@cdrose
Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
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"In Keun’s writing there are no dead [...] It is ugly and it is beautiful. Life goes on, and those who don’t are unloved and unmourned. It is impossible to be dead. It is beyond consideration ..."
Simon Wortham on Keun
minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...
Excellent. I'll chair it and think of some fantastically difficult questions.
Come to Manchester!
Wherein, at the invitation of @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, I write about twelve brilliant stories by twelve brilliant writers, some of whom are alive @egangoonsquad.bsky.social @theactualemma.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social.
It's a good one.
Isn't that David Hayden's book?
'20th Century Radicals' on Radio 3 has been a great series. The latest episode, on Alvin Lucier, is well worth a listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
One of our posties recently described one of our cats as a 'bobby dazzler.' Is usage of the term endemic in the Royal Mail?
'Delirious New Lynn' by Oscar Mardell
The cover of a book, delicately pink with various typefaces on it: 'Delirious New Lynn, or Portage and Euphoria; or, The Carryover. A Guide Book.' (By Oscar Mardell.)
Honoured to now be one of the chosen few in these islands who possess a copy of this book.
RIP
America’s painfully acute main character syndrome on full display in the reaction to John Davidson’s ticks at the BAFTA’s. That man has done so much to inform and educate people about his disability and it seems too many can’t take the two minutes to educate themselves on his affliction. Shameful
Yes - they leave a great legacy.
I think DW basically just got fed up.
Cover of Oscar Mardell's book.
If you haven't already received an invitation email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site Details of how to buy a copy will be shared with the audience. Join Oscar, @kevinboniface.bsky.social, @cdrose.bsky.social and myself to celebrate this unique and unclassifiable publication.
The spines of the books 'Cruel Optimism' (Lauren Berlant) and 'Hopeful Pessimism' (Mara van der Lught)
A conundrum.
This Thursday at 7pm GMT: the online launch of 'Delirious New Lynn; or, Portage and Euphoria, or, The Carryover' by New Zealand author Oscar Mardell, with @kevinboniface.bsky.social and @cdrose.bsky.social. If you haven't yet received an invitation email me via davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
The spines of three books ('Laughable Loves,' 'My First Loves' and 'Difficult Loves') between a pair of odd brass bookends.
For the day and everything in it.
That vinyl box has the best sleeve notes ever.
Timperley!
I definitely think so. Between 'had had' and 'had had.'
Two translators and a tricky sentence. One, while the other had had 'had,' had had 'had had,' 'had had' had had, ultimately, a better effect.
On tQ today, musicians in Iran and across the diaspora speak out about the recent uprising, the dubious and unhelpful conspiracy tendency from “anti-imperialists” in the West, and their hopes and (with Trump’s military build-up continuing) fears for the future
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Someone on Bluesky insisting I wrote a series of illuminating Tolkien essays on the Siege of Gondor and the Battle of Helm's Deep before realizing their error and deleting their original post. I still got the notification though!
I started the day getting my hair stuck in the motor part of a hair dryer and ended it with this. Take that, Peter Hujar!
The subsequent books, on Nietzsche and Weil, are even better.
He gave you a shout out from the stage, too.
I just read this and it's great.
'Q' is great.
Thank you for such and attentive and thoughtful review, Laurie.