Gavin Cologne-Brookes

Emeritus Professor. Books on Springsteen, Styron, & Joyce Carol Oates. Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light (LSU Press 2025).

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1 May @lsupress.

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Here is the YouTube link to my Seen & Heard podcast conversation with Chris Braitch about my boarding school experience in relation to my memoir, Portraits from Paris. https://t.co/NcOq27lEx7

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@IggyBanny @JoyceCarolOates Perhaps it suits his business to use that Americanism?

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@jasmineweidenb1 @JoyceCarolOates I know, but "Brits" didn't make the north-south distinction. (It was more a term used in my parents' time. Few use it now.)

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Please join us now on our Facebook page for a live event featuring @GavinCologne! He will be discussing and answering questions about his new LSU Press book, “Portraits from Paris: School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light.” https://t.co/58d4SHToOn

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@RoslynByfield How do you pronounce it - literally six-th?

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Nice to place a new book on the shelf: Portraits from Paris @lsupress 1 May.

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"A powerful memoir that dramatizes a dynamic interplay between art, temporality, and the self."—@MimiThebo

"A beautifully written painter’s portrait."—@robertverkaik1

Happy #pubday to "Portraits from Paris," by @GavinCologne! https://t.co/G6hGeD7K16

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Don't miss our current #art #exhibition, 'Paris Paintings' by @GavinCologne Showing in The White Horse Gallery until 30th March during bookshop opening hours. We look forward to seeing you! More info: https://t.co/cDLLM30wXn

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NEW ART EXHIBITION: 'Paris Paintings' by @GavinCologne will be showing in The White Horse Gallery from 7th-30th March during bookshop opening hours. We look forward to seeing you! More info: https://t.co/cDLLM314MV

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 empathetic instead of empathic.

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@SkyNews Not for the first time, Mr Hoyle reminds me of my junior school Geography teacher giving us detention.

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@TedUrchin Your voice is echoing, Ted.

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How to fold a paper plane with a launcher
https://t.co/Je7toPLUFn

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@SophieDumont1 @LittleBrownUK @CorsairBooks Congratulations, Sophie. Fabulous!

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Dear Prime Minister... , by @BylineTimes https://t.co/51c0MMe4zr

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My open letter to Sir Keir Starmer:

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@edwinhayward No Plan. Ou Dear. Brreccsit Fucte Eu All? Perhaps Political Scrabble allows for some leeway?

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@MimiThebo Tout à fait!