Nick Black
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
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Nick Black
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
· Aug 27
"Flashes sparking from the electrodes!... bursting with life." "This is how you do flash fiction." "... A fine collection that will get you thinking and stay with you...Get it! Get it! Get it!" - Amazon reviews for 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
Positive and Negative: Amazon.co.uk: Black, Nick: 9781915247124: Books
Buy Positive and Negative by Black, Nick (ISBN: 9781915247124) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg... or £5 from me (UK)/cheap as can elsewhere.
Please PM me for more info. #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
Please PM me for more info. #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
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First arrivals!!!
New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
First arrivals!!!
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Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Still my favourite rock'n'roll racket of the year.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Still my favourite rock'n'roll racket of the year.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"I Keep A Close Watch" - John Cale, live in 1983. Best version I've heard. #JohnCale
youtu.be/Td5ggufGakU?...
youtu.be/Td5ggufGakU?...
John Cale performs "I Keep A Close Watch"
YouTube video by oscartripe
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November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"I Keep A Close Watch" - John Cale, live in 1983. Best version I've heard. #JohnCale
youtu.be/Td5ggufGakU?...
youtu.be/Td5ggufGakU?...
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The results are in for the third quarter's flash fiction category as judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social
Many congratulations to the authors - and also to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was very high!
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
#flashfiction #WritingCommunity
Many congratulations to the authors - and also to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was very high!
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
#flashfiction #WritingCommunity
Flash Fiction: Winners
flash500.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The results are in for the third quarter's flash fiction category as judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social
Many congratulations to the authors - and also to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was very high!
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
#flashfiction #WritingCommunity
Many congratulations to the authors - and also to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was very high!
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
#flashfiction #WritingCommunity
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So excited to have come second! flash500.com/flash-fictio...
Flash Fiction 2nd Place: Emily’s On Track by Alison Wassell - Flash 500
Emily’s on track. She’s reaching her milestones. Babbling, rolling, sitting, crawling, she does them all, just when she should, or before, more often than not. When she smiles for the first time, it’s...
flash500.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So excited to have come second! flash500.com/flash-fictio...
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I interviewed one of the best actors on TV, in one of the best new programmes on TV, for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
Rhea Seehorn: ‘I love the idea that a woman’s anger can be dangerous’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I interviewed one of the best actors on TV, in one of the best new programmes on TV, for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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A very strange choice, but Peter Carey’s Bliss. It was the first piece of contemporary literary fiction I’d ever read - I think I was 17 and so bored of everything I had been reading. Suddenly a door opened into a completely different world of books. I felt like an adult reader for the first time.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A very strange choice, but Peter Carey’s Bliss. It was the first piece of contemporary literary fiction I’d ever read - I think I was 17 and so bored of everything I had been reading. Suddenly a door opened into a completely different world of books. I felt like an adult reader for the first time.
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Keep on rockin': As Neil Young enters his eighth decade, MOJO selects his ten greatest ever records.
Neil Young’s Greatest Albums Ranked
www.mojo4music.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Keep on rockin': As Neil Young enters his eighth decade, MOJO selects his ten greatest ever records.
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks BALL OF FIRE (1941) — Howard Hawks's snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks BALL OF FIRE (1941) — Howard Hawks's snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale.
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In Diamonds Are Forever the new James Bond (Sean Connery) who was also the old James Bond started the film seeking to avenge the death of the wife the last new James Bond (George Lazenby) had married and who had been killed. Later another James Bond (Roger Moore) killed her murderer. We were fine.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In Diamonds Are Forever the new James Bond (Sean Connery) who was also the old James Bond started the film seeking to avenge the death of the wife the last new James Bond (George Lazenby) had married and who had been killed. Later another James Bond (Roger Moore) killed her murderer. We were fine.
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
Starmer should sue X.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Starmer should sue X.
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There has been a mistake in the universe. I said I wanted a break, not "I want something to break."
*looks pointedly at universe*
*looks pointedly at universe*
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
There has been a mistake in the universe. I said I wanted a break, not "I want something to break."
*looks pointedly at universe*
*looks pointedly at universe*
Tate Britain's Lee Miller exhibition is fascinating - Surrealism, erotica, fashion, World War 2, the camps, the aftermath, and threading it all together, Miller herself, BLAZINGLY, heroically talented, courageous, inspiring.
Don't miss it.
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
#LeeMiller #photography
Don't miss it.
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
#LeeMiller #photography
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tate Britain's Lee Miller exhibition is fascinating - Surrealism, erotica, fashion, World War 2, the camps, the aftermath, and threading it all together, Miller herself, BLAZINGLY, heroically talented, courageous, inspiring.
Don't miss it.
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
#LeeMiller #photography
Don't miss it.
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
#LeeMiller #photography
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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In a better world, you'd all know this. @fulltimehobby.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In a better world, you'd all know this. @fulltimehobby.bsky.social
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Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
Looking Back at Barbara Stanwyck’s Career (Clip) | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
Managing two libraries, I already see how few men borrow/read books for themselves. This kind of crap won't help.
I've been reading in public all my life purely for the pleasure of reading and long before The Independent existed... they can fuck off with this kind of pearl-clutching, mocking, attempt to make me feel bad about it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Managing two libraries, I already see how few men borrow/read books for themselves. This kind of crap won't help.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Hornsey Town Hall, designed by Reginald Uren, was officially opened OTD in 1935. It was one of a number of suburban town halls opened in London in the 30s, and its design was influenced by Dutch architect Willem Dudok, Read more on this building here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/hornsey...
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Hornsey Town Hall, designed by Reginald Uren, was officially opened OTD in 1935. It was one of a number of suburban town halls opened in London in the 30s, and its design was influenced by Dutch architect Willem Dudok, Read more on this building here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/hornsey...
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Cholmeley Lodge, Highgate
1935
Guy Morgan and Partners
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...
1935
Guy Morgan and Partners
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Cholmeley Lodge, Highgate
1935
Guy Morgan and Partners
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...
1935
Guy Morgan and Partners
www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...
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My latest review for Uncut!
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My latest review for Uncut!