Mark Broatch

Books editor @nzlistener; journalist, language & science geek, doting dad, quiz setter. Author 100 Words That Make Us Kiwi. Always reading.

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@carolecadwalla It's a great read, and such actions only amplify the Streisand effect

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@russellcrowe Model behaviour

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Great news
“The take-off and landing of a helicopter is an activity not provided for within the residential-mixed housing suburban zone of the Auckland Unitary Plan and falls to be determined as a non-complying activity.”
https://t.co/uRCHILwqVo

[Charted Daily @Charteddaily]

They also loved the 'random overseas visitor gives sweeping opinions on New Zealand' genre.

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Books include Booker winner Douglas Stuart's new novel John of John, an inside account of the NZ justice system, a new history of Kiwi zines, Lauren Keenan's latest & a wild cosmic horror

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The new issue

[The Listener @nzlistener]

Here for the Auckland Writers Festival, Szalay talks about the male experience and writing awkward sex scenes.

🔗 Read the full story at the link below.

https://t.co/3fR4MNlLoq

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

In a media environment dominated by short-form video and slop, actually having watched hundreds of films or read a lot of books is a status marker showing you have an attention span.

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Tony Tost @tonytost]

I blame the parents. A part of childhood should be spent watching your dad's favorite violent movies & suffering through your mom's favorite songs in the car. That's how a living cultural memory is transmitted -- not via a perpetual bubble of age-appropriate content.

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@TheFigen_ Stairs were the quicksand of the 80s

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@SelinaStreet100 @fundypost https://t.co/GqWHOGvXCd

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Would be happy to see council buy the land, for a park, playing fields, market area and housing. Green space is vital.
https://t.co/vl0EmKtiMj

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In Books, Yann Martel's new novel reviewed, Lionel Shriver's ascerbic latest, Daniel Defoe a spy?, and a couple of spooky new novels

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The new issue

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Good long-form piece on the making of Jeffrey Epstein
https://t.co/vLeaG5NLBj

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@daniel_dsj2110 French is just Latin with the middle bits of words, and some of the ends, slurred out

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If you haven't read Andrew O'Hagan's piece on Andrew, can recommend.
https://t.co/HEUmbTWxJ7

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

I wrote about the angry, absurd, insightful and entertaining Will Self
https://t.co/xidNxZOvV8