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Laura Robertson
@doublenegativel.bsky.social
Critic. Writer. Editor. Lecturer. Writing about art, teaching others how to write about art. Scouser, RCA alum, cofounder @TheDoubleNegative.co.uk. Freelance critic for BBC, Art Monthly etc.🌱💀🍄🦇😼
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EXCELLENT NEWS. I signed a contract today with Tate Publishing!

Aimed at the general reader and gallery-goer alike, NIGHT delves into the nocturnal themes of slumber, revelry, death, epiphany, creativity and rebirth.

More: laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site/NIGHT-new-bo...

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Elliott Smith, Figure 8 ❤️🤍🖤 what an album.
Print by Ben O'Brien.

#vinyl #illustration #bentheillustrator
#elliottsmith #geffenrecords
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 147, also known as IC 298.

The clumpy, blue ring in the galaxy on the right likely formed when the companion galaxy to the left crashed through its center.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
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October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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new bluesky people, hello.

i have written a couple of books:

THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (2025) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

LAST CALL (2021) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Applications for the 2026-2027 Representing Wales programme are now open!
Closing date: 5.00pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025.
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Representing Wales 2026-2027 - Literature Wales
Representing Wales 2026-2027 Applications for the 2026-2027 Representing Wales programme are now open!   Closing date: 5.00pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025. Literature Wales staff will be available to ans...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Deadline midnight tonight:
East Midlands writing mentoring scheme
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Mentoring - Writing East Midlands
creative writing mentoring scheme from Writing East Midlands. Focussed writer development with a matched professional writer.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Heartened by @hararereview.bsky.social 's description of Outcast: "Fascinating and expansive, you’ll likely never read anything more magisterial. If you read just one non-fiction/history book this year, make it this one".

Taking this as my Nobel.

hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/o...
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World x Oliver Basciano
320. June 17, 2025, Faber and Faber. Non-fiction. It took me longer than normal to read this book; in certain places it’s really hard to get through—for empath reasons. It shows so clearly how huma…
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October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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If you'd like to join our mailing list, or maybe you'd like to propose a contribution, you can do so at:

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Draught is now live!
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Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
October 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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This tour might be fu--
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
EXCELLENT NEWS. I signed a contract today with Tate Publishing!

Aimed at the general reader and gallery-goer alike, NIGHT delves into the nocturnal themes of slumber, revelry, death, epiphany, creativity and rebirth.

More: laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site/NIGHT-new-bo...

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October 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."

From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...

📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Another friend sent me more books and a friend paid for my fancy lunch (by bank transfer). I won at birthdays this year.
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century.
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More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower
September 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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An extraordinary day spent with our new students, telling us who they are, who they want to be, and sharing their enthusiasms.

Then I turn into the night, check the news, and it’s full of violence and those who would like to use it to bring about even more.

Create spaces of care where you can.
September 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Bedside table: currently re/reading for/around Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other. conference in 2026. On intersectional feminism, animism, horror and folklore.
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Why have I not listened to this before? Great hearing from author Sarah Hall about her latest, Helm, and the books that informed, influenced and inspired the writing of it in various ways ▶️

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sarah Hall share.google/sm6Hgob2hD8q...
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sarah Hall
The writer Sarah Hall on her new novel - Helm - and its connections to three other books.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller dancing at the April in Paris Ball in New York (1957)
September 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Stop me before I kill again
2/2 Has made a mask out of a pancake! LOLs from the Dutch Golden Age with Godfried Schalcken.
September 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The 'Silent Running' little guys, acrylic on canvas, from a while ago.
#art #artsky
September 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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"Honey wake up it's Mon-"

"NOOOOOOOOOO."

#MondayMotivation
September 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Just got a @shudder.com trial. Feel free to recommend stuff, horror fans. As a bit of a steer, much of my fave of the genre is by the likes of John Carpenter, Cronenberg (father and son), Dario Argento, and Ari Aster. A pretty broad spectrum. I don't love gore/torture.
a group of people are standing in a dark room surrounded by smoke .
ALT: a group of people are standing in a dark room surrounded by smoke .
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August 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
View from our Waterfront Lodge this week 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💕 including this tiny island - saw my first crested Grebe and an assortment of Common and Atlantic Grey seals!

📍Loch Linnhe, Fort William
August 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Quentin Tarantino, Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Brad Pitt and Michael Rapaport at the premiere of True Romance (1993)
August 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Took a cruise to see the seals on Seal Island, Loch Linnhe 🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭 next morning they were outside our hotel window, just splashing about 😂 I think they followed us! Fort William is amazing
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM