Susan Byron

Novelist/Necromancer Ｎi g ht of t he L o ng D r0 n es { av a ila b le now @ kin d le + cl ou ds e ve r y wh ere }

[Susan Byron @SusanBByron]

---the miserable blight of a song with infectious energy is a phenomenon in its own right ---

Song In My Head .005 — ‘Paranoid’ by Black Sabbath (1970) https://t.co/dEKq54bdYg

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

This issue of Lapham’s Quarterly prompts the questions of mankind’s relation to the machine—best friend or worst enemy, saving grace or engine of doom? https://t.co/niAXmKeNFW

[Will Self @wself]

Will Self on wabi-sabi and the Zen of chip pans https://t.co/UvzLxyopYF

[Reuters Science News @ReutersScience]

Malaysia said it sent 267 containers of illegal plastic waste back to their countries of origin since 2019 and is in the process of returning 81 more https://t.co/3Fr1MV52Ot 1/4

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

The trend says a lot about the West’s complicated relationship with Japan https://t.co/EhpK7wF1Dt

[Arts & Letters Daily @aldaily]

The first musical note on earth was sounded 165 million years ago. It was an E natural. What did our ancestors use music for? https://t.co/IPpBlvXIWb

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

“History is what emerges from chronicle—when facts are used for a purpose.” https://t.co/tWPMrGi2G1

[Financial Times @FT]

‘Everyone’s scrambling and hoarding’: Europe’s vaccine blunders https://t.co/ePIrSEPC8I

[Nora Kelly Lee @nora_kelly]

Big new @RonBrownstein story dropped today, on Biden's opportunity to rethink how his administration pursues it's domestic goals: https://t.co/gi6ioMLubQ

[Will Self @wself]

What I learned from my DNA https://t.co/tmpnccCPyj

[Will Self @wself]

All five episodes of Will Self Takes the Waters on @BBCRadio4 are now available to listen to – https://t.co/zR7cmpd4yv

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

On the transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions. https://t.co/exzqGRdr9B

[ej @ejdickson]

A year ago today, I started talking to college students from the Class of 2020 about their hopes, their anxieties, and their anger about having to graduate into a pandemic. The result is this story, which will appear in the next issue of @RollingStone. https://t.co/hCVrWw4v3W

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Elliott Smith's self-titled solo album is the darkest he would complete in his lifetime, but it’s also one of his most beautiful https://t.co/wE0PpvHz6x

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

On Egon Schiele’s pandemic year. https://t.co/eLNgO61k1F

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

#OnThisDay in 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was 1st published. It's not been out of print since. Read Sharon Ruston on the scientific background to the novel incl. contemporary investigations into the possibility of states between life and death: https://t.co/m0nRrXFRV8 #otd

[Financial Times @FT]

India’s new internet law hits first legal challenge https://t.co/yN7BoqRXaS

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Post-pandemic China is roaring back, but its new proposals on environment and Hong Kong should concern the West, writes @JeremyCliffe. https://t.co/d3JJbgccN2

[Will Self @wself]

Anti-Semitism in the Post Office queue https://t.co/Z0qpMkCCH4

[Will Self @wself]

The pandemic, pedestrians and my third bike accident https://t.co/zLUtVKZGEU