Is there no enterprising UK-based law firm willing to pursue this on behalf of UK authors?

I fucking love him for this:

I always have a moment of thinking they're talking about Lana Del Rey.

The exponential growth of scam emails from fake book marketers and people posing as famous writers makes something depressingly clear. The real money is to be made, not by trying to sell books to readers, but by exploiting would-be authors.

Today dear ones, last call, all aboard, won’t you join us please?

Rectify the anomaly! Rectify the anomaly!

Not only one of the great voices in popular music, but also one of the great songwriters:

ICYMI yesterday we had to ask #booksky for help. Our bank had an admin error and drained our account. 📚 In 24h you ordered £750 of books – here’s 2/3 of them! Overwhelmed, relieved, hugely grateful. Thank you. 🧡 🍌 Banana, as is custom, for scale. Fairtrade, ofc. 💚🐸

I've ordered Renard's edition of Mrs Dalloway, a book I've been meaning to read for a while:

My favourite 80s album:

All soup is neither liquid nor solid, and is therefore an unclean abomination.

Just reading about Miss Shilling’s orifice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sh...

Walked by the local reservoir yesterday, and it was full of little motorised sailing boats operated by a group of old fellas, likely a club. Made me proud to be a bloke.

SPOILERS for Task I am patting myself on the back for getting this right:

This is stunning!

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The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor! www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

THIS ISSUE: EVERYBODY DIES! (Though that was actually the next one I think.)

Free idea for a crime novel:

New scam email today. A message allegedly from Elizabeth Strout, wanting to 'connect' about her new book (one of the giveaways is that it doesn't actually refer to her latest, but the one before). I think the purpose is to get me to click on the link included in the message.

As a rule I keep politics off here but sometimes an incident needs highlighting, an experience needs to be seen, a person needs their voice shared. I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.

Is there no enterprising UK-based law firm willing to pursue this on behalf of UK authors?

I have two novels and about ten academic articles on the Anthropic list, but I’m not going to get a penny because nothing is registered with the US copyright office (academic articles seem to be entirely excluded from the settlement). What a bummer.

Great review/discussion of a book about one of the crown jewels of British literature:

Good news! I didn’t take part in Erasmus, but I did teach in universities that benefited from it, and since I did a PhD in Italian history, I feel like I did an equivalent commitment:

This is very funny:

Nice!

Me too, though they made me accept the new ToC before they would allow me to re-log in to delete my account.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

If you don’t know The Great Waldo Pepper, it’s one of Redford’s great 70s run of films, about a barnstormer pilot, screenplay by William Goldman: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aYUE...

My favourite #robertredford film is The Great Waldo Pepper, which I wrote about here: jonathanwalkersblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/reen...

RIP Robert Redford When I was a dumb kid I thought he was a bland & vacuous leading man. And then I grew up. He made some superb and politically challenging movies by using his star power to subvert audience expectations & challenge the status quo. And, of course, he made my beloved Sneakers.

Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when ..

Don’t have any expectations for the announced film being any good, or of any interest to middle-aged me, but I am blocking anyone who mocks Bagpuss.

Entirely predictable:

Internals from Detour, a photobook we publish next month in partnership with Pendle Press. Combining striking photography and stark memoir, Detour documents Tokyo architect Abele's experience with Bipolar disorder. A meditation on the power of creativity in managing mental health. ortacpress.com

I am now getting three or four emails a week from spam book marketers: all of them either mentioning out of print works, books written by a different Jonathan Walker, including—a new low—one by a nineteenth-century abolitionist. What is going on with this shit?

I am only getting the subtweets about hating literary fiction. Is there anyone actually hating on it, or is this a pseudo-event that only exists via refutations of a fictional version of it?

When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is: "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

Just noting that both W H Auden and Evelyn Waugh graduated with thirds. I wonder how many other accomplished writers are in this club? (Dropping out without graduating also counts I think.)

This is the only thing that would make me watch.

This is grim.

My opinion on Alien: Earth:

"I hope this is one piece of the mosaic of evidence to change policies and exert pressure on Israel." International Association of Genocide Scholars' Tim Williams speaks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the resolution that genocide is happening in Gaza. Read and watch:

Lodge 49 is also very insistent on this. One of the reasons it’s such a great show.

Pierre Menard managed to re-compose the entirety of the Biggus Dickus bit and part of Blessed are the cheesemakers, but they mean something completely different now.

We will be open to submissions from September 1st through September 7th this year! Submission info and guidelines are on the "about page" of our website: dorothyproject.com/about/

Got a new passport surprisingly quickly on the standard service (i.e. as quicklly as if I'd paid for the faster option). Though no doubt if I'd needed it promptly it would have been slower. I actually have no plans (because no money) to travel, but I'll need it to vote now.

My neighbours in Christ, you cannot put large metal items in the bin—or leave furniture out randomly. It won’t be emptied/collected!