Straw poll for audiobook fans: in a book featuring the French king Henri III, would you expect to hear him called...?

SAVE the MA in Black British Writing at Goldsmiths College! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/WqFnMWCw via Change.org UK

Drawing a very well-satisfied line under #shax2024 Shakespeare Association of America in sunny Portland: a vintage slate of panels, seminars, roundtables and boozy nights.

'There is not one Juliet. There never has been'

Dr Sophie Duncan (Dr Sophie Duncan) author of Searching For Juliet, gives us the history of Juliet.

THREAD 🧵

Just saying…Dr Sophie Duncan brilliantly dispelling some myths 🔥

I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

So excited about this - please come and hear these two Shakespeare superstars next month!

The Chicago Manual of Style is dropping the requirement for place names. From now on, it will simply be known as the Manual of Style.

📣 Paperback day for Farah Karim-Cooper 📣

Just sayin’ :

#MidnightTreasure is available for pre-order from Waterstones now 🐺

waterstones.com/book/midnight-…

Painted here is the British novelist and playwright Jerome K. Jerome and his dog. This is the first of our #PortraitOfTheDay series for #NationalPet Month.

Tell us below which pets and portraits you want to see this April.

🎨 by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1889 © NPG, London

Such a pleasure to read Sacha Coward’s QUEER AS FOLKLORE in proof - amazingly compendious, tender and funny, scholarly and thoughtful. Out in August with Unbound: unbound.com/books/queer-as…

So I won't be responding directly to laughably inaccurate stories, and I encourage others to stop doing so too. On this website, direct response simply escalates the damage you are trying to oppose.

A Miranda Priestly ‘cerulean’ speech, but for the small-minded Ch*rlotte G*lls of this world who affect, for their own evil and bitter ends, not to understand the social impact of advanced scholarship.

It’s a total vacation read!

And while pre-orders are apparently where it’s at, you should also know that it’ll be on sale Shakespeare’s Globe shop which is the best little emporium on Bankside.

medieval authors and their coffee preferences

-peter damian: black, no sugar
-albert the great: flat white
-marie de france: americano
-chaucer: cappuccino
-pearl poet: psl
-jean de meun: iced latte
-margery kempe: regular latte
-innocent III: instant coffee
-langland: espresso

My friend Marina McIntyre - who’s not on here much - has written the most clear-sighted and touching piece on raising small children when you’re being treated for cancer: wisdom for many, not just the poor Princess of Wales.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

To read... or not to read? ✍️

#AmReading STRAIGHT ACTING🏳️‍🌈: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh (thanks for sending me a proof Louise Court Sceptre Books, Hodder & Stoughton)

🔗: hachette.co.uk/titles/will-to…

“So how did you meet your husband?” “Oh, I was

I'm OxfordLitFest TOMORROW! There's still time to book for my event oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve… #OLF24 #OxfordLiteraryFestival