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"But rather than ‘cleaning up’ the area around the park, the imposition of the chain link fence has created a narrow, terrifying corridor far worse than anything I’d ever seen." Chris Kraus on what Los Angeles wanted to be: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/malaise-of...
The malaise of a city
Chris Kraus on what Los Angeles wanted to be
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"Even then, that familiar murmur, the buzz that travelled with him everywhere, had risen in pitch and volume and become audible. The echo of a whisper he’d first heard when he was five, he said, and had been echoing in his ears ever since." An extract from Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller:
The worst sinners
An extract from Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller
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"I had expected there to be girls in horsey girls in white trousers and men in gilets who had studied Land Economy drinking lukewarm pints out of those plastic cups. But it was not, it became clear [...] that sort of do." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/some-kind-...
Some kind of deer magic
Patrick Galbraith heads to a new literary festival and comes away thinking a little differently
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Wrote about my grandad knocking on the door every Saturday when I was a kid with bags full of shopping and a Lion bar in his pocket — and how times, and the high street we once frequented, have changed www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/a-chocolat...
Werther’s Originals, and a changed high street
Sadia Nowshin remembers the grocery stores of her childhood, and the people who once made it what it was
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@ericawgnr.bsky.social says @alisonbechdel.bsky.social's new comic novel Spent is "serious and joyous, acerbic and compassionate. It’s rare to be able to combine such qualities, and in tough times it’s inspiring to see." Catch an extract here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/putting-fo...
Putting food on the table
An extract from the comic novel Spent by Alison Bechdel
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@alvior.bsky.social's Seven Days in Tokyo has been called ‘A study of misplaced desire and a poetic love letter to the city itself’ by playwright Jemma Kennedy — read an extract here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/symbols-of...
Symbols of permanence
An excerpt from Seven Days in Tokyo, by José Daniel Alvior
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"Exploring Coppermill Lane is a bit like watching open heart surgery on a city – those unseen arteries that course about it, service it and sustain it come to the surface, many old and failing after centuries of hard living." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/flying-ove...
Flying over Coppermill Lane
Oliver Smith takes a ritual walk west from Walthamstow
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Canal laureate Roy McFarlane on Benjamin Zephaniah. We've loved working with Roy over the last few years on his canal laureateship, and Benjamin was a Poetry Society Vice President. Lovely to read this tribute to him!
Boundless Magazine@boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — including two of Zephaniah's poems from the recently published collection Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
On the latest episode of the Boundless podcast, @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social talks to @troopersnooks.bsky.social about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/12j3... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Hedgelayer and writer Richard Negus on the disconnect between the urban and rural
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This is a literary event. Order it, read it
John Mitchinson@johnmitchinson.bsky.social · last yr.I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe. uk.bookshop.org/a/2773/97818...
Happy publication day to Patrick McCabe's Goldengrove, out now (unbound.com/products/gol...) A perfect time to revisit the brilliant piece Pat wrote for us, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/when-holly...
When Hollywood puts your darlings on the block
The Irish novelist, Pat McCabe, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film
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Congrats to Kaliane Bradley on making the shortlist with The Ministry of Time! Back in February, Kaliane let us into her obsession with piecing together the patchy life of Polar explorer Robert McClure, which you can read here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/finding-ro...
Haunted by Robert McClure
Bestselling author Kaliane Bradley on her obsession with piecing together the patchy life of a Polar explorer
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Climate Fiction Prize@climate-fiction.bsky.social · last yr.THE SHORTLIST. Stories have the unique ability to spark imagination, offer new perspectives and make complex issues resonate. These five novels do just that - spanning genres and geographies, they explore resilience, justice, community and what it means to live in a changing world.
"Writers of science-based narrative nonfiction can help scientists communicate their work and doing this is part of how we combat the spread of fake news. They can bring human interest to what to the uninitiated can sometimes feel a dry topic. They can translate between worlds."
Did aliens build the pyramids?
Helen Gordon on the literary genre that could quash fake news
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If you are a lover of BBC Radio 3 as I am, you'll love Douglas Kennedy's @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social piece — and you'll join me in hoping that the Sounds app works things out for international listeners! www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/music-hear...
Music heard all around the world
Douglas Kennedy on the global power of Radio 3
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"Mark Twain died in 1910. But he continues to speak to our present moment in ways that are as startlingly prescient as they are witty, brazen, and bold." Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would think of today's political predicaments: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/reader-sup...
Reader, suppose you were an idiot
Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would think of today's political predicaments
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Lovely article. I had the honour of meeting Benjamin 3 or 4 times. Ever the professional (not!) on one occasion I shuffled up to him and told him I loved his words. I looked embarrassed. He looked embarrassed. I shuffled silently away... Oh well.
Boundless Magazine@boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — including two of Zephaniah's poems from the recently published collection Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — including two of Zephaniah's poems from the recently published collection Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Poems published in their hearts
National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — and two poems from the recently published Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics
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I love this beautiful piece in @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social so much. About damage and healing and summer fruit — and what a picture of Signe and her grandpa! 🇳🇴 🍓🫐
Signe Johansen@signesjohansen.bsky.social · last yr.As we mark 80 years since Europe declared allied victory over fascism, I’ve been thinking about my grandfather Julius, and the taste of freedom 🇳🇴 Many thanks @ericawgnr.bsky.social @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social for commissioning this piece www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/fruits-of-... #VEday #FoodSky
"'The lure of novelty has always been so key to seaside attractions,' Ferry tells me. 'Because to get people to travel there, you've got to offer them something new. Something faster, taller, brighter. The competition is intense.'" www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/mobius-loo...
Mobius loops and bunny hops
Lucy Kenningham on why there’s still nothing better than a wooden rollercoaster
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Spending your bank holiday Monday watching AppleTV+'s hot new show, CARÊME? Ian Kelly, whose book penned two decades ago formed the basis of the show, reveals how he first crossed paths with the subject he quickly became obsessed with: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/in-bed-wit...
In bed with the hot chef
CARÊME, the new AppleTV+ series about the first celebrity chef, was developed and created by Ian Kelly based on a book he wrote over two decades ago
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Luscious cuisine! Political intrigue! What more could you want? A piece by the guy who wrote the book the series was made from, that's one. Subscribe to @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social and hear of Ian Kelly's adventures with the first celebrity chef... www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/in-bed-wit...
In bed with the hot chef
CARÊME, the new AppleTV+ series about the first celebrity chef, was developed and created by Ian Kelly based on a book he wrote over two decades ago
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last yr.Review: Benjamin Voisin plays Marie-Antoine Carême, the celebrity chef and possible spy of post-Revolutionary France, in an eight-part series full of luscious cuisine and political intrigue on Apple TV+
Pitbull stew, anyone? @tommygilhooly.bsky.social speaks to the founders of the controversial pop-up roadkill restaurant KHAM about the highs and lows of cooking things killed on the roads of London www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/roadkill-p...
Roadkill: plat de nuit
Tommy Gilhooly tucks in to the culture of cuisine killed on the road
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I had a great time talking to the always-brilliant @ericawgnr.bsky.social about my new book. She really gets it open.spotify.com/episode/4qRi...
Patrick Galbraith on what the land actually means
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Love this piece about the history of how we look at clouds… both sides now… 🎶
Boundless Magazine@boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · last yr."And although today we still tend to portray clouds today as snapshots on our smartphones, or online as some sort of Instagram tableau, Howard had already realised, way back in 1803, that clouds are not rigid nor immutable" www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/head-in-th...
What a wonderful essay by @iammilliam.bsky.social on literature and its curious reluctance to hang around in the suburbs. #TeamPooter
Boundless Magazine@boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · last yr."When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from." @iammilliam.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...
"And although today we still tend to portray clouds today as snapshots on our smartphones, or online as some sort of Instagram tableau, Howard had already realised, way back in 1803, that clouds are not rigid nor immutable" www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/head-in-th...
Head in the clouds
Edward Graham on the importance of looking up
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"The story of the country-dwellers, and the city sophisticates, has been told often enough; it is time somebody spoke of the suburbs, for therein, I have sometimes felt, lies the history of our race." - R.F. Delderfield THE DREAMING SUBURB (1958) A peeved & witty essay from @iammilliam.bsky.social
Boundless Magazine@boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · last yr."When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from." @iammilliam.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...
My third gallery café column for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social - this time I’m at the Royal Academy of Art, eating raspberry cake and looking at The Last Supper, over and over and over again… open.substack.com/pub/boundles...
The last supper again and again
Connor Harrison takes a trip to the RA, for the latest offering in his series of columns about the best and the oddest museum and gallery cafes
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"Acts of violence have always occurred but I don’t think we can overlook the impact on young people in rural, post-industrial towns, feeling disconnected and cut off." An extract from @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social's Uncommon Ground: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/a-sort-of-...
A sort of severance
An excerpt from Patrick Galbraith's new book Uncommon Ground, which sees him wandering haunted moorland with the poet and Boundless contributor, Emily Oldfield
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