Gabriel Flynn
@gabrielflynn.bsky.social
My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is published by @sceptrebooks.bsky.social. Now doing a PhD at Warwick on Adorno’s aesthetics & writing a second novel. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Amateur footballer.
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Gabriel Flynn
@gabrielflynn.bsky.social
· May 22
My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.
I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.
I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
A nice thing about teaching (as opposed to writing): you know when you’ve done it well
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A nice thing about teaching (as opposed to writing): you know when you’ve done it well
[Werner Herzog voice]: you must never see this
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
[Werner Herzog voice]: you must never see this
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Exciting news ~ TL/TH in book
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
2026 subscription
We are pleased to announce our 2026 subscription: a selection of five books publishing next year, each delivered at least one month ahead of publication, all for a special price of £55 (saving £12 on ...
peninsulapress.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exciting news ~ TL/TH in book
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨
Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)
peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...
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good to have friends who you can rely on for an honest opinion
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
good to have friends who you can rely on for an honest opinion
good to have friends who you can rely on for an honest opinion
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
good to have friends who you can rely on for an honest opinion
Lovely piece by @alexniven.bsky.social
A product of working-class Manchester and its second-generation Irish culture, Stone Roses bassist Mani — who has died aged 63 — was the ultimate team player, and an embodiment of socialist values in his life and art.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/mani...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/mani...
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Lovely piece by @alexniven.bsky.social
I am very grateful to all the library assistants of the world and especially to Francesco at Welwyn Garden City Central Library
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I am very grateful to all the library assistants of the world and especially to Francesco at Welwyn Garden City Central Library
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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I Wanna Be Adored (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Stone Roses - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
tomorrow!
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
Group Chat - Lettrétage
Reading and discussion Busting the myth that novel-writing is a purely solitary pursuit, three Berlin-based writers who regularly read and critique each other’s work will talk about the intimacy of sh...
www.lettretage.de
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
tomorrow!
amazing timing for Labour to announce their plans to copy policy from the Danish Social Democrats...
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
amazing timing for Labour to announce their plans to copy policy from the Danish Social Democrats...
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🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
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On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
Group Chat - Lettrétage
Reading and discussion Busting the myth that novel-writing is a purely solitary pursuit, three Berlin-based writers who regularly read and critique each other’s work will talk about the intimacy of sh...
www.lettretage.de
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
Impressive selection of books in the waiting room at my orthopaedic surgery inc. Freud, Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, Vigdis Hjorth & Elena Ferrante
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Impressive selection of books in the waiting room at my orthopaedic surgery inc. Freud, Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, Vigdis Hjorth & Elena Ferrante
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i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
Group Chat - Lettrétage
Reading and discussion Busting the myth that novel-writing is a purely solitary pursuit, three Berlin-based writers who regularly read and critique each other’s work will talk about the intimacy of sh...
www.lettretage.de
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
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Just half an hour in to Frankenstein: Tokyo Drift and I feel like it really badly wants to be a musical, in fact I think it should have been
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just half an hour in to Frankenstein: Tokyo Drift and I feel like it really badly wants to be a musical, in fact I think it should have been
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Writers are too precious about not repeating the same word in successive sentences. It is actually fine to employ identical terms in consecutive grammatical units
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Writers are too precious about not repeating the same word in successive sentences. It is actually fine to employ identical terms in consecutive grammatical units
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I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
The Booker Prize 2025
Many awards shortlists make a statement. Whether by accident or design, the clutch of books from which a given work is granted a particular gong are to one extent clear about – or at least re…
thestoryandthetruth.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
this story is absolutely wild – taz reports that tens of thousands of euros in Berlin public funds, designated for "combatting antisemitism", have apparently been paid out to some... extremely questionable companies
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
Zwölf Projekte haben Geld aus dem Topf der Berliner Kulturverwaltung erhalten. Eine Spurensuche der taz weckt Zweifel an der Kompetenz der Empfänger.
Geförderte Antisemitismusprojekte: Klüngel, Briefkästen und eine Immobilienfirma
Zwölf Projekte haben Geld aus dem Topf der Berliner Kulturverwaltung erhalten. Eine Spurensuche der taz weckt Zweifel an der Kompetenz der Empfänger.
taz.de
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
this story is absolutely wild – taz reports that tens of thousands of euros in Berlin public funds, designated for "combatting antisemitism", have apparently been paid out to some... extremely questionable companies
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
[I would use a stronger word if I weren't afraid of German defamation law]
It’s giving 2009 post-hardcore album
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It’s giving 2009 post-hardcore album
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A very moving piece (as is G's novel Poor Ghost, that takes up this story more fully, and appeared earlier this year)
A piece I wrote about my dad, who died 20 years ago today. Published by The White Review in 2020.
www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/rock...
www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/rock...
Rockets and Blue Lights - The White Review
Click here to download PDF
www.thewhitereview.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A very moving piece (as is G's novel Poor Ghost, that takes up this story more fully, and appeared earlier this year)
in a good mood today
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
in a good mood today