Leigh Haddix

Perpetually disheveled archivist. On Bluesky.

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

@SW_Help And 8 cars now instead of 12 during peak rush hour is the new normal. How can this be resolved? It’s completely unacceptable. Happy flu season.

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

@SW_Help Why are we forced onto shorter train formations during peak crowds this week from Guildford to Waterloo? 8 instead of 12 carriages? Same amount of people. Just more discomfort.

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

@SW_Help And shorter carriages again today during rush hour.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.” Fiction by Jamaica Kincaid, from 1978. #NewYorkerArchive https://t.co/34Zg2VRiKj

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

@SW_Help @StuartBroad8 And shorter train formations at peak times makes for a hellscape of a commute.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Here are the 25 most influential cookbooks from the last 100 years.
https://t.co/i8XX9uDfrB

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“There is no longer any excuse for failing to see what a second Trump Administration may bring,” David Remnick writes. “These are not the imaginings of a paranoiac. These are campaign promises announced from the podium.” https://t.co/08IK9ou4Wi

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something beautiful for the weekend!

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

Aesthetically pleasing to our modern eye, the shell’s central placement has often been described as an example of early artistic intent. Recent research suggests that in the eyes of the Acheulean toolmaker, the handaxe ‘was likely an average utilitarian tool’. Read more: https://t.co/P0kZN6lx7q

From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Michael Caine & his mother at home, 1964.

(©- Mirrorpix)

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

@SW_Help 1800 to Portsmouth harbor

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Originally published in 1934 – and fourteenth in our Faber Editions series – The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze is back on 7 November, with a new introduction by superfan Stephen Fry.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

#NobelPrize

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

We are pleased to announce that Anne Carson will receive the Review’s Hadada award, our prize for lifetime achievement.
https://t.co/szolYn2OsS

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

Despite the crowd, it was lovely.

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

Van Gogh exhibit on a Saturday. Not the best idea…

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

Art Deco is the prettier older sister of Modernism.

[Leigh Haddix @leighhaddix]

@nicolaupsonbook @FaberBooks Hooray!