Mark Ronson’s memoir is a hoot. He makes 90s NYC sound even more exciting than 90s London. My review for this week’s @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
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Mark Ronson’s memoir is a hoot. He makes 90s NYC sound even more exciting than 90s London. My review for this week’s @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
An inspiring and beautifully written piece!
A wonderful piece by @akennedysmith.bsky.social about her father Joe Kennedy:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A lovely sentence from a segment of the Today programme: “Gorillas understand the concept of a friend of a friend”.
Oxford World’s Classics
This story about Laurence Sterne (told here by Ian Campbell Ross) is new to me
The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism.
Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling!
First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...
Very well, thanks! Hope you are too
If my brother Tom, former producer of In Our Time, were on here I’d tag him for confirmation
It’s a very good thing that @maryelmorris.bsky.social and I made ourselves do Parkrun this morning, because our reward was meeting this gentleman:
Bristol: the home of Aardman Animations
Unity St, Bristol
Unity Street, Bristol
Doing this very soon! Arrghh!
The US-China confrontation; beliefs vs facts; Tennyson, science and catastrophe; Iris Murdoch’s poetry; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein; a history of shamanism – and much more.
The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
The aristocracy today; Sally Mann’s creative process; the majesty of László Krasznahorkai; the charge against Chaucer; how grey became cool; small press struggles – and much more.
Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
That sounds like such an interesting talk!
As part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Lecture Programme, in partnership with Coventry University, I will be reading and discussing Indignity tomorrow. 6pm, free event, followed by reception and book signing but registration is required 👇!!!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
It’s here: the newly refined and now fortnightly TLS.
www.the-tls.com/
Strong intro.
“There are lots of kinds of insects all of them a bit the same.”
Here we have Eimear McBride with her TLS tote bag:
@thetls.bsky.social
(One for you, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social ?)
Falmouth fox
I recently heard about the “theory of unexpected red” in interior design. The Fox Rosehill (subtropical) Gardens next to Falmouth University show us how it’s done:
Wow!
Sorting through childhood stuff again. There’s no way I’m ever getting rid of this
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🤣 Good advice
I bought a second-hand footstool online. I noticed later that there was something rattling around inside the box it came in, and it turned out to be this:
Touch of class
Great to be taking part in this ‘Historians on Substack’ live event in London on 27 March, with a focus on modern storytelling in the digital era, tips & tricks for Substack writers and wine-fuelled networking. Booking details below.
akennedysmith.substack.com/p/historians...
