Dom Czapski

something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’ - Don McCullin

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Pessoa

#writing

In today's least surprising news

Letter signed, ‘Please accept. Sincerely, Samuel Beckett.’

exasperated train driver announcement to us during rush hour commute this morning: “there is more space in the back. the front and back of the train both arrive at Charing Cross at the same time. you do not enter some alternate reality when you sit in the front of the train”

Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons The Emmy-winning actor will work with psychologist Orly Klein to compile the letters into a book exploring masculinity and the challenges facing boys today

love this

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

#booksky

The old Buddhist saying, “you should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour.”

Text. “When you use words. The gaps. The way Caliban sits, a certain bowed-and-upright posture - why? Embarrassment? To spring at me if I run for it? I can draw it. I can draw his face and his expres-sions, but words are all so used, they've been used about so many other things and people. I write 'he smiled'. What does that mean? No more than a kindergarten poster painting of a turnip with a moon-mouth smile. Yet if I draw the smile...”

words are all so used - Fowles

Favourite of the year so far. I was going to single out Katherine LaNasa and Taylor Dearden for their fantastic performances but thinking back they’re actually all wonderful

some lovely improv pointers from the great Chris Mead

#improv #comedy

what if you adapted the scale of your works to your availability?

creepy book of the week

(my god it’s so creepy)

#booksky

My wife and I live in his area and we get a little giddy every time there's a Knausgaard sighting at Sainsbury's or at the train station.

Well, turns out that going to a European dance festival when your own country doesn’t believe in that sort of thing actually turns out to be not depressing but life-affirming. Thank you Lyon!

#dance

I’m at the airport, off to Lyon, and in a good mood for travelling, until i realise i’m going to a dance festival

The evil that men do lives after them

Yes. Two things can be true at once: violence is abhorrent, but so was Charlie Kirk. There's no moral obligation to mourn someone who perpetuated harm... I don't see how that's taking moral cues from fascists. We can simply... not talk about the little shit.

Three days after we left Los Angeles, Phil and I arrived at Aaron Copland's house, a low-slung A-frame with floor-to-ceiling windows, set in a dappled forest by the road. We knocked on the door, Copland answered it, and over his shoulder we saw a group of men sitting in the living room wearing only skimpy black thongs. He

Three days after we left Los Angeles, Phil and I arrived at Aaron Copland's house, a low-slung A-frame with floor-to-ceiling windows, set in a dappled forest by the road. We knocked on the door, Copland answered it, and over his shoulder we saw a group of men sitting in the living room wearing only skimpy black thongs. He

Steve Martin meets Aaron Copland

#writing

Find Work

Steve Martin’s “born standing up” is a delight

#booksky

bring back capital punishment

FB post from the Independent, "are modern men really using literature to get laid?", the hot bloke in the picture is reading Harry Potter

Dying at the book he's reading

i like this one… somehow they imply that Oscar Isaac - who starred in a Cohen brothers film, Star Wars and other Disney franchises, and loads of other hollywood films and broadway plays - has somehow had a failed career. Something to do with being… the guy?

Clair Wills · The Price of Safety: Constance Marten’s Defiance The trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were held to determine their criminal responsibility for their daughter...

i read this mind-blowing piece by Clair Wills in the @lrb.co.uk on the Constance Marten saga and went back to read broadsheet accounts of it… most of the coverage has been criminally superficial

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

book of the week (or of the past two or three weeks as summer holidays parenting, I've come to realise, means fewer, not more, books read over the summer!),short story collection

Anyone read Chandra? 'Shakti' about a woman slowly climbing the echelons of Bombay society is very very good.

#booksky

tbf this feels like a natural evolution for American dance

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