Algorithm REALLY wants me to start dressing more colourfully/ludicrously at the moment.

( I settled on the modest bucket-balaclava as a starter item )

🚨 Susannah Dickey and I took the train to say happy birthday to the wonderful A K BLAKEMORE and I encountered THE most insane urinal decorations …

Aww - thanks Jonathan Main ❤️

In two minds about which all-inclusive Spanish resort to book this summer?

Let this quote by the late great Avril Lavigne help you decide…

Bots sounding like Life Without Buildings

Readers 💔

You heard

This will be great... the Ali Millar and Keiran Goddard dream team are heading to the mighty Real Magic Books for a chat about their recent novels, Thursday 13 June.

Tickets and info 👉 realmagicbooks.com/events/

Young people!

Set aside your dreams!

( don’t )

RIP #stevealbini

💔 🐿️

This is a sad fucking song
We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying
[…]
The floor is littered
woodchips and apple cores
hulls of acorns
a chattering sound
Because they were squirrels; real squirrels
This isn't some kind of metaphor
Goddamn
this is real

🚨 WENDOVER

Thursday 13 June at the mighty Real Magic Books

Ali Millar and I will be talking 👁️🌊🌆📉⚡️ and Ava, Anna, Ada

Tickets here:

wegottickets.com/event/620208/

This is one for your diaries 👇🏼

🚨 GLASGOW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Me and Ali Millar are coming to talk about 👁️🌊🌆📉⚡️ and Ava, Anna, Ada.

Friday 28 June - Waterstones Byres Road

Event link and tickets

waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

Despite my general distaste for CULTURE, I was really pleased to be asked by the brilliant Representology for my cultural recommendations.

Featuring: Nick Bano, Becca Rothfeld ( Virago Press ) Susannah Dickey bluebaglife and a bunch of others.

Pretty much every time I wear this, someone will stop me and talk about their anger/sadness/disgust about Grenfell

2521 days and still no justice 💚✊

Caroline Meaby University of Leicester callit! - Horace Ové & Black screen representation by Clive Nwonka
- Rhian E. Jones reviews michael sheen 💙 & James Graham’s ‘The Way’
- Cultural cool with Keiran Goddard

As always, completely free to read. Come meet us in person at our first academic conference Cardiff University on June 27th!

The word PURCHASE has real range.

“Thank you for your purchase”

- grim, quotidian, mired in the brutality of capitalist exchange.

“ I can’t get any purchase!”

- slapstick, joyful, why is this comedic object so damn slippery?

And is this “red line” in the room with us now?

There’s a difference between something being too “nuanced and complex” because it is genuinely so.

And something SEEMING too “nuanced and complex” on account of one’s self-serving ignorance about the issue.

Travel agent going straight in there with the deep psychological interrogation…