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A field in Shropshire, UK
Joined November 2009
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Lunchtime, as sponsored by the delightful @massivoverheads and editor @4ndrewJames. Coming through subscribers’ letterboxes shortly!🍽️🥄🖤🤍xxx
#ShortStories #AmuseBouche #Food
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The newly minted Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson shared a book recommendation and some timeless writing advice at the 2024 National Book Awards.
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Last Wednesday, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Plimpton Prize–winning story “Bettering Myself” found itself at the center of a lawsuit filed against a Florida college by one of its faculty members. Vinita Prabhakar, the English professor in question, is suing for wrongful termination after being fired for teaching the story, alongside works by Hemingway and Carver, in a unit on unlikable narrators. This week, we’ve unlocked “Bettering Myself,” published in issue no. 204 of the Review, from the archive. theparisreview.org/fiction/6…
Today’s audio treat from @SweetTalkProds. Thoroughly recommend The Vicar of Wakefield, if you have not yet encountered in your reading. Thoroughly recommend a STP audio offering when you encounter one! 📻 xxx
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“To write a decent story is such a huge and unlikely accomplishment that we shouldn’t care how long it takes.” —George Saunders buff.ly/csgoMvW
The drawing journey so far. I very much think my best drawings are bespectacled males - gives the face a framework for the amateur artist… 👓 xxx
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John Berger From Life, the biography I've spent the last 15-odd years on, is out on 27th August w/ @AllenLaneBooks in the UK
penguin.co.uk/books/295293/j…
& @VersoBooks in the US:
versobooks.com/en-gb/product…
Launch @britishlibrary 3rd September, more to follow
events.bl.uk/events/john-ber…
Can’t beat a Caprese with added anchovies on a hot day. Even more lovely, tomatoes and basil homegrown by dear friends. It is a wondrous improvement on a month’s worth of water and rice/oats. Slowly adding back nutrients. And beauty. Never take anything for granted.🍅🌿xxx
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The Madrid Review: where new voices meet lit legends. Subscribe, submit your work, explore back issues, browse our author promo packages and join a dynamic community of writers shaping the next wave of literature. Check it all out by clicking the link:
themadridreview.com/ – at Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain
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Vintage 'Verb'! Bradley Taylor defies the gods.@drangiehobbs is a spell-binding reader of Horace in Latin & English.Rishi Dastidar @BetaRish lights a poem with the celandine: 'it's a joy to exist'.Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch moves beautifully from place to myth.Highly recommended!
Evenings are my preference over morning. Mornings are a bit unforgiving in their humidity and paint palette. Off on a delayed walk to keep the ticker and circulation going, keep the arthritis at bay. Tricking the mind that it is the majestic cool of evening instead… xxx
Today’s spinach omelette brunch dining guests… Phil Collins (excellence) and @amateuradam (cherry on the icing of the excellence). Bravo, @thetimes!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟xxx
I haven’t managed to walk down the village for months due to various health evils (but have remained c.10k steps a day on home turf). Today I reacquainted myself with the river and purchased some utterly delightful blooms. A rustic Dalloway day!💐xxx
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Some weekend reading from me. First up, a terrific edition of the Writer's Bookshelf with @DaniGaravelli1, featuring Muriel Spark, Kathleen Jamie, Peter Ross, Jean Rhys, and more! mathewlyons.substack.com/p/t…
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Throughout Women in Translation Month, we'll be celebrating the brilliant translators behind Charco Press books, sharing their thoughts on translation, the books they love and why bringing stories across languages matters.
Our series begins with Alison Entrekin.
August is August! A monumentally bad year, decade of (un)health. Finally, possibly, sort of clawing my way back into life. And today seems like a good day to give X a whirl again. Hello, friends, everyone! Wishing you all a very bright start to August. xxx
#NewProfilePic… Mainly just to show I’m not dead and I’ve had a haircut. (It’s been a rough year.) Time to stop fighting just for my health and resume the fight to reclaim some art, beauty, fun… Well, I’ve been doing that in my solitude, but it’s far nicer to share the good!xxx
Scenes from very early this morning and lunchtime in #Shropshire / #Wales. Stay safe on the roads and keep warm!❄️xxx
