Tom

|| Classics stuff @Ekklesia_Mag || He/Him

[pellucid dreamer @CHRISF0GLE]

RIP dfw you would’ve loved writing a gooning essay for Harper’s

[Tom @tomhilless]

Amis on Updike (and Bellow and Mailer)

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

William Faulkner's work was poorer after 1950. He was 53 then.

Don DeLillo's work was poorer after 2000. He was 64 then.

Thomas Pynchon's work was poorer after 2000 (maybe 2006). He was 63 then.

Probably simply proves that after a lifetime of writing a tiredness sets in.

[Tom @tomhilless]

One Battle After Another, I’ll say no more on the subject

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 👋

[Tom @tomhilless]

Rearranged the furniture, hated it, had to put it all back

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🌎

[Tom @tomhilless]

Richard Tull:

[sam buntz @SamBuntz]

This is how we revive the humanities.

[Tom @tomhilless]

Some of us are old enough to remember when they’d rip into Corbs for not looking snazzy enough

[Ruth R @Ruth4Peace]

Zohran Mamdani moved a table, Jeremy Corbyn owns a jacket, these are the kinds of "scandals" we are supposed to get mad at while billionaires take everything from all of us.

[Tom @tomhilless]

No matter how hard I try I can’t come to terms with the phrase “on accident”

[Tom @tomhilless]

How’s it feel to live my dream

[of the sea @chapterlviii]

the secret history 1992 first edition…

vinted you’re my best friend in the world

[Tom @tomhilless]

Simultaneously not important enough to be paid more, and too important to go on strike

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Police can’t strike.
Soldiers can’t strike.
Doctors shouldn’t either.

Labour and Reform don’t have the guts to say it.

But we do.

[Ross Greer @Ross_Greer]

You:
- Hosted the head of the Israeli air force last week
- Are currently training Israeli troops in the UK
- Said Israel has the right to cut off water in Gaza (a war crime)
- Haven't stopped arms sales
- Haven't even recognised Palestine as a state

You have enabled a genocide.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Again, pretending to find a conscience now, as we enter the endgame stage of a genocide you did PR for, is not going to wash.

The BBC should never be forgiven for its complicity, its self-censorship, and how it allowed itself to be pushed around by lobbyists to hide the truth.

[William Guppy @w_guppy]

This debut novel about a bwilliant young Oxford student who has lots of sex with lots of girls while writing his debut novel was published by the author's father's editorial and won the Somerset Maugham prize. Rave reviews in the Spectator and Critic Magazine.

[Tom @tomhilless]

Unmatched

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched🍷

[Tom @tomhilless]

I wrote about The Return for @Ekklesia_Mag

https://t.co/pNWTUyfeI1

[Tom @tomhilless]

Addicted to the New Yorker Fiction
Podcast I’m ripping through like 5-stories a day I’m unstoppable my thoughts have begun to sound like John Updike

[Ekklesia Magazine @Ekklesia_Mag]

New article available to read now!

In ‘The Ink of Rebellion: Catullus and Keating in the Quiet Storm of Defiance,’ Caitlin Davies talks poetry as an act of rebellion, the enduring resonance of ancient wisdom, and the limits of hedonist self-fulfilment.

https://t.co/pLpo2Qzcw2

[Tom @tomhilless]

Legendary run

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 📲

[Tom @tomhilless]

Happy to report that the typewriter fits the LRB tote bag perfectly