Ece is in conversation with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr on Thursday Feb 19, 6:30-8pm, Anthony Burgess foundation, Manchester @anthonyburgess.bsky.social Buy tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nerve-...

On this week’s newsletter, find out about Anthony Burgess’s long association with the Observer newspaper, and find out how you can enter your own writing into the Observer Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/sunday-obs...

The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism. Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling! First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...

New podcast: The Burgess Foundation is working to preserve the vast collection audio tapes in our archive. We talk to David Govier, audio preservation engineer at Manchester Central Library, about his work on the collection. All the usual places or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/p...

This week’s newsletter celebrates Anthony Burgess’s (A Clockwork Orange) novel Beard’s Roman Women, a novel about loss a grief. And yes, we address its terrible title… Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/psychopomp...

Pynch, punch, the last of the month. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/pynchons-t...

Do you have thoughts on culture and a way with words? Why not enter the Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism

The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism. Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling! First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...

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On this week’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess takes on the utopian thinking of B.F. Skinner. Find out how reading Skinner inspired the themes of A Clockwork Orange, and what Burgess thought ‘B.F.’ stood for… Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-psycholo...

On this week’s newsletter, we’re talking about Anthony Burgess’s translation of ‘the Russian Hamlet’. In the play, a young man rails against the immoral stupidity of the ruling classes. Some might say it’s quite relevant... Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-import...

Welly welly well, viddy this my brothers. We're going to like tolchock Captain America in his bolshy great yarbles.

Finished reading Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers (1980) last night — I found it extremely funny, a rich take on twentieth century history, Roman Catholicism, homosexuality, and literature from Jim Joyce to Willie Maugham. Heavy but brilliant.

New review of Anthony Burgess and America: "Thurley provides as comprehensive a treatment of the topic as it is possible to imagine. Thurley’s study is certain to become essential reading for anyone studying the writings of Anthony Burgess". @manchesterup.bsky.social @anthonyburgess.bsky.social

It’s darkest January, storms are battering the UK, snow is falling and we are dreaming of warmer climes. This week’s newsletter explores Anthony Burgess’s attraction to the food, culture and weather of Southern Europe. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-beauti...

Thinking about David Bowie on his birthday and ten years after the release of his final album, Blackstar. Find out about the connections between Bowie and Anthony Burgess over on our Substack: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/reading-th...

Looking back at 2025 - Centre for Place Writing books published this year. Including The Roads to Rome @cathfletcher.bsky.social Stowaway @joeshute.bsky.social A Shorter Ulysses @anthonyburgess.bsky.social & Moving Mountains @louisekenward.bsky.social #BookSky

In our reflections on 2025, we're listening to the radio & podcasts - with Michael Symmons Roberts on Front Row, Jean Sprackland on Start the Week and The Essay on BBC Radio4, Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social on The Library of Lazy Thinking & Andrew Biswell on @anthonyburgess.bsky.social 99 novels.

Nobody knows more about Peake than @profrmaslen.bsky.social. This is an exemplary podcast on Gormenghast etc. For all your Gothic-Christmas listening pleasure!

In our final newsletter of 2025, we’re celebrating 30 years of Anthony Burgess’s last novel, Byrne. We’ll be back in the new year. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-last-w...

Anthony Burgess wrote an introduction to Titus Groan, which is still in the current UK paperback. We also made a podcast episode about Burgess and Peake right here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Everybody knows the best memoirists are merely nominated for the Booker, right? *saunters off, whistling conspicuously*

Anthony Burgess on Shaw: After cataloging the man's many flaws and follies, he wrote, "But none of this could prevent his being a great dramatist, perhaps second only to Shakespeare."

A noble endeavour!

MANCHESTER MITCH BENN brings his electrifying one man version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to the International Anthony Burgess Centre on THURSDAY (18th) NB TWO shows (6pm & 8pm) #AChristmasCarol #ChristmasReels #Dickens #TheatreReels #ViralReels #Storytelling #ChristmasinManchester

The post below reminds me it's the right time of year to re-up my own piece on Anthony Burgess's view of Christmas as "an approach to life that might – had history gone differently – have been as viable as the one to which we’re committed". By way of Dickens, Chesterton, and post-Brexit politics:

On this week’s newsletter we’re preparing for the Christmas festivities with a look at Anthony Burgess’s (author of A Clockwork Orange) enjoyment of the seasonal banquet. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/christmas-...

On this week’s newsletter we’re preparing for the Christmas festivities with a look at Anthony Burgess’s (author of A Clockwork Orange) enjoyment of the seasonal banquet. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/christmas-...

🪖 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE 🪖 It’s the final episode of the series and we’re exploring THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE by KINGSLEY AMIS, a novel Anthony Burgess calls ‘a noble cry from the heart on behalf of human suffering.’ Find at all pod-apps and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

Vanilla caramel, a classic flavour, with the oldest pop linguistics book I own, a used copy of Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess (yes, the Clockwork Orange guy also wrote an intro to linguistics - the penciled flyleaf reminds me I bought it used for 50¢, in high school) #BooksAreMyJam day 9

🪖 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE 🪖 It’s the final episode of the series and we’re exploring THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE by KINGSLEY AMIS, a novel Anthony Burgess calls ‘a noble cry from the heart on behalf of human suffering.’ Find at all pod-apps and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

On this week’s newsletter we’re celebrating the 250th birthday of Jane Austen with a piece by Anthony Burgess himself. Find out why he thinks she is ‘formidable’. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-formid...

It's true! Here's Burgess doing 'The Burial of the Dead'. He had an extraordinary memory for poetry. We also have a tape of him reciting all of GM Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland. Someone who was there when it was recorded says he reeled it off from memory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRfg...

We have a winner! @marbleicehook.bsky.social correctly answered that the composer most associated with A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess himself. A new volume of his piano works has just been released to buy and stream. Honourable mention to @rmhayes.bsky.social who was pipped by 3 minutes.

This quiz question about A Clockwork Orange appeared in The Australian newspaper. There is the obvious answer and the more esoteric answer. We are sure that The Australian doesn't have both, but can you name them? We'll give the answer later on, Bragging rights for anyone who gets there before us!

This quiz question about A Clockwork Orange appeared in The Australian newspaper. There is the obvious answer and the more esoteric answer. We are sure that The Australian doesn't have both, but can you name them? We'll give the answer later on, Bragging rights for anyone who gets there before us!

🐅 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE 🐅 This week, a dystopian vision of a fascist Britain in THE OLD MEN AT THE ZOO by ANGUS WILSON. Writer and academic Marina MacKay guides us through the horrors. Find wherever you get your podcasts and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

🐅 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE 🐅 This week, a dystopian vision of a fascist Britain in THE OLD MEN AT THE ZOO by ANGUS WILSON. Writer and academic Marina MacKay guides us through the horrors. Find wherever you get your podcasts and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

Earlier in this series of Ninety-Nine Novels, we spoke to @clarachambara.bsky.social about R.K. Narayan's The Vendor of Sweets. Claire has written a blog about the novel that expands on some of her thoughts. Very much worth reading for fans of Narayan/S. Asian lit: 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

On this week's newsletter, Anthony Burgess writes about the operatic works of Benjamin Britten, focussing on the seafaring Billy Budd. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) and more: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-smell-...

🍆 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE🍆 This week, the thorny issue of PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by PHILIP ROTH. Is the novel more than its reputation? Is it really just about onanism? Roth expert Matthew Shipe helps us find out. All the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

🍆 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE🍆 This week, the thorny issue of PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by PHILIP ROTH. Is the novel more than its reputation? Is it really just about onanism? Roth expert Matthew Shipe helps us find out. All the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

A writer on a chat show?! ‘Not in a million years,’ you might say, but this week’s newsletter explores Anthony Burgess’s adventures in the world of light entertainment. The past is truly a different country. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/chatty-man

A writer on a chat show?! ‘Not in a million years,’ you might say, but this week’s newsletter explores Anthony Burgess’s adventures in the world of light entertainment. The past is truly a different country. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/chatty-man

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation has a new episode in their excellent "Ninety-Nine Novels" podcast featuring me talking about Riddley Walker. You can listen here: anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n... @mcfarland.bsky.social @russellhoban.bsky.social @anthonyburgess.bsky.social

⚙️NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE⚙️ A dystopian vision of the future, a young boy in a violent world, a made-up language. No, not A Clockwork Orange, but RIDDLEY WALKER by RUSSELL HOBAN. At all the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.] archive.org/details/wend...

⚙️NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE⚙️ A dystopian vision of the future, a young boy in a violent world, a made-up language. No, not A Clockwork Orange, but RIDDLEY WALKER by RUSSELL HOBAN. At all the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

Anthony Burgess was a fan of Rushdie's writing. When all the furore over The Satanic Verses happened, Burgess wrote Rushdie a letter of support -- in typical Burgess fashion, it was a lengthy poem in the style of Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man' and railed against literary censorship.

Luckily, Blooms of Dublin has just been republished alongside Burgess's newly-discovered abridged version of Ulysses: uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...