Alice Bright

I was there again in the summer. It's a real throwback, and with some fantastic archival collections as well.

Congratulations Gregor! 👏

love it! Hope you're doing well Andrea xx

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It's the most wonderful time of the year!* 🍂🍁

*time to dust off your When Harry Met Sally fashions

#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE

Well this looks GREAT

i've been in meetings like this

Well, here's a treat!

(h/t to @craigoxbrow.bsky.social)

Gail here is literally describing copyright as a thing. You don’t get to define it as something else any more than you get to do that with other property rights.

a woman wearing headphones is sitting in the back seat of a car ALT: a woman wearing headphones is sitting in the back seat of a car

Latest BBC Front Row is OK to go. Features Matthew McConaughey on discussing God with Carl Sagan, Octavia E Butler & time travel fiction, Harris Dickinson & Simon Armitage on Tony Harrison. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

Stephen King on Daphne du Maurier.

This only happens to you once

Might as well put this up again as Duolingo is in the news.

BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Ep 3: Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirically shaped sounds.

On #TheSkewer tonight The state of Palestine is recognised, we shine a light on what PeaDo in the Shadows & Reform protect our women & girls & swans. On @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds at 11:15pm. Grab your 🎧 & go & listen. It’s Supercalifragilisticexpibraggadocious www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

the least effort that has gone into anything ever

Cartoon: two people at a table with paper, rulers, pens, knives, a jam jar with tools in. Third person entering the scene. Person at the table says "Welcome to Book Binding Club. Please make yourself a tome". I don't know how well puns work with readers. It's two separate words, "a" and "tome". Would welcome any feedback on this.

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I remember it like it was yesterday.

Congratulations Jim

wow

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

This was quite the read...

I’ve joked that I pay my agents 10% of my salary - not to find me jobs - but to be the ones who have to hear I didn’t get the job… over and over and over again.

Like any creative industry, #screenwriting is hard and brutally competitive. So here’s a #Scriptsky #WritingCommunity 🧵 on REJECTION.
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A picture of a graveyard from a news story: Portsmouth Man fined for pretending to be ghost in Portsmouth cemetery Police spokesman says witnesses complained about Anthony Stallard 'throwing his arms in the air and saying W0O0000.

The perfect hobby doesn't exi...

so creepy

A screenshot of the Gladstone's Library newsletter, with a photo of the garden during Gladfest and the beginning of text reading 'A Note from the Warden:'

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Jennie Lee's vision for the arts, 60 years on | Campaign for the Arts Lee's trailblazing white paper of 1965 insisted that the arts should be central to everyday life and publicly supported for the benefit of all.

“She said that every child should have access to the arts throughout the country, wherever you’re from, whatever your background. These basic principles are worth looking at again.”

Jennie Lee, Britain’s pioneering first Arts Minister, gets a mention. Read about her legacy, 60 years on👇

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How lovely 😊

Metro byline: Mum-of-two says looking at Queen's coffin was better than having kids: 'It's the best thing I've done in my life'.

Can't believe it's been three years since this banger.