Susanna Crossman
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals... Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
"Kindred as hell. Tell everyone you know to read this bonkers page-turner. I do." Moon Zappa My memoir, Home Is Where We Start, about my commune childhood & the many meanings of home, is out in the US tomorrow with fab Heliotrope Books. Get your copy here : www.barnesandnoble.com/w/home-is-wh...
"Kindred as hell. Tell everyone you know to read this bonkers page-turner. I do." Moon Zappa My memoir, Home Is Where We Start, about my commune childhood & the many meanings of home, is out in the US tomorrow with fab Heliotrope Books. Get your copy here : www.barnesandnoble.com/w/home-is-wh...
The wonderful Svetlana Alexievich, unlocked in @parisreview.bsky.social . Read my friends, read: www.theparisreview.org/letters-essa...
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen
We were newlyweds. We still walked around holding hands, even if we were just going to the store. I would say to him, “I love you.” But I didn’t know then how much. I had no idea … We lived in the dor...
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The wonderful Svetlana Alexievich, unlocked in @parisreview.bsky.social . Read my friends, read: www.theparisreview.org/letters-essa...
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen
We were newlyweds. We still walked around holding hands, even if we were just going to the store. I would say to him, “I love you.” But I didn’t know then how much. I had no idea … We lived in the dor...
theparisreview.org
Bluesky pals, am planning (fingers crossed) a 5-day trip to Istanbul in October, please send all recs for food, places to stay and things to see and do. Thanks so much.
Please RT this friends. Would love @bsky.app to share your fab ideas about Istanbul. I like visiting libraries (I’m a writer), eating offbeat food, art galleries, hammans, odd places, secondhand markets. Thanks so much.
Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · 3d agoBluesky pals, am planning (fingers crossed) a 5-day trip to Istanbul in October, please send all recs for food, places to stay and things to see and do. Thanks so much.
Please RT this friends. Would love @bsky.app to share your fab ideas about Istanbul. I like visiting libraries (I’m a writer), eating offbeat food, art galleries, hammans, odd places, secondhand markets. Thanks so much.
Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · 3d agoBluesky pals, am planning (fingers crossed) a 5-day trip to Istanbul in October, please send all recs for food, places to stay and things to see and do. Thanks so much.
Bluesky pals, am planning (fingers crossed) a 5-day trip to Istanbul in October, please send all recs for food, places to stay and things to see and do. Thanks so much.
“Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.” Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.” Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Lucky me though, I got to rewatch a bunch of this comedy gold and write about it for @prospectmagazine.co.uk's culture newsletter >>>
Love you, ‘Chicken Shop Date’ x
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s web series, which is coming to an end, is as British as it gets
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Me, writing now all my daughters are back at uni/art school and middle school.
Natalie Portman's 'Heaven' Look
ALT: Natalie Portman's 'Heaven' Look
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Me, writing now all my daughters are back at uni/art school and middle school.
Natalie Portman's 'Heaven' Look
ALT: Natalie Portman's 'Heaven' Look
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Currently : sorting through my desk drawers (which belonged to my grandad) and three generations of stationary horders stuff including 100 year old collection of string. So of course I have to keep it!
Currently : sorting through my desk drawers (which belonged to my grandad) and three generations of stationary horders stuff including 100 year old collection of string. So of course I have to keep it!
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Creative Thinking and Writing, with Susanna Crossman | Combination Ticket - London Lit Lab
Unblock Your Writing Using Creative Thinking Thursday, 15th October, 2026 | 6-8pm UK Time / BST Play and creative thinking techniques for writers are transformative because they are highly generative,...
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CTW Masterclass 1: Unblock Your Writing Using Creative Thinking, with Susanna Crossman - London Lit Lab
Play and creative thinking techniques for writers are transformative because they are highly generative, unblock, produce original material and encourage us to ask, “What if…?”.
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Creative Thinking and Writing, with Susanna Crossman | Combination Ticket - London Lit Lab
Unblock Your Writing Using Creative Thinking Thursday, 15th October, 2026 | 6-8pm UK Time / BST Play and creative thinking techniques for writers are transformative because they are highly generative,...
londonlitlab.co.uk
www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/creat...
CTW Masterclass 1: Unblock Your Writing Using Creative Thinking, with Susanna Crossman - London Lit Lab
Play and creative thinking techniques for writers are transformative because they are highly generative, unblock, produce original material and encourage us to ask, “What if…?”.
londonlitlab.co.uk
“The true and durable path into and through experience, involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.” Seamus Heaney.
“The true and durable path into and through experience, involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.” Seamus Heaney.
I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...
This is happening. My memoir Home Is Where We Start, published by Penguin in 2024. Out in the US next month. More details soon!!!!!!!
Please read this excellent, in-depth piece by researcher @stephlamy.bsky.social about the “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, & the media who fell into their trap. An exemplary piece of research, shared by the brilliant journalist @carolecadwalla.bsky.social it deserves your attention.
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
