Pete Randles
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Ben Eltham
22 days ago
A typically incisive piece by Jonno Revanche in Overland on bad essays, Substack writing, and the general state that we’re in
overland.org.au/2025/12/with...
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With respect to the poor essay - Overland literary journal
Style is now a feature that we surrender to a digital pattern recognition machine, which attempts to replicate our own but often falls short, feeling convincing enough but too superficial in its notic...
https://overland.org.au/2025/12/with-respect-to-the-poor-essay/
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The Quietus
29 days ago
As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller Why
#EdgeOfDarkness
makes so much sense in 2025
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Former Stone Roses bassist Gary 'Mani' Mounfield dies aged 63
Mounfield was a member of the classic Stone Roses line-up for their 1989 self-titled debut album, which featured hits such as I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs The Drums, and I Am The Resurrection.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/stone-roses-bassist-gary-mounfield-dies/106035664?utm_source=abc_news_web
about 1 month ago
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Fat City is an excellent novel. It’s never left me, that feeling you’re never gonna make it.
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David Barnett
5 months ago
Anyone read ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE by Andrea Ashworth? Anyone wonder what happened to her after publishing her one and only book in 1998? Here you go:
manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo...
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Andrea Ashworth wrote a classic of Mancunian literature. Why did she vanish from view?
My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation
https://manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashworth-vanish-from-view/
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7 months ago
Important lessons for fucking everyone in this piece. How gutless of Scwartz to not put it in print. Correct link here -
overland.org.au/2025/04/ando...
add a skeleton here at some point
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The Guardian
8 months ago
‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia
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‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia
The long read: During the decade-long conflicts, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out their brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters became more passionate and more outspoken in their condemnation, attracting praise and criticism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/we-know-what-is-happening-we-cannot-walk-away-how-the-guardian-bore-witness-to-horror-in-former-yugoslavia?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746513514
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Electric Literature
8 months ago
“The hourglass had been turned and I could see time trickling down; the grains were falling too fast.”
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Losing My Dad in Installments - Electric Literature
Back then, it felt easier to say goodbye to each part of him as they left
https://buff.ly/qXhevJi
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