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Joined October 2013
Beautiful opening by Y-Dang Troeung in the most recent @GrantaMag
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JSW retweeted
I Need To Shoot My Phone
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RIP Sophie Kinsella (1969–2025) ⁠ ⁠ It is with great sadness we share the news of the death of Madeleine (Maddy) Wickham, widely known as Sophie Kinsella. Maddy wrote with rare courage and brilliance, with unique wit and warmth. We thank her for her books, her voice and her incomparable spirit. We will miss her dearly.⁠ ⁠ 📸: Sarah Cresswell
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We are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy). She died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy. We can't imagine what life will be like without her. 1.
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“I believe in the night.” Rainer Maria Rilke
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Underrated point in the AI art wars is that learning to draw (+ to play by ear, sculpt, write descriptively etc) heightens your perception of the real world & also changes your perspective of the act itself. These mental effects are off limits if mediating everything through text
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Tina Brown on today's literary culture...
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Herman Hesse's library
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Kafka when writing: “I can produce nothing of worth. Existence is meaningless. Life is a cataclysm” Kafka when WWI breaks out:
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the linguistic psychology of the first 'i love you'
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every day is all there is
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"noise", "joy", or "music"
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Desperately sad to report that you’ve read enough to start writing
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the pope really said
In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”
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Translated Le Vampire by Baudelaire for my latest substack 🖤🖤🧛🏻‍♂️✨🌙🌒
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Felice Casorati (1883-1963 Italian painter, sculptor and printmaker) "Girl on a Red Carpet"
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In the last Medieval Manuscripts lesson, I read with my students the Hymn of Charity by St. Paul in the magnificent Borso d’Este Bibble: "Love is patient, love is kind..."
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This site is so bad at displaying images lol. For reference this is how Penguin was marketing Iris Murdoch in the 1970s. Insanely cool and enticing
Broke: oil paintings on the covers of women's litfic (boring, trite) Woke: avant-garde portraiture by 1960s erotic/editorial photographer Harry Peccinotti. On the covers of women's litfic
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New post: I petition the publishing industry to Make Book Covers Sexy Again, redesign some of my favourite novels to be sexier (ft. lots of excellent 90s-00s fashion photography), and take aim at the lumpen "bookish"
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