PD Smith

Books - City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality. Reviews - @GuardianBooks, @TheTLS, etc.

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2023 is almost over and I thought I’d look back at some of my favourite books of the year… 📚📚📖

[Peter Ross @PeterAlanRoss]

To mark the rechalking of the Cerne Abbas Giant, here is an extract from my book Upon A White Horse – in which I write about meeting the Giant on May Day. If you enjoy my writing, please do share.
https://t.co/xhrJeHnpcz

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@phalpern Thanks!

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It’s too hot for me in the garden but the flowers seem to love it…

[marysocontrary @so_contrary]

Pablo Picasso à Jean Cocteau (1919)

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

New York, 1952, by Ernst Haas

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@JeffOvers Beautiful!

[Tribulation @aixlabelle]

Cafétéria New-York, 1973

Bruce Davidson

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My top 10:
https://t.co/itKpseuMSo

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Very much enjoyed coming up with my top 10 for the 100 best novels in today’s @GuardianBooks!
Link to my list in the reply.

https://t.co/6c9l91BK9K

[@IanYorston @IanYorston]

Meanwhile, @Guardian are offering a list of the '100 Best Novels of All Time'

https://t.co/GlhtwNs1fK

[James Heale @JAHeale]

One for Radio 4's 'The Reunion'

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Brilliant film

[Samuel J. May @sjmay92]

M's 95th anniversary ~ A landmark in filmmaking form, Fritz Lang introduces, and masters techniques like the leitmotif and diegetic sound to create now cinematic trademarks, the film remains more audacious than most contemporary films

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

One fun thing about Germany is that you'll be reading a long piece about housing policy in a sober news weekly and then just come across something like this

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Great to be asked to review four fascinating books on nuclear history for the current issue of @TheTLS.
Link in reply…

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Bomb culture

https://t.co/FLstus4uKL

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Great to be asked to review four fascinating books on nuclear history for the current issue of @TheTLS.
Link in reply…

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@StephenGParker We inherited one of these too - it’s beautiful! We prune it lightly after flowering but more major pruning we do in the winter. That works for us!

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

“Oh Christ, the cook is dead”

In February 1977, a chap wrote to SPIKE MILLIGAN after reading ‘Monty: His Part in My Victory’ - the third installment of Spike’s memoirs on his life as a soldier in WW2 - with some complaints.

This was Spike’s reply.

[Clive Davis @CliveDavisUK]

I was the junior writer on the Radio 4 newsdesk at BH when the first vague reports of a radioactive cloud broke that day. The editors asked me to write it up for the lunchtime news because it seemed a relatively minor story. When Moscow finally made an announcement the 6pm

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“The young spent 18 minutes a day reading for pleasure compared with three hours and one minute looking at a screen. One third of 16 to 19-year-olds read nothing at all.”

Book lovers’ cathedral on the brink as Paris turns the page on reading

https://t.co/7JQ0Nqc14H