Jon Paul Roberts
@jonpaul-roberts.bsky.social
Started out with three books I loved, but it ended up with a much more personal essay about nostalgia, politics, history, and looking back on my queer teenage years
Looking Back is All I Do
How reading three queer books in a row incited a political rage
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March 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Started out with three books I loved, but it ended up with a much more personal essay about nostalgia, politics, history, and looking back on my queer teenage years
Some thoughts on Babygirl, In the Cut, and the danger embroiled in desire
The Danse Macabre
On Babygirl, In the Cut, and the misattribution of arousal
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February 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some thoughts on Babygirl, In the Cut, and the danger embroiled in desire
A new essay on my time teaching, the idea of being comfortable with uncertainty, and how its become a guiding force in my life as I get older
On Certainty
Zadie Smith, teaching, and negative capability
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January 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A new essay on my time teaching, the idea of being comfortable with uncertainty, and how its become a guiding force in my life as I get older
January 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Season Two of The Poems We Made Along The Way is launching on Monday!
Put the schedule in your diaries.
9th Dec: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
16th Dec: Stevie Ronnie
23rd Dec: Ella Frears
30th Dec: Helen Mort
6th Jan: Roger Robinson
#PoetryPodcast #Poetry
Put the schedule in your diaries.
9th Dec: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
16th Dec: Stevie Ronnie
23rd Dec: Ella Frears
30th Dec: Helen Mort
6th Jan: Roger Robinson
#PoetryPodcast #Poetry
December 6, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Season Two of The Poems We Made Along The Way is launching on Monday!
Put the schedule in your diaries.
9th Dec: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
16th Dec: Stevie Ronnie
23rd Dec: Ella Frears
30th Dec: Helen Mort
6th Jan: Roger Robinson
#PoetryPodcast #Poetry
Put the schedule in your diaries.
9th Dec: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
16th Dec: Stevie Ronnie
23rd Dec: Ella Frears
30th Dec: Helen Mort
6th Jan: Roger Robinson
#PoetryPodcast #Poetry
I wrote about Sigrid Nunez, The Room Next Door, and the complex arguments around assisted dying (which is now closer to being legal in the UK as of last Friday)
Wanting to Die
On Sigrid Nunez, Pedro Almodóvar, and choosing death
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December 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
I wrote about Sigrid Nunez, The Room Next Door, and the complex arguments around assisted dying (which is now closer to being legal in the UK as of last Friday)
Watching The Substance for the first time. I feel like it adds to the uncanniness that the film is set in Los Angeles but was shot in France and you can 100% tell that so many of the actors are French but we’re supposed to think they’re American.
November 25, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Watching The Substance for the first time. I feel like it adds to the uncanniness that the film is set in Los Angeles but was shot in France and you can 100% tell that so many of the actors are French but we’re supposed to think they’re American.
I remember seeing this movie solo in a quiet screening late in February 2017 and sobbing uncontrollably. The perfect experience, honestly.
November 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM
I remember seeing this movie solo in a quiet screening late in February 2017 and sobbing uncontrollably. The perfect experience, honestly.
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so when do we get FOLLIES: PART ONE
November 24, 2024 at 8:11 PM
so when do we get FOLLIES: PART ONE
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I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
The adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book isn’t flawless – but it doesn’t airbrush the complex, messy story of the Troubles
I will admit that when I heard there was to be a TV adaptation of Say Nothing, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book of the…
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November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
Four books to get to know me
November 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Four books to get to know me
Harris Dickinson in a tank top and Nicole Kidman acting up a storm? Oh, this is made for me.
Babygirl | Official Trailer 2 HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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November 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Harris Dickinson in a tank top and Nicole Kidman acting up a storm? Oh, this is made for me.
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another belter of a column from @emmaggarland.bsky.social for @huckmag.com, looking at whether the decimation of ‘teen’ entertainment and the industry’s failure to represent the full scope of adolescent experience has produced a generation of prudes www.huckmag.com/article/did-...
Did we create a generation of prudes?
Has the crushing of ‘teen’ entertainment and our failure to represent the full breadth of adolescent experience produced generation Zzz? Emma Garland…
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November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
another belter of a column from @emmaggarland.bsky.social for @huckmag.com, looking at whether the decimation of ‘teen’ entertainment and the industry’s failure to represent the full scope of adolescent experience has produced a generation of prudes www.huckmag.com/article/did-...
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“I’m writing to remember — to remember what used to be and to keep hold of what’s left, even if it’s just the whispers of those who are gone.
Maybe, to survive, we have to hold onto the fragments of our history, of our memories, no matter how much it hurts.”
Maybe, to survive, we have to hold onto the fragments of our history, of our memories, no matter how much it hurts.”
November 17, 2024 at 7:23 AM
“I’m writing to remember — to remember what used to be and to keep hold of what’s left, even if it’s just the whispers of those who are gone.
Maybe, to survive, we have to hold onto the fragments of our history, of our memories, no matter how much it hurts.”
Maybe, to survive, we have to hold onto the fragments of our history, of our memories, no matter how much it hurts.”
Makes sense that my first post should be my latest essay on Alice Neel, Annie Ernaux and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
corpus mortuum
On Alice Neel, Annie Ernaux, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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November 16, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Makes sense that my first post should be my latest essay on Alice Neel, Annie Ernaux and Buffy the Vampire Slayer