Michael Holden

Words for pictures, words for papers.

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

1. I want to share something about Hilary Mantel which I hope is about her as a writer but also perhaps an illustration of the power and potential of writing itself…

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@Glow_Fragrance This is a wise and helpful list, but it's not therapy. I'm not sure it's helpful to present it as such.

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@JonathanShedler The assertion that things (in this case sentences) have 'usual' meanings - as oppose to thinking about the particular meaning for the client.

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@ScarredForLife2 Not half. That figure in the titles got mixed up with images of the god Pan in other stuff I was into and the whole thing became a sort of fearful roving entity that could crop up anywhere. I thought I saw him in our garden at one point.

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

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[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

With a lot of Robert Bolt on iPlayer (Man for All Seasons + Lawrence) I bought Adrian Turner's biography 'Scenes From Two Lives' - pleased to see this attribution of the famed match/desert cut which skews towards Lean/Young/Coates, as rooted in the writing

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Karma, Kim n' Elon. "Influence is a coproduction. Perhaps the brightest future is one in which we learn to look away" .https://t.co/KStjr8jTLn

[VICE @VICE]

Michael Holden's new VICE column, taken from the comeback issue of our magazine, has been liberated from the paywall—read @thewrongwriter's take on the modern condition here: https://t.co/tax11vi7Il

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@NewsOrFallSong

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Love The Firm. I especially love the fact that one of the senior hooligans is called, "Oboe." 'Why' someone ends up named after a classical instrument is less the point than its authentic representation of the sheer weirdness of the nickname process.

[Phil Davis @PhilDavis6]

Watch out for The Firm on BBC4 at 10.0. The late, great Alan Clark’s last film. A young Gary Oldman at his very best, Lesley Manville, a bit of me. The first of the football hooliganism films. Made in 1989 it’s a stunning piece of work.

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@RealTimBooth Hello. I wrote something about the experience (and avoidance of) of frustration, and your song about it - for which -many thanks 🙏
https://t.co/CA7xxd7qEa

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Pulp Friction. “The object that behaves perfectly becomes no better than a hallucination.” https://t.co/CA7xxd6SOC

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

'The Attention Casino' piece I wrote for @vice now liberated from their paywall.
"The ‘zone’ in the casino where we find ourselves is not one of comfort. In fact, it runs on stress, anxiety, and a replica of togetherness experienced mostly while alone."
https://t.co/0HR8Gl0SbQ

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Sheared, slaughtered and scorned. https://t.co/8UQQnRPQyV

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

The Fridge Magnet at the End of the Universe… "the endpoint of all the wearisome sloganeering now making up such a proportion of our feeds" https://t.co/xm9st3ulfO

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@JonathanShedler @threadreaderapp unroll

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

@JonathanShedler TBF he's doing this is at something like the assesment stage - they're not really 'in therapy' so to speak, he's saying I can't/won't see you, here's why.

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Not with a bang, but… https://t.co/X63xplvpD0

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Publish, and be Scammed.
The rickety rise of the fake author biography. https://t.co/pWJqanZqFr

[Michael Holden @thewrongwriter]

Our Mother the Mountain - Greed, growing older and getting down with the uphill struggle.
https://t.co/01klC72KRo