Alex Clark
@AlexClark3
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Reader, writer, talker. Co-host of The Graham Norton Book Club. Patron of the Cambridge Literary Festival. Board member St Patrick’s Centre.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Joined April 2011
Amid the grim* music at Dublin Airport comes Wah’s Story of the Blues. I’ve gone from Loudermilk to weepy nostalgia *not to my taste ** **or any reasonable person’s
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What a Monday morning manifesto from the ever eloquent Hanif, even if the squares among us need to punk before they can re-punk 🙏
Last night, Isabella was reading to me from the newspaper. Listening to her, while thinking of other things, I suddenly said, “What do you think we would be doing now, you and I, if this accident hadn’t happened?” Her face changed. With some distress, she said, “We can’t go
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My interview with the marvellous Richard Flanagan ‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money
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The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the...
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Despite what Keith says, interesting and original pieces on the great Gary Indiana, who should be so much more widely read than he is.
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I loved doing this event - David is one of the greats imo and brilliant to talk to 👏
It's a PACKED room in the @CrescentArts for the brilliant David Peace in conversation with Alex Clark about his new book Munichs #BIAF24
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Next week, join @DavidNwriter in conversation with @AlexClark3 as they discuss David's life in writing online next Tuesday 8 October. Book tickets via the link below. https://t.co/Ax2KEkEDJ6
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Join David Nicholls, author of the much-loved One Day and You Are Here, for a special livestreamed event.
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Please do come! Linda and her novels are superb and she is very wise and funny to listen to!
We have a few tickets remaining for our 2024 #GoldingSpeaker @lindasgrant in conversation with @AlexClark3 on Friday at 7.30pm. Tickets: https://t.co/Bswh2OZCO6 With thanks to event sponsor @WilliamGGolding #MLF2024 #15years
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Loved loved LOVED doing this interview with the mighty Richard Powers
‘I no longer have to save the world’: Novelist Richard Powers on fiction and the climate crisis
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I beg of you no
“I’m the CEO of swinging”: from invite-only sex mansions to an app to find the ultimate threesome, meet the couple changing the perception of swinging https://t.co/Vtjy2wO8P3
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Tonight!
.@Nigella_Lawson perfectly captures the compulsive pleasures of Tell Me Everything. We’re so thrilled to be welcoming @LizStrout to @southbankcentre for a conversation with @AlexClark3 tomorrow night and there are just a handful of tickets left. https://t.co/uBVfRRZ8Ty
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Mouse crawling out of meal forces plane to make early landing
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On the podcast this week, Mary Beard (@wmarybeard) joins Alex Clark (@AlexClark3) and Lucy Dallas to explain why two recently discovered fragments of Euripides are big news. https://t.co/HwAa5VH6NY
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#PavilionLit Nice interview with Robert Harris in today's ST Culture. The book, Precipice, is a humdinger and you can hear RH discussing it with @AlexClark3 on September 3rd in Pavilion DL
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The author’s latest novel, Precipice, delves into the intense relationship between the prime minister Herbert Asquith and a socialite 35 years his junior, as war was breaking out across Europe in 1914
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Ta da! @ObsNewReview on a stellar new season for fiction with an exclusive extract from Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, Anthony Cummins guide to the best books, Roddy Doyle by @AlexClark3 @FancyEliza + @JuliaArmfield by @kathryn42, @MsRachelCooke on Lord of the Flies at 70
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I mean, me too, and I chaired an online literary event last night, so who’s to say who the hero is?
‘I do have Covid’: Noah Lyles reveals positive test after taking 200m bronze
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Whatever, pal. But very keen to read 5000 words on Victoria Starmer and Angela Rayner both wearing Me+Em for their victory walks
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We’ve been up since 5am and now we’re having a beer and a coffee to keep us awake
First evening of our first warm weather hol since before COVID. Up in the Tramuntana mountains. AND, a night of history and bloody vengeance on the telly. Does life get better!?!?
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