Denis James Flannery

Associate Professor of American & English Literature, University of Leeds.

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This -- on Bowie-items at the new 2025 V&A space -- has just been published ...

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I have a bluesky account: @denisflannery25.bsky.social

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@seventydys I don't actually, David! Many thanks for sharing this with me ...

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@seventydys _Bastard ..._ is a fantastic novel ...

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@DannyJBarton Try this, Danny: https://t.co/cUIFHewmbk ... it's amazing. The video was made in the early 2000s (but don't let that put you off) but it has been amazing for me. best wishes

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@nemoloris A stunning poem! Lucky you!

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@smartgiles It's stunnning, Giles ... I am totally with you on this ...

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Unbelievably sad news ... I love Edna O'Brien's writing ... https://t.co/6T7s1QbA7R

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#EnglishCreates new Environment Secretary @UnivEnglish

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'a lift into brighter air' -- Henry James, _The Tragic Muse_ (1890)

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I'm honoured and delighted that my review-essay, published today, about Hanya Yanagiahra's 2022 novel _To Paradise_ finds itself mingling in fine company as part of the Spring 2024 issue of _The Henry James Review_. It feels so great to be writing about James again ...

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@jmarkcornwall Thank you so much, Mark! :)

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I'm honoured and delighted that my essay, 'Alan Hollinghurst, Derek Jarman, and the Lesson of Racine' finds itself mingling in fine company as part of Nicholas Hammond's and Paul Hammond's new book _Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny_, published today: https://t.co/P5Amzxj2fV

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@CourtneyROI Thanks, David! You're really kind ...

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@RobertAllenPoet 'The Aspern Papers' by Henry James ....

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@TravisMFoster https://t.co/0aOLzIlXL9

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@huwgriffiths I have learnt, Hugh, (sometimes the hard way), that they way to give a good 20-minute paper is to give a 17-minute paper ...😃

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I was honoured to be asked by The Conversation to write something about Sinead O'Connor's outrageous gifts: https://t.co/VYG4F2yzWz

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On BBC Radio Leeds this morning, talking with the wonderful Gayle Lofthouse about the poetry of Aladdin Sane .... (about 1 hour and 19 minutes into the programme)

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"What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. " Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), _All the Pretty Horses_, 1992.