Laura Hackett
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Deputy Literary Editor at the Times and Sunday Times / laura.hackett @sundaytimes .co.uk
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was sad about christmas being over but then came into the office and found all these books to open :)
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criminally poor understanding of the metre of a limerick here from Iain Duncan Smith
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went to the waterstones hardback sale today and ended up buying 1 hardback and 5 paperbacks, I am the very fool they based the sales strategy on
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Over the moon to be joining the team!
I am beyond thrilled to introduce the Sunday Times's new Assistant Books Editor........ Laura Hackett, on
@HackettLaura
Say hello, and remember the name!....
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Really excited both to step up and to work with Johanna!
And I'm delighted that I’ll be editing the section with the talented
@HackettLaura
, who is now promoted to deputy literary editor. We hope to produce the most spirited, the most interesting, and the most authoritative books section - and to have fun along the way! 3/3
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As the Booker longlist features more Irish authors than ever, I wrote about why Ireland is punching above its weight when it comes to literature - and what Britain might be doing wrong
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My take on the sanitising of Roald Dahl - and why all the nastiness is part of the joy of his stories
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I also trekked down to Exeter yesterday to speak to people about
@PenguinUKBooks
' brand new ~books vending machine~ and had so much fun
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.
@sgoldsbrough1
and I picked our favourite campus novels - from Donna Tartt to Philip Larkin
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with 13 books to go, I have now reached the panic stage of my annual reading goal
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It was such a joy to interview
@KennedyLoulou
- and her new novel Trespasses is a marvel, so go read it now !!
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loving the support from the readers on this one !!
Does knowing that 14 per cent of my dates were walks on Hampstead Heath and that the men’s average height was 6ft 1in bring me any closer to my perfect match? Probably not | ✍️
@HackettLaura
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My piece on the wonderful, transformative Ghost in the Throat by
@DoireannNiG
@TrampPress
is in this month’s
@Lit_Review
!
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I'll always have a soft spot for Wilfred Owen, and his war poems are more important than ever today - young people should all have the opportunity to study them in school
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The sequel to The Boy in Striped Pyjamas should never have been written. It also makes no sense. My review:
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my take on the wren, the wren - and why its exclusion from the booker longlist is a miscarriage of literary justice
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just a few of the books we’ll be reviewing in the sunday times this weekend!! everything from horrible husbands to dropping LSD with tech titans…
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These words, by
@sallyrooney
, are worth rereading in light of recent events in NI. Full article here:
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my first event and no one heckled!! plus had a brill time talking to two writers I admire so much -
@JanCarson7280
and
@KennedyLoulou
Such an enjoyable
@CheltLitFest
event with two of Northern Ireland’s leading writers, Louise Kennedy and Jan Carson.
@HackettLaura
drew out a really wide-ranging conversation.
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what i think i look like in sub fusc vs what i actually look like
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My first review for the Sunday Times is in today’s paper!
The debut novel from Irish Times critic Sarah Gilmartin (
@sarahgbooks
) is less Sally Rooney, more Anne Enright, says
@HackettLaura
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Have spent the past week hooked by the lives and thought of these four philosophers - and am now a paid-up Simone Weil fangirl
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my sister is complaining that my holiday reading constitutes a “barricade” between our beds
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In my first ever comment piece. I've written about Kenneth Branagh's wonderful Belfast, and why young people (like me) are still leaving NI today
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I've reviewed a fiction and non-fiction book together in today's Sunday Times, and written about Northern Ireland 25 years on from the Good Friday Agreement
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Delighted to have my first academic article published, looking at pregnancy and attempts to avoid it in Anna Burns’ novels!
Thanks so much to
@dsm_houston
and
@darling_orlaith
for being brill editors
‘At war with her body’: the threat of pregnancy in the novels of Anna Burns, by Laura Hackett
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I did not enjoy Ottessa Moshfegh's new book
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I reviewed Losing It, which sets out how we get sex education wrong in our schools and how to fix it
We might learn about how to avoid pregnancy and STIs at school, but we don’t learn enough about consent or pleasure - that is stopping young people from having healthy sex lives, says Vice journalist
@sophiasgaler
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I have finally completed my collection of the Oxford Shakespeare so
@OUPAcademic
this is a direct order not to commission a new edition in my lifetime I beg
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Can’t get over this - so delighted and shocked ❤️❤️
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remind me never to complain about my job
One of those delicious days reminding me how amazing working in publishing is! Catchup with
@HackettLaura
& ended our meeting with a delicious icecream personally made by Ed Gamble outside of Sunday Times office. His book
#Glutton
is hilarious & out Oct
@EdGambleComedy
🍦 🍩 🍝
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There were 3 pidgeons flying around the exam hall but still completed it mate !!!
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It's been a busy week... I have three articles in today's Sunday Times! All below...
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Thousands of books and perhaps as many emails later - the Times and Sunday Times best books of the year list is here!
It’s here! The Times and Sunday Times’s definitive list of the best books of 2021 (just in time for Christmas)
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My piece on recent Irish literature and its relationship with the body, in which I had the opportunity to write about some of my favourite stories 💕
For women in Northern Ireland and a post-Repeal Republic telling stories which speak from the body and its traumas remains a powerful tool, argues Laura Hackett (
@HackettLaura
) when considering work by Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell, Sinéad Gleeson & others.
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this is a straight transcription of every date i’ve ever been on tbh
Here's the first outing for our highly original interview format, '146 Questions', in which we speak to
@daRealAkinfenwa
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Oh, and other news! I got a first!!! I'll be hanging around Oxford writing about pregnancy for another year!!
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I'll be on
@TimesRadio
tonight with
@ayeshahazarika
recommending some great reads for the new year, including books from
@JanCarson7280
and
@AbigailBergstrm
- tune in at 6.45!
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loved writing this piece on the new generation of indie booksellers - and the secrets to their success - for
@TheSTStyle
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My review of Darran Anderson's (
@Oniropolis
) moving and brilliant Inventory via
@OxonianReview
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Scouring the bookshelves at home and my mother just recommended a novel supposedly called “Somebody is OK”
Gold star if you can guess which book she’s referring to
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Finally back home and sitting down to write a piece for
@LucyWriters
on these fantastic books - it feels like being back among old friends
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just some of the books we’re reviewing in
@TheTimesBooks
this weekend - with bonus
@RobbieTimes
bottom
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biggest career achievement to date: getting Pippa in the books newsletter
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was reading martin amis in public and a man attempted to chat me up, unfortunately he saw “amis” and asked if i was reading a french book
felt like a strange ode to the spirit of charles highway
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Menstrual cycles should have an off button for exams bc this is defo discrimination
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the pile of tottering tomes that became my roundup of this year’s best books about literature… read the full list below
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was already drafting a pitch to the travel desk when I realised
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Faber is opening its very own hotel. Book now for check-in on 4 May. Find out more here:
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just back from a fortnight in the lake district which was not nearly as eventful as this brilliantly bonkers novel
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For the ST Magazine, I spoke to PSNI officers living in fear after the force’s disastrous data breach in August - they told me that trust in senior management has been eroding for much longer
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Just a few of the books we’re reviewing this weekend across the Times and Sunday Times books pages 📚📚
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pleASE someone release the recipe for the killing eve pasta it haunts my dreams
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I adored Amy Key's raw, honest, beauuuuutifully written memoir about being single
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my literature roundup in the sunday times today and online here —>
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also in this piece: how much I love
@michaelmagee__
's Close to Home, which I think is the best novel of 2023 so far
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my sister is currently second in the world at candy crush
what have you done during lockdown
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It was wonderful to talk to the lovely Sinéad Gleeson - her words are essential reading in the wake of Northern Ireland's new abortion and equal marriage legislation
Laura Hackett (
@HackettLaura
) talks to acclaimed writer Sinéad Gleeson (
@sineadgleeson
) about uplifting the literary voices & stories of Irish women, art as a means to communicate pain & the role of storytelling during 2018’s historic referendum. Read here:
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Idk what's darker rn, my extra-strong tea, the bags under my eyes or my future 👍🏼
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I'm back again tonight on
@TimesRadio
chatting to
@portilloandhen
about the
@TheTimesBooks
books of the year extravaganza! Tune in at 7.30 to hear about some of my favourite picks from the critics - but I can't promise to get through all 338...
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Andrew has been such a joy to work for, and aside from this being a huge loss for books, I will miss seeing him every day !!
This is just to say that... I have decided to leave the Sunday Times as Literary Editor. I won't be going till mid October, and will have time to thank everyone who has made this job (23 years in the books dept, 14 as lit ed) such a joy. But I have things at home to do and...1/3
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Excited to see my piece on John Heywood in this week’s TLS !!
This biography literally made me cry over a lesser known Tudor playwright
'Walker argues that a simple song entitled ‘Be Merry, Friends’ works in the same way that ‘Always look on the bright side of life’ does in Monty Python’s Life of Brian' (
@HackettLaura
)
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begonia = collected
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my mother has just given us a deadline of 8am on thursday to send her our christmas lists (via email, of course)
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I spoke to James Acaster about social media, kinder comedy and oversharing on stage - and concluded that he’s just a really nice guy
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Pick up a copy of the Irish Times on Saturday!! I’m in very good company 👀👀
Laura Hackett on Reading Brendan Behan; Gerald Dawe on Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde; Helen Cullen on Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid; Paschal Donohoe on Narrative Economics by Robert J Shiller; John Self on The Other Name: by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls
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well well well
with 13 books to go, I have now reached the panic stage of my annual reading goal
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I spoke to
@yomiadegoke
,
@CalebANelson
and
@kuangrf
- and recommended some other great summer reads - for
@TimesStyle
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I'm afraid I did not enjoy the new Emma Cline book - vibes do not a novel make !!
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STOP
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I wrote about the tantalising glimpse we've received into Hilary Mantel's final, unfinished novel, and how it made me rethink everything I thought I knew about Mr Darcy
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don't know what I expected today to hold, but I sure didn't expect an offer for the Oxford MSt in English 1550-1700 !!!! very very excited and happy
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Me: I love the scope offered by the Oxford English degree, I can study so many different topics and ideas
Also me: *prepares essays on pregnancy and babies for every single exam paper*
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Looking forward to speaking to
@TomCrewe1
and Alice Winn about their brilliant debut novels at
@Waterstones
tonight - tickets still available!
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my research methodology is literally just searching 'womb' in the shakespeare concordance
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many thanks to
@margatebookshop
@maxminervas
@AfroriBooks
@rarebirdsbooks
@BookBarUK
@PhloxBooks
and lots of others for speaking to me !
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Going up against
@RobbieTimes
, I picked my favourite memoirs and biographies from the year - including books from
@lea_ypi
,
@RevRichardColes
,
@QianJulieWang
and
@lucykellaway
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got asked last night “which ireland are you from”
which ireland
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Me: maybe Coleridge’s letters will shed some light on his theory of the imagination
Coleridge:
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My review of Mother Ship by
@francescasegal
for
@TheTLS
- a really moving account of life with very premature babies
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in the belief that the formatting of my cv is the problem, i have slimmed it down by making a website with all my writing on it - so if you fancy reading about mainly babies and ireland you can do so here:
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returning to a shakespeare essay i wrote on the resurrection of characters across plays entitled 'He's in a Better Play Now' - a pun which i considered restrained and professional compared to my preferred option of 'Pushing Up Playsies'
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