Everyone's having a right laugh at #CliftonSuspensionBridge's announcement that they're leaving X. Some memes are super funny. But FFS, it's #Musk who's having the last laugh while you continue to fuel his product. Unlike CSB who called out the big picture. I'm off to Bluesky.

It was great doing this dialogue with Prof @NigelCrook @oxford_brookes at @UniofOxford's Meeting Minds last month. Thank you @HMCOxford and @ShonaNicholson1 for programming us! https://t.co/ZyHOs0xzjs

I wouldn't say the lights have gone out all over Europe, more like all over the world. Well done the #US, you just screwed the planet.

For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume. @FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath. https://t.co/qkUwrl5wp4

Here we go...

Out now! Literary Review's November issue, featuring Freya Johnston on Handel's Messiah @FionaRSampson on Sylvia Plath David Abulafia on El Cid @HowardJDavies on Germany's economic miracle @ddguttenplan on George Smiley's return and much, much more:

Hear Fiona talk about the wonderful Limestone Country, out now in paperback!

https://t.co/K5EY643bM5 Lovely to talk about LIMESTONE COUNTRY, just reissued by @LittleToller books, on @BBCRadioWales's The Idea this week (at 19'50"). Thank you presenter @CatrinNye and #BengoMedia!

And even income from related activities is being more and more squeezed, now that festivals are collapsing and HE humanities/writing programmes are closing.

Yup.

Really enjoyed reviewing the poetry collection, The School on the Coast Road by @FionaRSampson, published by @redriverpress. My review was published in Indian Literature (@sahityaakademi).

@Jona_writes reviews The School on the Coast Road by @FionaRSampson in Indian Literature, the bi-monthly journal from Sahitya Akademi, September-October 2024 issue. https://t.co/nS3vvVgQwf

@manderleypress @FionaRSampson I have that on preorder, looking forward to it very much

A spooky teaser for our forthcoming book ‘Mary Shelley in Bath’ - a collection of the author’s journals, letters and short stories written in and inspired by the literary city of Bath. It has been introduced to perfection by @FionaRSampson https://t.co/i3vfvsTd43

On arrival at my parent’s house this was awaiting me, particularly prescient as I shall be in close physical contact with Derbyshire limestone next week. I thoroughly enjoyed @FionaRSampson’s ‘Starlight Wood: Walking Back to the Romantic Countryside’, quite an inspirational!

#brum On my way to Saudha Literature Festival to talk about #JohnMilton and Machel Madhusudhan Dutt, and read some #poems.

Absolutely delighted to play a small part of this 3-disc selection from the work of composer and guitar innovator Stephen Goss with Rough Music.

Poetry by @timtimtmi, Anthony Lawrence, @DeborahJShore, @JlmMorton, @HLRwriter, @samgrenrock, @OHaraKnight, Olivia Cowley, @fklein907, @FionaRSampson and @VivianaFiorenti Buy here:

Troubled genius: @FionaRSampson in @The_Tablet: “A new English language biography of Goethe is an occasion for excitement; and Goethe: His Faustian Life, packed with A.N. Wilson’s consummate style and intellectual vigour, does not disappoint. @BloomsburyBooks

Nice to be translated - I hope they paid the commissioners, the wonderful and compulsively readable @aeonmag Il paradosso dell’adozione