Susie Mesure
@susiemesure.bsky.social
Freelance writer, full-time reader, commission-me-anytime reviewer. (For many, most of the places you'd imagine, plus some you might not. That's the joy of freelancing...) susiemesure.com
V much enjoyed Teju Cole reading Anne Carson on a recent New Yorker Fiction podcast while driving back from France in August... www.newyorker.com/podcast/fict...
Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “1=1,” which was published in a 2016 issue of The New Yorker.
newyorker.com
V much enjoyed Teju Cole reading Anne Carson on a recent New Yorker Fiction podcast while driving back from France in August... www.newyorker.com/podcast/fict...
Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “1=1,” which was published in a 2016 issue of The New Yorker.
newyorker.com
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
Anyone want to buy two tix to see Bill Callahan at the Roundhouse on Monday night? Illness means can't go.
Anyone want to buy two tix to see Bill Callahan at the Roundhouse on Monday night? Illness means can't go.
Help. This weekend's FT crossword is not up on the app which means I can't do it (ie cheat...)!
Before very long you people are going to be wondering what the hell to buy your dad or your aunty or your weird cousin for Christmas. And when that day comes - and believe me it will - you will wish you had ordered a custom crossword from me.
Richard Smyth@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 9mo agoGET YOUR BESPOKE CROSSWORDS HERE. Do you know someone who'd love a themed crossword puzzle as a birthday or anniversary present? You almost certainly do (in this country you're never more than 10 feet away from a #crossword geek). People seem to like 'em. richarddsmyth.com/custom-cross...
Our paywall is down until October 5th! Plenty of time to read your fill of @prospectmagazine.co.uk So why not start with my deep dive on Israel's election, a central question being: how much will change, in Gaza, in the West Bank, if Netanyahu does lose? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
Inside the battle to oust Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel is more divided than ever, perpetually at war, a global pariah— and it’s going to the polls. The alternatives may not offer that much hope
prospectmagazine.co.uk
“I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong, Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.” Pam Ayres ripping the piss out of mansplaining before it was cool. youtu.be/qIxg0QE2GxQ?...
Pam Ayres - They Should Have Asked My Husband
YouTube video by Pam Ayres MBE
youtu.be
Am browsing @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social recs for Sicily but I am starting from scratch. Wildly grateful for any thoughts for a late autumn break there - yes, booked after reading Valeria Luiselli's Beginning, Middle, End....
"Also rice is okay in my lunchbox right?It's not gonna go bad?" Message from my 18yo son, now in Edinburgh, (SOB). Help me answer him, please. And no, he's not reheating it. And yes, I've read the @vittles.bsky.social feature Grain of Terror
Hello! If you’re near Dover, I’m giving a free reading at Dover library this coming Saturday, 2-3pm. Come and say hi and get a book signed!
Hunting anyone with kids (or they don't have to be kids!) collecting the World Cup Panini stickers as my teens are desperate to swap but can't find any friends mad enough to shell out. Anyone?
Given the endless heat I am reflagging my climate fiction deep dive in this month's Prospect. Features this year's Climate Fiction prize winning author, Helen Phillips and SO MUCH MORE www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7375...
The state of cli-fi
Can novels about the climate emergency offer hope for a better tomorrow?
prospectmagazine.co.uk
I reviewed Caroline Blackwood's reissued Great Granny Webster - and tried and failed not to get too engrossed in her story after. www.ft.com/content/a989...
Great Granny Webster — Caroline Blackwood’s twisted, aristocratic fairy tale
This Booker-shortlisted 1977 novel, now reissued by Virago Modern Classics, reads like a memoir refracted through gothic fantasy
ft.com
I reviewed Caroline Blackwood's reissued Great Granny Webster - and tried and failed not to get too engrossed in her story after. www.ft.com/content/a989...
Great Granny Webster — Caroline Blackwood’s twisted, aristocratic fairy tale
This Booker-shortlisted 1977 novel, now reissued by Virago Modern Classics, reads like a memoir refracted through gothic fantasy
ft.com
Well, I LOVED Valeria Luiselli's Beginning Middle End. More than her last, Lost Children Archive, which *did* get a Booker longlisting. www.ft.com/content/3001...
Beginning Middle End — memory, motherhood and starting over
A shape-shifting sea god anchors Valeria Luiselli’s impressive, searching novel of broken families and second chances
ft.com
"A series that has effectively placed a whoopee cushion under sanity’s buttocks then run away laughing."
Sarah Dempster@dempster2000.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’ve reviewed deranged new daytime series The Hairdresser Mysteries
Am aware it's the first day of the school hols... so librarians are probably thinking about anything but school! But children's authors are, surely, always writing?! Am writing a broadsheet feature - so good coverage!
Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 3mo agoQuestion - plea. Have any authors been affected by school librarians cancelling their visits due to LGBTQ+ themes? Am also hunting school librarians affected?
Am aware it's the first day of the school hols... so librarians are probably thinking about anything but school! But children's authors are, surely, always writing?! Am writing a broadsheet feature - so good coverage!
Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 3mo agoQuestion - plea. Have any authors been affected by school librarians cancelling their visits due to LGBTQ+ themes? Am also hunting school librarians affected?
Question - plea. Have any authors been affected by school librarians cancelling their visits due to LGBTQ+ themes? Am also hunting school librarians affected?
Question - plea. Have any authors been affected by school librarians cancelling their visits due to LGBTQ+ themes? Am also hunting school librarians affected?
Just today in Georgia: 1. Journalist jailed for 14 days for a Facebook comment; 2. Three people shot in the center of Tbilisi, a teenager dead; 3. A comedian beaten by regime thugs; 4. A drunken men, below, confronted the daily protest. #TerrorinGeorgia 📷 Levan Zazadze
True story. I was in A&E today and eavesdropped a nurse asking an older patient who'd had a fall most of the questions you'd expect. What month is it? Count backwards. Etc. Notable exception? She didn't ask her to name the PM.
Any Berlin can't misses for my 18yo who is inter railing and has reached there today? He'll be the one lobbying for the museums rather than the clubs.. (or so he tells me!!)
Have fixed to meet up to do a Panini World Cup sticker swap* ahead of the match later. I feel about 12. *for the sake of my kids... and our mutual wallets.
Yes. Was wondering how we can plant more on our London street. On every street. Makes all the difference when wandering up somewhere bathed in shade like Camberwell Grove.
Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe lack of urban trees across the UK is a public health emergency. We need vastly more green shade (and we need to nurture it through ever more brutal summers).
