Owen Booth
@owenbooth.bsky.social
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Moderately attractive sometime writer. You should go do something useful instead of posting here.
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Since weâre all politely reintroducing ourselves: Iâm the idiot who accidentally wrote these two books and some other stuff
about 1 year ago
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Final thoughts on âFrankensteinâ: definitely better than âNosferatuâ, but thatâs not a very high bar. Also: it really wasnât that faithful to the book. Also also: the accentsâŚ
about 2 hours ago
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR GOLD FILLINGS AND HAIR
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about 3 hours ago
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Sophie Petzal
about 4 hours ago
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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All in all: lots to like and lots toâŚ. not. The accents chief among them
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about 15 hours ago
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Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss thisâŚ
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about 16 hours ago
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Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
about 17 hours ago
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Verity Holloway
about 19 hours ago
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
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Speaking as a male writer who writes about men (& other people too!)⌠this is a hilariously bad take
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalayâs Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/the-guardian-view-on-the-booker-prize-winner-putting-masculinity-back-at-the-centre-of-literary-fiction
about 18 hours ago
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violet allen
1 day ago
A man?? winning the Booker prize????? Is that even possible? It hasn't happened since the far-flung days of 2023. Our legends say that a man also won it in the ancient, prehistoric era of 2021, but surely that is just an old wives tale meant to frighten MFA students before bed.
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The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalayâs Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/the-guardian-view-on-the-booker-prize-winner-putting-masculinity-back-at-the-centre-of-literary-fiction
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ULTRAđBLAST
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Rachel Robbins
3 days ago
Course my life was better 50 years ago. I was 7. Mum & Dad did stuff for me. Considered a genius cos I could do long division. Could get away with sulking. But fairly certain the 70s were shit for lots of people. Everyone wore brown suits. Oh, and there was a global recession & mass inequality.
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Athletic achievement is a piece of piss. Letâs see celebrities writing 100 experimental novels in a row for charity. That I could respect.
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3 days ago
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Tip: everything may be terrible but Iâm rewatching Northern Exposure (in the middle of season 3 now) and it continues to be the best tv show ever made. And itâs not even close.
4 days ago
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Rico Charges
4 days ago
When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
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Jeff VanderMeer
6 days ago
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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âLike a joyless Jilly CooperâŚâ đ Glorious.
profadamroberts.substack.com/p/david-szal...
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David Szalay âFleshâ (2025)
The Luck of Barry IstvĂĄn
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/david-szalay-flesh-2025?triedRedirect=true
5 days ago
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Ray Newman
5 days ago
Feeling the urge to make a zine again. This is dangerous. I don't have time to make zines.
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Gary Kaill
6 days ago
Blows my mind that the writer of one of the finest experimental novels of recent years cannot find purchase with the UK's allegedly 'No one publishes the stuff we dare to!' indie publishing sector. Generic, humdrum, feelings-fodder trumps the technically advanced, poetucally astute always.
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How can you tell if your narrative is written in âThird Person Wankerâ? Ray nails it:
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6 days ago
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You: but what do you mean when you talk about writing in the âThird Person Wankerâ? Me: I think I sort of mean something like *this*
owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/i...
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In Arcadia
(A story that never quite found its place â but its 90% there) -1- Nick canât sleep. Itâs been going on for months and itâs starting to affect his mental health. Itâs starting to affect his bâŚ
https://owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/in-arcadia/
6 days ago
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Anne Billson
6 days ago
God bless Michael Shannon. 'âIâm sure anybody whoâs associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything Iâve said in this interview,â he agrees. âBut I donât really care.â'
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âHermann GĂśring loved his kids. Thatâs whatâs terrifyingâ: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster â and the persistence of evil today
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/11/nuremberg-interview-rami-malek-michael-shannon-hermann-goring-russell-crowe?CMP=share_btn_url
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THIS IS GREAT!
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6 days ago
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Currently struggling to write anything decent because I keep slipping into a narrative voice best explained as âThird Person Wankerâ
7 days ago
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Danny Birchall
8 days ago
Well, I enjoyed the Liadan NĂ Chuinn one
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SJ Bradley
8 days ago
Also, I really enjoyed The Unreliable Nature Writer by Claire Carroll , and I've heard good things about Elsewhere by Yan Ge, although I've not read it myself yet
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Jen Calleja
8 days ago
If you like Grudova, I highly recommend these two:
strangeregion.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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The Infinite Fury and other stories
by Ian Macartney Two husbands talk at the end of everything. A train, full of flowers, is derailed by love. Edinburgh is enslaved by city-sized...
https://strangeregion.bigcartel.com/product/the-infinite-fury-and-other-stories
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SJ Bradley
8 days ago
best thing I've read recently was The Department of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. It's not exactly NEW new, though.
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Ben Pester
8 days ago
And ofc The Unreliable Nature Writer - Claire Carroll also Scratch Books tho feel sure you already know this. Last one- Marnie Appleton I Hope Youâre Happy
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Ben Pester
8 days ago
+1 for Will Wiles Also Tim MacGabhann SAINTS from
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I can attest to the goodness of the Will Wiles one; havenât read the others - yet!
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8 days ago
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The last 3 new-ish short story collections Iâve read (not written by any of you lot btw) have been absolutely godawful. Will somebody please recommend a really good recent collection? I AM WILLING TO PAY FOR THIS INFORMATION
8 days ago
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Francyđâ˘ď¸
8 days ago
Not sure why Leeds United want to ruin my life but they do so who am I to argue
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Annual WW1 remembrance shoutout to my grandad Horace Booth. Fought in France & The Tyrol, got blown up, caught malaria, & claimed to be the Prince of Wales's batman. Also once battled a Brazilian Wandering Spider.
about 2 years ago
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Pan Rolls Dice
9 days ago
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Anna Megill
10 days ago
I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!
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10 days ago
#VOH
stands for Voices of Hookland, because you canât tell the truths of anywhere and exclude voices that arenât the middle class academics, authors and professionals the weird fiction genre relies too heavily upon. Dairy men, shelf stackers, factory workers all sing the strange truths of place.
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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial)
11 days ago
lol
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Jo Lloyd đđ
11 days ago
Look at this! Congratulations to
@cdrose.bsky.social
- We Live Here Now has won this year's Goldsmiths Prize!
@goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
A writer who has pursued his own vision and refused to be swayed by the world - lovely to see this rewarded
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Francyđâ˘ď¸
12 days ago
Thinking about McSweeney today who is sat in a dark room frantically coming up with a piece on how and why Mamdani's election is a fluke.
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Itâs ridiculous how much better this is than most literary fiction being published today. Heâs 88 years old, for Godâs sake!
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Rose Ruane
13 days ago
Britainâs Deadliest Surfeit of Lampreys with Alexander Armstrong
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Thatâs it. Iâm out.
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13 days ago
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BURN IT ALL DOWN
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13 days ago
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SOMEBODY ELSE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT ALL OF THIS
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Confirmed: I do indeed sound like a wanker
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17 days ago
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I probably sound like a wanker, but if youâre interested in hearing me chatting about art vs craft, hobbies vs making a living, short stories vs novels, and PowerPoint vs sanity have a listen
open.spotify.com/episode/3DWs...
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Owen Booth: Classic horror, subverting PowerPoint, art vs. craft
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DWs66fvXORbTNu25uBgva?si=pzZ46_-rSRmF4_i8gI_HuA
17 days ago
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Day off
19 days ago
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Private Eye Magazine
19 days ago
Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Amanda
19 days ago
For my scary Halloween costume this year Iâm going to dress up as a person who phones someone to respond to a text message.
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