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Arturo Martini, The She-Wolf, 1930-1

Sabrina Carpenter, Man’s Best Friend

I had my doubts about Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover, but now I realise she was parodying Arturo Martini’s fascist art of the 1930s as a commentary on these times, and not recreating Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove

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Twelve of Brian Wilson’s greatest songs – from surf to psychedelia and beyond Elaborating classic pop and doo-wop into divinely beautiful and inimitable hitmaking, these are some of the late musician’s most unmistakable masterpieces

Typically insightful piece by @andrewmale.bsky.social Twelve of Brian Wilson’s greatest songs – from surf to psychedelia and beyond www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Astérix et Ozempix

"At certain times in one's life anything more emphatic is murderous."

The ‘he was ignored at the time’ rhetoric has always been overdone. What a great find this review is

Nails it 👇

John Wyndham changed my life at about that age…

Isolation Row Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter

An essay about Scott Walker’s “late style” dadadrummer.substack.com/p/isolation-...

Percival Everett: Parallels between the US and 1933 Germany are frightening The American writer, who this week won the Pulitzer prize for his novel James, says the White House under the ‘idiot’ Donald Trump is too absurd for satire

I interviewed the Pulitzer-winning Percival Everett. He was fun and pretty punchy ...
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Pat Barker interview: ‘Success can be more challenging than failure’ | The Booker Prizes Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices

"I didn't like winning the Booker at all. Success can be a lot more challenging than failure. I was used to failure, like most writers are. I did failure beautifully, believe me. I didn’t do success quite so well."

I spoke to Pat Barker about her @thebookerprizes.bsky.social-winning The Ghost Road:

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This new Joan Didion book should never have been published Notes to John is a collection of the writer’s jottings about her sessions with a psychiatrist. She didn’t think them worth publishing when she was alive — and she wasn’t wrong

"Notes to John is a scrapbook of secondary material. Reading it for an experience of Didion’s work is like trying to listen to Abbey Road by looking at photographs of the recording equipment."

Me on an entirely new experience: reading a boring Joan Didion book. Not to mention the ethics of it...

Very good review from @john-self.bsky.social of Green Ink from @stephenmay1.bsky.social. Stephen is in Barnsley this Saturday to talk about the book, and we will be there with signed copies. Go to the Barnsley Libraries website events page and book your free ticket to join us.

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Oh and thanks for the review (that was a very good surprise)

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Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson Stephen May has a penchant for reimagining the lives of historical figures and his new novel, ‘Green Ink’, is a case in point. May evocatively explores what…

New episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com

Stephen May's 'Green Ink' (via @swiftpress.bsky.social) is another title to look out for this year - He speaks to @georginagodwin.bsky.social and discusses the writing process for his latest work > monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Will AI Destroy Literature or Save It? Part I Don Paterson contemplates the Terminator in the Augean stables

Just posted a p1 of a longish two-parter on AI and the future of literature on the northseapoets substack. TL;DR: it’s time to start panicking. But good may come of it.

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Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson Stephen May has a penchant for reimagining the lives of historical figures and his new novel, ‘Green Ink’, is a case in point. May evocatively explores what…

Author @stephenmay1.bsky.social speaks to @georginagodwin.bsky.social about his new novel #GreenInk

'A fascinating title that explores the world of politics with vigour, curiosity and flare'

Listen to the full interview: shorturl.at/ab4my

See @stephenmay1.bsky.social author of #GreenInk in conversation with Darren Coffield on 28th April.

'Intrigue, betrayal, redemption' Rachel Seiffert

'Stephen May has a nose for fascinating historical events' @thetimes.com

Read the book: bit.ly/GreenInkBook

'Grand, provocative entertainment' @john-self.bsky.social #TheCritic

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Green Ink by Stephen May: Smart and energetic, with memorable characters and sharp asides An energetic ragtime with a memorable cast of characters and some sharp asides

#GreenInk by @stephenmay1.bsky.social is 'smart and energetic' and out now.

'The flow is an energetic ragtime as this roving, restless man encounters a memorable cast of characters... full of sharp, spry asides'

Read the full @irishtimes.com review: shorturl.at/nbw8m

AS IF FROM THE END TIMES (Homage to David Garnett) When all the books are gone, there will be nothing to remember but a single porch light at the far end of the road, where something live is moving in the snow, a woman, or a fox, it's hard to say. Last day of birdsong; salt rain in the trees; the echo of someone going about their business, making good or making hay – you never know for sure, although you know that something here is coming to an end: last day of weather, lanternlight crossing the yards, last of those stories our kinfolk used to tell of woman into fox, fox into deer, deer into shadow and, always, the darkness-to-come.

“When all the books are gone, there will be
nothing to remember but a single
porch light at the far end of the road…”

‘As If From The End Times’ by John Burnside

(from his forthcoming final book of poetry, The Empire of Forgetting)

#GreenInk by @stephenmay1.bsky.social received a rave review in @financialtimes.com

'One of its chief pleasures is the authorial voice, which, with its maxims on pity, ambition, boredom and so forth, is of an omniscience rarely encountered in contemporary fiction’

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