I wrote on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with a Western open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

60s Scott Walker: Baby take it easy now/I miss your sweet caress and how! 70s Scott Walker: The boulevards are rushing by, mon frere/With ennui and some despair 00s Scott Walker: Locust/Locust/Disease [sound of Mickey Mouse being tortured in a Bolivian jail]

Delighted that this article has been picked up by @criterion.bsky.social for The Daily www.criterion.com/current/post...

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

Enjoy this Rohmer talk and this picture of a Rohmer-esque lighthouse

I wrote about Pavements and the current state of the Music Biopic open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

I wrote about 28 Years Later, a film which I struggled with but nevertheless found fascinating in its vision of contemporary Britain davidhering.substack.com/p/isles-of-w...

I have a very short story out today in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and you can read it here: xraylitmag.com/another-word...

I wrote about Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise’s increasingly deranged career davidhering.substack.com/p/tom-cruise...

Correction: 7:45pm now!

I’m going to be on BBC News at 6:45 tonight discussing the International Booker Prize, if you’re so interested!

A new substack from me on The Six Worst Cinema Audiences of My Life. A journey through cinema hell which many of you will recognise: t.co/oJsheCJd8n

For my latest Substack, I wrote about the modern cinematic haunted house, Boomers, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Zemeckis and the uncanny quality of real estate photography: t.co/oZFAp1jGOL

I wrote about David Cronenberg. Link here: t.co/wcIR0X9ghQ

I'm starting a Substack, 'Notes from the End of Cinema'. It's a film diary, but will also feature writing on broader aspects of contemporary cinema. Anything and everything from the history of cinema will be covered. If you'd like to subscribe, the link is here: t.co/rS09qsHUT1

I'm starting a Substack, 'Notes from the End of Cinema'. It's a film diary, but will also feature writing on broader aspects of contemporary cinema. Anything and everything from the history of cinema will be covered. If you'd like to subscribe, the link is here: t.co/rS09qsHUT1

I had a great time discussing Marguerite Young's monumental novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling on @beyondthezero.bsky.social - link here! open.spotify.com/episode/2zwO...

I'm currently working on a new novel, and an extract from it, titled 'The Gleaner's Wife', which was previously available only in The London Magazine's print issue, is now available to read on my website. Link: www.davidhering.com/the-gleaner-...

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

From a novel I wrote, still awaiting a publisher

"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"

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

Favourite films I saw in 2024 that are not from 2024

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...

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

“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”

Next up

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

Next up…

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

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...

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

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

Mrs Dalloway said she would walk the clock herself

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

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

Now this is what a cinema should look like

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

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

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

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

Next up

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.

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!

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

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

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...

Proust wearing nu-metal levels of baggy clothes here

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...