing her apart.
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February 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
For @nytimes.com I reviewed LIVE FAST, by Brigitte Giraud; translated by Cory Stockwell. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...
RIP Marianne Faithfull. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Short Film by Derek Jarman) [1979]
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull
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January 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
RIP Marianne Faithfull. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
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The Dublin Review number ninety-seven | WINTER 2024-25 features work by Brian Davey, Karen O’Reilly, Eimear Ryan, Susannah Dickey, Aisling Flynn, Juliana Adelman, and Arnold Thomas Fanning. To buy or subscribe visit thedublinreview.com/product/subscription/
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Dublin Review number ninety-seven | WINTER 2024-25 features work by Brian Davey, Karen O’Reilly, Eimear Ryan, Susannah Dickey, Aisling Flynn, Juliana Adelman, and Arnold Thomas Fanning. To buy or subscribe visit thedublinreview.com/product/subscription/
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‘Bristling missiles are one of Kennard’s motifs; variously resembling a nest of knives or sprouting crystals, the warheads protrude from a gas mask worn by the Earth or lurk inside the half-opened dome of a nuclear reactor.’
@briangdillon.bsky.social on Peter Kennard:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@briangdillon.bsky.social on Peter Kennard:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brian Dillon · At the Whitechapel: On Peter Kennard
Can the art of political photomontage continue to function as print declines and memes both crude and ingenious...
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January 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
‘Bristling missiles are one of Kennard’s motifs; variously resembling a nest of knives or sprouting crystals, the warheads protrude from a gas mask worn by the Earth or lurk inside the half-opened dome of a nuclear reactor.’
@briangdillon.bsky.social on Peter Kennard:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@briangdillon.bsky.social on Peter Kennard:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I wrote about the art of Peter Kennard for the new issue of the @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brian Dillon · At the Whitechapel: On Peter Kennard
Can the art of political photomontage continue to function as print declines and memes both crude and ingenious...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about the art of Peter Kennard for the new issue of the @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Hello Bluesky!
Please enjoy D. Graham Burnett’s essay for issue 60, “Notes Toward a History of Skywriting,” featuring this lovely image by Robert Hill, unlocked for a limited time.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/bu...
Please enjoy D. Graham Burnett’s essay for issue 60, “Notes Toward a History of Skywriting,” featuring this lovely image by Robert Hill, unlocked for a limited time.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/bu...
January 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hello Bluesky!
Please enjoy D. Graham Burnett’s essay for issue 60, “Notes Toward a History of Skywriting,” featuring this lovely image by Robert Hill, unlocked for a limited time.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/bu...
Please enjoy D. Graham Burnett’s essay for issue 60, “Notes Toward a History of Skywriting,” featuring this lovely image by Robert Hill, unlocked for a limited time.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/bu...
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This such a beautifully tender piece
A most gorgeous moving and funny essay by thee Brian Dillon on @vittles.bsky.social today
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...
You Can’t Go Wrong With Delia
Brian Dillon on Christmas with Delia. Illustration by Seb Tanti Burlò.
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December 24, 2024 at 3:15 PM
This such a beautifully tender piece
When @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social asked me to write about Christmas with Delia for @vittles.bsky.social, thoughts also turned inevitably to Christmases past. What does Delia provide, alongside all the failsafe recipes? Absolution from Christmas melancholy! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...
You Can’t Go Wrong With Delia
Brian Dillon on Christmas with Delia. Illustration by Seb Tanti Burlò.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:30 AM
When @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social asked me to write about Christmas with Delia for @vittles.bsky.social, thoughts also turned inevitably to Christmases past. What does Delia provide, alongside all the failsafe recipes? Absolution from Christmas melancholy! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...
On the poetry of Hannah Arendt, for 4Columns. 4columns.org/dillon-brian...
What Remains
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December 10, 2024 at 7:48 AM
On the poetry of Hannah Arendt, for 4Columns. 4columns.org/dillon-brian...
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If you've not read Tim Robinson, you might like to do so: he was a writer of genius and a kind and generous man. (And also made beautiful maps.)
When I'm feeling at a low ebb and a bit burned out, Tim Robinson's writing is a good restorative. And his maps of the Burren, Connemara and the Aran Islands are just magic.
Always loved this quote by him:
"Irish placenames dry out when anglicised, like twigs snapped off from the tree".
Always loved this quote by him:
"Irish placenames dry out when anglicised, like twigs snapped off from the tree".
November 25, 2024 at 10:34 PM
If you've not read Tim Robinson, you might like to do so: he was a writer of genius and a kind and generous man. (And also made beautiful maps.)
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🐞This week’s podcast: Hannah Regel & Emily LaBarge discuss Regel's first novel THE LAST SANE WOMAN
You can listen here: lrb.me/013
You can listen here: lrb.me/013
November 20, 2024 at 12:46 PM
🐞This week’s podcast: Hannah Regel & Emily LaBarge discuss Regel's first novel THE LAST SANE WOMAN
You can listen here: lrb.me/013
You can listen here: lrb.me/013
Is contemporary art a lot of pious wokery? Let's ask a minor art critic but notable right-wing troll.
November 19, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Is contemporary art a lot of pious wokery? Let's ask a minor art critic but notable right-wing troll.
RIP brother Wayne Kramer youtu.be/WXlMTUpKwuc?...
February 3, 2024 at 8:50 AM
RIP brother Wayne Kramer youtu.be/WXlMTUpKwuc?...