I am so tired of SEN professionals claiming to have experience with PDA who say things like “you should really implement a schedule” or “Mum and I are in charge, you need to let us talk” and then when J freaks out tell us he is “abnormally demand avoidant”

Still some tickets left to come to my event with the French writer Lola Lafon at Bard Books on the 24th - we'll be talking about her brilliant book about spending a night in the Anne Frank Museum, WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THIS SONG, which I translated www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

LONDON FOLKS INTERESTED IN TOP DRAWER FICTION THAT WILL RIP YOU APART, AND BOOK EVENTS THAT WILL STEP OUTSIDE SAFE 'INDUSTRY' SOUNDBITES, SHOULD BE GOING TO THIS. TOMORROW. #GetKeshed www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Very excited to talk to Marion Coutts about her new book, WHAT DID THE DEEP SEA SAY?, next Tuesday the 17th at Goldsmiths - pretty sure it's free, come one come all! goldsmithscca.art/event/what-d...

« Archives d’une enfance », la bouleversante exposition sur la famille de Georges Perec, exterminée parce que juive

Thank you for your reporting on the SEND overhaul, @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social -- I'm wondering how all of this is going to affect children who can't attend any setting, who are currently on (or fighting to be on) EOTAS?

You absolutely fucking will be transporting my child by the end of the decade if he ever gets over how badly he was failed by the state school system to want to attend one again

…maybe if there were more provisions closer to home these kids wouldn’t need to be taxied to the school that ::can:: support their needs, I dunno?

Um i have a substack now don’t hate me it’s called Serious Ladies open.substack.com/pub/laurenel...

Among the weirder parts of that Megyn Kelly freak-out is her assertion that no non-Latinos in the US speak “a lick of Spanish” : literally every kid in my high school took Spanish (except for the snobs who took French, the masochists who took German, and the Italians who took Italian)

Does anyone else have autistic/ADHD/AuDHD kids who pick fights with you? Like do destructive stuff they know will drive you crazy on purpose? We are being absolutely terrorised in our own house. (NB I am not looking for comments from neurotypical parents telling me all kids get up to shenanigans)

Still not over all the Bad Bunny feels I don’t know about you

When you see a biographer write that "someone said xyz" about your subject, do you think: a/ they're doing some anti-academic glossing by not writing out the someone's name or b/ they don't know who said it, it's just something they've come across c/ ?

I’m in this a bit walking and chatting in Montparnasse! Looking forward to watching the whole thing 👩‍🎨

So I was given a notebook & it sat unused for years bc I only use graph paper Moleskines & I felt bad with it just sitting there so I decided to use it to take notes for this really challenging research-heavy book I have to write & I’m remembering all over again why I only use graph paper Moleskines

6 vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike

As if we needed more evidence that Bezos doesn’t give a fuck about books

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

Someone recommended we buy a SAD light for our son; I looked at it online & thought “that looks like my worst nightmare” but I bought it anyway thinking theres no way it would actually be that bright in reality & it just came& honestly who are these people who like to stare at bright lights all day

Do we think I can write about the Stein siblings’ raging neurodiversity y/n

There is already something derisive about books that give references this way to avoid using footnotes - but not even to include page numbers?? You’re telling me to just go look in the 1000 page long Making of Americans to find a quote? Get fucked!

My reading glasses came! Now I can decipher the minuscule print in this Folio paperback! Fuck ICE!

Urgent 🚨🚨 We are dying in Gaza😭😭 Please do not ignore our request for help. My children have been infected with a serious virus, and I urgently need $200 to complete their treatment. Support link 🙏 chuffed.org/project/ahme... @mommunism.bsky.social

N.b., Londinium

Meanwhile, can anyone in London recommend a good EMDR clinic?

I just ordered my first pair of reading glasses and after a lifetime as someone who had to wear glasses 24/7 I'm excited to be the kind of person who can now put them on to read something then take them off in a suggestive manner to underscore the seriousness of what I'm about to say

For what it's worth, I didn't get to pick the title! But very happy to see this lovely review in the TLS.

Please don’t wear perfume on trains. Or planes. Anywhere you’re stuck in a minimally ventilated space with other people for a prolonged period of time. I beg of you.

Ok but have the people who designed the new GWR trains never sat in a seat before?

So…has Bari Weiss adjusted her “priors” regarding Israel, in the face of unrelenting evidence of genocide?

I cannot believe how much money some professionals make off of the marginalised position disabled children and their families are put in by the lack of support from this government and this school system, it’s kind of gross

really interesting reading every extant biography of Gertrude Stein to see how everyone dutifully repeats the same family & childhood anecdotes. Is that just an occupational hazard when everyone concerned is long dead? It's so boring, I have to find a way around it

Middle fingers up: let's march on Washington, and we'll call it the million bird march. No need for placards 🖕🖕

Charmed today by Louise Bourgeois’ rap single (?!), discussed last night by @laurenelkin.bsky.social & Marie-Laure Bernadac at event for the new biography of LB! ramuntcho.bandcamp.com/album/otte

Trump to Iran: don't execute protesters or we'll bomb you Trump to America: don't protest or we'll execute you

Why is there so much dialogue in “literary” fiction now and why is it all so 💩

Loved going on the Five Books podcast - my picks included @laurenelkin.bsky.social’s wonderful novel Scaffolding.

I cannot get over the sheer unmitigated gall of these people.

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." Francis Bacon, ever relevant on reading habits.

Thank you for this thought-provoking and wide-ranging interview, @crampell.bsky.social!

Comment Brigitte Bardot a épousé les thèses de l’extrême droite

... Simone de Beauvoir's 1966 novel, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑟 (tr. @laurenelkin.bsky.social ), coming in @yalepress.bsky.social Margellos World Republic of Letters-series, yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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I’m sorry but the AI version of Han Kang sucks

I can’t wait to see how fast they change it back once this schmuck is out of office

Authors and agents have to make sure their translation contracts have a human translators only clause

I don't know who this novelist is but I definitely don't want to have a conversation with them at the pub