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late to the party here but may we all one day write paragraphs as effortless as Miranda July’s in All Fours #booksky

Rosenberg, the son of Holocaust survivors, believed in the Zionist project until a visit to Israel in the late 1960s revealed “a land filled with violence, injustice, and hatred”. His book, & its account of how Israel’s apartheid system operates, is essential reading. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

can we please leave clowns out of this

But actually everything in the world belong to us so there is no need to steal. For example my glasses. They are just glasses. They do not belong to me or to you, or they belong to all of us. But you know about my tired old eyes and so you let me use them. Suzuki Roshi

using AI is like having a brilliant intern who is so brilliant you suspect they may actually be profoundly stupid

First read-through of Fellowship, 80 pages in. Good lord it’s brilliant! And i don’t even normally care for fantasy! #booksky

Coetzee on Dostoevsky’s compositional method

beautiful little piece about the lord of the rings. #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

the Pitt is Life youtu.be/Xq8x47ky2Tw?...

I respect this arriving 79 pages into Hayman’s biography of Thomas Mann

fair point, franz

the great David Milch #writing

I wrote a piece for Springback magazine about the Lyon Dance Biennale and the devotional nature of arts gatherings #dance #writing springback.org/assembly/202...

you found a home at the magic store (stolen from the delightful @lildavidelms.bsky.social newsletter)

wise words from @austinkleon.bsky.social #booksky

something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’ - Don McCullin www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Pessoa #writing

In today's least surprising news

Letter signed, ‘Please accept. Sincerely, Samuel Beckett.’

exasperated train driver announcement to us during rush hour commute this morning: “there is more space in the back. the front and back of the train both arrive at Charing Cross at the same time. you do not enter some alternate reality when you sit in the front of the train”

love this www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... #booksky

words are all so used - Fowles

some lovely improv pointers from the great Chris Mead #improv #comedy

creepy book of the week (my god it’s so creepy) #booksky

Well, turns out that going to a European dance festival when your own country doesn’t believe in that sort of thing actually turns out to be not depressing but life-affirming. Thank you Lyon! #dance

I’m at the airport, off to Lyon, and in a good mood for travelling, until i realise i’m going to a dance festival

The evil that men do lives after them

Steve Martin meets Aaron Copland #writing

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Steve Martin’s “born standing up” is a delight #booksky

bring back capital punishment

Dying at the book he's reading

i read this mind-blowing piece by Clair Wills in the @lrb.co.uk on the Constance Marten saga and went back to read broadsheet accounts of it… most of the coverage has been criminally superficial www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

book of the week (or of the past two or three weeks as summer holidays parenting, I've come to realise, means fewer, not more, books read over the summer!),short story collection Anyone read Chandra? 'Shakti' about a woman slowly climbing the echelons of Bombay society is very very good. #booksky

tbf this feels like a natural evolution for American dance

love this piece about the whole Disco Elysium debacle. Nice also to see a sophisticated breakdown of rpg and gaming mechanics in a broadsheet paper... usually in these spaces you get the sense the feature writer is holding their nose while writing about games #writing #gaming on.ft.com/457I0eU

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

not sure what to make of the fact that 178 people seemed very interested in in the extremely young age of consent in 1604

This sentence should be in jail

what i like about Shepard’s short plays and stories is they both live in this liminal space between the two forms. This is the start of a short story, but it might as well be a play #writing

these stories are gems #booksy

super chuffed to be performing as part of the Lab at the FA this Sunday. And it’s only a tenner! #comedy #improv www.thefreeassociation.co.uk/shows/narrat...

on a note completely unrelated to AI, really impressed with how eloquent people’s emails at work have become - proof people are reading again! #writing