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Writing. 'The Orange Notebooks' in Electric Literature: https://electricliterature.com/the-orange-notebooks-by-susanna-crossman/ 'Home is Where we Start', Penguin Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com

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Of course the former 🀣🀣🀣🀣

08.10.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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White Ink Meeting TONIGHT A reminder that it is the first Monday of the month and so that means we are meeting tonight for our White Ink meet-up.

Ill be joining the excellent writer Anna Wharton tonight to talk about my memoir Home Is Where We Start, my utopian commune childhood, archive research, life-writing and more. Join us !
All details below :

open.substack.com/pub/annawhar...

06.10.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pour tout l’amour des fleurs mortes partagΓ© avec Marguerite Duras.

03.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me too, and I love the beauty of dead flowers and fading bouquets. Such elegance, and grace.

03.10.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Always inspired by Duras who kept all her bouquets.

03.10.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pour tout l’amour des fleurs mortes partagΓ© avec Marguerite Duras.

03.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Black text on peach background. Online course. Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with Susanna Crossman. 26 Nov 2025 18:30 - 20:30 GMT. Along the bottom, photo of Crossman seated on concrete steps.

Black text on peach background. Online course. Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with Susanna Crossman. 26 Nov 2025 18:30 - 20:30 GMT. Along the bottom, photo of Crossman seated on concrete steps.

Explore memory enhancement and how we use objects, archives and history in life writing in our new course:

Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with @susannacrossman.bsky.social

03.10.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dans une chambre d’hΓ΄tel. Lundi soir.

29.09.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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La vue de la chambre d’hΓ΄tel. Mardi matin.

30.09.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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La vue de la chambre d’hΓ΄tel. Mardi matin.

30.09.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dans une chambre d’hΓ΄tel. Lundi soir.

29.09.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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En attendant le train. Lundi matin.

29.09.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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En attendant le train. Lundi matin.

29.09.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Les dernières tomates. Dimanche midi.

28.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Les dernières tomates. Dimanche midi.

28.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’”

28.09.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Tony Harrison.
Listen to his extraordinary poem β€˜v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.

Highly relevant today.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...

27.09.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

That’s extraordinary you saw that production by Volcano Theatre @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social . I also saw it and I loved it so much i wrote to the company and then went back and managed to see it two times more. It was one of the most startling plays I’ve ever seen.

28.09.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This always make me laugh too. The purpose of all literacy! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜…

27.09.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amateurs! Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...

Out this week, looks like a belter from @badaude.bsky.social - just got the email from @versobooks.bsky.social to say mine's on the way πŸ™βœŠοΈ

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

25.09.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hahaha yes.

27.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" β€” @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" β€” @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" β€” Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

16.09.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

It is key. I had to shout loud and lengthily to bring opera singers and contemporary artists into French psychiatric hospitals rather than getting patients to do coloring-in of Disney characters.

27.09.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s bridging that gap but not dumbing down. And yes the transgression of giving voice to the vandal. So amazing and moving. This is what we need now.

27.09.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same. Saw a play version when I was 16 and it changed me.

27.09.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I loved his work. Saw a play of V when i was 16 and it changed my life.

27.09.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Merci Mike. Wishing you a great weekend!

27.09.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I move between laptop, longhand and also use charts, mind maps etc.

27.09.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Tony Harrison.
Listen to his extraordinary poem β€˜v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.

Highly relevant today.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...

27.09.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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La mise-en-scΓ¨ne d’un nouveau livre.

27.09.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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