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This is enraging, it is not relaxing viewing. But it is wonderful.

Also interesting on something we’ve seen here in UK: one campaigning obsession (eg Covid masks) because against libraries. We’ve all seen people obsessed with one issue go absolutely doolally on ALL the issues.

A copy of The Pleasure Dome, a collection of Graham Greene’s film criticism from 1935 to 1940.

Picked up this collection of Graham Greene’s film criticism from the late 1930s in Oxfam this morning. Haven’t seen one for a while. (His views on Shirley Temple aside, most of the reviews are unfamiliar to me. I will add anything eyebrow-raising to this post.) @backlisted.bsky.social

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

Human slop.

Please stop using the term ‘AI slop’. It’s lazy and derivative and you’re recycling it from Internet memes, all of which undermines the argument for the inherent superiority of human creativity.

The track list of Vic Mars’s beautiful The Land and the Garden LP on @claypipemusic.bsky.social reads like a poem that perfectly complements the music.

Read more Orwell, listen to more Clark

Lots to enjoy here ("it is hard not to see the name of Clark’s first television series, Petula Clark’s Pets Parlour, as a sly dig at George Orwell’s Animal Farm") ... if not the music.

INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Lovely to receive an email invitation to a cocktail party at UEA (‘you may be too busy with Booker stuff of course!’) but I have had to decline. ‘RSVP: Unfortunately for all concerned, I am the wrong Andrew Miller’.

I’ve had it on my wish list ever since I’ve heard of this book on @backlisted.bsky.social, so thank you very much!

Another Wednesday morning delight from @iammilliam.bsky.social. An Easter egg filled study of a musical oddity. Thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social I have both heard of and read Hapworth 16, 1924, but I know there are other references that have escaped me. Sign up. These alone are easily worth it.

By the time I got to ‘fuck this shit, thinks Petula Clark’ I was laughing out loud. Excellent work!

Reader, I hooted.

Beware the savage lure
Of Pet Clark’s rotogravure.

Hugely looking forward to this one! Worth being a Backlisted patreon member just for the INVENTORY! 😊

Excellent thread. Here's the Backlisted episode on Comyns as well: www.backlisted.fm/episodes/14-...

“No, it’s the books that are wrong.” etc

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

I used to listen to a podcast that put out a bonus episode during a fundraiser, specifically for backers, of all the "umm" and "uh"s etc etc that they'd edited out of normal episodes

listening to a podcast that’s put out an episode with an unedited ad read in the middle. like, multiple takes, host saying “nope”, lots of dead air, laughing at the lines she has to say. a modern horror story lol

To clarify, she wasn’t even a guest on the show; one of her novels was discussed by us and our guests. But she still wrote individual notes of appreciation. - Andy

To clarify, she wasn’t even a guest on the show; one of her novels was discussed by us and our guests. But she still wrote individual notes of appreciation. - Andy

Drove down to Norwich listening to this,I can confirm that although the book is hyperlocal to Kent it worked in the flatlands too , ancient forgotten places , isolated murder bungalows, obscure factory units and as it finished I pulled up next to a heavily fly tipped Lover's lane. #booksky

“I’d rather have my mind expanded than my taste confirmed.”
Well, I took @iammilliam.bsky.social at his word and plunged into the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen multiverse - I’m glad I did - I didn’t love everything but it was a rich reading experience which I’d recommend

Thanks to a memorable @backlisted.bsky.social episode on Tove Jansson a few years back, her book caught my eye in this free little library in front of the Finnish embassy in Washington a couple of days ago. Now if only I could read it! @iammilliam.bsky.social

Sylvanian @backlisted.bsky.social in memoriam : Imogen by Jilly Cooper

And here is that episode, on Imogen by Jilly Cooper, with guests Daisy Buchanan and Ian Patterson. In Jilly’s own words, “it was all such terrific fun”. RIP. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/84-...

Not a peep out of Alan Moore. Or Shirley Jackson. Or whoever wrote Beowulf. #disappointing

I wrote 500 words for Inventory this morning that I found so funny, they almost certainly aren’t funny at all.