Gordon MacMillan
@gordonmacmillan.bsky.social
Worked at Twitter. Content & social strategy. #books #writing #politics. Second novel Blind Dates. First novel Songs for your Mother. Blog: https://tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/07/why-you-should-be-reading-mansfield-park.html
The Booker goes blokey: what David Szalay's Flesh tells us about masculinity in fiction #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The Booker goes blokey: what David Szalay's Flesh tells us about masculinity in fiction #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The literary comeback of 2025: Why everyone's quoting Sontag again
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November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The literary comeback of 2025: Why everyone's quoting Sontag again
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Why we’re in love with literary angst #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-...
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Why we’re in love with literary angst #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-...
The rise of the hyper-niche book club #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The rise of the hyper-niche book club #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Whatever happened to Donna Tartt? #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/03/what...
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Whatever happened to Donna Tartt? #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/03/what...
When pop stars read serious books: what book clubs mean now #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/when...
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When pop stars read serious books: what book clubs mean now #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/when...
Why are we still waiting for J.D. Salinger? #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-...
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Why are we still waiting for J.D. Salinger? #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-...
Do writers need social media? Richard Osman thinks not. Here’s why that’s a problem #blueskybooks tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-w...
October 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Do writers need social media? Richard Osman thinks not. Here’s why that’s a problem #blueskybooks tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-w...
A little love letter to my favourite bookshop. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/shak...
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A little love letter to my favourite bookshop. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/shak...
Shakespeare and Company isn’t just a bookshop.
It’s a place where generations of writers and readers have found belonging — from Sylvia Beach to James Joyce.
A century later, its green doors still open onto something sacred.
Read more:
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It’s a place where generations of writers and readers have found belonging — from Sylvia Beach to James Joyce.
A century later, its green doors still open onto something sacred.
Read more:
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/shak...
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Shakespeare and Company isn’t just a bookshop.
It’s a place where generations of writers and readers have found belonging — from Sylvia Beach to James Joyce.
A century later, its green doors still open onto something sacred.
Read more:
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/shak...
It’s a place where generations of writers and readers have found belonging — from Sylvia Beach to James Joyce.
A century later, its green doors still open onto something sacred.
Read more:
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/shak...
Fan fiction has grown up.
Once dismissed, it now defines mainstream publishing—from The Atlas Six to Fourth Wing.
Meet the writers turning fandom creativity into the new canon. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Once dismissed, it now defines mainstream publishing—from The Atlas Six to Fourth Wing.
Meet the writers turning fandom creativity into the new canon. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Fan fiction has grown up.
Once dismissed, it now defines mainstream publishing—from The Atlas Six to Fourth Wing.
Meet the writers turning fandom creativity into the new canon. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Once dismissed, it now defines mainstream publishing—from The Atlas Six to Fourth Wing.
Meet the writers turning fandom creativity into the new canon. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Every writer leaves behind fragments: ghost stories, drafts, the half-finished.
These aren’t footnotes; they’re maps. Greene, Plath, Morrison, Nabokov, Smith: their minor works have major things to say.
Read: Minor Works, Major Joy: #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/mino...
These aren’t footnotes; they’re maps. Greene, Plath, Morrison, Nabokov, Smith: their minor works have major things to say.
Read: Minor Works, Major Joy: #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/mino...
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Every writer leaves behind fragments: ghost stories, drafts, the half-finished.
These aren’t footnotes; they’re maps. Greene, Plath, Morrison, Nabokov, Smith: their minor works have major things to say.
Read: Minor Works, Major Joy: #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/mino...
These aren’t footnotes; they’re maps. Greene, Plath, Morrison, Nabokov, Smith: their minor works have major things to say.
Read: Minor Works, Major Joy: #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/10/mino...
From candlelit libraries to dangerous obsessions—dark academia has more to say than moodboards. 7 novels (plus a classic twist) to read next. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/dark...
September 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
From candlelit libraries to dangerous obsessions—dark academia has more to say than moodboards. 7 novels (plus a classic twist) to read next. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/dark...
Just finished rereading Lonesome Dove and it still knocked the wind out of me. Epic in scale, yet piercingly human.
Where are the great sweeping novels now? The ones that stretch decades, break your heart, and remake you?
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Where are the great sweeping novels now? The ones that stretch decades, break your heart, and remake you?
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September 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just finished rereading Lonesome Dove and it still knocked the wind out of me. Epic in scale, yet piercingly human.
Where are the great sweeping novels now? The ones that stretch decades, break your heart, and remake you?
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
Where are the great sweeping novels now? The ones that stretch decades, break your heart, and remake you?
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
When writers go serial: The fiction newsletter Renaissance #booksky t.co/H22oziT0bX
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
When writers go serial: The fiction newsletter Renaissance #booksky t.co/H22oziT0bX
Unfinished business: the allure of the incomplete novel tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/unfi...
September 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Unfinished business: the allure of the incomplete novel tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/unfi...
Gordon MacMillan
What makes a book viral — and is that always a good thing? From dragons to doomed love, we’re looking at the novels that broke the internet and the complicated aftermath of all that hype. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
What makes a book viral — and is that always a good thing? From dragons to doomed love, we’re looking at the novels that broke the internet and the complicated aftermath of all that hype. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
September 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Gordon MacMillan
What makes a book viral — and is that always a good thing? From dragons to doomed love, we’re looking at the novels that broke the internet and the complicated aftermath of all that hype. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
What makes a book viral — and is that always a good thing? From dragons to doomed love, we’re looking at the novels that broke the internet and the complicated aftermath of all that hype. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
September 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The annotated life: Why marginalia in books and novels is back in style #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
September 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The annotated life: Why marginalia in books and novels is back in style #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
This ain’t no cowboy song: writing through grief with music tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/this...
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This ain’t no cowboy song: writing through grief with music tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/this...
What do you call a novel that blends gothic romance, dark academia, political allegory, and a magic system based on linguistic theory?
In 2025, the answer might be: a bestseller. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/genr...
In 2025, the answer might be: a bestseller. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/genr...
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
What do you call a novel that blends gothic romance, dark academia, political allegory, and a magic system based on linguistic theory?
In 2025, the answer might be: a bestseller. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/genr...
In 2025, the answer might be: a bestseller. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/09/genr...
Why men read less than women — And how to change it #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Why men read less than women — And how to change it #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...
I'm here to tell you that blogs aren't dead.
You can make money. I made 98p this month.
I'm considering how to spend it.
Maybe a charity shop book to go on my bookshelves (which I adore).
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com
You can make money. I made 98p this month.
I'm considering how to spend it.
Maybe a charity shop book to go on my bookshelves (which I adore).
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I'm here to tell you that blogs aren't dead.
You can make money. I made 98p this month.
I'm considering how to spend it.
Maybe a charity shop book to go on my bookshelves (which I adore).
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com
You can make money. I made 98p this month.
I'm considering how to spend it.
Maybe a charity shop book to go on my bookshelves (which I adore).
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com
When cosy meets cathartic: the reading revival of WWII family sagas — and the resurgence of writer Elizabeth Jane Howard #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/08/when...
August 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When cosy meets cathartic: the reading revival of WWII family sagas — and the resurgence of writer Elizabeth Jane Howard #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/08/when...
Beyond genre: experimental and alt-lit’s bold new directions #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/08/beyo...
August 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Beyond genre: experimental and alt-lit’s bold new directions #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2025/08/beyo...