The Flaneur
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An online literary magazine featuring original fiction, articles, columns, reviews and comment.
Quick question, #booksky: which one book, published from 1950 onwards, is a 100% stone-cold classic and should be added to school syllabi and university reading lists?
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Quick question, #booksky: which one book, published from 1950 onwards, is a 100% stone-cold classic and should be added to school syllabi and university reading lists?
Into every love story, sooner or later, must come a dirty great monster....
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Moonlight Over Coverack
Chapter Six
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December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Into every love story, sooner or later, must come a dirty great monster....
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For anyone living in fear, exhaustion or despair right now, I direct you to read this. It is the flickering flame of hope in these monstrous times.
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When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For anyone living in fear, exhaustion or despair right now, I direct you to read this. It is the flickering flame of hope in these monstrous times.
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Yesterday I hosted a publisher's lunch at La Tomate in Dupont Circle, DC, for no other reason beside the place being much beloved by Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis. I felt suitably inadequate before those two literary ghosts. #booksky
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Yesterday I hosted a publisher's lunch at La Tomate in Dupont Circle, DC, for no other reason beside the place being much beloved by Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis. I felt suitably inadequate before those two literary ghosts. #booksky
In this week's episode of Winterhill... the Arachana are back!
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Winterhill: Artemis Falling
Part Two
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December 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In this week's episode of Winterhill... the Arachana are back!
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Independent media is a difficult game, but my colleagues at @literaryhub.bsky.social are doing it and producing a consistently excellent publication, by book lovers and for book lovers
If you can support us with a membership, it really makes a difference
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It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help
As we hurtle toward the end of a dismally eventful year (yes, we live in interesting times), those of us in what remains of America’s independent media are poring over budgets past, present, and fu…
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December 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Independent media is a difficult game, but my colleagues at @literaryhub.bsky.social are doing it and producing a consistently excellent publication, by book lovers and for book lovers
If you can support us with a membership, it really makes a difference
If you can support us with a membership, it really makes a difference
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When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.
Hands up if you also cringe at LBC's podcast advert?
"I'm Simon Marks, my American Week is next." A voice like a cheese-grater dragged across the peen-helm.
Ghastly.
"I'm Simon Marks, my American Week is next." A voice like a cheese-grater dragged across the peen-helm.
Ghastly.
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hands up if you also cringe at LBC's podcast advert?
"I'm Simon Marks, my American Week is next." A voice like a cheese-grater dragged across the peen-helm.
Ghastly.
"I'm Simon Marks, my American Week is next." A voice like a cheese-grater dragged across the peen-helm.
Ghastly.
How the #F1 World Championship was lost, and how the #RedBull team will bounce back in 2026. #Verstappen #Tsunoda #McLaren #LewisHamilton #Lando
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Total Bull
Sporting Director of Racing, Sporting and Racing, Ronald Welke, from Team Oracle Red Bull Racing F1. Forgive him, he is a Belgian.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
How the #F1 World Championship was lost, and how the #RedBull team will bounce back in 2026. #Verstappen #Tsunoda #McLaren #LewisHamilton #Lando
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This weekend we said goodbye to our legal counsel, Harvey Cohen, who was also our 13-year-old cat. Read about this larger-than-life character in this profile from September.
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Little Wonder
Making Biscuits
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December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This weekend we said goodbye to our legal counsel, Harvey Cohen, who was also our 13-year-old cat. Read about this larger-than-life character in this profile from September.
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🌲DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH 🌲
As #Christmas approaches, and we put the finishing touches on our third series of electric sodcast, why not listen to last year's Christmas Special? Here it is. It is the sound of men being silly.
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As #Christmas approaches, and we put the finishing touches on our third series of electric sodcast, why not listen to last year's Christmas Special? Here it is. It is the sound of men being silly.
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A Christmassy Sod
Podcast Episode · electric sodcast · 15/12/2024 · 33m
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December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🌲DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH 🌲
As #Christmas approaches, and we put the finishing touches on our third series of electric sodcast, why not listen to last year's Christmas Special? Here it is. It is the sound of men being silly.
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As #Christmas approaches, and we put the finishing touches on our third series of electric sodcast, why not listen to last year's Christmas Special? Here it is. It is the sound of men being silly.
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Not to make light of this tragic news, but notice please how the social media manager at The Bookseller, the UK's biggest book-trade publication (for which I used to write a column, back in the day) cannot spell the word "novelist".
Author Sophie Kinsella, the pen name used by novellist Madeleine Wickham, has died aged 55 after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022
Author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55
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December 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Not to make light of this tragic news, but notice please how the social media manager at The Bookseller, the UK's biggest book-trade publication (for which I used to write a column, back in the day) cannot spell the word "novelist".
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Author Sophie Kinsella, the pen name used by novellist Madeleine Wickham, has died aged 55 after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022
Author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55
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December 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Author Sophie Kinsella, the pen name used by novellist Madeleine Wickham, has died aged 55 after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022
Now. All I'm sayin' is that if I had been in charge of designing a #GunsNRoses Christmas jumper, it would say "Welcome to the Jingle".
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Now. All I'm sayin' is that if I had been in charge of designing a #GunsNRoses Christmas jumper, it would say "Welcome to the Jingle".
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Dear @Gunsnroses, you forgot to release those two singles yesterday. You know, the ones you announced a week ago. I think they were called "Nothin'" and "Atlas". Maybe they fell behind someone's desk?
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Dear @Gunsnroses, you forgot to release those two singles yesterday. You know, the ones you announced a week ago. I think they were called "Nothin'" and "Atlas". Maybe they fell behind someone's desk?
The cultural prick-tease of the year (those two new singles by Guns N' Roses) and I'm already refreshing Spotify every ten minutes like a chump in case they're out in the world yet. I think 'Perhaps' (2023) dropped at 8pm.
#GunsNRoses
#GunsNRoses
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The cultural prick-tease of the year (those two new singles by Guns N' Roses) and I'm already refreshing Spotify every ten minutes like a chump in case they're out in the world yet. I think 'Perhaps' (2023) dropped at 8pm.
#GunsNRoses
#GunsNRoses
Is there just too much damn Christmas? theflaneurmagazine.substack.com/p/flaneurdit...
Flaneurditorial
Humbug
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December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Is there just too much damn Christmas? theflaneurmagazine.substack.com/p/flaneurdit...
There will be two new #GunsNRoses songs released next tuesday: 'Nothin' and 'Atlas'. This is not me writing fiction, you understand, this is me jumping up and down with excitement.
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
There will be two new #GunsNRoses songs released next tuesday: 'Nothin' and 'Atlas'. This is not me writing fiction, you understand, this is me jumping up and down with excitement.
@simonbrew.bsky.social Big love, SB Xx
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@simonbrew.bsky.social Big love, SB Xx
I'm a bit sick of hearing Lily Allen wanging on about her dreadful new record.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm a bit sick of hearing Lily Allen wanging on about her dreadful new record.
Trump was almost correct with that Q-Anon stuff. Turns out there WAS a pedo sex-trafficking ring at work, and indeed the scandal DOES lead to the White House. Who'd a thunk it?
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Trump was almost correct with that Q-Anon stuff. Turns out there WAS a pedo sex-trafficking ring at work, and indeed the scandal DOES lead to the White House. Who'd a thunk it?
Here's the second chapter of Moonlight Over Coverack, a love story about art, and nutritionally-balanced protein shakes.
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Moonlight Over Coverack
Chapter Two
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November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Here's the second chapter of Moonlight Over Coverack, a love story about art, and nutritionally-balanced protein shakes.
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I dunno, I'm pretty sure AI could generate silence just as well as humans...
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Paul McCartney, Sam Fender, Kate Bush lend silent tracks to AI protest album
Paul McCartney, Sam Fender, and Kate Bush are among the names who have contributed silent tracks to a new album designed to protest AI.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I dunno, I'm pretty sure AI could generate silence just as well as humans...
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