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Marguerite Young, interviewed by The Paris Review in 1977, on the inspiration for the ‘opium lady’ in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

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From a novel I wrote, still awaiting a publisher

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"Yes, I’ve ignored two decades which some would say constitute the absolute apex of the American novel but I can assure you it wasn’t personal"

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My favourite books I read in 2024 (1/2). An epic poem about poetry, German misanthropy, Parisian therapists, a history of viruses, hauntings in the Alps and the American South, a huge whale in a collapsing town, and a portrait of stolen childhood

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Favourite films I saw in 2024 that are not from 2024

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quite proud that mine and @davidhering.bsky.social’s episode of uol’s english department podcast is the most listened to! you can also listen, here: open.spotify.com/episode/2wbT...

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These are my favourite films released in 2024 - still a month to go, but I don’t think much will change

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“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”

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Next up

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Well I’ve had a few odd emails over the years but this is a new one

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Next up…

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Whne someone calls prose 'muscular', this is what I envision

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I'm on @LOTP_Pod this week talking about one of the most bizarre films of the 1990s, Natural Born Killers, on its 30th anniversary. Tune in for discussion about a truly insane era of British censorship, teenage movie-going and American cinema in the 1990s open.spotify.com/episode/2HZ0...

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I am a simple man. If I read “first two parts of wildly acclaimed Danish speculative septology from New Directions incoming” then I immediately pre-order

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It’s funny how in Proust there’s a moment of remembrance that holds equal significance to the madeleine, but no one ever mentions it because it consists of a lengthy description of stepping on a stone that’s a bit lower than another stone next to it

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Mrs Dalloway said she would walk the clock herself

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A good thing you can do is take a musician with a long catalogue (Mitchell, Dylan, Bowie) and listen to all of their records in order, a couple every weekend, the good and the bad, over a few months. It can be a legitimately life-changing art experience

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The Landlord (1970): Hal Ashby, script by the great Bill Gunn, shot by Gordon Willis, scored by Al Kooper. A bruising and complex satire of gentrification. Like Elaine May, Ashby has no truck with the innocent American hero, pulling the facade away to reveal something nastier

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Now this is what a cinema should look like

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Jean-Paul Sartre with his cat, which he named ‘Nothing’

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Saw Laurie Anderson. She sang a song about Walter Benjamin’s angel of history and made us do tai-chi

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Just scrolled down and seen three passive-aggressive ‘reminders’ in a row…maybe this site really does have it

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Once slept in the same bed as Orhan Pamuk (on a different night)

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Finished John Lurie's memoir The History of Bones. A genuinely wondrous account of the art life, the NYC scene in the 70s and 80s and its many highs and frustrations, the miracle of bands and how tough it is to maintain them. Very frank, very funny, often touching.

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I seem to have picked up an insane number of new followers on here over the last few days - I've not had time to check mutuals from Twitter or others who I haven't yet followed back, but bear with me!

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This is not true. It was named after her sister, Emily Dashington

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I won’t be convinced that this place has the juice until something like this happens

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I wrote about the obscene in The Zone of Interest, a film that’s both rigorously structured and permanently on the verge of collapse, for The LA Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/view...

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Proust wearing nu-metal levels of baggy clothes here

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I have new fiction, ‘The Gleaner’s Wife’, in the latest issue of The London Magazine. Here’s the opening paragraph. It’s now on sale at the following link: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...

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I love the anarchy of a sudden migration to a new platform. Everyone is stumbling around blindly shouting out their friends’ names. The most seasoned online people making toddler-like errors. A guy called ScrappyDoo420 has more followers than The Washington Post

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This image of Robert Burton (1577-1640) is one of the most amazingly rendered expressions of someone who has absolutely had enough of everyone’s bullshit

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And here we are

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