A special New Year's Day INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, hit 2026 running with Pulp, Dog Day Afternoon and The Fallen Women, support the podcast. This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'. www.patreon.com/backlisted

New Christmas episode up now! Asterix and the Roman Agent - and LOADS more Asterix books - with Louie Stowell, Robert Shearman, Una McCormack & Andy Miller. 🎄📚🎅 @robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6mIn...

As is traditional, here's the 2017 Xmas @backlisted.bsky.social in which @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @jamesbpcook.bsky.social and I talk about OHMSS & all things Bond. Happy Christmas one and all. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/56-...

A wintry new INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn all about the greatest Christmas single that never was, support the podcast. This week: Twice As Much & Vashti, 'The Coldest Night of the Year'. ❄️ www.patreon.com/backlisted

I chose Yann Chateigné Tytelman's terrific book, Blackout (tr. @clementoctober.bsky.social), for Review31's Books of the Year 2025. @review31.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

Some of my recent books, bendable for placement inside stockings — available in the usual ways, but links are @ www.danobrien.org @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @poetrylondon.bsky.social @calquepress.bsky.social

Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money

New Substack post from me... it's free, so subscribe if you fancy it maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/thank-you-...

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, receive moral instruction from the gingerilliant Countess of MAT, support the podcast. This week: CMAT, Euro-Country. www.patreon.com/backlisted

A late-November Substack essay from me: I wrote about creative inspiration in music and writing. Read Catch a Fire: That Michelangelo Moment for FREE here 👇: judecook.substack.com/p/catch-a-fire

Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney's 1967 short, The White Bus, is currently available for free on Prime. It's credited as being from 1979 but don't let that fool you. Devised as both allegory and satire, it's curious how much of it still feels relevant to the noise of the 21st Century.

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read about the Clientele and the ‘suburban uncanny’, support the podcast. @theclientele.bsky.social This week: God Save the Clientele. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Delighted to announce that MALC’S BOY by Shaun Wilson will be @conduitbooks.bsky.social’s first title! Coming April 2026.

New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...

In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived

'Winterson’s verbal exuberance is both playful and deadly serious; she has the intensity of someone who is demolishing you at chess while maintaining that it’s only a game.' Suzi Feay: A riff on One Thousand and One Nights

Join us tonight at @burleyfisher.bsky.social for the London launch of Vanguard Editions The Carbon Arc. I'll be reading along with brilliant writers @christianaspens.bsky.social Sam Mills, Karen Krizanovich & Gareth Evans. 6.30pm-9pm (Free) Tickets here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Can’t go to this tomorrow night, alas, but it should be excellent. Blackout is one of the books of the year, a sui generis journey into silence, mixing memoir, philosophy & art criticism.

Here’s my review of @andrewgallix.bsky.social’s wonderfully irreverent debut novel, Loren Ipsum, in the print edition of today’s @theguardian.com

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast. This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Loren Ipsum is, by a wide margin, the most enjoyable novel I've read all year. Here's my review of @andrewgallix.bsky.social's mordantly witty debut in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

My old band Flamingoes is in this month’s Mojo magazine. ‘Flamingoes and Fountains of Wayne share a taste for Superman/ rabbit mash-ups’. #Therecordisforeverman @mojomagazine.bsky.social @keithcameron2.bsky.social

ICYMI today we're feat. A Donkey’s Tale (or How the Two Renés Quarrelled) by Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/02/a...

An October Substack from me: an essay on writing about places you've never visited. Read Into the Blue Again: Writing America for FREE here: judecook.substack.com/p/into-the-b...

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, discover beautiful records by Plinth, Andrew Wasylyk, Vic Mars etc, support the podcast. This week: the magical world of @claypipemusic.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Novelist @judecook.bsky.social discusses his forthcoming existential thriller, Time Being, with @timrelf.bsky.social in House Magazine!

I reviewed Mr Outside, Caleb Klaces superb second novel of fathers, sons & dementia in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

Next week - Walthamstow @keithcameron2.bsky.social on The Manics @musicmaps.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-history-...

My childhood memoir turned two yesterday. Thank you to all who’ve been reading (& listening to the audiobook) 🙏🏻 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social A nice review here by @jamesbpcook.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

OTD 40 years ago, 9th October 1985, I watched @waterboysmusic.bsky.social , supported by @delamitri.bsky.social , play a transcendental show at the Town & Country Club (now the Forum). I later wrote about it in my book Memory Songs. #waterboys #waterboysband #80smusic #80sgigs

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED. Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it. #BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

I was bawling long before the end of this. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Great to celebrate the launch of Yann Chateigné Tyltleman’s Blackout at Veranda Books last night, expertly chaired by @clementoctober.bsky.social. Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

A September Substack essay from me on the last day of the month. Read What I Love There: On Literary Subjectivity for FREE here: judecook.substack.com/p/what-i-lov...

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#SEND parents will not give up without a fight. #SaveOurChildrensRights www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The invincible Andy Miller. Providing a reason to check your social media every Wednesday. These Neko Case entries are lightning in a bottle.

A joy to discuss Withnail & I with @juderogers.bsky.social for tQ's pod: masculinity, the complexity of Uncle Monty, the lie of the Nature Cure, the grim 90s & how the film is relevant today in our age of oomska, still "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour..." thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

🎨 #GeraldHoltom, English artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), #DOTD 18 September 1985. #Art #GraphicDesign

This is what she’s like…

#nowplaying This has 80 tracks on it, or 80 singles in old money, every one of which is very good to great, perfectly sequenced and mastered. You can buy it for a tenner. Fiftysomething friends, this is the time for action.

You can listen back to the Hounds of Love feature here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

"Echobelly pissed all over Oasis as a live band" A choice quote of @jamesbpcook.bsky.social's in this double interview we did for @drownedinsound.org about the *other* Britpop... 🙌 www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

New: 30 years on from the britpop wars, two authors in the thick of it, one a teenage fan, the other in a band you’ve somehow never heard of @annadoble.bsky.social and @jamesbpcook.bsky.social on The Other #Britpop www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

I wrote about Caroline Elton's 'Looking After', a vitally important addition to the tiny corpus of literature about autistic adults, for the new-look @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/biogra...

This installment is about searching ... for a music scene, a sense of home and something much deeper. My favorite INVENTORY yet.

Two authors speak out about Britpop! My joint interview with the brilliant @annadoble.bsky.social www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...