Kat Lister

I really love the Tenant of Wildfell Hall! I think it should get a lot more attention than it does, poor Anne

(she types, holding her Brontës mug in the other hand)

And Charlotte is NOT happy about it

wanna write an op-ed about it?

😂👌

Are we wuthered out yet, asking for a friend

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good, so I never tried

Ha ha, yes, this is spot on. “Not quite Comic Sans” is Reform through and through, isn’t it

I know there’s more to dissect here but, Christ, that font!

100% agree – I’m getting a little tired of nuanced and thoughtful profiles being reduced to clickbait like this, shows little life experience on the part of whoever headlined this, imo

yes, food for us all

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

It’s not lost on me that Tracey Emin’s new show at the Tate, entitled A Second Life, is exactly how Henri Matisse described things when he escaped death on the operating table – & rediscovered himself with paper. 70 odd years between them & the takeaway is the same: life is so precious – LIVE it:

I used to go to a sushi restaurant there, it was above a Korean supermarket, and I’m yet to find another that matches it’s charm

These difficult days, sending you love, John x

Oh farewell, Bud Cort, with your forever face. I discovered Harold and Maude when I was 18 and I don’t think I’ve ever felt the pure, all-embracing beauty of a film as much as that one, at that age. It opened so many doors for me.

Coming to Glasgow again in August xx get ya tickets now

ditto poetry, absolute minefield...

It was the "consumers" quote that really made me wince, too...

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled." Brilliant writing here, sad writing here, because it's all true:

It got republished by Daunt a few years ago now, I would seriously recommend giving it a go!

Have you read her novel Green Water, Green Sky? I still think about it, exquisite writing

Ha ha I remember this

In an increasingly cruel and unkind world why would anyone advocate for this?!

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left?

Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

Ah great, I have just forwarded this on to my 40 arts & culture journalism post grads!

Words for then, words for now. How he continues to guide us. Happy Birthday, Derek Jarman. The last day of the long drag of January, now time for more light:

A pal recommended Schitt’s Creek to me during lockdown, in the pit of my grief, & this brilliant woman saved me. Catherine O’Hara, what a class act:

I read both over xmas and just devoured them, so devilishly dark

Totally agree, I think the BB in particular is a very smart move, the covers really are reframing her for a new audience. Plus their decision to only publish paperback makes it so much affordable. French flaps, too! What's not to love?

Women Without Men This internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of Iran’s most important and influential writers traces the interwoven destinies of five women – including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex work...

Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men is being published in the UK for the first time in March and it is an astonishing book – surreal and strange and utterly captivating. Alas also v pertinent to now: www.penguin.co.uk/books/474391...