Friends, this piece by M. Gessen is a bracing, sobering read. We need to understand the era we are likely walking into. We have to ask ourselves what will be irrevokably lost. What are we willing to do to stop it? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

nytimes.com

referring to all enemies henceforth as 'typos'

Daniel Kennedy@fliglman.bsky.social · 2y ago

people who delete tweets because of cowards are typos

warning: this @theguyliner.bsky.social piece looks like it's going to be a bit of light relief, but in fact it's a stealth treatise on suffering and joy! theguyliner.com/impeccable/b...

really delighted that my second novel, NATURAL DISASTER has found a home in the US with Little, Brown

The Year of the Snake: very inspiring for the worm community

Just finished ‘Our Evenings’ by Alan Hollinghurst. A beautiful, elegiac book, so perceptive at times I found it almost painful (but also, because it’s Alan H, very funny and sharp too)

I wrote this a couple of years ago for @stingingfly.bsky.social about the great solace I found (and continue to find) in Lydia Davis's work. Re-posting here in case anyone else needs some Lydia in their life.

perfect description of falling in love (from Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst)

all the Limes are (all the Limes are down) and the sky is grey

Now that’s a BLURB (Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald which I have finally got around to reading thanks to @jessicastanley.co.uk)

just treated myself to a glass of the good stuff* * November-temperature tap water

‘There is a difference between “I’m frightened” and “this is frightening”. We get into trouble when we confuse the two’ — another great column from Eleanor Gordon-Smith, whose advice always somehow manages to transcend the particularity of the original problem www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘My boyfriend’s Instagram searches tap into my insecurities. I’m scared I’ll never be his type. How do I proceed?’ | Leading questions

There is no relationship where neither party ever finds other people attractive, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it is still legitimate to ask our partners to assuage our fears

theguardian.com

Lisa, thank you SO much for posting about this - I'm half way through FAMILY HAPPINESS and...swoon. I'm officially a fan!

no high like it

I loved writing the intro to the beautiful Weidenfeld & Nicolson reissue of Laurie Colwin’s FAMILY HAPPINESS, which is out this week alongside two other brilliant classics of hers. She was such a talented writer: sparkling, insightful, funny, profound.

the last time I posted here (also the first time) was to share a story I had written. Surely — SURELY — no one would be so craven as to come crawling back a whole year later, only to announce their new novel. And yet… www.thebookseller.com/rights/virag...

joined Bluesky the same day I have a new story out... coincidence? (The story is called 'Ice Queen' and you can read it here: stingingfly.org/2023/10/11/i...)