Anna Nightingale

Thrilled to see G. D. Wright’s AFTER THE STORM hit the Kindle top 100 🤩

Me at LBF

If I buy six eggs, I eat six eggs within three days. If I buy twelve eggs, I eat no eggs for two weeks, and then I eat six eggs in one week.

On the shelf above the red leather sofa, two droopy cacti are being used as bookends, Infinite Jest and Gravity’s Rainbow held upright and dusty. A reed diffuser attempts to mask the smell of the five size-9 shoes in the middle of the room. In the fridge are eight pots of hard-boiled eggs. #WriteCBC

Day off work today, spent it seeing ✨ Padiator ✨

It shocked me that the first time she's mentioned, we're immediately asked to imagine her nipples and rib bones. CM knew how to write a stonking sentence but, as are his feelings about fatherhood, his attitudes towards women, and romantic relationships with them, are evident in his writing.

Saddened, but unsurprised by this. In The Road, the first time McCarthy mentions the father's wife, and son's mother, he writes:

'In dreams his pale bride came to him out of a green and leafy canopy. Her nipples pipeclayed and her rib bones painted white. She wore a dress of gauze[...]'

Zoe Leonard, 1992