I met Alan Brownjohn a few times at literary parties…more years ago than I care to remember. He was a very nice man. This is a good obit. https://t.co/ymicc8iMow
'The wind blows through the machair, lambs play in the fields, larks and ospreys soar in the sky – a good day, the Vikings reckon, for a massacre.'
Maren Meinhardt (@MarenMeinhardt): A band of Vikings arrive on ninth-century Iona
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'An erudite, perambulatory stroll through literary oddities and quiddities, with many laughs and occasional harrumphs.’
Francis Wheen named NB by J.C. by James Campbell as his favourite book of the year in @spectator! https://t.co/k6n1YWDjzt
RIP Bamber Gascoigne, as nice a man behind the camera as in front of it. Here in 1984 Quarter Final. Our captain was the poet Mick Imlah. #BamberGascoigne https://t.co/nCSymRJ5bD
RIP Bamber Gascoigne, as nice a man behind the camera as in front of it. Here in 1984 Quarter Final. Our captain was the poet Mick Imlah. #BamberGascoigne https://t.co/nCSymRJ5bD
I'd hate it if @haringeycouncil destroyed the beautiful Omega works for yet more luxury flats – I'd go as far as buying a coffee in the Venus café for signing
https://t.co/TcpMo3PtZs via @38degrees
I miss that sofa. And thank you, Alan, for transporting me back to Ledbury Road for a moment
Ledbury Road: Two poems in memory of Mick Imlah, in the remarkable Ghost Net, just out from @newwalkmagazine
In this week’s Meet the Author video, watch James Campbell discuss his upcoming book, NB by J.C.: A walk through the Times Literary Supplement! Find out why he wrote under a pseudonym and how he developed J.C’s distinct voice.
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A beautiful book to hold as well as to read. Newly arrived in Cambridge. NB by JC, a tour of the TLS by its most distinctive writer of our time. @Carcanet @PaulDryBooks
Having great fun with 'NB by J.C. A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement' by the great Jim Campbell @Carcanet@TheTLS How I regret the demise of the Freelance column, of which he was the indulgent yet keen-eyed impresario.
@PeterStothard1@Carcanet@PaulDryBooks The honour – and pleasure – is all mine. Apart from that, it's one of the best, funniest and most poignant books I've read for a long time
Lovely piece. And yes, a Freelance. I had the honour just once, and it was a highlight of my time there – when I got to write about becoming British, still freshly sulking after the Brexit vote https://t.co/i2DuwQFMJ8
@MarenMeinhardt@HenryEliot@Carcanet That's lovely, Maren - Jim was a generous and insightful editor, and I am grateful to him for encouraging me to write about EM Forster for my first @TheTLS piece
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