Connor Harrison

Writer etc.

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

My full essay on Orbital and hope is up to read on The London Magazine website:

https://t.co/wU4EkiZezI

[The London Magazine @TheLondonMag]

'The toothless, gentle, atheist-but-spiritual style of a book like Orbital falls into the popular bracket of wellbeing literature. It is already a difficult and confusing world, it says. Why should your reading be difficult also?'

@HarrysunSee on Orbital: https://t.co/5nAfJCVe8s

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

Brixton is easily one of the best parts of London. It’s just such a shame about the drunken walk curse they had to put on the tube station. The which-way-am-I-facing spell. The zigzag charm. The Brixton Macarena.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Palantir has signed a multimillion-pound deal with all police forces in England and Wales to run the national firearms database

[@billcurtis0]

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

I almost choke on a piece of popcorn every single time I go the cinema, and I’ve never once made a noise about it. It’s called self-respect. And forgetting to chew.

[𝚗𝚢𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚎 @eIocyn]

went to watch obsession last night. started to choke on a piece of popcorn but didn’t want someone to accuse me of not having theater etiquette so i just died instead

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

Welcome to France. It’s 1997 every year. They make the best food in the world and the worst pop music. The supermarket has three aisles just for yoghurt. Everyone smokes and you’ll be shot for apologizing. That racism you can hear is, technically speaking, ‘medieval’.

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

A puff of smoke leaves the Ian Fleming estate. The new 007 has been elected. It’s an XL Bully. “I can’t believe it,” he tells media. “I only wish my mum was here to see.”

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

I mean falling for the very clear bait here - and in fact, why the fuck is any painting selling for almost $100m - but I’ll tell you what. Rothko in real life is like a a personal church.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why is this painting worth $98.3 million?

What am I missing?

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

I am seeing a sentiment coming along from people that this AI story means they’re glad Granta has never published them…they really dodged a bullet there…like phew ha ha…

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

I enjoyed this a lot. All you need is surrealism. Or whatever it is John Lennon said.

[Parapraxis @Parapraxis_Mag]

Now online: Kevin Duong (@ktduong88) on how André Breton triangulated a love relation between surrealism, psychoanalysis, & Marxism.

“Breton would fight for the social revolution to create a future world in which an honest experience of love might be possible.”

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

But this is a daft thing to say.

[Variety @Variety]

Christopher Nolan says #TheOdyssey has the "original superheroes":

"They are the original superheroes. Even comic book culture, whether you're talking about Marvel or DC or all the rest, a lot of it comes directly from the Homeric Epics. The thing about Homer is, nobody knows if that was a person. Homer in a way is the George Lucas, maybe, of his time… Homer is the Marvel of its day, that's the thing. It's very directly this desire for us to feel or believe Gods could walk amongst us, and I think the modern comic book is kind of our expression of that."

https://t.co/ru6NRowQ63

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

Whether or not this turns out good, I’ll say that having them all use American accents is the better choice. They should lay it on thicker, even.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released.

In theaters on July 17.

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

Stunner of a last line.

[The Fence Magazine @The_Fence_Mag]

Here's Sophie Heawood's first column, in which she recalls a memorable encounter with a younger man.

https://t.co/sT355kKWap

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

Enjoyed this one.

[The Drift @thedrift_mag]

“me and the tree shadow me and the loam me and this little passing pug” —Lily Gabaree

https://t.co/ov2BHNK8JB

[becker @be3ecker]

os beatles inventaram o sexo e os rolling stones descobriram que dava pra fazer com mulher

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

A lot of chatter about the big male writers on here - Hemingway, McCarthy, Harold Bloom - seems to appear without anyone bothering to read them. Because they’re all much softer on the page than in the public eye.

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

@GeoffreyDMorri1 Gallant’s stories have this depth to them that I find hard to explain, because it’s not exactly visible on the page, but her digressions and sentences produce this sense of endlessness? Or of a continuing present moment that feels as long as a lived present?

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

From a month or two ago: my review of Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child in the Decadence issue of The Toe Rag, which you can buy here- https://t.co/O9eh0xjtwd

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

First Edna of many, based on this. Spinning about five plates at once here and pulling it off without a sweat.

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

Spredging on books for adults is a great sign of things. Personally I can’t wait for them to tape big cartoon lollipops to the covers.

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

@DepartureJay What did you think of it compared to The Employees?

[Connor Harrison @HarrysunSee]

After seeing the latest in Wuthering Heights and Great Gatsby retellings come out of the microwave recently, this is excellent timing (and a dreamy final line)

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

When the author of a lucrative series dies, his or her estate will sometimes tap a writer to tie up loose ends—or keep the story going. In this preview from our upcoming issue, J.W. McCormack writes on continuation novels:
https://t.co/1q48GY0G0m