Deeply funny to me that my novel FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF is one of THREE Irish novels about people making television published today. THREE! Please buy all THREE and spend your summer immersed in this strange microworld

Today is publication day for my book, Prestige Drama. It's a funny, angry book about Derry, memory and Troubles-scented television. I think it's quite good, however I can *confirm* that it's quite short. But don't take my word for how great it is, look at all these lovely people saying that.

this brilliant, funny and romantic book about sexy, bickering writers is by @urchinette and is published today. you should all go out now and buy it

I made a playlist for my novel for Largehearted Boy. I am listening to the playlist now and genuinely distraught over how much I love Revelator by Gillian Welch largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/05/a...

Strange to wake up today in December 2019 and again see the sensible and serious throwing everything they can at a politician who wants to redistribute wealth because his politics are a bigger threat to their privates schools and second homes than the far right

I think about this all the time.

tucked at the end of this is my one great idea to save the UK. Ok I'll just say it. We should nationalise Nigella anakinsella.substack.com/p/seven-thin...

I love the 1926 census. I love this period of Irish history! I love the fervour with which people translate their English names into Irish. I love when people write 'single' for their baby's marital status and then frantically cross it out. I love finding a woman with a job that isn't domestic help

My main takeaway from the past week is that I really love living in a high-tax society that allows things like agriculture and the arts to be subsidised! (genuine and earnest tweet)

are you gonna have time to make any good art if you're so busy being concerned with whether or not your housemate is engaged in active artistic practice? www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

perhaps a small group of self-employed people dissatisfied with their profession's trade unions and organisations shouldn't be able to shut down the city centre for days on end... perhaps...

Fun to see all the reactionary elements the government has spent years stoking in order to destroy any chance of a united opposition to the housing crisis turning on the government because of the fallout of a war the government refused to really condemn. Politics eh?

If climate protesters had blocked roads for as long as the fuel protesters did, there would be people on the radio demanding the army be called in to shoot them all

I'm gonna be at ILFD in May :) ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

I love the Unhedged podcast. 25 mins of doom about how death raining from the skies is impacting the markets and then "... and now it's time for Long/Short. This week I'm LONG on shorts in the office and SHORT chewing gum."

I'm delighted to see more and more voters in the UK wake up to the fact that the Green Party is a well-organised, big thinking, progressive party - a real party!!! - that represents their interests. Go on Hannah Spencer!

This week you can get 25% off your preorder of my forthcoming novel from Waterstones. 25% off! With code FEB26 www.waterstones.com/book/frida-s...

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

The Internet, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth.

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

I've unfortunately become obsessed with this and can't stop worrying about it. Two things are urgently needed 1) signs in many languages telling you not to feed the deer 2) on-the-spot €100 fines for anyone who does www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Everyone’s a critic

I had this idea years ago but still back it. 'Community bonds', saving scheme, you buy £100, govt invests £100 in the high street, you get £110 back in five years' time.

Pre-order my forthcoming novel! All the links to do so are gathered here anakinsella.substack.com/p/theyre-cal...

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

The Common Travel Area means I should be able to use BBC Sounds in Ireland

gorgeous gorgeous wintry trance mix www.nts.live/shows/peace-...

I love the Traitors. I love it so much. I really do. But on the UK show, every season, they get rid of anyone older, anyone smarter, anyone who seems posh (?), in that order. It's very predictable!!!!

I am obsessed with this nonsense plotline <3 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

beep beep www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

How long does it take for a fuel source to regenerate to be considered renewable? Caitlín Doherty writes on the problem with peat.

This feels like a misrepresentation of how much it costs to learn Irish. Online classes from the Conradh are €150. Gaeltacht tuition is about €250 a week. Learning is massively subsidised already, and she needs the qualifications in Irish to teach, so of course that part is going to cost money.

I'm on this list www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

one month ago 🥶

Another election cycle of me asking every single canvasser why they're not opposed to fox hunting then www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

James Schuyler, from “Things to Do”

That’s the thing about life. Sometimes you’re a young Nigella Lawson playing croquet; other times, you just end up inexplicably carrying a sedan chair.

Unironically a good line bsky.app/profile/nikk...

Beckett, Balle, time loops, stories, snogging, etc open.substack.com/pub/anakinse...

one thing they don't tell you about publishing a novel is people will constantly ask you what you've been reading lately. And every time your mind will be utterly blank, as if you have never read a book in your life

You won't believe it but I have a short story about this granta.com/the-bog-bodi...

I have a newsletter and I wrote this week about some paintings I saw in NYC anakinsella.substack.com/p/in-manhatt...

many of us agree that watching phone videos at full volume in public is antisocial behavior, but to me that doesn’t go far enough. watching phone videos every single time you have a few minutes to kill is antisocial in its own right even if the volume is always courteously muted

Diane Keaton’s ability to show you a character’s vulnerability was as striking as her gift for showing you what can lie beneath such sensitivity, including neediness at its rawest and most acutely exposed, our chief film critic Manohla Dargis writes.

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

"It’s all interesting. It’s never dull, ever, life.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

The reveal I want to see is that Jim Gavin's tenant was CMAT.

Big box of books!