Journalist, author and podcaster. Newsletter ↓
London, England
Joined February 2009
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What Writers Read is OUT TODAY! Even more thrillingly, it’s @waterstones non-fiction book of the month. Grab yourself a dinky little copy - 100% of profits go to @Literacy_Trust ❤️🔥
Just a note to say I'm not using 'Twitter' (don't make me say it) on the regs anymore so if you want to catch up with my work/ contact me, you can find me on Instagram @pandorasykes on my website pandorasykes.com or via Books+Bits on Substack :)
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Brilliant evening at @BrixtonHouse with @EmmaDabiri and @PINsykes reclaiming our unruly beauty and discussing #DisobedientBodies - thanks to everyone for their thoughtful questions and for waiting in that signing queue! #BeDisobedient 💋
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What a wonderful surprise to see my forthcoming memoir in such good company on the latest booklist of @PINsykes!
The list in full is below, linked to a beautiful (and free to access) list of #grief books, a lovely resource 💙
open.substack.com/pub/pandor…
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Soak in the last of the summer sun with a new episode of BOOK CHAT, out now 🌞
Come for the in-depth discussion of magical realism, stay for the haunting story about @PINsykes’s fish biscuits: podfollow.com/1657017360
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💋 INTERVIEWER ANNOUNCEMENT | @PINSykes will host Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty with @EmmaDabiri!
Live at @BrxHouseTheatre, don’t miss this special event as the author shares new & alternative ways to think & do beauty.
#BeDisobedient
#DisobedientBodies
🎟️ fane.co.uk/emma-dabiri
ALT Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty with Emma Dabiri. Interviewed by Pandora Sykes. 18 Oct. Brixton House, London. fane.co.uk/emma-dabiri
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@PINsykes 🧡s Bellies by Nicola Dinan in her Books + Bits newsletter: pandorasykes.substack.com/p/… @DoubledayUK
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The pandemic was difficult for all, but particularly for #JamesMiller, who was wrestling with depression and the breakup of his marriage. In December 2020, he walked out of his family home near #Warrington never to return. Listen here: tinyurl.com/bdevffap
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New BOOK CHAT is out, and we’re taking it back to the nineties 📟
Listen now to hear @PINsykes’s best Uncle Geoffrey impression (or me singing like Nicholas Hoult in About A Boy) 🎧
podfollow.com/1657017360
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a lovely moment as a fan of Pandora's podcasting output & taste to see Never Told including in this week's newsletter!
& a great edition to read re. podcasting in general & what it means to create something small scale but meaningful...
Have been absent here while relaxing on a partial maternity leave (eating grapes etc), but I'm updating my Substack weekly with books/culture reccs - you can subscribe to Books+Bits below if thataway inclined! (HUGE🙏to the 21k who have subscribed so far) pandorasykes.substack.com
Finally! Extremely remiss in sharing April + May’s Book Chat: @thebobpalmer n I discuss Memorial + Virgin Suicides, followed by A Visit From The Goon Squad + When I Hit You. We’re taking June off, will be back in July! Can’t promise I’ll make any sense tho podfollow.com/1657017360
Have been absent here while relaxing on a partial maternity leave (eating grapes etc), but I'm updating my Substack weekly with books/culture reccs - you can subscribe to Books+Bits below if thataway inclined! (HUGE🙏to the 21k who have subscribed so far) pandorasykes.substack.com
Series5 of @themissing_pod has LAUNCHED. 10 new cases of long-term missing people, as told through their families + made in conjunction with charities @missingpeopleuk + Locate international. Starting with the story of Steven Clark 🤍
We hope that by listening + sharing these stories, the info may come forward to help find them. As ever, it is a privilege to be entrusted with these stories @podimo_uk @what_sounds
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I do not know how they will pull this off but colour me INTERESTED (and if you want to hear mine and @PINsykes thoughts on these books tune into the next ep of Book Chat on May 1st)
EXCLU: Olivia Wilde is looking to make her big venture into to television as she is set to team with A24 on an adaptation of Jennifer Egan’s A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD and THE CANDY HOUSE, which she is set to direct deadline.com/2023/04/olivia-…
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💗 "There's definitely something inside me that viscerally loves a romance."
From building the world of Late Night TV, to the presence of celebrity, tonight @csittenfeld & @PINsykes explored the joyful novel #RomanticComedy.
💻 Available now on demand: fane.co.uk/curtis-sittenfeld
ALT Curtis Sittenfeld and Pandora Sykes laughing during a remote recording for a Fane Online event.