It’s very funny that very Bluesky people are getting very upset about this. #techfash #vileshitheads
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November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s very funny that very Bluesky people are getting very upset about this. #techfash #vileshitheads
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'Pretty good.' John Self
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
'Pretty good.' John Self
Oh yeah and I finally got my hands on a Booker tote bag, which means I can stop entering the prize draw every month.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Oh yeah and I finally got my hands on a Booker tote bag, which means I can stop entering the prize draw every month.
Yeah this is the original look for NYRB classics which they quickly changed to the current one. Weirdly my Horse’s Mouth and Herself Surprised are the current look, so my set doesn’t match either! (Pilgrim was never reissued in the new look, but I’m surprised Horse’s Mouth wasn’t done in the old.)
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Yeah this is the original look for NYRB classics which they quickly changed to the current one. Weirdly my Horse’s Mouth and Herself Surprised are the current look, so my set doesn’t match either! (Pilgrim was never reissued in the new look, but I’m surprised Horse’s Mouth wasn’t done in the old.)
“I have always been attracted to women, as by a foreign country and a mystical religion.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“I have always been attracted to women, as by a foreign country and a mystical religion.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
I was at the star-studded (Lenny Henry! Charles Dance! Tony Robinson!) Booker Prize last night but forgot to take any photos apart from this one of my table-neighbours Benjamin Wood and Claire Adam with their bespoke book cover cookies. Both fantastic novels.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I was at the star-studded (Lenny Henry! Charles Dance! Tony Robinson!) Booker Prize last night but forgot to take any photos apart from this one of my table-neighbours Benjamin Wood and Claire Adam with their bespoke book cover cookies. Both fantastic novels.
They’ve give the seven existing novels new covers by Michael Craig-Martin, and added two other existing novels that I presume they reckon constitute rewrites of Shakespeare plays too. (Haddon below is new, as is Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies [Romeo and Juliet], not pictured.)
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
They’ve give the seven existing novels new covers by Michael Craig-Martin, and added two other existing novels that I presume they reckon constitute rewrites of Shakespeare plays too. (Haddon below is new, as is Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies [Romeo and Juliet], not pictured.)
Anyone remember The Hogarth Shakespeare, a hugely ambitious project announced in 2013 where contemporary authors wrote versions of all of Shakespeare plays, inc Atwood, St Aubyn, Winterson etc - and then it fizzled out after half a dozen?
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Anyone remember The Hogarth Shakespeare, a hugely ambitious project announced in 2013 where contemporary authors wrote versions of all of Shakespeare plays, inc Atwood, St Aubyn, Winterson etc - and then it fizzled out after half a dozen?
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
☝️Includes Jules Renard trying a banana for the first time, Ivan Turgenev not being able to get it up, Oswald Mosley “stretching the cock over three generations” and Samuel Pepys shitting in a chimney (twice). Yes I am a man of simple appetites.
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
☝️Includes Jules Renard trying a banana for the first time, Ivan Turgenev not being able to get it up, Oswald Mosley “stretching the cock over three generations” and Samuel Pepys shitting in a chimney (twice). Yes I am a man of simple appetites.
Turns out middle-aged themes include… ‘Blue Monday’
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Turns out middle-aged themes include… ‘Blue Monday’
Out this evening at the theatre. Intrigued to know what the middle-aged themes are.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Out this evening at the theatre. Intrigued to know what the middle-aged themes are.
What Helen Did Next. New book from Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper (another terrific writer) and Sarah Krasnostein (whose work I don’t know).
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What Helen Did Next. New book from Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper (another terrific writer) and Sarah Krasnostein (whose work I don’t know).
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
Still, at least he had a balanced panel.
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Still, at least he had a balanced panel.
Weirdly I was just reading Helen Garner the other day, who talks about him in her diaries. I've never read him; should I?
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Weirdly I was just reading Helen Garner the other day, who talks about him in her diaries. I've never read him; should I?
Stop the clock! I’ve found the clue!
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Stop the clock! I’ve found the clue!
Credit to the FT for framing it better.
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Credit to the FT for framing it better.
I temporarily pause my objection to advent calendars that provide a reward on day 25 in light of the promise made by this M&S one. (Cc @joshspero.ft.com)
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I temporarily pause my objection to advent calendars that provide a reward on day 25 in light of the promise made by this M&S one. (Cc @joshspero.ft.com)
Thinking back to this old tweet, where many of the 90 replies were people helpfully translating or summarising the article.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thinking back to this old tweet, where many of the 90 replies were people helpfully translating or summarising the article.
Interesting piece today in @londoncentric.media on veterans' non-charity We R Blighty. But it fails to address the key question: why hasn't the regulator for logo design cracked down on this outrage?
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Interesting piece today in @londoncentric.media on veterans' non-charity We R Blighty. But it fails to address the key question: why hasn't the regulator for logo design cracked down on this outrage?
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
Hearty congratulations to Helen Garner who has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction with her collected diaries, How to End a Story.
A glorious book - confession, analysis, memory store, comedy - which shows all the things words can do: often on the same page. AND it’s mega good value.
A glorious book - confession, analysis, memory store, comedy - which shows all the things words can do: often on the same page. AND it’s mega good value.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hearty congratulations to Helen Garner who has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction with her collected diaries, How to End a Story.
A glorious book - confession, analysis, memory store, comedy - which shows all the things words can do: often on the same page. AND it’s mega good value.
A glorious book - confession, analysis, memory store, comedy - which shows all the things words can do: often on the same page. AND it’s mega good value.
I dunno, maybe if they really can build a 53-unit aparthotel on Monday we should give them a chance?
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I dunno, maybe if they really can build a 53-unit aparthotel on Monday we should give them a chance?