John Mitchinson
@johnmitchinson
Co-host of @BacklistedPod. Former publisher. Quondam writer for @qikipedia. Keeper of #pigs & #bees. He/him.
1st May marks 6 years since I became a published writer, with a memoir about flapping at Easington Greyhound Stadium. That piece has taken - & is still continuing to take - me to writing places I never dreamt possible. So grateful to be one of Kit de Waal's #CommonPeople!
A new @BacklistedPod in which we discover why our guest @ninastibbe refused to review her fave book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 at the time... with @i_am_mill_i_am and @birchos (who has never laughed so much)... backlisted.fm/episodes/240-t…
A short report on an event at @MostlyReading on Friday: The lovely @joedunthorne in conversation with @johnmitchinson on his new Jewish family memoir Children of Radium. annabookbel.net/an-evening-wit…
RIP Paul Durcan. This was the first poem I read by him, and it absolutely broke me.
The bliss of going rogue. A wonderful interview with Patrick McCabe in the @IrishTimesCultr on the publication of GOLDENGROVE by @unboundsocials irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
The @countryslidepod trio took a trip to London to celebrate the launch of Words From The Hedge. Huge thanks to @JamesChiavarini for hosting us at his temple to Wild Food 'La Palombe' lapalombe.co.uk. Thanks to @johnmitchinson and @PaddyGalbraith for the kind words.
A reminder that @BacklistedPod has its own Backlisted Bookshop on @bookshop_org_UK where you can buy all the books mentioned in today's episode (and all the 238 previous ones). Buying there supports the podcast & indie bookshops 🙏 uk.bookshop.org/lists/episode-…
On today's @BacklistedPod we discuss a book that has the merciless clarity of May sunshine - Lauren Elkin joins @i_am_mill_i_am, @birchos and me to discuss her sparkling new translation of Les Belle Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir. backlisted.fm/episodes/239-t…
An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
What happens if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?theguardian.com/books/2025/apr… I wrote this essay about what happened to me 12 days down a vast & wild Canadian river; about hope, grammars of animacy, the rights of nature, how we must daylight buried rivers &…
New episode up now. Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, with guest Kaliane Bradley in conversation with @johnmitchinson and @i_am_mill_i_am. backlisted.fm/episodes/238-m…