London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2026/27.
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My full essay on Orbital and hope is up to read on The London Magazine website:
thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
'The toothless, gentle, atheist-but-spiritual style of a book like Orbital falls into the popular bracket of wellbeing literature. It is already a difficult and confusing world, it says. Why should your reading be difficult also?'
@HarrysunSee on Orbital: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
We have opened a new magazine! The Channel will publish original English, French and translated writing. Digital for now (via Substack), The Channel is intended to be, and will become, a print quarterly.
Submissions are open: channelmanche.substack.com/p…
Would pay to see the caller two minutes later, as it dawns on him the wordplay doesn't work over the phone...
Funny and excellent one by Lucy Sante in the new @yalereview -
Famous Writers School yalereview.org/article/lucy-…
A lovely one at @the_point_mag by Rory O'Connell on Jon Fosse and the difference between the two Asles being nothing.
Silent Language thepointmag.com/criticism/si…
Connor Harrison retweeted
My essay in defence of smoking is up with Review31 (@Review31) now, in which I do and don't smoke, and why we should be smoking aboard planes.
Read it here: review31.co.uk/opinion/view/…
My essay in defence of smoking is up with Review31 (@Review31) now, in which I do and don't smoke, and why we should be smoking aboard planes.
Read it here: review31.co.uk/opinion/view/…
I’m seeing atheists trying to start fights with the Christians again on here. Back to the real cringe period of Twitter, only this time Hitchens isn’t around, and Dawkins is off flirting with AI. And Russell Brand is born again.
There is a small photo of me here, as one of The London Library’s (@TheLondonLib) Emerging Writers 2026/7. I am incredibly grateful to have been selected.
✍️ We are delighted to welcome a new cohort of 40 participants to our flagship Emerging Writers Programme. The celebrated initiative, now in its eighth year, is geared towards supporting early career writers. We can't wait to see what they create! ow.ly/cnnr50ZcONM
My interview with Rebecca Bengal - @rebeccabengal - originally published by Lunate (who are no longer online), now republished at my Substack. It’s a very good interview: open.substack.com/pub/connor…
Brixton is easily one of the best parts of London. It’s just such a shame about the drunken walk curse they had to put on the tube station. The which-way-am-I-facing spell. The zigzag charm. The Brixton Macarena.
I almost choke on a piece of popcorn every single time I go the cinema, and I’ve never once made a noise about it. It’s called self-respect. And forgetting to chew.
Welcome to France. It’s 1997 every year. They make the best food in the world and the worst pop music. The supermarket has three aisles just for yoghurt. Everyone smokes and you’ll be shot for apologizing. That racism you can hear is, technically speaking, ‘medieval’.
A puff of smoke leaves the Ian Fleming estate. The new 007 has been elected. It’s an XL Bully. “I can’t believe it,” he tells media. “I only wish my mum was here to see.”
I mean falling for the very clear bait here - and in fact, why the fuck is any painting selling for almost $100m - but I’ll tell you what. Rothko in real life is like a a personal church.
I am seeing a sentiment coming along from people that this AI story means they’re glad Granta has never published them…they really dodged a bullet there…like phew ha ha…
I enjoyed this a lot. All you need is surrealism. Or whatever it is John Lennon said.
Now online: Kevin Duong (@ktduong88) on how André Breton triangulated a love relation between surrealism, psychoanalysis, & Marxism.
“Breton would fight for the social revolution to create a future world in which an honest experience of love might be possible.”
But this is a daft thing to say.
Christopher Nolan says #TheOdyssey has the "original superheroes":
"They are the original superheroes. Even comic book culture, whether you're talking about Marvel or DC or all the rest, a lot of it comes directly from the Homeric Epics. The thing about Homer is, nobody knows if that was a person. Homer in a way is the George Lucas, maybe, of his time… Homer is the Marvel of its day, that's the thing. It's very directly this desire for us to feel or believe Gods could walk amongst us, and I think the modern comic book is kind of our expression of that."
variety.com/2026/film/news/c…
