Buying books to read books to write books to.

I trust "citizen journalists" as much as I trust "citizen proctologists".

I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking… lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...

Really enjoyed @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Jesus Christ Kinski - KK a touchstone for film geeks growing up in the Channel 4/Moviedrome era (‘wait, Nosferatu is in The Big Silence?’). Sections where The Writer becomes obsessed by his subject as compelling as the depiction of onstage mania. #BookSky

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉 Congratulations Chris! 👏👏

This is how I spend my time now.

Good luck to all the shortlisted authors of the best literary prize around.

You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Does anyone here use a TENS machine and do you find that it works?

Excellent news. I voted for Mamdani so that he might sort out the dire parking situation in Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire, UK).

It's not a lie when I tell people I spent my university years "between Oxford and Cambridge". #Luton

FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident

Just published my first novel while *not* having a Twitter account. Feels good. The clout once given to that awful website by publishers, record companies etc now seems entirely laughable today.

Just had three steroid injections in my neck if you've ever wondered about the perils of writing...

Happy 5th birthday to @bookshop.org, who have raised nearly £5 million for indie book shops and included The Offing in their indie champions list. Me and Baz (pictured). uk.bookshop.org/lists/5-year...

Current read. (As recommended by @horatioclare.bsky.social)

Now I am almost as wary of books as I am of people. They are also capable of hurting you, pushing you into the limbo of the forgotten ... When there are so many all saying the same thing they can shout you down and make you doubt, not only your memory, but your senses.

No sleep in October, but also...no stress. Back to living at soil-level again. Fully feral.

Chris Allnutt reviews @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 'Jesus Christ Kinski', this wkend's ed of the Financial Times 'Sometimes they look like poetry, sometimes they verge on prose. Sometimes the letters go completely astray and come out like chunks of vomit on the page.'

Highly recommend this ambient soundtrack if your dog is upset by fireworks. It’s like Brian Eno for canines and really helped our previous hound who had a week-long panic attack each year around Bonfire Night. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...

Up early for new @lankumdublin.bsky.social: youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

In which I recommend some excellent books. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Pretty pleased with this year's effort.

I've been working on a little something forthcoming... www.quincetreepress.co.uk/product-page...

I'm so old I remember when Allison Pearson used to be a journalist.

Imagine being employed to pixellate nipples.

On no, not the mince. #dailytelegraph

10 years today @adellestripe.bsky.social and I eloped to Halifax to get married. Honeymooned in Harrogate. No-one was happier than *every single person we know* at not having to go to another wedding.

Current view.

This guy's unhinged. RIP. Heaven has gained another angel.

A playlist for a book about a film about a performance about Jesus. open.spotify.com/playlist/18V...

Got me grubby mitts on this beauty... @reversediorama.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Happy Halloween.

Unfortunately I've had to mute the USA.

Another instalment in the occasional series, 'what is the TLS reviewer talking about?' Obvs few things more aggravating than an author being readily in command of their chosen material.

Ideally I'd like to buy Lightwater Valley, fun palace of my childhood. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Woke up at 3am. Couldn’t get back to sleep so continued reading Jesus Christ Kinski that I’d started the evening before. It’s brilliant! The juxtaposition between Kinski mid on-stage breakdown and the writer on the writing is fantastic. It is superbly put together @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Bravo.

A book chat with my publisher @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social (Feat. Soundcloud rap, ee cummings, Popol Vuh, MMA and life as a hairy snowflake.) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Super-rare 2017 advance copy of The Gallows Pole spotted....

"All bands are idiots." ~ @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social (discuss!) 🤘🤪🎸

Publication week has passed in a perfectly prolonged period of puppy paws, power naps and pizzle juice.

conjunctivitis.com A site for sore eyes.

The secret is copious amounts of Yorkshire Tea.

Arrived yesterday SIGNED copies of "Jesus Christ Kinski" by Ben Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social A novel born from the performance by the controversial & often furious Klaus Kinski! These beauties have gorgeous sprayed edges. Kinski would have loved it! biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

The Observer have observed. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Jesus Christ Kinski by Ben Myers: Reimagining of the actor’s infamous performance

One of the GREATEST THINGS EVER! To put it simply! 💥 @richarddawson.music-social.com

Fork candles.

Q. Did you have a book launch? A. If a dog eating one's hair is a book launch, then yes. Yes I did.