An essay I wrote for @GrantaMag about travelling, taking photos, and the slippery forms of memory and self-invention involved in both https://t.co/5f8eV2Og3C
'Garner at her best, which is almost all of the time, has it both ways: finely wrought, startling sentences that scorch with their unmistakable necessity.'
An incisive review of Helen Garner's oeuvre in the @newleftreview.
https://t.co/SbQdB6s3Fa
'It’s not simply that everyday life is Garner’s elected subject; her writing seems to spring authentically from it, as a direct response to living.'
Louis Rogers (@Louis_b_r) on Helen Garner:
https://t.co/mv0DtA78fj
For Sidecar, Louis Rogers (@Louis_b_r) on the Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Williams:
'To recall one of his films is to remember a peculiarly porous attentive state – what you saw mingled with the circumstances of watching and the life around it.'
https://t.co/fx1uYCCBky
@FaberBooks Hi @RobGMacfarlane, would you be able to spread the word about Gboyega Odubanjo, an incredible poet who has been missing in Northamptonshire since Friday night? We are desperately seeking any info from people in the area or who attended Shambala festival
Gboyega Odubanjo is still missing, last seen @ShambalaFest Saturday morning. For those able, please print and disseminate these posters, attached, and within the mediapack linked: https://t.co/LMhH2gA0TH especially in London or the Northamptonshire area
Can @BBCNews please get involved with spreading the word about this missing writer - well loved in the literary community, who are sharing posts across social media. The police are searching.
@Andy05872904 @ShambalaFest @NorthantsPolice@StaffsPolice can you follow up on this? @Andy05872904 please ask your mate to call the police number above, 101 and quote MPD1/2619/23
Anyone who has seen Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please get in touch with Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. He’s been missing since Shambala. More details below
I've just started as Acting Commissioning Editor for arts on the best in the biz, @FTMag. I'm looking for pitches for narrative-led longform stories, profiles and essays. If you're a writer with a great idea I'd love to hear from you. Email me at [email protected]
I went to Trieste for @tankmagazine and wrote about James Joyce, Jan Morris, and what we talk about when we talk about “ “liminality”” https://t.co/3QpV7TRloS
J.M. Coetzee published a new novel in August — but only in Spanish translation. My latest for the @NewYorker on the greatest living English-language's novelist's campaign against the English language itself: https://t.co/JFXbHwtHdP
I went to Trieste for @tankmagazine and wrote about James Joyce, Jan Morris, and what we talk about when we talk about “ “liminality”” https://t.co/3QpV7TRloS
'At only seventy-four pages, BONSAI seems filled with far more characters, poignant turns, subplots and jokes than it should have room for...' Louis Rogers reviews BONSAI by Alejandro Zambra, tr. @meganalimcd for @Lit_Review: https://t.co/MKDfGivdY5
Late to share but I went to Newport, Rhode Island, to find out what life is like in the crumbling mansions of the 'last bastion of America’s gilded age' for the cover of @htsi https://t.co/608Y0MnguF
I wrote a short dispatch from London’s heatwave for @nybooks about the scary-sad evolution of the “scorcher”, no longer purely a random blessing and cause for reckless jubilance but freighted with intelligibility https://t.co/fU2Itm06Vy