Jayne Joso💙 Novelist 💙Artist💙

Novels, short stories, plays, poems
The New York Times, Yorkshire Times, TLS, ICON
Arts Council England, DAIWA, & SASAKAWA FOUNDATION Awards
HAY FESTIVAL

[Neko Neko 💙 Artist 🐳🪼🌊 @NekoNekoArtist]

Exhibition near London Bridge that includes my work.

[Neko Neko 💙 Artist 🐳🪼🌊 @NekoNekoArtist]

Lovely private view with London exhibition showing a painting of mine from the Yugen series

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

Too many people — governments, university execs, twitter reply guys, your uncle Geoff — still regard the humanities as a hobby, as dispensable, as flimsy compared to STEM. They are not: they are crucial, rigorous and significant and to be a fully functional society, we need them.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.”

― David L. Ulin

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

— C.S. Lewis

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Octopi Embedded in Ceramic Vessels' series by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #WomensArt

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Another one bites the dust.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Hartley Lin.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.”

— Sir David Attenborough

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

What a writer Tarjei Vesaas is — these two novels absolutely phenomenal.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I think literature is a great therapist. Not just because it distracts us from our current problems, from overstimulation and chaos, but above all because it broadens our consciousness."

– Olga Tokarczuk 2018 literature laureate

#WorldBookDay

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

This is well worth a re-read. Every few weeks we hear how and why NHS maternity and newborn care is in trouble. Why is the Countess of Chester Hospital the only place where such failings must be explained by crimes nobody was ever seen committing? https://t.co/twLeCRRxvq

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Happy St George's Day!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The art of being alone – a stunning century-old ode to solitude from one of the greatest poets our civilization has produced https://t.co/k74FSjIOBe

[Big Green Bookshop @Biggreenbooks]

SIGNED BOOKS!

Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami.

From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs.

I have just one SIGNED copy left.

Order here.

https://t.co/JOjuFYjWqJ

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Gargoyles reading books

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Happy Easter🐇!!!

[Jayne Joso💙 Novelist 💙Artist💙 @JayneJoso]

cat-spiration or what!🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

The memoirs of a lazy, sarcastic cat: Sōseki is simply outstanding. (And, for my money, this is still the best translation. The language in the new one is a little too, well, *contemporary* I fear — the dialogue especially sounds like EastEnders or a Guy Ritchie movie at times.)