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An online literary magazine featuring original fiction, articles, columns, reviews and comment, by an Englishman in DC.

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Two warm, summery days and all I can think about is watching the @nationals.com with my wife, my beer, and the dog if it's the doggy game. Go Teddy!

11.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Newest episode of my podcast 'Known Associates' is up! Amazing talk with Jason P. Woodbury, a brilliant musician and writer with a wonderful new LP! I enjoyed this immensely, and I think you will too!

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Total Bull F1 Qatar Airways Australian Grand Prix 2026

If you're a supersmart F1 fan, you'll already know Ronald Welke... 😘

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Reverse Parking Podcast Episode Β· electric sodcast Β· 5 March Β· 20m

Readers! Get you to a podcast app and listen to this. It is very funny. #comedy #Booksky #surreal

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10.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Artificial Intelligence Podcast Episode Β· electric sodcast Β· 26 February Β· 22m

πŸ’₯The first episode of the NEW SERIES of electric sodcast!πŸ’₯

You may laugh, you may cry...

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05.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the greatest sentence ever composed

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Can we somehow lure the various AIs into an external hard drive, disconnect it, and blast it into deep space?

02.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@paranoiacs.bsky.social Great gig at Comet Ping Pong! Any more on the horizon? That Mr. Peter Holsapple is a bit good, isn't he?

02.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

Really sad news about Dan Simmons. A very complete novelist, and his novel "Drood" (2009) was a revelation. #BookSky

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02.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Last night I JUST HAPPENED to be in Comet Ping Pong all night and who should turn up and play a terrific show? The Paranoid Style. That's who.

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Matt Goodwin: if you're this surprised that ethnic minorities will work together to defeat white supremacist politics, you're probably not smart enough to be an MP.

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First.Edition: TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker

Spoilers: I feel personally seen by the new novel from Nicola Barker. @grantamag.bsky.social #Booksky

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23.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everything's Fine DUTIFUL: Chapter Three

Join the #novelist Jamie McThackeray backstage at a major #UAE #literary festival.

Hoo boy.

#Booksky

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20.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

HaHAHa, Tariff Man.

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Essentially, it means some readers think the more they read, the better they are as human beings.

17.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it has a lot to do with performative virtue-signalling.

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A Tribute to Book World - Jonathan Yardley β€” author, book critic, Book World, 1983-2015

Here's a tempting little event for readers in and around DC... #WaPo #washingtonpost #bookworld #politicsandprose #booksky

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17.02.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You can get 25% off pre-orders for a range of upcoming Faber paperbacks at Waterstones until this Friday – enter code FEB26 at checkout. πŸ“šοΈ

waterstones.com/campaign/february-pre-order-offer

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First.Edition: The Trade Secret by Robert Newman

One of the best novelists you may never have heard of...

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Everything's Fine DUTIFUL: Chapter Two

Dissolute novelist Jamie comes face to face with his worst nightmare... a fan! #booksky

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The Flaneur | Iain Martin | Substack The Flaneur is an online literary and cultural magazine type thingy. Click to read The Flaneur, by Iain Martin, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

We've redecorated. And beefed up the archive. Come see!

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12.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just used water pumped through the Nespresso machine to make my Lady Grey. The end results are extraordinary. This must be what George's marvellous medicine tasted like. #Booksky

09.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We live in an age when the Washington Post cuts its book reviews and a New York Times television critic ranked every commercial in Sunday night’s Super Bowl from best to worst.
Ever get the feeling that things are getting dumber? Ever get the feeling someone wants you to be dumber?

09.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Trade Secret by Robert Newman | Waterstones Buy The Trade Secret by Robert Newman from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over Β£25.

Thrilled to buggery that there's a new book from Robert Newman on the way, I'm reading The Trade Secret from 2014. Addictive. #Booksky

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09.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've only ever read one baseball novel, which was David Duchovny's Bucky Fuckin' Dent. Lovely stuff. #booksky #baseballsky

09.02.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Relatable.

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Such excitement at Flaneur Towers this weekend when we learned, quite by chance, that there's a new novel from Robert Newman next month! If you've never had the pleasure, try The Fountain at the Centre of the World or The Trade Secret.
One of the greats. @profilebooks.bsky.social

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Now THAT's a cover!

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Everything's Fine DUTIFUL: Chapter One

Beginning today on The Flaneur, a new series of Everything's Fine, a #literary #sex comedy set in the world of #publishing and #novelists. #Booksky

Jamie McThackeray wouldn't appear at a literary festival under any circumstances, right?

Right??

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06.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey #Booksky, I think you're really going to love Yann Martel's new novel.

05.02.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0