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.

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This is what Hal means when he says he can't be an actor because he's going to be the seventeenth Duke of Lancaster (article title: Wedding bells at Ar*ndel! The Duke of N*rfolk is ‘thrilled’ at the news that his second son is engaged)

Kit and I are getting married in two months and I've been so busy with the practicals that I'm missing my opportunity to milk being affianced. Look at me I'm a fiancé

Marrying Isabelle of Valois so he had an excuse to maintain peace with France and a child bride he could treat like a daughter while putting off actually begetting an heir was so 4D chess of Richard

Today is Henry IV of England's death day, so it's time to reread 'Barbarism' in @grantamag.bsky.social, in which my modern Henry works himself into psychosexual hysteria because his wife is dead and he's still in love with his gay cousin granta.com/barbarism/

There are only two genders, clean and robust

The people are clamouring for the Henriad

There is another world in which Henry Bolingbroke was one of Richard II's little boyfriends and everything was different. Not better but different

I think H4 et al were motivated to depose R because of his failure to give them what they felt was their due, & were able to exploit R's other failings as a ruler, wh. otherwise they might have tolerated, in order to construct R as a tyrant worthy of deposition in the eyes of parliament & the church

sitting around laughing about how they can make poo or spill blood or show knives going in and blood spurting everywhere or someone's guts spilling out or how to keep someone's nose safe from bacteria when its shoved into someone's bum

The beautiful Kris Knight painting you may recognize from the US edition of Henry Henry will also be gracing the cover of the UK paperback, coming on the 15th of May.

Robin Hood and the merry men are one of those polygamist sovereign citizen cults

Haha yes Tom Hardy provided some inspiration. I think you're the first to mention it. Mary and Richard both read history of art; whatever Henry studied came second to rowing

Moratorium on contemporary political figures being compared to Richard II. It doesn't work. It's not relevant. Stop

Anyway happy Valentine's Day/Richard II death anniversary, read my story where Richard is blond and born in 1970 and fucks nasty. I'm sorry you died King Richard II granta.com/honeymoon/

I guess it makes sense that they would humiliate Richard during the deposition by making him wear the ugliest outfit known to man

The Spanish-language edition of Henry Henry, translated by José Monserrat Vicent, is out now from Plata: letrasdeplata.com/henry-henry RÍE AHORA. LLORA DESPUÉS.

If you haven’t joined in our monthly Shakespeare webinar series yet, you’ve got time to look at 1 Henry IV before March 3 - sign up here. Free, all welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

Have seen some videos of curtain call for the Bridge's Richard II and I am really hoping Richard & friends wear more interesting clothes pre-deposition because Richard II didn't die for t-shirts and jeans

Enjoyed Mary Beard's talk at the Kennedy Center last night. The accumulation & transference of myths about emperors is v similar to what happens with medieval kings, down to the fixation on shoes -- as with the story of poulaines attached to the knees with chains at Richard II's court.