My flatmate Krissie Nicolson is running the Hastings Half Marathon this Sunday 23rd, to raise awareness of the Safe Havens project.

Please take a look at the project’s crowdfunder and donate if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hastings-b...

My brother Tom Edwards would have been 50 today. I am grateful for his memory, talent, and beauty.

Marianne Faithfull as Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. From the official video for the 1967 Rolling Stones single “We Love You”. RIP.

Leslie Feinberg and Quentin Crisp at Club 58, NYC, 13 April 1995. Photo by Morgan Gwenwald. From womenphotographerscollective.com

#morgangwenwald #lesliefeinberg #quentincrisp

An Isherwood that namechecks Ronald Firbank AND has the singer from Pavement on the cover.

And here's one he took of me, on the Hotel Continental's terrace. Early Dec 2005.

Room 101, Hotel Continental, Tangier. Early December 2005. Reading Finnegans Wake. Also in his travel bag: Plato, Burroughs, Kerouac, Dorothy Parker, and James Ellroy's LA Confidential trilogy.

New Svelte Lecture, early access for paid subscribers. How to Write an Essay Part 2: Quotations dickonedwards.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

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