Gordon MacMillan

Former journalist, worked at Twitter and wrote two Novels: Songs For Your Mother & Blind Dates. Book blog Tangled Prose 👇

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Dark academia may have given campus novels an aesthetic, but the best ones have always known the danger beneath the beauty. https://t.co/RVVVfREpLv

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BookTok, Goodreads and Substack have made reading more visible. The question is whether visibility has made it deeper. https://t.co/GKTyvan5nn

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

BookTok, Goodreads and Substack have made reading more visible. The question is whether visibility has made it deeper. https://t.co/GKTyvan5nn

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

The novel is not dying. It is changing texture. But do shorter sentences and falling attention spans reflect something more complicated? https://t.co/0BzRxF7ZFq

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

The novel is not dying. It is changing texture. But do shorter sentences and falling attention spans reflect something more complicated? https://t.co/0BzRxF7ZFq

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

For readers who loved *A Little Life*, hated it, or are still arguing with it months later, this post looks at why difficult books can leave such a lasting mark.

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The strange comfort of difficult protagonists, and why fiction does not always need likeable characters to feel honest, human and unforgettable. https://t.co/x0pAPSPDby

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

The strange comfort of difficult protagonists, and why fiction does not always need likeable characters to feel honest, human and unforgettable. https://t.co/x0pAPSPDby

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

For anyone curious about where to go after Dostoevsky’s shorter works, Tangled Prose has put together a top-five guide to the Russian novels that matter most. It is part reading list, part invitation to stop circling the canon and actually step inside it. https://t.co/49JVEim9ty

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Readers are no longer just consuming book culture. They are shaping it. A new post from Tangled Prose looks at how BookTok, blogs, newsletters, and online communities influence what gets noticed, revived, and remembered.https://t.co/kMpnEJuXAh

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

Readers are no longer just consuming book culture. They are shaping it. A new post from Tangled Prose looks at how BookTok, blogs, newsletters, and online communities influence what gets noticed, revived, and remembered.https://t.co/kMpnEJuXAh

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

Joan Didion is endlessly quotable, but the real power of her writing is not just in the line itself. It is in what the line opens up. https://t.co/DS0RCIfnoD

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Maybe readers are not craving seriousness for its own sake, but substance. Books that trust us to think, feel, and stay with complexity. Claire Keegan, Paul Lynch, Samantha Harvey, Marilynne Robinson. https://t.co/evIaYQ3hfw

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

Maybe readers are not craving seriousness for its own sake, but substance. Books that trust us to think, feel, and stay with complexity. Claire Keegan, Paul Lynch, Samantha Harvey, Marilynne Robinson. https://t.co/evIaYQ3hfw

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally, within a line.
I wrote about what makes a distinctive sentence in fiction, with thoughts on rhythm, syntax, restraint, and voice.
Didion, Mantel, Keegan, Woolf, Baldwin. https://t.co/yUR7E48qxq

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally, within a line.
I wrote about what makes a distinctive sentence in fiction, with thoughts on rhythm, syntax, restraint, and voice.
Didion, Mantel, Keegan, Woolf, Baldwin. https://t.co/yUR7E48qxq

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

I wrote about the disappearing literary middle.
Books like Small Things Like These, Assembly, and Winter in Sokcho remind me that some of the most rewarding fiction lives in that space.
And why readers should care. https://t.co/dWZd8pATRX

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

I wrote about the disappearing literary middle.
Books like Small Things Like These, Assembly, and Winter in Sokcho remind me that some of the most rewarding fiction lives in that space.
And why readers should care. https://t.co/dWZd8pATRX

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

BookTok keeps resurrecting older books, and it’s not random. Comfort disguised as ambition, taste as theatre, and the quiet thrill of choosing a doorstop in a fast-scroll world. #BookTok #ReadingCulture

https://t.co/HUPmbp4frD

[Gordon MacMillan @gordonmacmillan]

BookTok keeps resurrecting older books, and it’s not random. Comfort disguised as ambition, taste as theatre, and the quiet thrill of choosing a doorstop in a fast-scroll world. #BookTok #ReadingCulture

https://t.co/HUPmbp4frD