For 's series on influential period pieces, I loved diving deep into the 1980s fascination with colonial Kenya's thrill-seeking toffs—as epitomized in the true crime classic White Mischief. Thanks for the commish & stellar editing✨
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I just finished listening to @BonnieGarmus story of having 98 agent rejections for her book before the incredible #LessonsinChemistry on #WriteOff with @francescasteele. And it’s partly reassuring and partly makes me want to scream.
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Rosie Ellison-Balaam spoke to Holm about how she made ‘this concoction out of soil and blood’ and the ways in which the aesthetic of the fake informs the novel. lollieditions.com/lolli-in-conve
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For I reviewed Johanne Lykke Holm's enchanting, disturbing STREGA, set in a spooky hotel where nine teenage girls arrive to train as staff, pub'd today by in 's 🔥🔥🔥translation from Swedish. (Mid-review snippet⤵️) literaryreview.co.uk/and-then-there
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“If you described a situation on the page before you experienced it, did you subconsciously manifest your imagined world? Or was the fictional version an unwitting premonition of an ordained destiny?” —
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God, this was brilliant. Listening to , , and discuss the irrefutable genius of Gwendoline Riley makes everything feel right with the world.
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I’m on A Good Read with @HarriettSG and @PatienceAgbabi on @BBCRadio4 this afternoon at 4.30pm and on the Internet FOR ALL ETERNITY shortly after broadcast. We agreed, we disagreed, it was fantastic. Listen here. @BacklistedPod bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00
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I started listening to #BoneValley last night and am now four episodes in, totally gripped. Fascinating, upsetting wrongful conviction case and phenomenal investigation and storytelling from and
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If you’re looking for your next favorite true crime podcast, look no further 
Bone Valley is @gilbert_king's 9-part narrative true crime podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida from @lavaforgood:
lavaforgood.com/bvlanding/
Bone Valley is @gilbert_king's 9-part narrative true crime podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida from @lavaforgood:
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“The Happy Valley set came to channel (not unjustifiably) the pervasive 1980s mores of materialism, hedonism, and amorality.” laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/set
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Really lovely article by on @gusdeblouis:
'I asked her why she founded the feminist publisher. She answered: “To change the world, darling, that’s why.” And by God, that’s exactly what she did.'
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In the same series , Dylan Byron () wrote brilliantly on Forster's Maurice and its shifting meanings through time. 'When I was a teenager, the film acted as a kind of code word for bookish, pre-Grindr gays: “Have you seen Maurice?”'
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Every single Iranian girl in this video who pulled off her compulsory headscarf in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and shouted “Get lost, Basiji” deserves to be on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission a billion times more than current member Ayatollah Khamenei.
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A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves & chanting "get lost, Basiji".
Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days.
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I reviewed Kate Atkinson's new one, #ShrinesofGaiety, for literaryreview.co.uk/sleepless-in-s (£, but preview of my unbridled enjoyment below)
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“Among writers who have weaponized wistful desire, none can compete with Henri-Alban Fournier.” What happens when you turn your desire into art? What are the real-life consequences?
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“For all three participants in the love triangle, the emotional fallout was intense, with fights and tears, threats and ultimatums, estrangements and reunions.” on the real-life consequences of fiction:
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“If you described a situation on the page before you experienced it, did you subconsciously manifest your imagined world? Or was the fictional version an unwitting premonition of an ordained destiny?” —
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Thrilled to have this online at lovely , about the fuzzy lines of fiction & life, when novelists shape reality, & possible unintended consequences thereof. Featuring Graham Greene, Alain-Fournier, Muriel Spark; exquisitely edited by
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"Drawn to the beauty of someone else’s ancestral relics, we have taken the objects without respect for their spiritual significance." considers Eternal Ancestors and family photographs.
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I wrote about the challenge of returning to ‘normal’, whatever that is, for the New York Times .
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Very proud that my mother’s novel #TheNowhereMan is part of the #BigJubileeRead! 🧡🖤 #KamalaMarkandaya
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‘It's a travesty that this novel has been erased from British and international literary history. It is just as relevant today as when it was published’ - @Bidisha_online
Check out THE NOWHERE MAN, selected as part of the #BigJubileereads!
hoperoadpublishing.com/the-nowhere-man
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'‘Does he have medication?’ my seatmates kept asking, with passive-aggressive concern. ‘Yes!’ I would sob. ‘I have drugged him! But he is too powerful!’
Here is @scriblerian's wonderfully funny piece about travelling across continents with her cat.
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Cool piece on lines Aldous Huxley may have crossed as a fiction writer, by at :
laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/sce #classicbooks
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‘Huxley … was … distraught that “a marionette show…a comedy of puppets” could destroy a cherished friendship. (Woolf, after comforting a still-reeling Ottoline … recorded ruefully in her diary, “But mere marionettes have destroyed it.”)’
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In a century-old forerunner to recent controversies around stealing people's lives for fiction, Aldous Huxley's debut novel, set among a Bloomsbury Group-like circle, brought both acclaim and bad blood—my latest :
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🌟A very happy publication day to !🌟Envious of people yet to be enthralled and enchanted by ANCESTOR TROUBLE — which is, writes in her review, "the story of each of us, of identity."
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“She deserves lasting renown for her fiction, which beguiles as much with its strangeness as with its scrupulous realism.”
Catherine Carswell (1879–1946) was born #OTD, 27 March. looks at Carswell’s life & work
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“The process of wrestling with and reconciling myself with my ancestors will never end. But when I accept the ongoing nature of this work and open myself to what it can teach me, it feels like an enlargement into possibility rather than a clenching”
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FINALLY this brilliant brilliant painful excruciating utterly true and unique book has been shortlisted for a prize!
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Gwendoline Riley is shortlisted with My Phantoms, a bold, heart-stopping portrayal of a failed familial bond.
#RathbonesFolioPrize #MyPantoms @GrantaBooks
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'I can almost imagine the beauty and stillness of this place before Europeans arrived, when the Munsee Lenape sought to “walk so gently on the earth” that they left it undisturbed'—love this piece and photo of & dog friend amid majestic trees:
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It’s Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, I’m thinking of a woman called Sulamita Szapiro. Here she is as a student. We weren’t related and I don’t even know much about her, but I’m pretty sure that remembering her still falls to me. This is a thread about why.
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Cannot wait for people to read Abbott's debut novel, which is the feminist literary revenge thriller of your dreams.
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'Charlie’s guileless, clear-eyed narrative voice, reminiscent of Kathy H’s in Kazuo Ishiguro’s "Never Let Me Go", is Yanagihara’s masterstroke.'
on 'To Paradise'.
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Honored to be mentioned on annual Sidney Awards list! I plan to spend the rest of the weekend devouring all of these brilliant essays:
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My daughter loved Cora Sandel’s ALBERTA AND JACOB. For Christmas she got the rest of the trilogy, #translated by Elizabeth Rokkan. Nice piece on Sandel by in the : theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/0
#NorwegianLit #WomenInTranslation #GlobalLit #BooksInTranslation
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