characters who skip meals and are thin in sally rooney novels also tend to be deeply unhappy if not mentally unwell. hope this helps!
- I am obsessed — OBSESSED — with this new Joan Didion interview in which she cannot work her TV, admires no one, is tired of being asked about New York a lot
- 'The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.' - George Orwell, 'Why I Write' orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…APNews: Arts Council England (@ace_national) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)
- THE HYPOCRITE is available for pre-order: geni.us/TheHypocrite ‘An acid chamber piece…It’s tense, it’s painful, it’s funny. I loved it.’ —Chris Power ‘Brilliant & unpredictable…a story of failed connection, told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality.’ —Natasha Brown
- Honestly — not enough reviewers are talking about love & God in the new Sally Rooney. I only had space for one, but it’s in @IndyArts this weekend & I’ve found it more fruitful to think about as her long-term project than to gripe about whatever else: independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
- I’m doing my PhD at the same place I did my BA ten yrs ago & the shift in the common room is astounding. No chat, no laughter, no curiosity abt fellow students, no exchange of ideas. We used to drunkenly harass lecturers in the kitchen after hours &now the place feels like a voidstudents are sadder and sadder, more and more anxious, in significant part because they are being given shiny buildings instead of what they need: time and attention from non-burnt-out older human adults
- no one has ever topped Heaney’s ‘So.’ — that full stop at the end somehow screams PERIODT like it’s aware of the matchless feat it’s achieved in one word *and* initiates 3,000 lines of some of the best verse available in the English languageI think of "Hwæt!" (the opening word of "Beowulf") as the first word of English literature. Scholars write articles on what it might mean. If you were translating "Beowulf," how would you capture "Hwæt!" in our English?
- THE HYPOCRITE is a Teatime Productions x Dakota Johnson and New York Times Book Review book of the month 🌊 I wrote it with the idea that it would only reach its full potential if debated over by readers in mind; I’m so happy it’s found two homes for that to happen
- I’ve been avoiding reviews this year, but my resolve broke for the Atlantic, which I did not expect to be read by. It’s the kind of review I set out to achieve while writing, so when I tell you lot my absolute lack of chill—Jo Hamya’s new novel, “The Hypocrite,” asks whether we should pity bad men—and consider the plight of bullies and boors, @HillaryKelly writes: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- you lot out here debating the length of the contemporary novel have too much free time, go have sex
- the fact that I have not seen a single link to or quote from that letter, have no idea what it says or where it was published, and have instead had my tl flooded with love for and links to buy Detransition, Baby — that’s poetry in motion; that’s lit twitter working right for once
- Treasure the below photo from pub night of me reassuring my worried father that writing a novel about daddy issues does not mean I have daddy issues. We love when life imitates art! Thank you @LRBbookshop for having me, and thank you to everyone who came 🍾💚
- presenting my well-adjusted, non-publishing fiancé with a fevered gossip session on who oyler is and what reviews she’s getting, only for him to digest it in two seconds with the words ‘live by the sword, die by the sword, eh?’
