A tribute to Bernhard *and* a send up of academic malaise in contemporary HE? The Sick List from @ansgarallen.bsky.social is great fun
Patrick Christie
@patrickchristie.bsky.social
Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere. https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk
The year is 2040 Dua Lipa has attained total control of the British books industry The country's largest bookstore chain is now known as Lipastones Our most coveted literary award is the Lipa Prize The Service95 podcast is broadcast live at BOXPARK Hernan Diaz is (rightly) worshipped as a God
Buying tickets to see Bob Dylan on his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour for the third time I think
A Booker longlist with multiple books I actually want to read?!
Brits really don't understand how deeply fucking strange they are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Feeling gutted? Five ways to cope with England's World Cup defeat
After England’s loss, fans and experts share their tips for managing the disappointment.
bbc.co.uk
@causticcovercritic.bsky.social — are you acquainted with Neil the Seal?
A nice young man came to my door the other day selling copies of 'Internationalism: Journal of Marxist Analysis'. I told him I'd see their posters up around the tube station. 'Those aren't us. They belong to another Marxist group,' he replied.
Rather than an old adage, this is a foundational principal of talking therapy
Very much enjoying Shadow Lines and discovering that I can summon @nicholasroyle.bsky.social to my door by ordering some chapbooks from the wonderful Nightjar Press.
Is anyone else planning to swelter in a disused car park on Thursday for the Fitzcaraldo Summer party?
In bed with a fever, rewatching I Am Legend and I had forgotten that Emma Thompson effectively causes the end of the world
One hundred years ago today, a baby was born with a HOWL! Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997). Poet, prophet, and one of the great friends of our bookshop. (Photo by Jack Hazzard from the Shakespeare and Company archives) @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy
I'll ask you, my Bluesky friends, since this is a non-judgemental space: how do you pronounce Percy Bysshe Shelley's middle name?
We demand justice for L'Etranger!
Matthew Aldridge@mpaldridge.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including: – Books that just missed out – Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out) – Best novelists – Alternative rankings – Weirdest and least-weird ballots mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...
My contribution to the Middlemarch discussions is that I think 'Raffles' would make an excellent name for a cat
5 Virginia Wolfs in the top 100 but not a single Don DeLillo
What a cute little girl young unbreeched H.P. Lovecraft was... is not a sentence I expected to write.
Re-reading On the Road and just learnt that the elder statesman of the group William Burroughs (aka Old Bull Lee) is... 35 during the narrative
'The danger isn’t that AI will replace writers or render the workshop obsolete. It’s that students are becoming accustomed to bypassing the friction that once revealed their process.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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The sad feeling when you get out the wool coat you thought you'd put away for the year
The top 10 votes of each of the individual judges is much more interesting that the 'definitive list' www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
The 100 best novels of all time
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
theguardian.com
My novel is coming out in paperback soon with this handsome new cover! If you've been thinking of picking up a copy, please do me a solid and consider putting in a preorder for £10.44, which I understand is roughly the price of a pint in London. Thank you! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poor...
