It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!

It was amazing to say a few words on Friday at an absolutely packed launch for Joseph LaBine's first collection of Niall Montgomery's poetry, Terminal I: Arrivals, which is available now from Flat Singles Press! Truly a belated launch for a seminar Irish poet.

In collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich I have launched a new podcast! Check it out 👇

I'm excited to share that I’ve been appointed as Research Fellow at the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich! I’ll be launching a new podcast on Huxley, produced in collaboration with Robin Hull entitled Themes and Variations Podcast launching soon! Full details here: www.huxleycentre.ch/news/

The second panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Eoin McGloin, Bryan Counter and Cristian Horgos. The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

The first panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Patrick Armstrong and Harun Šiljak! The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

We were so honoured to have the brilliant writers and scholars Konai Helu Thaman, Vanessa Griffen, and Akanisi Kedrayate speaking at our book launch at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Such a privilege! @columbiaup.bsky.social

The keynote speaker on 19 May is the brilliant Joe LaBine! His address is titled: "Newspaperist, Novelist: Aldous Huxley, Flann O’Brien and The Generative ‘column’" and I can't wait! It's online and free! Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Thank-you to the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social for sharing this podcast - it's certainly unmissable if you want to learn new and surprising things about #flannobrien

New podcast episode! Join me and Oisín Ó Nualláin, Flann O’Brien’s nephew, to explore the the writer as a paternal figure, an accomplished joiner (!) and member of a formidable Northern family: the Ó Nualláins as voracious intellectuals, inventors and ‘ex-centros’ builders of the Irish republic.

Very excited to be shortlisted!

💥'The weak heads of the dead’, a free, online conference on Flann O’Brien and Aldous Huxley, 14.30 - 18.30 GMT, 19 May 2025.💥 Organised by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, the programme features a keynote lecture by Joseph Labine. More information and sign up below:

Announcing 'The weak heads of the dead', 1430 - 1830 GMT, 19 May 2025 We'll be looking at newspapers, technology, theories of mind and the work of art Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan! Joseph LaBine keynotes. Attendance is free. Just sign-up using this form: forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL

Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!

Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!

The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!

The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!

On Saturday morning at #BraveNewWorlds we'll witness a panel with some truly remarkable material on the ties that connect O'Nolan and Huxley in an era of mass media and censorship 🗞️ #zurichevents #aldoushuxley #flannobrien

Eek! I am extremely excited to share the first panel for #BraveNewWorlds. Friday morning will see us explore intoxication, sedation and the experience of time across the work of Huxley and O'Nolan in this most pharmacologically exciting set of papers! 💊 #aldoushuxley #zurichevents #flannobrien

Travelling and weaving together these texts, with a dollop of Derrida, as I work on my paper for #BraveNewWorlds, 'Subversive Refunctioning: Writing as Pharmakon in Huxley and O'Nolan'

😵‍💫 It now befalls me to announce my OWN featured session at #BraveNewWorlds! 🤭 In Zurich on 8 February I, Tobias W. Harris, will present: 🤖 "Subversive refunctioning: Writing as pharmakon in Huxley and O’Nolan” ✍️ #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

🤯 It's time to announce the next featured speaker in Zürich for Brave New Worlds!💥 On 7 February David Dunaway will present: 💌 "Huxley, Heard and O’Brien: Literary Correspondence” 🕰  #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

🤫 Hush now! in Zürich for Brave New Worlds on 8 February, Chiara Sciarrino will present: 🎼 "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds” 👏 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

Join us in Strabane!

🥁 Drum roll please! I'm absolutely jazzed to declare that at, Zürich for Brave New Worlds, Dr Paul Fagan will present ☄️ "Apocalyptic Time in Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley" 🤯 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

Argh, it's so cool to keynote the International Flann O'Brien Conference Society in Strabane! This place is absolutely core to my understanding of Brian O'Nolan the person and the work itself. Expect weird investigations into topology, temporality and Tyrone!

It's time to announce the keynote on 8 February in Zürich for Brave New Worlds! Professor Emeritus Dana Sawyer will present: ∞ "The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded: the Deep Relevance of Aldous Huxley's spirituality for today's world.” 🦋 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

🤯 I'm overwhelmed with excitement to announce the session title of our opening keynote on 7 February in Zürich for Brave New Worlds: Maebh Long presents: 💉 ‘my patent Valetudinarian’s Vademecum’: Medical Anxieties in Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley💥 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

Now published and open access on the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, Zan Cammack gives a great review of Radio Myles, the Flann O’Brien podcast by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social

Thank you Zan for this review of my podcast! It all once again feels very new!

🎁 Just before we hit Christmas, I'm EXCITED to gift you the full draft schedule for our "Brave New Worlds" workshop in Zürich next year! 🎁 An unprecedented exploration of the dialogue btw Huxley & O'Nolan 🤯 Open to all! Infos and tickets available right here 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/brave-new-...

Driving home for Christmas? Pause Chris Rea and listen to the most recent episode of Radio Myles, the podcast on Flann O’Brien by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, featuring @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social speaking brilliantly on the nonhuman, the politics of comedy and hoaxes

Second post on bsky! This time, a new episode of the Radio Myles with none other than the heroic figure of Flann O'Brien studies and Irish modernism more generally, Paul Fagan! open.spotify.com/episode/2Su8...

Eeek, my first Bsky post! Hello friends! Registration is now OPEN for Brave New Worlds, an unprecedented collaboration between Robin Hull’s Aldous Huxley Centre in Zürich and Flann O'Brien studies. Register here (a 10% discount until the end of December!) 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/brave-new-...