'...a rich retelling of a haunting book' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @fjmozley.bsky.social @johnmurrays.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

ELMET (the play!) will be opening in Bradford tomorrow. Catherine Love has written about the process of bringing it to the stage. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

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Elmet looking good @fjmozley.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... Always been a big fan of Héctor’s. Sure, he couldn’t cross a ball, but he brought so much style.

Picked up some entry-level Pynchon to read on the train. Halfway through and totally lost. Send help.

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2527208... @fjmozley.bsky.social

Idea for a book about a successful nature writer who gets exposed as a fraud but recovers from the trauma by going back to nature again and then writes a book about the experience which turns out to be an even bigger success than the one that got them into trouble in the first place but then

Next came @souljaleonn.bsky.social on memories and images of memories of the ancient kingdom of Elmet, plugging among many pieces of literature (and osteological reports), the brilliant 2017 novel Elmet by @fjmozley.bsky.social

York City have unveiled next season’s shirt, featuring a rune version of the club name, in collaboration with the Jorvik Viking Centre. Unfortunately you don’t want to mess with York’s fanbase when it comes to runes.

Elmet’s been turned into a play by total genius Javaad Alipoor. Known for theatre about Iran & its diaspora, with Elmet he’ll be exploring his Yorkshire roots. 22nd October - 2nd November in Bradford, with live music from Mercury Prize-nominated The Unthanks. bradford2025.co.uk/event/elmet/

Always meet your heroes @brighteyesband.bsky.social

Selling my tickets for Bright Eyes in London on 25/6 and seeing them in Glasgow instead. Link here secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E0060D5B...

In New York for the week, based in Brooklyn (which I don’t know very well). Suggestions welcome! 🙏

In New York for the week, based in Brooklyn (which I don’t know very well). Suggestions welcome! 🙏

I know I normally only talk about non-fiction history books, but I had to post my thoughts on ELMET (2017) by @fjmozley.bsky.social (1/?)

This reveals so much, both about Ice and Amazon Prime.

The five co-authors of this report on copyright, AI and the arts are all from the science and technology sectors. Not one artist or creator among them.

If you think intellectual life is already dominated by a narrow elite, I promise you ain’t seen nothing yet.

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

Reminds me of the dust heaps in Our Mutual Friend - potentially a fortune; potentially just rubbish. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Is Radio 4 just going to be non-stop unfunny comedy from now on?

Elmet is a fantastic novel.

For fiction, I particularly recommend NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names, George Saunders' A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, @fjmozley.bsky.social 's Elmet, Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed (finally!) and Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways.

Sometimes I just sit around and imagine what life must have been like for a semi-successful novelist in the 1990s.

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee… —Robert Burns SELECTED POEMS & SONGS (OUP, 2013) #BurnsNight Listen to the song performed here by Robyn Stapleton www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax02...

Actually pretty scared about this.

This is going to be special.

Very excited to hear about this from one of Creative PEC's Industry Champions!

***NEWS KLAXON*** ELMET is going to be a play, adapted by the incredible Javaad Alipoor for Bradford City of Culture 2025. www.javaadalipoor.co.uk/our-work/elmet

***NEWS KLAXON*** ELMET is going to be a play, adapted by the incredible Javaad Alipoor for Bradford City of Culture 2025. www.javaadalipoor.co.uk/our-work/elmet

My Instagram is full of people baking intricate cakes and shearing sheep.

Just finished Orbital. I’ve encountered a lot of bad reviews on social media but I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Actually, I found it to be really beautiful. Yes, the characters are voids but the impersonalisation worked for me.

I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead. Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.

Apparently scientists in Bristol have designed a diamond battery that could last thousands of years. Pretty extraordinary. bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

Does anyone have any ideas about staying in Brooklyn? Where’s good/ where to avoid? I know Manhattan pretty well and I’ve stayed in Greenpoint before but I know nothing of Brooklyn… (Accompanying academic partner on a research trip)

Dog ate DeLillo

I thought Wicked was boring and inane.

I read some more Roth over the holidays. After being dazzled by his mind-bending genius, I have lately been wading through the dregs. Very much love/hate. Thinking of writing a long essay on all of this… 🤷‍♀️

Hope Santa visited wherever you are. This is from a 1598 map ‘William Barentsz's Map of the Polar Regions’

1) Watching Christmas Bake-off 2) Saw Natalie Cassidy 3) Googled “Sonia best scenes Eastenders” 4) Watched a video of teenage Sonia giving birth to a Christmas baby she didn’t know she was pregnant with.

I have this theory that Sean Dyche perceives goal-scoring as somehow effeminate. I can’t back this up, of course, or even really articulate what I mean. But it’s a belief I hold.

I wish men still dressed like they do in It’s A Wonderful Life. One for @dieworkwear.bsky.social I guess.

Getting ready for Christmas by half-watching It’s A Wonderful Life and half-reading a book (Good Morning, Midnight).

Can you guess what I eat for my lunch? Take the festive literary quiz! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...