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Stephen Kelman

@stephenkelman.bsky.social

Author of the novels Pigeon English (Booker Prize shortlist, AQA GCSE set text) and Man on Fire. New stuff on the way.

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Satan gets more vindictive the longer you make him wait for you.

05.09.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I’m running Hollywood I’ll pass a decree that all rediscovered unfinished movies can only be completed using sock puppets.

05.09.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very sorry to hear about this.

25.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👊❤️

03.08.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just saw this. Resisted the temptation to read it.

03.08.2025 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

❤️✊❤️

29.07.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s the absolute worst. An embarrassment.

22.07.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
24.06.2025 22:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Retired, boozed-up acrobats in costume. Fact.

20.06.2025 22:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll proudly take my place in the battle royale against team ‘liminal’.

17.06.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Traveling Scene to Scene in the Streets of Vienna, Before Sunrise It’s been 25 years since Jesse and Celine wandered a dreamlike Vienna in Before Sunrise. Would the city dance for us as it had danced for them? * We chose Vienna for a pre-Christmas break because w…

June 16th will always be Jesse and Celine day. I wrote about Before Sunrise here: lithub.com/traveling-sc...

16.06.2025 22:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Brian Wilson Performs "Sloop John B" | David Letterman
YouTube video by Letterman Brian Wilson Performs "Sloop John B" | David Letterman

Brian Wilson performing Sloop John B on Letterman is one of the most endearing things I’ve ever seen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=msBi...

16.06.2025 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They’ve identified the actual building where passive aggression was invented? Cool.

16.06.2025 08:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lP8...

11.06.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lmao… omg… it’s true

01.06.2025 17:34 — 👍 156    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 0

Many of our books and stories were written on MS Word, which has to be accessed via subscription. The cheek of these people to charge us for tools and still steal our work.

26.05.2025 18:41 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Artemisia Gentileschi,
Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #womensart

10.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 1093    🔁 115    💬 0    📌 23

Banger.

10.04.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👊❤️

04.04.2025 12:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The movie will premier on Netflix within the year, starring Rory Kinnear and Eddie Marsan.

18.03.2025 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👊❤️

07.03.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re welcome!

04.03.2025 09:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!

03.03.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Extraordinary work.

23.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The willpower required to create this pun, if harnessed, could propel humanity to the distant stars.

22.02.2025 23:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Unless Eugene Levy is announced as the next Bond I shall remain thoroughly disinterested.

20.02.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seconded.

20.02.2025 20:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👍

11.02.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m going to advocate for ‘thrice’ first. It has a stronger modern claim; still quite widely used in India.

11.02.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I find it exhilarating for a reason I can’t quite articulate.

11.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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