International cocoon hotel #corridordread

Agree — a rare chink of light as arts and humanities degree numbers going up in Aus despite govt attempts to suppress applications!

Funny moment in this biography of Frank Auerbach, where he decides to give up travelling in 1991, “including even to Dulwich”. Wholeheartedly approve.

Michael Gove pipped at the post for record 14th year in a row.

An actual full time literature job that is actually permanent in an actual University, actually: The James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at University of Glasgow jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA014/jam…

Liz Truss book launch party

I just heard someone say: “Well, he’s left wing, but LRB left-wing, if you know what I mean.” Yes, I am in Islington.

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Congrats to that there Mark Bould!

Just a last reminder of this event at the Royal Society of Medicine, all day Monday, on Clinical Hypnosis: Past, Present & Future. I’ll be talking about the strange researches into telepathic hypnotism of Arthur T Myers, and his mysterious death in 1894 rsm.ac.uk/events/hypnosi…

Blimey, you could pay the severance of at least 13 low-value humanities scholars for that kind of money theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I love giving public talks for the chats afterwards. Someone just said to me: “Because my grandfather had worked in Peru we had a shrunken head in a box in our garage. Sadly, my parents sold it to pay for me and my brother to go to public school.” Top anecdotage.

Just off to help launch this splendid, lovingly nurtured book Conway Hall!

PREORDER (30.06.24, Simon Barraclough)

Divine Hours is a collection of poetry which has that intangible sense of being in the presence of a master craftsman, showing us the possibilities of language at its most inventive, and its most necessary.

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Interweaving watching Ripley with the 3 Body Problem and looking forward to the moment when both of them in effect converge on being a 3 body problem

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My iPad has lost its mind

Just realised that all the people outside our flat are behaving slightly weirdly because they’re all extras in the now annual Slow Horses shoot on Aldersgate St

I woke myself up from a dream shouting at the fatally wounded Martin Bormann “Hey, a national poetry of mourning is still part of the machinery of death!”