Andy Miller

Andy Miller

@iammilliam.bsky.social

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I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. No DM please. twitter.com/i_am_mill_i_am

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A few years ago Lee Stuart Evans had a happening 1960s novel out that I liked so much I talked about it with enthusiastic professionalism on @backlisted.bsky.social. Well, he’s got a new one set during the late 1980s that has already attracted the attention of Julian Cope, look. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Line up our new episode on Catherine Storr’s classic Marianne Dreams for your troubled, restless commute, as you occupy a realm between worlds where every glance manifests as physical danger. Enjoy it! Enjoy it before the stone faces get you! 📻 www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

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HEAR MY VOICE

New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social and Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

216. Catherine Storr - Marianne Dreams — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

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One of my most reread books as a child.

New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social and Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

216. Catherine Storr - Marianne Dreams — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

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What a glorious hour! A thoughtful, interesting conversation about a book and writer I did not know. Thank you.

New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social and Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

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“What is horse girl folk horror?” This question of Andy’s leads into probably the most interesting guest intro ever. Great episode for a book I knew nothing about and is now on its way to me.

New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social and Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

216. Catherine Storr - Marianne Dreams — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

New @backlisted.bsky.social episode! Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with @rblandford.bsky.social @rachaelking70.bsky.social John and me, Tess and Nicky on faders. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

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🪨 👁️ 🏠 😱

New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social and Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

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New episode up now. Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, with guests Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social and Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/au0...

216. Catherine Storr - Marianne Dreams — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

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Not just good. Super. 🙂 Now we can set about reclaiming/restoring a fine cultural asset.

Good. If you don’t agree, I urge you to unfollow me, then carefully fold yourself up and place yourself in the bin.

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Rory Stewart looks like a U-Boat commander who’s defected to the Allies

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Now, here's something to get excited about: this uplifting and inspiring episode of Backlisted podcast about the Stephen Sondheim lyrics books. A brief insight into his unique creativity. #backlisted #Sondheim podcastaddict.com/backlisted/e... via @PodcastAddict

Backlisted - Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen Sondheim - Podcast Addictpodcastaddict.com Listen to Backlisted - Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen Sondheim by Backlisted on Podcast Addict. Stephen Sondheim's biographer David Benedict and writer and musician Jason Hazeley ...

I am so looking forward to talking to Lauren Elkin tomorrow evening at Waterstones Liverpool about her brilliant new novel Scaffolding. Other topics of discussion: Paris, then and now; the films of Éric Rohmer; and how it feels to be compared to Susan Sontag (it probably feels GREAT).

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If you've never listened to @backlisted.bsky.social I suggest you start with episode one and work your way through the archive this summer. Absolutely brilliant!

‘Mitchinson and Miller share an infectious enthusiasm for their subject and a keen knowledge of literary forms and histories, proving that a “love for books” need not mean a choice between weird parasociality and excruciating dryness.’ @backlisted.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/new-yor...

The NYT Book Review Is Everything Book Criticism Shouldn't Bewww.currentaffairs.org The Review is famous as an arbiter of taste and quality. But the publication utterly fails to seriously engage with books and the publishing industry.

‘Mitchinson and Miller share an infectious enthusiasm for their subject and a keen knowledge of literary forms and histories, proving that a “love for books” need not mean a choice between weird parasociality and excruciating dryness.’ @backlisted.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/new-yor...

The NYT Book Review Is Everything Book Criticism Shouldn't Bewww.currentaffairs.org The Review is famous as an arbiter of taste and quality. But the publication utterly fails to seriously engage with books and the publishing industry.

“Sorry girls, he’s dead.”

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OMG Gaining Ground is one of the 3(?) most important books in my life. I read it when I was… eleven maybe… and I think about it most weeks to this day. Also much of my actual personality and beliefs can be traced back to it. But I never talk about it to anyone and I don’t know anyone who’s read it

New @backlisted.bsky.social! Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social John, Nicky and me. This episode is stronger than Mensa, Miller (no relation) and Mailer, spits out Plath and Pinter etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

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My son is an enthusiast and during those awful teen years when it's cool to be cynical, he was mocked for it at school. I remember giving him a pep talk along the lines of 'it's the loveliest quality, the world will try to squash it out of you, but it will make the good people want to be around you'

Just seen myself referred to as ‘a professional enthusiast’, an epithet that massively overestimates my professionalism.

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Sunday reading and Sunday listening. The book is for an upcoming @backlisted.bsky.social and the music from a #locklisted recommendation from @iammilliam.bsky.social

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The goodish news - Reform has only 4 seats, the same as the Greens, so the exit polls were badly wrong. The really bad news - Reform has more than 4 million votes, more than Lib Dem on 3.5 and not far behind Tories on 6.7 million and Labour on 9.6.

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Called mum and asked if she’d voted. She said she had voted for Kenny Steamer. #KennySteamer

Whatever its shortcomings - and they are numerous - man oh man I have enjoyed this election campaign.

I’m hoping Sunak goes full Trump tomorrow: demand a recount, refuse to accept defeat, claim the election was rigged and urge his supporter to storm Parliament.

“I VOTED FOR YOU AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE!” @backlisted.bsky.social

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I'm not saying Kamala Harris would be a great president or even a good one, but it'd be pretty funny to watch conservatives realize they gave a Black woman limitless presidential power without consequences.

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Bought a bunch of 7” singles belonging to someone who, whilst they may be dead, can rest in peace knowing they had exquisite taste.