Another in my cafe/museum column with @BoundlessLit - this time at The Camera Museum, a small, intricate, perfect place behind The British Museum.
https://t.co/B1H32CNeXJ
"But rather than ‘cleaning up’ the area around the park, the imposition of the chain link fence has created a narrow, terrifying corridor far worse than anything I’d ever seen."
Chris Kraus on what Los Angeles wanted to be: https://t.co/jrHFmtS6kr
"Even then, that familiar murmur, the buzz that travelled with him everywhere, had risen in pitch and volume and become audible."
An extract from Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller: https://t.co/856Ky8hget
"I had expected there to be girls in horsey girls in white trousers and men in gilets who had studied Land Economy drinking lukewarm pints out of those plastic cups. But it was not, it became clear [...] that sort of do."
https://t.co/daaMRLjeR4
Alison also joined Erica on the latest episode of the Boundless Podcast, which you can listen to now on:
Apple: https://t.co/DokLLUu2yX
Spotify: https://t.co/iI3q6zKKVG
.@EricaWgnr says @AlisonBechdel's new comic novel Spent is "serious and joyous, acerbic and compassionate. It’s rare to be able to combine such qualities, and in tough times it’s inspiring to see."
Catch an extract here: https://t.co/T1RhTX8bSp
Wrote about my grandad knocking on the door every Saturday when I was a kid with bags full of shopping and a Lion bar in his pocket — and how times, and the high street we once frequented, have changed
https://t.co/XhzPEgFfaw
@jdalvior's Seven Days in Tokyo has been called ‘A study of misplaced desire and a poetic love letter to the city itself’ by playwright Jemma Kennedy — read an extract here:
https://t.co/HZohe1Tys2
Happy publication day to Patrick McCabe's Goldengrove, out now: https://t.co/nSdJBjLUft
A perfect time to revisit this brilliant piece Pat wrote for us, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film:https://t.co/Xe8G0oSl2F
"Exploring Coppermill Lane is a bit like watching open heart surgery on a city – those unseen arteries that course about it, service it and sustain it come to the surface, many old and failing after centuries of hard living."
https://t.co/FnVH01Da2S
On the latest episode of the Boundless podcast, @PaddyGalbraith talks to @TrooperSnooks about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere
Spotify: https://t.co/EXamQ5oi6W
Apple: https://t.co/riXSL5ZdkF
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Want to find out what Pat gets up to when he's supposed to be writing but is otherwise distracted?
Sign up to the Boundless newsletter to find out in tomorrow's edition: https://t.co/0kKy5T8WiX
Happy publication day to Patrick McCabe's Goldengrove, out now: https://t.co/nSdJBjLUft
A perfect time to revisit this brilliant piece Pat wrote for us, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film:https://t.co/Xe8G0oSl2F
Congrats to Kaliane Bradley on making the shortlist with The Ministry of Time! Back in February, Kaliane let us into her obsession with piecing together the patchy life of Polar explorer Robert McClure, which you can read here: https://t.co/qalio6z5io
"Writers of science-based narrative nonfiction can help scientists communicate their work and doing this is part of how we combat the spread of fake news. They can translate between worlds."
https://t.co/ICk7QowTQP
Congratulations @FrancescaReece!
Earlier this year, Francesca wrote this great piece for us spinning off from her book, on the long history of protest in Wales — have a read here: https://t.co/pYXpdUrxmt
Huge congratulations to @FrancescaReece! Her stunning novel Glass Houses has been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year (Fiction)!
https://t.co/3uP5Vu0BFV
#WBOTY25
Mark Twain died in 1910. But he continues to speak to our present moment in ways that are as startlingly prescient as they are witty, brazen, and bold."
Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would think of today's political predicaments: https://t.co/wLugzDpxnC