Peter Kravitz

thi wurd hour – Monday 2nd Feb 2026 - thi wurd thi wurd hour, creative writing fiction class. Improvised writing with prompts. Online, 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). £5. thi-wurd.com

Let's get some writing done on 2nd Feb. 7-8pm (GMT). Full details here: www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...

That memoir sounds super by the way.

At some point we are going to have an opportunity to press Restart. A fine place to start to regenerate civil society would be with the principles outlined by Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, founder of MAISON DES FEMMES. There are now 31 of these:
www.lamaisondesfemmes.fr

Iris Origo’s A Chill in the Air

It is now the belief of most Fascists that it may be possible to extract from England a portion of what they want from her (re-division of colonies, re-distribution of raw materials, "freedom in the Mediterranean", etc.) but only by continued pressure and the constant menace (not reality) of war.

Such innocent times.
What a difference 37 years makes.

Four Alternative Weekly reports on our SOLD-OUT #PowerShift “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest last Sunday—as well as clean energy biz beating Trump; effectively tackling dis/misinformation; blueprints for impact crowdfunding—and much more. Please sign up and share! mailchi.mp/6efdd9474b2a...

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High art
And this from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht:

“Food comes first, then morals"
(“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral")

This looks like a book for our times. Handwork, allyship, embroidery, visible mending, chocolate craft activism
and knitting democracy back together again…

Hard to know. But they do mine similar seams. And both are writers who will likely keep being ‘rediscovered’ over the decades.

Great piece by @danigaravelli.bsky.social
It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.

Maddie Jamieson does a priceless takedown of learning-by-rote education with a blistering recitation of kings and queens of England…

A picture of the rubber stamp that this bookshop in Edinburgh puts in the front of books it sells, which is a linocut showing a typewriter keyboard and old school printing machine

And Typewronger Books do this at their shop on Elm Row, Edinburgh

“And what will come will come without your grating anticipation. To a life of smoothness and clarity. The dream of distant mountains from your childhood arises once more. There will be a past and a future you can step into. It is yours.”

A scrupulous, look at the inner world of an evolving writer.

The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.

Remembering James Mosley
hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland…

And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.

Happy 100th Morty

www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...

RIP the greater Irish tenor Seán Ó Sé (1936 - 2026)
Listen to how he takes the singing in a cheeky direction 1 min 10 seconds in the YouTube link below the Irish Examiner piece…

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

I am interested in this Farhana.

Tom Service on Tureck:
“she had an out-of-body experience playing Bach's counterpoint…she briefly blacked out and returned to consciousness with an indelible sensation of the music as a three-dimensional experience, something existing in space as well as time”

www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...

@juderogers.bsky.social surfaces the back story to one of the finest drama’s commissioned by the BBC, including the fact that writer Troy Kennedy Martin would still be dictating scripts the night before recording. Same riding the brinks as David Milch with Deadwood, on the floor of his trailer.

“Poor soul, his unreflecting act…”

. in the beginning was the word .
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thiwurd
nthi biginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
. in the beginning was the sound .

Tom Leonard

Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer novels are the uncredited source for the screenplay of Chinatown by Robert Towne.

Would love to read more. Where is it?

And also this from A Long Game by @elizmccrack.bsky.social

‘It’s easy to despise those…who feel neither the terror of the desk nor the rising joy of playing hooky. But it makes no difference whether you work hard and easily or must trick yourself into it, as long as you work.’

At the Missouri State Historical Society, GC Bingham’s portrait of Vinnie Ream (1876), the first woman ever to have a sculpture commission from the US government. She did the sculpture of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol Rotunda

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov.

I always prefer a well read book from a charity shop. More friendly than a brand new pristine spine. Only wish would be for second hand and thrift shops to pay authors ten percent. This is already done by auction rooms with Artist's Resale Right. They could use the barcodes.

And this also from Virginia Woolf apologising to Sibyl Colefax for not coming to dinner

“I have consulted the Wolves, who say they are too dingy, jaded, & altogether mangy to dine anywhere again this summer. They are a disgrace to every house they enter; the hostess always repents of asking them”

So еnjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
it's later than you think

Original lyrics from 1948 by Herb Magidson. Prince Buster digs deep into tradition…