the hollow is now filled with Richard II

Of course we all yearn for the days of AIDS and Section 28, that's why we're doing traditional moral values again

Delighted to be taking part in this new festival, please do share. It's a zero-budget operation with no outside funding so much depends / upon / ticket sales

'Gay English Catholic man' ? or 'English Catholic gay man' ?

“Picture of Nobody” follows a young poet navigating the literary scene of interwar London. It’d be a simple autofictional exercise, except the “nobody” in question has a very familiar namesake: William Shakespeare.

Philip Owens' Picture of Nobody, published first by Jonathan Cape in 1936 & second, with foreword by myself, by McNally Editions today - an intricate modernist black comedy in which protag Will Shakespere struggles to write as another modern war approaches. www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/pict...

@allenbratton.bsky.social considers the timelessness of Philip Owens’ Picture of Nobody and the artistic pursuit of genius.

My introduction to the @mcnallyeditions.com reissue of Picture of Nobody -- Philip Owens's clever, chaotic re-envisioning of Shakespeare in interwar London -- is now online via @literaryhub.bsky.social. The book is out tomorrow, 14th April. lithub.com/in-pursuit-o...

So excited that this is so close to coming out -- hope you enjoy

There's a scene in Hamnet of William Shakespeare contemplating suicide and I was like please don't start reciting 'to be or not to be' and then he did

Get 20% off all titles at unnamedpress.com until 1/1!

Chuffed for all the people who are posting saying they outsold Nuzzi but even Nuzzi numbers are all but unimaginable for small press poetry, buy my and Harry's new book, help us dream: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...

I had a dream last night that I made a post telling everyone to stop rating books on a numerical scale

Henry Henry's US publisher @unnamedpress.bsky.social is currently running their big holiday sale -- if you want a discounted copy of HH, hardback or paperback, without ordering from Am*z*n, now's your chance. unnamedpress.com

Yes!!! Yes!!!

A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...

This French website will only let me choose Connacht, Leinster, Munster or Ulster as the region for my shipping address

Yeah I've really been getting into Richard Nixon. Has anyone heard of him. Crazy guy

Massively enjoyed my evening with the DCU book club -- thanks so much for the warm welcome and the insightful questions. I was very touched that at least one person liked Hal and wanted him to be happy.

Sick of having to be in someone's vlog every time I go to Trinity

Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg

Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator. Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

Last day to submit! Judged by Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price, the winning stories will receive cash prizes and publication in The London Magazine. Submissions close at midnight. More details here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

Signed a few copies of Henry Henry in Heffers and Waterstones Cambridge

Spotted Henry Henry in the front window of my beloved Hodges Figgis

Peak UK moment

I'm always hearing about these

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts. The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts 🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j... / email [email protected] link with your local constituency

Finally faced a long-standing fear (watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back past the scene where Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite that scared me so much when I was like six that I had to turn the VHS off)

'The upcoming general election' was the one in 1945

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open! We are delighted to announce that Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize. Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...

Oh that's lovely my partner was a bookseller at Heffers many years ago. He took me there last summer and showed me his dim basement corner

Gay’s the Word pop-up is NOW OPEN and just in time for Pride London. So come pay a visit at our temporary and rather spacious new premises at 58-60 Marchmont Street (10 seconds from our usual location) and say hi. Please note over the Summer of 2025 we will be closed on Mondays! Happy Pride!

t.s. eliot gave a jellytot he had found on the ground to ezra pound

If anyone's in Dublin, I've just signed a few Henry Henry paperbacks at Dubray Grafton St

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

South Carolinians: Henry Henry is July's pick for Itinerant Literate's Get Lit literary salon, where you can enjoy discussion over wine and a three-course meal. Afterwards I'll join via video call to chat & answer questions. Only a few tickets left: www.eventbrite.com/e/get-lit-a-...

Buy the @unnamedpress.bsky.social paperback of Henry Henry for your cat: www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

Just finished Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. The perfect summer novel for the kind of person who can't stop wondering whether they'll ever find their own Bloomsbury Group. Beautifully translated prose. @jonathancape.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social

HENRY HENRY is now in PAPERBACK! It's the debauched party you don't want to miss. Available anywhere books are sold and at unnamedpress.com

I will post a newsletter tomorrow to commemorate a year of Henry Henry buttondown.com/allenbratton

London/UK readers, the LRB Bookshop is giving away three signed copies of the beautiful new Henry Henry paperback on Instagram 👉

Saw the Bridge's Richard II last night ... hmm

North Figueroa Bookshop, which is connected with my incredible US publisher Unnamed Press, is raising funds for an expansion including an event space and gallery -- spots like these are so important to the indie literary/art world, please do give the campaign a look.

Still jetlagged, but managed to catch a few films at TITE, Ireland's first trans film festival, yesterday -- was especially thrilled to find out that the screening of the 1989 Channel 4 documentary Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe! was followed by a Q&A with the director Kristiene Clark herself.

Everyone is trying to be like Hal

Reserving my judgment on this production until I see it later this spring, but found this article interesting -- as someone who loves Richard II in and of itself I do find it frustrating that, as Bachrach notes, any major production of the play requires a film/TV star to be cast as Richard.