Agents, editors and publishers, see this thread. This book is one of my favourites ever and absolutely should be back in print.

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

As my art project continues to attract no attention whatsoever, a reminder that 1) I am full-time available for it! 2) the lack of appreciation of my genius only risks me writing a memoir called MY SUFFERING CONTINUES and no one wants that sarahsnewideas.com/2025/01/01/a...

Here is a really nice review of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK that Scott wrote *before* we became friends triumphofthenow.com/2023/01/18/y...

This is the most expensive copy of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK I've seen for sale yet! One thousand seven hundred seventy-eight pounds and four pence! www.amazon.co.uk/You-Ruin-Whe...

London writers please boost: our workshop is always open to new members and anyone who would like help getting their novel over the line please get in touch

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

The "You had me at balls" scene from the "Hey, Our 'Cops' Is On!" episode of My Name is Earl

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

For those of you wondering what happened to the potato on page 3: they got him folks

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

They do not appear to be making this anymore 😭😭😭 if anyone has an alternative nutmeg jam they recommend please let me know

My mom saw The Thursday Murder Club and thinks it was funny for old people

Driftwood: I say they're duplicates! Fiorello: Oh sure. It'sa duplicates. Driftwood: Don't you know what duplicates are? Fiorello: Sure, those five kids up in Canada. Famous since 1935! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X85...

Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

The last of the Dionnes has died www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Could masturbating be just as good as sex?

PRINT AIN'T DEAD.

Trailers before Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri: Marty Supreme (a very good trailer) Anaconda (I love Steve Zahn but not this much) Do Deewane Seher Main (another excellent trailer) And the teaser for "Wuthering Heights" is just Jacob Elordi striding around putting clothes on and off

I wish more people told me when they did this! Thank you Danny!

A coluna de Michel Laub no Valor é uma ótima resenha de meu livro “Escrever é humano” (Companhia das Letras), mas não fica nisso. Como o Michel, também pretendo continuar “lendo meus livrinhos, escrevendo meus textinhos, e espero haver um número suficiente de pessoas para continuar essa conversa”.

I think you would like A POISON APPLE by Michel Laub, not least because I want to discuss its excellence with someone

2025, 2026 - Michel Laub

Oh my goodness I filed 1100 words on Marty Supreme without mentioning this movie set in the 50s has a soundtrack of songs I danced to at nerd summer camp in the 90s. It worked! I don't know why they did it but it worked

When you saw no cultural footprint, that was when Avatar carried you.

On the downside two small siblings near me are listening to music on their mum's phone without headphones. On the upside it's Kate Bush

Hey, literary agents! You should represent Sarah. Well, one of you should. It would get messy if there were any more than that.

Confidential to the five people near me who did not stop checking their phones throughout the play: I hope you are both the person who spills the soup and the person upon whom the soup is spilled for the rest of your lives

Have started a new thing. Seems I'll be writing this new book on my phone. Whatever gets it done!

ICYMI: We decided what the best Dad Movies of the year were and since we're the only ones doing a Dad Movie Awards, we are the supreme authority on the matter

this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls

The kid who plays the son in SONG SUNG BLUE is really good. In a beautifully cast movie and with the least to do he somehow holds his own

Our BIG end of year sale starts today - over 50.000 used books reduced to only €1.26 each, from today 27th until 31st December. The sale includes fiction, nonfiction & children's books -something for all reading tastes. #spéirgorm #booksale thebookshop.ie/big-1-26-yea...

Men! Don't miss out on THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER either!

If you never heard of Gertrude Trevelyan/G.E. Trevelyan, she was killed in the Blitz and so socially isolated all she left behind were her novels. I read APPIUS AND VIRGINIA for @minorliteratures.bsky.social and found it so good as to be pretty frightening minorliteratures.com/2021/03/08/a...

Boiler House Press is having a sale and you should treat yourself, especially to the Gertrude Trevelyans www.boilerhouse.press/fiction

That time of year again!

🧩 Puzzle #886 🤔 8 guesses ⏱️ 44s 🔗 alphaguess.com

The Jim Belushissance is very cheering

Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...

Why is there a month time lag between the Ireland and UK release dates of Saipan

GUILT AND SELF-LACERATION ARE INDULGENCES

tawas inn cabins, route 23, east tawas, michigan, 1988

Baudelaire for the end of the year

just saw a post about someone using ai to create fake memories for a person with dementia & then filming it for content I am once again reminded of just how easy it is for some people to just decide anyone different to them is not a person anymore and therefore anything you do to them is fair game

I thought all my neighbours were away but I can hear someone cackling with laughter so maybe not

Fellow writers: @scrivenerapp.bsky.social doesn't use AI & isn't subscription based. It can seem overwhelming, but you can use as much or as little as you want. And there's a 30 non-consecutive day trial -- www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/ov... (I can't say enough good things about it.)

My first job in this country, the woman who sat opposite me, her brother hated doing the dishes so his solution was magnificent: he bought plates etc from charity shops, used them once, then opened the window over the sink and fucked them into the paved-over back garden to hear the smash