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1. I want to share something about Hilary Mantel which I hope is about her as a writer but also perhaps an illustration of the power and potential of writing itself…
London not quite fallen 🙏
The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future
The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come.
#YouSavedThePCC
Heartfelt thanks to all of you on here who sponsored us for this. We raised around 12K, which will let four people stay with us. 🙏
Dear all - I am doing a sponsored walk In September on behalf of Maytree, the charity where I work . We remain the UK's only residential support for people in suicidal crisis and are reliant on donations. Please share or donate if you can tinyurl.com/32h86dnp 🙏
Michael Holden retweeted
New book coming out on October 22. Have some TV and radio lined up but keen to do podcasts and events too.
"If Photography Stole Our Souls, What’s Left for AI?"Behold this freed-from-@vice paywall screed. Because there is not yet enough writing on these machines about the problem with these machines🙏 vice.com/en/article/attentio…
Dear all - I am doing a sponsored walk In September on behalf of Maytree, the charity where I work . We remain the UK's only residential support for people in suicidal crisis and are reliant on donations. Please share or donate if you can tinyurl.com/32h86dnp 🙏
🤖 Made with AI
With a lot of Robert Bolt on iPlayer (Man for All Seasons + Lawrence) I bought Adrian Turner's biography 'Scenes From Two Lives' - pleased to see this attribution of the famed match/desert cut which skews towards Lean/Young/Coates, as rooted in the writing
Karma, Kim n' Elon. "Influence is a coproduction. Perhaps the brightest future is one in which we learn to look away" .open.substack.com/pub/precis…
Michael Holden retweeted
Michael Holden's new VICE column, taken from the comeback issue of our magazine, has been liberated from the paywall—read @thewrongwriter's take on the modern condition here: vice.com/en/article/attentio…
Love The Firm. I especially love the fact that one of the senior hooligans is called, "Oboe." 'Why' someone ends up named after a classical instrument is less the point than its authentic representation of the sheer weirdness of the nickname process.
Pulp Friction. “The object that behaves perfectly becomes no better than a hallucination.” open.substack.com/pub/precis…
'The Attention Casino' piece I wrote for @vice now liberated from their paywall.
"The ‘zone’ in the casino where we find ourselves is not one of comfort. In fact, it runs on stress, anxiety, and a replica of togetherness experienced mostly while alone."
vice.com/en/article/attentio…
The Fridge Magnet at the End of the Universe… "the endpoint of all the wearisome sloganeering now making up such a proportion of our feeds" open.substack.com/pub/precis…
