"To edit your life is to save it, for fiction, for yourself. Being identified with your life as others see it may mean that you come eventually to see it that way, too. This can only be a hindrance to memory (and, presumably, to invention).”  Susan Sontag, from the essay Where The Stress Falls.

"To edit your life is to save it, for fiction, for yourself. Being identified with your life as others see it may mean that you come eventually to see it that way, too. This can only be a hindrance to memory (and, presumably, to invention).”  Susan Sontag, from the essay Where The Stress Falls.

It's a joy to have participated in Anna Wharton's 12 Days of Christmas Writing Advice alongside brilliant writers @lilydunn.bsky.social Clare Fuller, Clover Stroud, @pperry.bsky.social & more. I gave advice on writing feverish 1st drafts & the importance literary communities. Power to your pens!

It's a joy to have participated in Anna Wharton's 12 Days of Christmas Writing Advice alongside brilliant writers @lilydunn.bsky.social Clare Fuller, Clover Stroud, @pperry.bsky.social & more. I gave advice on writing feverish 1st drafts & the importance literary communities. Power to your pens!

Les tulipes. Samedi après-midi.

Les tulipes. Samedi après-midi.

Le Mont St Michel. Lundi soir.

Le Mont St Michel. Lundi soir.

Hier. Au bord de mer.

Hier. Au bord de mer.

Thanks @luluallison.bsky.social. Really pleased that you enjoyed my memoir Home Is Where Start. Fab that Dorset library services have my book!

I loved this interview with the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about my memoir #homeiswherewestart. We chatted about my utopian commune childhood, social history, punk, Mark Fisher, post-revolutionary France, whether or not we consider ourselves as 'survivors' and more...

I loved this interview with the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about my memoir #homeiswherewestart. We chatted about my utopian commune childhood, social history, punk, Mark Fisher, post-revolutionary France, whether or not we consider ourselves as 'survivors' and more...

Thanks @luluallison.bsky.social. Really pleased that you enjoyed my memoir Home Is Where Start. Fab that Dorset library services have my book!

Ya might find this interview i did with Susanna to be of interest 💥💪 www.3ammagazine.com/3am/we-were-...

Thank you to Dorset library services for responding to my request for Home is Where We Start by @susannacrossman.bsky.social Compelling, thoughtful, evocative - I really enjoyed it.

Hier. En fin de journée.

Hier. En fin de journée.

Dans ces journées intenses d’écriture, je vire entre cette table, mon roman et ce champ, cette arbre.

Dans ces journées intenses d’écriture, je vire entre cette table, mon roman et ce champ, cette arbre.

Mercredi après-midi.

Mercredi après-midi.

Samedi matin.

Samedi matin.

“Indeed nothing is more painful than this contrast between the mutability of people and the fixity of memory.” (Proust, Time Regained)

Thanks to excellent @robmclennan.bsky.social for interviewing me. We talked about what it’s like to be alive, my memoir Home Is Where We Start (Penguin), writing my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social) & more... robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

1/4 Bonus #SmallPress #books post! I just saw this: get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only. @pressassembly.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading

“Death is like language. Death is a machine for obliterating conditions of appearance. Death, like language, brings the unseeable with it. More than this, it brings with it the *unforeseeable*.” — Pascal Quignard, The Silent Crossing

Mercredi matin. Décembre.

Bluemoose Books of the year! The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social - short listed - The Orwell Prize The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social Celeste by Colette Snowden Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers. Here's Hetha in a hat!

Mercredi matin. Décembre.

Thanks to excellent @robmclennan.bsky.social for interviewing me. We talked about what it’s like to be alive, my memoir Home Is Where We Start (Penguin), writing my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social) & more... robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.” Simone Weil on paying attention.

Recently I asked @bsky.app for help. I needed to see the V&A Marie-Antoinette exhibition for research for my new novel & it was sold out. Many kindly replied & brilliant @emilymfg.bsky.social (who'd read my memoir #homeiswherewestart Penguin) got me a visit with one of the curators. Mille mercis. 🙏

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious. Sylvia Plath

Recently I asked @bsky.app for help. I needed to see the V&A Marie-Antoinette exhibition for research for my new novel & it was sold out. Many kindly replied & brilliant @emilymfg.bsky.social (who'd read my memoir #homeiswherewestart Penguin) got me a visit with one of the curators. Mille mercis. 🙏

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious. Sylvia Plath

“Poetry = practice of subtlety in a barbaric world. Whence the need to fight for poetry *today*: Poetry should be one of our ‘Human Rights’; it isn’t ‘decadent,’ it’s subversive: subversive and vital.” — Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel (tr. Kate Briggs)

All real living is meeting. (Buber 1958: 24-25)

All real living is meeting. (Buber 1958: 24-25)

Ce soir. Encore.

Samedi matin. En attendant le train…

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susanna Crossman / @susannacrossman.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

Samedi matin. En attendant le train…

La vue du train. Vendredi matin.