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Rolling to the low side of the road
Books mainly. MD ANT.
Books mainly. MD ANT.
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He's been! Here's everything I read this year (and a few things I wrote): Henry James! Joseph Heller! Penelope Fitzgerald! A biography of the unsuccessful 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Al Smith!
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December 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
He's been! Here's everything I read this year (and a few things I wrote): Henry James! Joseph Heller! Penelope Fitzgerald! A biography of the unsuccessful 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Al Smith!
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This is why we insist that arts and humanities matter. And it turns out they can cure cancer, too.
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is why we insist that arts and humanities matter. And it turns out they can cure cancer, too.
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Words, hopefully, not to have lived by
(fr Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, Vineland)
(fr Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, Vineland)
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Words, hopefully, not to have lived by
(fr Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, Vineland)
(fr Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, Vineland)
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"Autumn arrived like a burning ghost ship on the landscape's tide to set the land alight. The fire of the trees' turning spread far across the flanks and the ravens took flight to the highest climes as leaves fell like flung bodies."
September 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"Autumn arrived like a burning ghost ship on the landscape's tide to set the land alight. The fire of the trees' turning spread far across the flanks and the ravens took flight to the highest climes as leaves fell like flung bodies."
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These narcissists need to take a long, hard look at themselves.
February 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
These narcissists need to take a long, hard look at themselves.
A devastatingly brilliant meditation on love and loss.
“I miss her so much that I need an extra body, one body for me, one body for all the longing.”
#booksky
“I miss her so much that I need an extra body, one body for me, one body for all the longing.”
#booksky
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A devastatingly brilliant meditation on love and loss.
“I miss her so much that I need an extra body, one body for me, one body for all the longing.”
#booksky
“I miss her so much that I need an extra body, one body for me, one body for all the longing.”
#booksky
Great take on a great film
The more I think about this, the more I like it. As @tajiisawol.bsky.social reminds me, Brandon deWilde reprises his role in Shane, this time as Hud's admiring nephew. Hud might be a good ol' boy, but he's no role model, and there's no romance to his estrangement and solitude. 1/
First watch (on Arte): Hud (1963, dir.Martin Ritt). Neo (or revisionist?) western starring Paul Newman as the titular rancher, a drunken womanizer who blames himself for his brother's death. A bleak character study with relatively low key narrative development, it seems to anticipate New Hollywood/1
February 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Great take on a great film
I have signed. A great cinema
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I have signed. A great cinema
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LISTEN! Edwyn Collins new single plus new album details
great new single from a genuine national treasure @edwyncollins.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/edwyn-collin...
great new single from a genuine national treasure @edwyncollins.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/edwyn-collin...
Edwyn Collins new single
Edwyn Collins new single the return of genuine national treasure has long been a genuine national treasure
louderthanwar.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
LISTEN! Edwyn Collins new single plus new album details
great new single from a genuine national treasure @edwyncollins.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/edwyn-collin...
great new single from a genuine national treasure @edwyncollins.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/edwyn-collin...
“Oh young children, oh dear friends, do not be afraid of life! How good is life, when one does some good and upright thing.”
January 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“Oh young children, oh dear friends, do not be afraid of life! How good is life, when one does some good and upright thing.”
A fantastic painting. It’s all in the languid drape of her left arm. And those eyes.
John Singer Sargent, Artist, #BornOnThisDay in 1856, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
‘Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864 - 1932’ (1892), National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
‘Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864 - 1932’ (1892), National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
January 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A fantastic painting. It’s all in the languid drape of her left arm. And those eyes.
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“It was as if, out of the undergrowth,
They stepped into a clearing and the sun,
Machetes still in hand.”
‘The Argument’ by A.E. Stallings
(from This Afterlife: Selected Poems)
They stepped into a clearing and the sun,
Machetes still in hand.”
‘The Argument’ by A.E. Stallings
(from This Afterlife: Selected Poems)
January 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“It was as if, out of the undergrowth,
They stepped into a clearing and the sun,
Machetes still in hand.”
‘The Argument’ by A.E. Stallings
(from This Afterlife: Selected Poems)
They stepped into a clearing and the sun,
Machetes still in hand.”
‘The Argument’ by A.E. Stallings
(from This Afterlife: Selected Poems)
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these readers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Welcome to the @backlisted.bsky.social Winter Reading special - 10 book recommendations to kick off our 10th anniversary year...
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Welcome to the @backlisted.bsky.social Winter Reading special - 10 book recommendations to kick off our 10th anniversary year...
backlisted.fm/episodes/230
230. Winter Reading 2025 — Backlisted
Happy new year! We kick off 2025 - and Backlisted's tenth anniversary year - with our traditional Winter Reading episode, in which Andy, John and Nicky recommend a selection of favourite books to see ...
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January 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these readers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Welcome to the @backlisted.bsky.social Winter Reading special - 10 book recommendations to kick off our 10th anniversary year...
backlisted.fm/episodes/230
Welcome to the @backlisted.bsky.social Winter Reading special - 10 book recommendations to kick off our 10th anniversary year...
backlisted.fm/episodes/230
A very Paul Auster novel by Paul Auster. It rattles along at a pace that helps disguise the gaping holes in the plot, but the holes are intentional and as usual you can never trust anything or anyone. Fascinating stuff.
January 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A very Paul Auster novel by Paul Auster. It rattles along at a pace that helps disguise the gaping holes in the plot, but the holes are intentional and as usual you can never trust anything or anyone. Fascinating stuff.
Some of the best books I read this year. A good year for the proses
Giacometti In Paris - Michael Peppiatt
Not A River - Selva Almada
William Blake vs The World - John Higgs
Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan
The Details - Ia Genberg
Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis
So Long See You Tomorrow - Maxwell
1/2
Giacometti In Paris - Michael Peppiatt
Not A River - Selva Almada
William Blake vs The World - John Higgs
Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan
The Details - Ia Genberg
Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis
So Long See You Tomorrow - Maxwell
1/2
December 31, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Some of the best books I read this year. A good year for the proses
Giacometti In Paris - Michael Peppiatt
Not A River - Selva Almada
William Blake vs The World - John Higgs
Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan
The Details - Ia Genberg
Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis
So Long See You Tomorrow - Maxwell
1/2
Giacometti In Paris - Michael Peppiatt
Not A River - Selva Almada
William Blake vs The World - John Higgs
Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan
The Details - Ia Genberg
Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis
So Long See You Tomorrow - Maxwell
1/2
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~ Thirty Novels for #Noirvember ~
5. FAT CITY (1969). Boxing and pathos have always been snug bedfellows, but the two fighters in this novel—each walking the same path, a generation apart—will leave you especially gutted. A story of broken dreams, elevated by Gardner’s hypnotic prose.
5. FAT CITY (1969). Boxing and pathos have always been snug bedfellows, but the two fighters in this novel—each walking the same path, a generation apart—will leave you especially gutted. A story of broken dreams, elevated by Gardner’s hypnotic prose.
November 26, 2024 at 11:28 PM
~ Thirty Novels for #Noirvember ~
5. FAT CITY (1969). Boxing and pathos have always been snug bedfellows, but the two fighters in this novel—each walking the same path, a generation apart—will leave you especially gutted. A story of broken dreams, elevated by Gardner’s hypnotic prose.
5. FAT CITY (1969). Boxing and pathos have always been snug bedfellows, but the two fighters in this novel—each walking the same path, a generation apart—will leave you especially gutted. A story of broken dreams, elevated by Gardner’s hypnotic prose.
A remarkable book,
a historical and psychological study of why we build and why we destroy statues.
“When lies become truth, terror is inevitable…”
a historical and psychological study of why we build and why we destroy statues.
“When lies become truth, terror is inevitable…”
November 26, 2024 at 11:57 AM
A remarkable book,
a historical and psychological study of why we build and why we destroy statues.
“When lies become truth, terror is inevitable…”
a historical and psychological study of why we build and why we destroy statues.
“When lies become truth, terror is inevitable…”
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Welcome to the Helensburgh Book Festival, a literary festival on the West coast of Scotland 🏴 Please give us a follow to keep up to date with all our news, we’ve got some very exciting panels to tell you about! 28th-30th March 2025 💙📚
November 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Welcome to the Helensburgh Book Festival, a literary festival on the West coast of Scotland 🏴 Please give us a follow to keep up to date with all our news, we’ve got some very exciting panels to tell you about! 28th-30th March 2025 💙📚
Post a non-religious picture you consider to be holy
November 25, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Post a non-religious picture you consider to be holy
This is how a genius can transform the overly familiar
“Al nails it as a long-admired singer of soul. And the guitar riffs in the outro give me goose bumps!” - Bill Berry
Listen to Al Green's amazing cover of “Everybody Hurts” here: algreen.ffm.to/everybodyhurts
Listen to Al Green's amazing cover of “Everybody Hurts” here: algreen.ffm.to/everybodyhurts
November 21, 2024 at 5:17 PM
This is how a genius can transform the overly familiar
“Let’s grow old and sober together.”
A Goat’s Song. His masterpiece
A Goat’s Song. His masterpiece
Dermot Healy - photo by Dermot Seymour - Crown Bar Belfast 1984
November 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
“Let’s grow old and sober together.”
A Goat’s Song. His masterpiece
A Goat’s Song. His masterpiece
Great analysis of a great novel by a great writer.
"She was aware of a complicated existence behind the sunny face which Anna so determinedly prepared to meet the world, aware of enormous frustration, possibly of anger, certainly of resentment. She did not want the task of dismantling this structure..." 💙📚
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Fraud by Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner is one of my favourite novelists. She writes elegantly and insightfully about loneliness and isolation, typically focusing on unmarried women living quiet, unfulfilled lives while wa…
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November 18, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Great analysis of a great novel by a great writer.