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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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).
Yes, there was insufficient candour on issues such as tax rises, the NHS, the failure of Brexit etc etc. But come on, it has delivered right up until the final day of campaigning. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I shan’t be watching the England-Slovakia game at 5pm. I’m not having mates over for a barbecue. I don’t care about “Glasto”. I’m going to see this instead.
Two timely new books delivered today, one about an opinionated media personality whose trenchant views hark back to the 1980s and the other by @rosieisaholt.bsky.social MP. Thank you Rosie! (and Will Hodgkinson).
We may never know what Anita Brookner, a habituée of the Wallace Collection and world-renowned authority on 18th-century painting, made of the sleeve of Little Feat’s Sailin’ Shoes. #Fragonard#NeonPark
Full marks to the eBay seller who has recycled the sleeve of Bumpers, the celebrated 1970 Island Records compilation album, to send me a different record entirely.
