Owen Booth
@owenbooth.bsky.social
Moderately attractive sometime writer. You should go do something useful instead of posting here.
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Owen Booth
@owenbooth.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Since we’re all politely reintroducing ourselves: I’m the idiot who accidentally wrote these two books and some other stuff
Happy International Men’s Day to all my fellow international men
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Happy International Men’s Day to all my fellow international men
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Final thoughts on “Frankenstein”: definitely better than “Nosferatu”, but that’s not a very high bar. Also: it really wasn’t that faithful to the book. Also also: the accents…
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Final thoughts on “Frankenstein”: definitely better than “Nosferatu”, but that’s not a very high bar. Also: it really wasn’t that faithful to the book. Also also: the accents…
BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR GOLD FILLINGS AND HAIR
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR GOLD FILLINGS AND HAIR
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
All in all: lots to like and lots to…. not. The accents chief among them
Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss this…
Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All in all: lots to like and lots to…. not. The accents chief among them
Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss this…
Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss this…
Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
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Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
Speaking as a male writer who writes about men (& other people too!)… this is a hilariously bad take www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
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November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Speaking as a male writer who writes about men (& other people too!)… this is a hilariously bad take www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A man?? winning the Booker prize????? Is that even possible? It hasn't happened since the far-flung days of 2023. Our legends say that a man also won it in the ancient, prehistoric era of 2021, but surely that is just an old wives tale meant to frighten MFA students before bed.
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A man?? winning the Booker prize????? Is that even possible? It hasn't happened since the far-flung days of 2023. Our legends say that a man also won it in the ancient, prehistoric era of 2021, but surely that is just an old wives tale meant to frighten MFA students before bed.
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Course my life was better 50 years ago. I was 7. Mum & Dad did stuff for me. Considered a genius cos I could do long division. Could get away with sulking.
But fairly certain the 70s were shit for lots of people. Everyone wore brown suits. Oh, and there was a global recession & mass inequality.
But fairly certain the 70s were shit for lots of people. Everyone wore brown suits. Oh, and there was a global recession & mass inequality.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Course my life was better 50 years ago. I was 7. Mum & Dad did stuff for me. Considered a genius cos I could do long division. Could get away with sulking.
But fairly certain the 70s were shit for lots of people. Everyone wore brown suits. Oh, and there was a global recession & mass inequality.
But fairly certain the 70s were shit for lots of people. Everyone wore brown suits. Oh, and there was a global recession & mass inequality.
Athletic achievement is a piece of piss. Let’s see celebrities writing 100 experimental novels in a row for charity. That I could respect.
I know that it's all for a good cause and everything, but this thing where people do (the equivalent of) multiple marathons for charity...totally undermines the concept of a marathon being a thing. Like, it used to be a thing that people would aspire to, but now non sporty celebrities do 100 for fun
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Athletic achievement is a piece of piss. Let’s see celebrities writing 100 experimental novels in a row for charity. That I could respect.
Tip: everything may be terrible but I’m rewatching Northern Exposure (in the middle of season 3 now) and it continues to be the best tv show ever made. And it’s not even close.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Tip: everything may be terrible but I’m rewatching Northern Exposure (in the middle of season 3 now) and it continues to be the best tv show ever made. And it’s not even close.
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When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
“Like a joyless Jilly Cooper…” 😂 Glorious.
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David Szalay ‘Flesh’ (2025)
The Luck of Barry István
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November 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“Like a joyless Jilly Cooper…” 😂 Glorious.
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Feeling the urge to make a zine again. This is dangerous. I don't have time to make zines.
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Feeling the urge to make a zine again. This is dangerous. I don't have time to make zines.
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Blows my mind that the writer of one of the finest experimental novels of recent years cannot find purchase with the UK's allegedly 'No one publishes the stuff we dare to!' indie publishing sector. Generic, humdrum, feelings-fodder trumps the technically advanced, poetucally astute always.
Attempting to rally myself and my agent into resending out an (edited, expanded) story collection. I would like my work to persist, even as the heat death of the planet nears. Like making a memento mori and throwing it in the smelter
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Blows my mind that the writer of one of the finest experimental novels of recent years cannot find purchase with the UK's allegedly 'No one publishes the stuff we dare to!' indie publishing sector. Generic, humdrum, feelings-fodder trumps the technically advanced, poetucally astute always.
How can you tell if your narrative is written in “Third Person Wanker”? Ray nails it:
I don't think your story does this but I'm immediately thinking of the kind of writing where all the characters are called things like Martin Flange.
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How can you tell if your narrative is written in “Third Person Wanker”? Ray nails it:
You: but what do you mean when you talk about writing in the “Third Person Wanker”?
Me: I think I sort of mean something like *this* owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/i...
Me: I think I sort of mean something like *this* owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/i...
In Arcadia
(A story that never quite found its place – but its 90% there) -1- Nick can’t sleep. It’s been going on for months and it’s starting to affect his mental health. It’s starting to affect his b…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
You: but what do you mean when you talk about writing in the “Third Person Wanker”?
Me: I think I sort of mean something like *this* owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/i...
Me: I think I sort of mean something like *this* owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/i...
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God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
THIS IS GREAT!
A new weekly substack building a museum of objects, past, present, future.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
THIS IS GREAT!