Rachel Genn 🥨👁️👁️
@RachelGenn
Novel @andothertweets. Writing @NewStatesman @aeonmag @Grantamag @LAReviewofBooks Big Q- How Many Forms Does Seduction Take? (Szentkuthy)
Am I longing for longing? ✨ Listen to the opening chapter of my work-in-progress tonight at 20:45 (or afterwards on @BBCSounds). Thanks to @gilesedwards and @OllyMann for making it happen. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Fitzalan Square as per.. sheffieldtribune.co.uk/i-was-ready-to… (esp. for Kim Woodburn fans RIP) @sheffieldtrib @McrWritingSchl
Fitzalan Square, late 1970s #Sheffield
“If challenged to choose a label for myself I’d call myself a technical writer.” — Gerald Murnane (from “The Still-Breathing Author,” in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One)
Gerald Murnane recalling his first encounter with Kerouac’s On the Road: (from his 1986 essay “On the Road to Bendigo”)
"Weak desires protect you from disappointment. But nothing keeps you safer than being a visible ruin." - Fanny Howe, Indivisible
Spotted in the wilds of @WaterstonesPicc @andothertweets (thanks @james_j_bailey 🍩 🍩 🍩) If it's seething Greek heat, sweaty tents and misaligned stars you're after, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON might be your summer read.
Funniest documentary ever? 🔥 theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/…
Put voice in my legs, and you head (snitch; layabout) stop reporting on anything that moves.
New lad bedding in, getting asked questions about where he's from🔸🔸🔸
Four years no booze. I found my people in those who wished they could be good but couldn't. What a revolution !!!❤️🤎🌱🔥
Marilia Librandi on Clarice Lispector: (from the introduction to Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel)
Boi if only I had ever been right 💅🏼
“Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.” — Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
Title 🔥🔥🔥🔥
'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?' A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by @lukejbird waterstones.com/book/tonyinter…
