Lulu Allison

Nice to see a friend come up on Vintage Obscura

Overgrown shrubs in silhouette, patchy evening sky, vapour trail silver white

Love this. I wrote about wonder often in Beast. Here is a quote from page 2017

Un-British - so vile trying to multi-task on a message like this too.

I think it will. I’ve often thought ‘the artist’s hand’ is a bit of an ick idea but that was in the luxurious time of presuming an artist actually made the work. Now, we might need it more.

If AI content does go the way it’s pedlars hope, (constant high-stakes surface, low-stakes heart) I predict performance and live art will flourish. We might not intellectually have grasped that culture is about human connection, not merely entertainment, but we will rediscover it instinctively.

Rewilding

How intriguing!

Thank you. I hope you enjoy it.

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

Dusk sky with pink hirizon clouds and a pink X made by vapour trails

X

Wow!

Yes but it makes a really pleasing whole I think too

What a lovely cover

I hate whimsical collective nouns. In fact I hate collective nouns. Sheer embellishment. Only useable when you want a flounce.

Good morning.

A massive couple of weeks ahead for everyone at Bluemoose.

Many thanks to our brilliant editors.

Lin Webb, Hetha Duffy, Leonora Rustamova & Flora Rustamova.

_Leonard and Hungry_ Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

6 part BBC Drama series on your screens.

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Plus it’s hard to feel the good in any news that could’ve come before thousands of people were killed

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People often say 'how is the book going?' and really, we often have no idea at all, which I think surprises them. Comments like this are the metric I have and so are exceedingly valued.

I feel very grateful when unknown (to me) people send me messages like this.

Imagine saying all that to a room full of what you imagine to be ‘just that kind of man’ and they all just sit, and look at you. He must be DYING 🤣

What the fuck …

Presumably Trump and Hegseth were expecting blood-lust hollers of wild gratitude from the newly liberated soldiers? Is it truly as silent as the clips? I hope it’s as humiliating as it seems.

NEXT BOOK PROJECT.

We could do with a little help. We've gone live with our @crowdfunder.bsky.social today!

Please do help us spread the word, Mr Schwitters is a remarkable book, he was a remarkable man. There are some lovely rewards.

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Finish novel number 4. I’m still finding its shape in some ways but it seems possible …

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

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White sweetpea flower fills the frame. It is translucent in the sunlight

I went into the garden to see how things are looking

Sounds wonderful. Happy birthday

Photo of book page, short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. Following text highlighted: Some of this work is very good, L.K. thinks. She tries but cannot fasten upon Vnn's influences. Lucien Freud? Francis Bacon? Goya? Somewhat crudely mixed with primitive art, Warhol parody. An air of vehemence, recklessness-Pollock. The larger canvases of sprawling, quasi-abstract naked bodies, collages, sculptures-intimidating in their size.

I read Black Water many years ago and the tension, the focus, really stayed with me. But this is so slack it’s comical. The character is a photographer, someone who spends time with artists - all the artists in the world, apparently.