Andy Miller
@iammilliam.bsky.social
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
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Andy Miller
@iammilliam.bsky.social
· May 21
PSA. For the time being, I shall be taking a leaf out of the late Scott Walker's book and activating my social media accounts once a week. The rest of the time, my virtual phone will be disconnected. If you wish to get hold of me, I am here on Wednesdays. Thank you for your understanding.
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They are the band I love most. The last time we saw them play when I was 13 or 14 we were allowed backstage, into the dressing room seen in Don’t Look Back, where I got autographs on the back of a Golden Eagle flyer.
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
They are the band I love most. The last time we saw them play when I was 13 or 14 we were allowed backstage, into the dressing room seen in Don’t Look Back, where I got autographs on the back of a Golden Eagle flyer.
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… at Birmingham Town Hall with my brother and parents. I was 9 and it was my first gig. It still informs and illuminates my everyday. They were never for everybody but if they’d gone on and done an acoustic set at Woodstock in the rain they might be as well known as Canned Heat.
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
… at Birmingham Town Hall with my brother and parents. I was 9 and it was my first gig. It still informs and illuminates my everyday. They were never for everybody but if they’d gone on and done an acoustic set at Woodstock in the rain they might be as well known as Canned Heat.
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I was alerted to the Licorice news this morning by a new friend of the ISB
@iammilliam.bsky.social . I told him that I felt several people close to the band had known for some years and decided to respect her life choices. I was lucky enough to see Likky, Rose, Robin & Mike in 1969…
@iammilliam.bsky.social . I told him that I felt several people close to the band had known for some years and decided to respect her life choices. I was lucky enough to see Likky, Rose, Robin & Mike in 1969…
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I was alerted to the Licorice news this morning by a new friend of the ISB
@iammilliam.bsky.social . I told him that I felt several people close to the band had known for some years and decided to respect her life choices. I was lucky enough to see Likky, Rose, Robin & Mike in 1969…
@iammilliam.bsky.social . I told him that I felt several people close to the band had known for some years and decided to respect her life choices. I was lucky enough to see Likky, Rose, Robin & Mike in 1969…
Likky is alive. Wow.
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What REALLY happened to troubled wildchild Licorice McKechnie?
Licorice McKechnie's mesmerising performance with The Incredible String Band at the most celebrated concert of the decade turned her into a sixties icon
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Likky is alive. Wow.
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RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
We are very sad to learn of the death of our friend Rachel Cooke. In addition to being a wonderful writer and a superb critic, she loved books to her core. She kept us on our toes and it was a joy and a privilege to spend time with her, on and off the show. RIP. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
We are very sad to learn of the death of our friend Rachel Cooke. In addition to being a wonderful writer and a superb critic, she loved books to her core. She kept us on our toes and it was a joy and a privilege to spend time with her, on and off the show. RIP. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
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We are very sad to learn of the death of our friend Rachel Cooke. In addition to being a wonderful writer and a superb critic, she loved books to her core. She kept us on our toes and it was a joy and a privilege to spend time with her, on and off the show. RIP. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
We are very sad to learn of the death of our friend Rachel Cooke. In addition to being a wonderful writer and a superb critic, she loved books to her core. She kept us on our toes and it was a joy and a privilege to spend time with her, on and off the show. RIP. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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"Bold".
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Bold".
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
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"A Liverpool snack made of cooked bread" (per US Beatles biography, the title of which I have tragically forgotten)
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"A Liverpool snack made of cooked bread" (per US Beatles biography, the title of which I have tragically forgotten)
Time for a bowl of Cheerios, the iconic breakfast cereal.
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Time for a bowl of Cheerios, the iconic breakfast cereal.
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Thank you Ian. I think it was the elaborate stage gear that made the difference.
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thank you Ian. I think it was the elaborate stage gear that made the difference.
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Tell me you’re relieved.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Tell me you’re relieved.
THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR went over really well, phew. Thanks to all the students who participated, you were a brilliant audience and I loved the whole afternoon. A very memorable day at the end of a year I would prefer to forget. Thank you. 🙏
About to deliver my new talk, THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR: UNLEASHING THE POWER OF YOUR INNER BOOKWORM, to a group of 800 English Literature students.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR went over really well, phew. Thanks to all the students who participated, you were a brilliant audience and I loved the whole afternoon. A very memorable day at the end of a year I would prefer to forget. Thank you. 🙏
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“It has a nimble wit and a punk rock attitude that is wholly addictive. Destined, as they say, to become a cult classic.” @judecook.bsky.social’s dream review of Loren Ipsum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix review – chronically funny satire of the literary scene
Full of word games, in-jokes and grisly murders, this debut pours gleeful scorn on the pretensions of contemporary literary life
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“It has a nimble wit and a punk rock attitude that is wholly addictive. Destined, as they say, to become a cult classic.” @judecook.bsky.social’s dream review of Loren Ipsum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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pure, reverse osmosis-purified, 100% unadulterated Essence of Bluesky
Because criticizing grammar is ableist bullshit most likely. You ARE an arrogant SOB.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
pure, reverse osmosis-purified, 100% unadulterated Essence of Bluesky
About to deliver my new talk, THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR: UNLEASHING THE POWER OF YOUR INNER BOOKWORM, to a group of 800 English Literature students.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
About to deliver my new talk, THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR: UNLEASHING THE POWER OF YOUR INNER BOOKWORM, to a group of 800 English Literature students.
Now THAT’S how you paint a flag where everyone can see it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Now THAT’S how you paint a flag where everyone can see it.
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
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I really enjoyed Flesh and I'm thinking about how Szalay's strategy of making his protagonist a blank slate is similar/different to Rachel Cusk's in the Outline trilogy
Still got it. Congratulations to David Szalay on winning the Booker Prize, most conspicuous of the prizes, for his truly excellent novel Flesh.
Thanks to all who came to the event with David Szalay at @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social last night. It was brilliant, so was he and I wish we’d recorded it. Ah well. You can still read Flesh before it wins the prizes.
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I really enjoyed Flesh and I'm thinking about how Szalay's strategy of making his protagonist a blank slate is similar/different to Rachel Cusk's in the Outline trilogy
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
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Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder).
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
248. The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm — Backlisted
Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick ( Veep , The Thick of It ) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller The The Eye of the Beholder (1980). David ...
www.backlisted.fm
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder).
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
Stop Calewashing that Emerald Fennell film.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Stop Calewashing that Emerald Fennell film.
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It felt almost transgressive to make this show, something I found both interesting and exciting. “This is happening without your permission.” Whose? The author’s? The listeners’? TLS subscribers’? Huge thanks to @unamccormack.bsky.social and Nicky for engaging with it so wholebrainedly. LISTEN NOW!
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It felt almost transgressive to make this show, something I found both interesting and exciting. “This is happening without your permission.” Whose? The author’s? The listeners’? TLS subscribers’? Huge thanks to @unamccormack.bsky.social and Nicky for engaging with it so wholebrainedly. LISTEN NOW!
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I really loved making this episode and I am an Outline sceptic. Reading, researching, thinking, reconsidering and (especially) talking about Rachel Cusk, her work and the success of these novels, was educational, therapeutic and very enjoyable. Whether or not I changed my mind is largely irrelevant.
New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I really loved making this episode and I am an Outline sceptic. Reading, researching, thinking, reconsidering and (especially) talking about Rachel Cusk, her work and the success of these novels, was educational, therapeutic and very enjoyable. Whether or not I changed my mind is largely irrelevant.
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Many congratulations to David #Szalay, winner of the 2025 @thebookerprizes.com You can hear Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín and @harriettsg.bsky.social discuss his prize-winning novel, Flesh, on A Good Read @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas #Booker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Zadie Smith and Colm Tóibín
Two authors join Harriett Gilbert to share favourite books.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Many congratulations to David #Szalay, winner of the 2025 @thebookerprizes.com You can hear Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín and @harriettsg.bsky.social discuss his prize-winning novel, Flesh, on A Good Read @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas #Booker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...