Michael Connor

Author of The Soho Don, The Cleansing, Place Settings. May All Your Names Be Forgotten. Latest novel MUSHROOM EFFECT - Now Available

[Michael Connor @MichaelConnor_]

Missing the streets of Soho? Read The Soho Don https://t.co/JNgiAX71zT #goodreads #soho #LockdownReading #readinglist

[Michael Connor @MichaelConnor_]

#truecrimehistory
Read The Soho Don

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

At CrimeCon true crime obsessives come face-to-face with real loss https://t.co/Ve22QrgupA

[Fritters @YourWullie]

Flamingo club in London, April 1965. Photo by Don Paulsen

[Michael Connor @MichaelConnor_]

MAR'26 Highlights: @cphdox #filmfest for world premiere of INTELLIGENCE RISING, important new doc about perils and promise of AI, and many more. Worth a look! and Copenhagen, great city, a culinary delight esp. seafood. Tivoli Food Hall, a find, plenty of variety and cool vibe.

[Michael Connor @MichaelConnor_]

Man killed and two injured in stabbing https://t.co/MM4tEJDJf4

[Ca Marche Media @camarchemedia]

Looking forward to opening night #theoutrun @worcesterfilmfestival #worcff 🎬🎉🎥

[bluesharp @bluezharp]

Warren Zevon '81. 🎶'Werewolves Of London'

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.“

—Ray Bradbury

[Trevor Warner @trevorw1953]

“Be careful, when a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
#FrenchElections

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P.

“As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy'"

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

We are very sad to hear of the death of Booker Prize shortlistee Paul Auster, whose work touched readers and influenced writers all over the world, and whose generosity was felt in just as many quarters. We extend our condolences to his wife Siri Hustvedt and his family

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Paul Auster obituary https://t.co/CcENQ3pKGB

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Ernest Hemingway was “a writer who had in his time made the English language new, changed the rhythms of the way both his own and the next few generations would speak and write and think,” Joan Didion wrote. #NewYorkerArchive
https://t.co/lRUG140GKc

[bluesharp @bluezharp]

The legendary Ray Charles (1930 – 2004) born on this day 🎶'Hit The Road Jack'

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

“When audiences don’t want important movies, then it’s very hard to make good movies. More and more, you have cinema that is made for suspended adolescence. Movies with people who wear capes.”

— The Gospel of Paul Schrader

https://t.co/zO8yRScFAn

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

— Albert Camus

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

Our Fall issue is here—featuring interviews with Lynn Nottage and Robert Glück, prose by Ishion Hutchinson and Moira McCavana, poetry by Bei Dao and Yuki Tanaka, art by Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Eric Nathaniel Mack, cover by Joeun Kim Aatchim, & more:
https://t.co/Op538iZxfk

[George Skeggs/Covent Garden/Soho @SohoGeorge]

The new today 2023 & my "old Soho" coffee bar rendezvous in 1960 wonderful memories,🤗👍 this in Meard Street Soho London

[National Theatre @NationalTheatre]

"You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing." 🤫

You can watch Under Milk Wood with Michael Sheen on #NationalTheatreAtHome

[Michael Connor @MichaelConnor_]

Great set by Clare Teal and her musicians at Herne Bay Jazz Festival yesterday.
A sunny Sunday afternoon on the pier