Nick Triplow

We're thrilled our final guest of 2025 will be @nicolaupson.bsky.social. Nicola will be talking about 'The Christmas Clue', 10th December (7pm). It's free to attend at @hulllibraries.bsky.social (Central) or via the online stream.

We'll bring the mince pies!🎄

Please reserve via the links below.

You need to see this…

Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Been doing exactly that this week. It's hard and ruthless and I *think* I have the solution. It'll be tighter and serve the story better as a result. Like Hilary Mantel's notion of getting out of your own way. Cut that part of the process and what's the point?

An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

@saltpublishing.com

YouTube video by Elen Nas Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
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Oh, bloody hell. These poets who inspired me and made language and poetry accessible and filled it with meaning and soul. Fuck.

Unfortunately, Neil Broadfoot can no longer join us this Wednesday evening. However, our @nickquantrill.bsky.social and @nicktriplow.bsky.social will present 'Three Book Wednesday'. We hope you can still join us for what will be a lively evening of book chat at @hulllibraries.bsky.social 📚

A poster advertising Russel doing an event on 13th August 2025 at Hull central library at 7pm, which also be streamed online. Free tickets via eventbrite and www.hullnoir.com

More #authorevents posting, as later in the month (the 13th tae be exact) I'll be in Hull (You could say I'll be going to Hull and Back...) talking all things THE FRIDAY GIRL @hullnoir.bsky.social & trying not make any puns that could ruin my noirish reputation*

*this is almost guaranteed to happen

YouTube video by Hal Hartley WHERE TO LAND - Trailer

The new Hal Hartley trailer has dropped!

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This is perfect.

B&w portrait of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe behind a 19th Century iron door grille in Hamburg.

The same door today

Jürgen Vollmer's extrordinarily portenteous portrait of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe, taken in early 1962 about three months before Sutcliffe's death. He would have been 85 today.

In Hamburg last year a friend took me walking around Beatles-related places including the door.

We're thrilled to be working with @hulllibraries.bsky.social to present a special screening of 'Brighton Rock', 5th July (7pm).

Our guide for the evening will be Cathi Unsworth. She'll be in conversation with @nicktriplow.bsky.social before we show the film.

Tickets £5 (link in the comments) 🎬👇

One of these days I'll make the Hull pilgrimage I've wanted to since reading Getting Carter by @nicktriplow.bsky.social - til then, there's always the livestream of the @hullnoir.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social crime fiction sessions hosted by Nick T & @nickquantrill.bsky.social

#BookSky 📚💙

Bowker's going to nail Crawford... unless Crawford can nail Bowker first!

🚓 Z CARS (1977) 🚓 7pm featuring #RayLonnen #DouglasFielding #BrianGrellis #NormanRossington 'Rip Off' #TPTVsubtitles

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

From the day I first played it out 35 years ago to the last DJ gig I did a few weeks ago, this tune’s guaranteed to hit the spot. Goes brilliantly with Kris Ife’s “Hush”, Alan Hawkshsw’s “Studio 69”, “She Lives In A Big House” by Offspring and Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger’s “Indian Rope Man”.

Excellent book. Dury, Wilko, it was all there.

Before It Went Rotten ALWYN TURNER reads about the pub rock of the 1970s.

"However significant Johnny Rotten has been, it’s worth remembering that he nicked much of his shtick from the greatest of all the pub rockers."

Today we shall also be remembering Ian Dury, born 12 May 1942, the greatest artist to emerge from the pub-rock scene of the 1970s.

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Good morning.

Lottie walked.

Shirt ironed and shoes polished.

Off to The British Book Awards tonight at The Grosvenor Hotel in London.

Time for a proper brew.

#Nibbies

@thebookseller.com

The metaphor of a country whose fresh and coastal water is choked with pollutants and excrement by a privatised industry that is apparently financially incontinent eludes everyone in Labour HQ.

This is very special. @hullnoir.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social

Man, it hit so much harder than I expected.

A rag and bone man leading a horse and cart. He is pointing at the photographer and in the background are various cars including a Ford Capri.

London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

We're thrilled our next guest will be AA Dhand. Amit will be talking about his thrillers, 11th June (7pm). It's free to attend at
@hulllibraries.bsky.social (Central) or via the online stream.

Please reserve your space on the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hull-noir-...

Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

We're underway! Our May guest is the brilliant Charlotte Philby talking about 'Dirty Money' 📚

@rorywaterman.bsky.social & @nicktriplow.bsky.social are venturing to merry Scunthorpe for a Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined anthology event. Book your spot here: www.opac.northlincs.gov.uk/events#/even...

Remission ‘Anyway, now we know, the guy’s a monster. Became one. I don’t think he was that way before the drugs. It was a real Jekyll and Hyde thing.’

‘A drug friend could really be anybody.’

Fiction by Gary Indiana.

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Los Angeles, Indiana ‘Gary intended Remission to be similar, on the surface, to the books in his great “American crime” trilogy, at least in the sense that the story would revolve around a real, high-profile case.’

‘Gary intended “Remission” to be similar, on the surface, to the books in his great “American crime” trilogy, at least in the sense that the story would revolve around a real, high-profile case.’

Jesse Barron introduces ‘Remission’ by Gary Indiana.

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Dead Friends ‘Why we make a friend resists analysis as much as why we fall in love.’ The editor introduces the issue.

‘A friend of this magazine died while the issue was in production.’

Today we publish Granta 171: Dead Friends, which includes an excerpt from the final book from Gary Indiana (1950 - 2024). We have collected his contributions to Granta below.

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