Patrick Christie
@patrickchristie.bsky.social
Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere.
https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk
https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk
Pinned
The Placards of Academe
Why hasn’t the UK developed an equivalent sub-genre of academic precarity to *adjunct-lit* — a *sessional-lecturer* lit? Patrick Christie goes looking for fiction that highlights the febrile atmospher...
oxonianreview.com
For Oxonian Review I've taken a look at recent campus novels and asked why British authors haven't followed their US counterparts in producing some form of 'adjunct lit' that reflects the pressures and hardships of modern academia.
oxonianreview.com/articles/the...
oxonianreview.com/articles/the...
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The writers I’ve been supporting this year are coming to the end of their mentorships, which means I will have availability for mentorships and manuscript assessments from March 2026.
If you are looking for support with your writing, get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
www.meganbradbury.com
If you are looking for support with your writing, get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
www.meganbradbury.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The writers I’ve been supporting this year are coming to the end of their mentorships, which means I will have availability for mentorships and manuscript assessments from March 2026.
If you are looking for support with your writing, get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
www.meganbradbury.com
If you are looking for support with your writing, get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
www.meganbradbury.com
(by Karl Stevens)
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
(by Karl Stevens)
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“It’s obvious that artistic movements need artists. My claim is that they also need critics.”
Very good essay on the decline of criticism and its cultural impact.
asteriskmag.substack.com/p/is-the-int...
Very good essay on the decline of criticism and its cultural impact.
asteriskmag.substack.com/p/is-the-int...
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?
The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?
asteriskmag.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“It’s obvious that artistic movements need artists. My claim is that they also need critics.”
Very good essay on the decline of criticism and its cultural impact.
asteriskmag.substack.com/p/is-the-int...
Very good essay on the decline of criticism and its cultural impact.
asteriskmag.substack.com/p/is-the-int...
More covers like this, plz
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
More covers like this, plz
Did Margaret Lanterman write this article?
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Did Margaret Lanterman write this article?
Why do Americans create these portmanteaus where they obscured their meaning by putting the emphasis on the wrong place:
Biographical picture: Bi-opic
Anti Fascist - An-tifa
Biographical picture: Bi-opic
Anti Fascist - An-tifa
October 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Why do Americans create these portmanteaus where they obscured their meaning by putting the emphasis on the wrong place:
Biographical picture: Bi-opic
Anti Fascist - An-tifa
Biographical picture: Bi-opic
Anti Fascist - An-tifa
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Pretend I posted this yesterday, I've just seen this photo now
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Pretend I posted this yesterday, I've just seen this photo now
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honestly why do we even bother
October 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
honestly why do we even bother
I have just learnt how Americans use cutlery...
October 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I have just learnt how Americans use cutlery...
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It makes me happy that Philip Roth had a Philip Guston painting of a book above his writing desk.
October 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It makes me happy that Philip Roth had a Philip Guston painting of a book above his writing desk.
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"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" is such a good sentence.
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" is such a good sentence.
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Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944.
* for me, anyways
* for me, anyways
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944.
* for me, anyways
* for me, anyways
If you were going to the Berlin for the first time, in which neighbourhood would you stay?
September 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you were going to the Berlin for the first time, in which neighbourhood would you stay?
Just finished a novel put out by an established publisher that clearly wasn't give a final copy edit. With lines such as:
- 'Dan turned off the burner and moved the pan to another burner.'
- 'On the table of the small, circular kitchen table was a week-old, out of order Sunday Times
- 'Dan turned off the burner and moved the pan to another burner.'
- 'On the table of the small, circular kitchen table was a week-old, out of order Sunday Times
August 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Just finished a novel put out by an established publisher that clearly wasn't give a final copy edit. With lines such as:
- 'Dan turned off the burner and moved the pan to another burner.'
- 'On the table of the small, circular kitchen table was a week-old, out of order Sunday Times
- 'Dan turned off the burner and moved the pan to another burner.'
- 'On the table of the small, circular kitchen table was a week-old, out of order Sunday Times
Did some performative reading of Bolano on my commute to work today, didn't I
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Did some performative reading of Bolano on my commute to work today, didn't I
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Increasingly fascinated by these men who are all at once not reading, reading but reading the wrong things, and reading the right things but for all the wrong reasons.
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Increasingly fascinated by these men who are all at once not reading, reading but reading the wrong things, and reading the right things but for all the wrong reasons.
Current reads
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Current reads
Buon Ferragosto a tutti!
August 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Buon Ferragosto a tutti!
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"So what if the AI gives Anastasia and Christian the wrong number of fingers or penises? We'll have no kink-shaming here."
I wrote a little jeu d'esprit for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about how we should give AI slop a chance: it can't be worse than some human writers.
I wrote a little jeu d'esprit for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about how we should give AI slop a chance: it can't be worse than some human writers.
Robots don’t need us to write great fiction. Let’s leave ...
The rise of novel-creating machines is giving some people cause for concern. But I say give AI slop a chance. It can’t be any worse than some human writers
observer.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"So what if the AI gives Anastasia and Christian the wrong number of fingers or penises? We'll have no kink-shaming here."
I wrote a little jeu d'esprit for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about how we should give AI slop a chance: it can't be worse than some human writers.
I wrote a little jeu d'esprit for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about how we should give AI slop a chance: it can't be worse than some human writers.
Is it just me or is it off putting when you go round to a friend's house and they have no hand towel in their bathroom?
August 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Is it just me or is it off putting when you go round to a friend's house and they have no hand towel in their bathroom?
