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Went for a walk to where the fires raged this summer in Wanstead Flats. Happy to see new growth: toadflax, ragwort and yarrow, which together sound like a line from an olde English fairy tale. #wansteadflats #afterthefires #regeneration #toadflax #ragwort #yarrow #autumn #transition

Any NEWCASTLE people out there... I will be reading from GREYHOUND and talking about the book at Deep North, Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tuesday 23rd September, 6pm. Info is here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/optindiebook... #Newcastle #greyhound #nonfiction #books

This might be the most beautiful film about war (and its costs) ever made. How have I never seen it until now? Kon Ichikawa’s “The Burmese Harp” (1956) has absolutely stunned me. See it if you can… #theburmeseharp #konichikawa #cinema #japanesecinema #art

Our current bestsellers 🕊⁣⁣ lrb.me/6jh

In 2006, Joanna Pocock traveled from east to west across the United States by Greyhound bus as she mourned her miscarriage. Seventeen years later, now in her midfifties, she did it again.

Photo from last night of me reading from GREYHOUND at the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social launch. The photo was taken by the artist Robin Hunt. We met online via our photographs during Covid as we were both photographing our domestic spaces. It was really special to meet him last night. #photography

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R. S. Thomas, from “Lore.”

This! “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

As it's her Feast Day, here's one of the strangest things Hildegard of Bingen did. Fans of the weird: look ye no further. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_...

Extraordinary book, I loved it so much!

Oxford diptych… many thanks to @dauntbooks.bsky.social in Summertown, Oxford where the conversation ranged far and wide. And a huge thank you to Miranda Ward, author of ADRIFT, for such an engaging & insightful series of questions about GREYHOUND. #oxford #greyhound #ontheroad #fitzcarraldoeditions

Really looking forward to talking to Miranda Ward (author of the wonderful 'Adrift') at @dauntbooks.bsky.social in Summertown, Oxford tomorrow evening (September 16). Our conversation will, no doubt, be pretty wide-ranging. Come on down! dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

Thanks to my husband for recommending B Traven’s ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’. A remarkable book written by a mysterious man who was born in Germany around 1882 and lived in Mexico under many aliases. I am researching gold for something I want to write. Here he hits nail on head. #research

If you’re heading to today’s Wanstead Festival, come and find the Fringe stall and stop for a chat about this week’s packed programme of theatre, music, book talks and comedy. #WansteadFringe wansteadfringe.org#this-week

So I may have rearranged by bookshelves a bit before my Zoom event with the fabulous Shakespeare & Co in Missoula … (what you can see is only a fraction of my Missoula-related author section!) The event started with the telling of a funny coincidence: (1)

This wasn't me last night at The Broadway Bookshop in Hackney, but it could have been (minus the waitress outfit). Stupidly I didn't take any photos of the fantastic event at The Broadway Bookshop to celebrate GREYHOUND so I have had to rely on stock photos to illustrate this post. (1)

Lone Wolf is just £1.99 on Kindle today (not quite the 99p it says here, but almost) - presumably this is a good thing? Anyway, get it here: tinyurl.com/27xy5utr

Oxford people: Excited to announce that on Sept 16 I will be in conversation @dauntbooks.bsky.social in Summertown with Miranda Ward, author of 'Adrift', to talk about 'Greyhound' (published in the UK by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) Link & info here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

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This event has all the feels. I'll be chairing, asking what memoir can do that other forms can't, and how each of them was changed by writing theirs @lilydunn.bsky.social and @joannapocock.bsky.social dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

CHANGE OF VENUE FOR WANSTEAD BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT! I will be in conversation with the wonderful writer, film-maker, walker John Rogers @thelostbyway.bsky.social upstairs at the Bull at 129 Wanstead High Street (close to Wanstead underground station) this Sunday.

The day before yesterday in Kensington Market, Toronto. #kensingtonmarket #toronto

Gorgeous photo show at the AGO. This one by Graciela Iturbide is an homage to her mentor Manuel Alvarez Bravo, taken in Benares India in 1998. “Travel…sends me to a place of solitude”, she writes, “which in turn also helps me think.” #AGO #Toronto #GracielaIturbide #photography #travel

My last full day in Toronto, visiting my sister in the Beaches, passed by this little chick staring out a window. #toronto #thebeaches #sayinggoodbye

When a bookshop manager, writer and translator meets an author, the plotting begins… Thank you Claire Foster at Type Books & all the Type people for an unforgettable launch last night. Both Soft Skull and @Fitzcarraldo editions were very much there in spirit. (Photo by my sister Sheila Pocock)

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

"It’s not just suburbs and the exurbs beyond them that require car travel, but many American cities – even in their downtown cores – have no form of public transportation. . ." @joannapocock.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/grey...

Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.

A very nice Monday surprise. 👇👇👇I am heading to Type Books tomorrow in Toronto to launch ‘Greyhound’ in Canada and also to buy the new Miriam Toews. #indiebookshops

Very grateful to Maisie Hurwitz for a really thoughtful review of GREYHOUND in @altajournal.bsky.social "Pocock’s second book, Greyhound is explicitly in conversation with the canonized accounts of what she calls the “Great American Road Trip.”... (1)

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. @joannapocock.bsky.social hits the nail on the head in her depiction of our digital era American moment. I'm a longtime fan of the road trip memoir; this one is an instant classic. And this @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social copy looks gorgeous.

Now in its 12th annual season, the Wanstead Fringe Festival is a grassroots, community-focused celebration of the arts based in London, E11. @bauermediaoutdoor.bsky.social have gone over and above the call of duty to support our organisation- the Fringe CIC are eternally grateful.

Wanstead Book Festival presents @bylinetimes.bsky.social co-founder @stephencolegrave.bsky.social in discussion with Victor Adebowale, Thurs 11 September. Stephen introduces Punk, a work rooted in rebellion, creativity and social change. wansteadfringe.org/event/stephe...

@neglectedbooks.com Do you know this one? It sounds great.

Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online). Letter's wording is in the .alt element. #waccampaign

I also really enjoyed this conversation with @questingvole.bsky.social !

Waiting for the 510 from Queen’s Quay to Spadina and Queen. Some nice lines and a sign for sounding your gong. #toronto #streetcar #queencar #design #signage #canada

Some serious cloud action seen from the GO train between Kitchener and Toronto. #rain #clouds #kitchener #waterloo #ontario #landscapes

"Greyhound buses feel like part of an overlooked ecosystem—The space they create is a rare one: an environment where strangers are connected by the simple need to get somewhere. You can’t buy anything on a bus (like you can on a plane or train), you can’t upgrade either – you’re all in it together"😍

@orionmagazine.bsky.social have printed a short extract from GREYHOUND (published by Soft Skull Press in the US and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in the UK). "Greyhound buses are part of an overlooked ecosystem. ... They are more library than shopping mall..." #greyhound #OrionMagazine

Old Toronto, new Toronto. #osgoodestation #toronto #subway #tiles #oldversusnew

I was so happy to get the chance to write about @joannapocock.bsky.social‬ 's profound examination of America's ailing heartland. One more in my list of proofs that it is publishers like Soft Skull putting out the most daring and accomplished writing today.

Thank you, @perfectvehicle.bsky.social for your insights into ‘Greyhound’. Very grateful as well for Soft Skull’s dedication to the written word and to authors who work outside the mainstream. 🙏

'For me a text is the beginning of a conversation, not the final word.' @joannapocock.bsky.social was interviewed for The London Magazine about her new book, GREYHOUND: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-jo...

Today on Kingston Road, Toronto. #kingstonroad #toronto #churchsigns #love

Ah, Toronto, where you can get your synth fixed. #synths #toronto #synthfixing #oldschool #queenwest

Have just started GREYHOUND by @joannapocock.bsky.social from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Loving it so far - and this is a great complement.

When a friend in London sends you (who are in Toronto) a photo from the Serpentine Gallery bookshop of some @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social loveliness…. 💙🤍💙🤍 #surrender #greyhound #nonfiction #fitzcarraldoeditions #serpentinegallery