T. S. Eliot, The disembodied voice | TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-d…

This is good news. Since brexit our young people have lost out on countless jobs, study places and opportunities because they can't travel across Europe. Its a no brainer to start this negotiation- if the Tories won't take up this opportunity to develop such a scheme Labour must.

Brussels proposes return to pre-Brexit free movement for UK and EU young people.

European Commission to seek approval from leaders to start talks with UK on visa-free exchanges for 18- to 30-year-olds. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The rejection letters Toni Morrison sent to aspiring writers watoday.com.au/culture/books/…

This exhibition at the Bodleian is very good. Looks at the editing process in works by Shelley, Keats, George Eliot, Chandler, Le Carre etc. It’s helped remind me that those brilliant lines only came about through numerous rewrites.
It’s motivated me to tackle my article again…

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Everything appears to be so astoundingly big and bright since my cataract operation. I must try to get used to it.

William H. Pritchard and the Twilight of Literary Criticism by Lee Oser literarymatters.org/16-2-oser-prit…

NHS staff are not failing, they are being failed.

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Adam Bienkov BREAKING: The Tories have completely lost their minds and any claim to decency and voted by 320 to 246 to forcibly deport the victims of modern slavery to Rwanda.
It is a staggeringly evil thing to have done.

Interview with Iris Murdoch by John Haffenden literaryreview.co.uk/john-haffenden… via Literary Review

One of the #ArchiveMyths we want to debunk is that archivists like to keep documents hidden away and secret...

The opposite is true!

We're a research facility, and aim to make as many archives as possible open to study (even if they once were 'top secret'!) #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Fail to clean up your dog's poo and get fined £1000. Dump sewage in Lake Windermere and pay your shareholders £452m a year in dividends.

Please make this make sense! (Reading this in a coffee shop - honest! - while calming my nerves before a cataract op).

Do I dare?

Portrait painter Gerald Festus Kelly was born OTD in 1879. TS Eliot sat for him in 1962.

Hyacinths in search of a Girl.

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John Carey, literary critic and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, is 90 today. The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 was published in 1993.

Check out Major Sylvia Plath Collection Coming to New York Antiquarian Book Fair finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new… via Fine Books Magazine