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Thanks to Ali Smith. For writing this book, and also for giving me the chance to state a few facts in The Guardian. Facts that have, for the most part, gone shamefully unsaid over the past few years. Do consider sharing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

BIRMINGHAM 🚨 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bir...

Spoke to the Guardian about my picks for the Booker ( Szalay, McBride, @katiekitamura.bsky.social ) - I also gave the staggering insight that such lists are … wait for it … “mysterious”

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"it is hard to shake the feeling that we are in desperate, desperate need of a new story altogether." @keirangoddard.bsky.social reviewing much more than Irvine Welsh here - and posing a very big question indeed. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Reviewed the Trainspotting sequel www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

In a mix up for the ages, rather than copies of my book in translation, I have received in the post approximately 10,000 earrings. This is under half of them, Anyway, I guess I’m in the jewellery business now. 💍💍

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What an incredible piece on a book I've been obsessed with and reccing to everybody for months

Me on Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, love, and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower and West Midlands libraries. Read it now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...

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Lovely to talk to comedy legend Richard Herring about books ( and some other stuff )

Shard End absolutely turning out to support 👁️ 🌊 🌆📉 ⚡️ 🎥 🙏❤️

We're thrilled to announce that we have acquired BAFTA nominee Clio Barnard's upcoming feature I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING, an adaptation of Keiran Goddard's novel starring Anthony Boyle, Lola Petticrew and Joe Cole.

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Brilliant news, congratulations @keirangoddard.bsky.social! I highly recommend his novel, I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING! 📚🤩

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Life, eh? variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Reviewed Raw Content by Naomi Booth … www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Hang on?! THIS is the lad you’ve all been swooning over for two hundred years? Perverts.

Despite an extremely strong field, this might be the most depressing headline of the week…

Reviewed FLESH Which was brilliant. A sort of brutal, flinty, Forrest Gump. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

When I read about AI, I wonder about this idea of mimicry If I record my voice, and play it back, that is one thing If I speak in a church, and hear it echo back to me, that is another The latter strikes me as meaningfully different and meaningfully more “alive” As something other than mimicry.

Lots to love about Sabrina Carpenter But above all else She has made the entire world say “espresso” correctly Removing the ability of tedious, smug pedants to correct people who say “expresso” For that alone, she’s a modern great.

Sad to report a tragic accident at the Rugby Union viewing party …

Quick note to Democratic Party “strategists” This brilliant plan, which consists of embracing symbolic nationalism, rejecting any and all meaningful economic reform, pivoting away from the “tyranny” of the people and toward big corporate donors …will not work Evidence: All of history.

Nice to see at least some people nailed their Oscar red carpet outfits.

Literary opinion of the day: Thank fuck for Eimear McBride

No more novels about PEOPLE Enough There’s a glut Market saturation From here on out: Slim European satires about lawnmowers or walnuts The odd weighty tome about socks or sporks Wan husk autofiction by a rat or a worm Readers are dying out here We are ready for change

Personal liberty? Is that the liberty of workers monitored so excessively you were fined millions for “dystopian surveillance” ? The ones with the liberty to pass out and even die in your workhouses? Or the ones with the liberty to piss in bottles so they can meet your delivery targets?

Say what you will about Derrida and the long-term impact of Deconstruction on our aesthetic and cultural subjectivities … But that lad LOVED to tilt his head for a photoshoot

Always find it funny when marketing copy says a writer is: “ … at the peak of their powers” They sort of have to say that, no? Unlikely to tell the truth: “ … another more or less passable novel by a writer who is probably past their peak but is still cranking them out.”

We do “stand a chance” But it won’t come via a vision of individual success It just won’t It will come by collective action, the construction of new institutions, the throwing off of star culture, neophilia and “prizes”, by generosity and audacity

“ … who’s to say they didn’t? “

Re: EVERYTHING A fairly reliable indicator of a society being in a state of decay is an increasingly frantic demand that people justify their contribution, their worth, the basic validity of their being. Conditionality on an existential scale.

Some really good new books out at the moment, but these two in particular are seriously great. Get on it ( them )

Sea of signs at a recent Drake concert Including pleas for housing and medical bills As TS Eliot said: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang But with the sound of ten thousand people begging Champagne Papi for a car.

Enjoying the haughty syntax of this music theory book. “Clearly” ( you idiot )

🚨 ARTS ACCESS - INFO REQUEST Contacted by someone with physical disability (cerebral palsy) who is deeply interested in literature and film Struggling to find courses, access schemes, work/mentorship, structured opportunities etc Any leads/ideas? Please share - DMs open

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THURSDAY 🚨 Dm me if paying for a ticket is an issue. wearebardbooks.co.uk/francesca-an...

I’ve been humbled to meet so many fans this year. Not fans of me, to be clear. Just fans in general. People who are fans of things. Humbling to meet people who like stuff.

Every few days or so, I remember that “The West” finally started to worry about Covid when … Tom Hanks got it. Sort of gets funnier over time.

Come to this, next Thursday! As ever, if paying for a ticket is an issue rn, DM me and we can sort something out.

Really touched that 👁️ 🌊 🌆📉 ⚡️ won the 2024 fiction category. Thanks Suzi Feay 🙏❤️