Researchers have published the most detailed 3D map of a tiny chunk of the human brain to date. This groundbreaking achievement maps out a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, which contains 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses. The brain's intricate architecture is still poorly…

Premiere in Edinburgh of my film about fascism and the rise of Mussolini!
26th May, 4pm The Cameo, Edinburgh
If you want to know the roots of the current far right shit show...
picturehouses.com/movie-details/…
But I also look at great things happening in 1922. Josephine Baker! Chaplin, etc

Shelf life

It's Thursday afternoon, and the weekend is RIGHT THERE, strutting about waving the latest Personal Anthology, which this week comes from Camilla Grudova, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories.

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“When my time comes, I hope I go like John, embroiled in the middle of things, surrounded by people I love, doing the things that matter most.” Steve Albini on learning how to die. What a truly lovely and powerful piece of writing.

to be fair this is me on a flat floor

Great news, congratulations!

What a moving thread and tribute...

A long day back in BBC Scotland - somehow recorded 5 episodes of abridged book for Radio 4, was live on BBC Radio Scotland, & interviewed for TV (tomorrow). Rather tired and ill but good to see old friends.
It is very, very sad without Nick, though. Three months yesterday.

Anyone?

My painting Morris, hanging in one of the extraordinary rooms at Levy Gorvy Dayan Gallery in New York.
My show, Breathing In, opens there on May 9th.

And very grateful also to Teddy Jamieson writing for the The Herald about what is truly a golden time for writing of all kinds from N Ireland.

My PA taking her role seriously.

First thought, well being a prince he'd know about wrangling trains. But of course it's not him.

Monday night.

I am home. She is nuts.

I'm just a baby..🐴😊

This made me smile 😁

Smudge’s beautiful sister Frodo rules Wigtown now.

And thank you to the book-world gent Rick O’Shea for this in the Irish Independent Review 🥹 Rick makes the whole business feel more human and communal, and I am one of a great many people who owe him a pint.

m.independent.ie/entertainment/…