Tom Gatti
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Executive editor, culture, books, ideas & print, New Statesman. Editor, Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them (Bloomsbury)
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Long Players! 50 writers, 50 albums (well, a few more – Ali Smith cheated) – out today from
@BloomsburyBooks
and featuring
@TriciaLockwood
@djdaisyjohnson
@billybragg
@tejucole
@SandeepKParmar
@PretiTaneja
@johnharris1969
@M_Z_Harrison
@BernardineEvari
@jonathancoe
... 1/2
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Causes of 3-year-old’s meltdowns this morning:
-Banana too small
-Top of banana slightly squashed
-Honey on porridge doesn’t sufficiently resemble “a swimming pool”
-Sister had her 1st wee before his 3rd
-Doesn’t want scooter
-Does want scooter
-Something to do with sleeves
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Bananas seem to bring on insane behaviour in a way unrivalled by any other fruit
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Recently finished reading The BFG with 5 yr old daughter. Next day heard her chuckling to herself in the toilet. I ask her what’s funny.
“The BFG... *wrote* The BFG” - collapsing into giggles.
Is there a better introduction to the joys of metafiction? Thanks Roald. 🥒
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My 4 yr old daughter loves superheroes but complains about lack of girls - so I thought the
@DCComics
girls
@toptrumps
set would be a winner. But WTF is with these categories? Intelligence, strength, speed replaced with fun, friendship & “clumsiness”?Seriously??
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“When was I happiest? An afternoon in 1988, when I realised I was going to be able to feed my family by writing fiction. I put on Iggy Pop’s ‘Success’ very loudly and danced, all alone, around the room.”
@neilhimself
does the
@NewStatesman
Q&A
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“It fed the part of me that made things up, that fell for dystopias and mutants, for rotting skyscrapers and rats the size of cats, shaped the inside of my 13-year-old head and made me who I am.”
@neilhimself
on David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, in LONG PLAYERS (UK now, US 3 Aug)
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The true “enemies of the people” are not those opposing Brexit - they are the complacent, mendacious and reckless politicians who have brought us to this calamitous act of self-harm.
@mfletchertimes
on blistering form:
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I'm proud of this bumper issue of the
@NewStatesman
, produced under extremely challenging circumstances by a very dedicated team, and featuring some exceptional pieces on, around and away from the present moment. Available in all good socially distanced supermarkets.
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“These are the same ravages I saw in 2016 during the ferocious Russian & Syrian bombardment of Aleppo. The invasion of Ukraine, now in its second week, seems to be playing out, in part, as a repeat of Syria’s war on terrifying fast-forward”
@bbclysedoucet
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My name is very large on this handsome
@BloomsburyBooks
proof but it's really the work of 50 great writers inc Ali Smith,
@MarlonJames5
,
@TriciaLockwood
, George Saunders,
@BernardineEvari
,
@tracey_thorn
, Ben Okri, Deborah Levy & more . . .
(Coming June 10 in UK, Aug 3 in US)
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"She is still playing no one's game, and living no one's life but her own" This is the jewel in the crown of our Easter issue:
@tracey_thorn
on Sade.
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Anna Burns talked to me about living with fear, leaving Northern Ireland and the breakdown that allowed her to write.
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Why dragons are good for the economy:
@neilhimself
and Kazuo Ishiguro talk fantasy & genre
http://t.co/N93UYTqG7y
http://t.co/S7A1qr8TiI
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Forget the hoaxes, it's the dense production & warped poetry that made Brass Eye a work of bisturbile genius. By me:
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Adam Buxton dubs The Beach Boys - hysterical laughter the only appropriate response.
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The Silencing: this week’s
@NewStatesman
has a special report on Uyghur culture and history and the brutal subjugation of Xinjiang. All pieces free to read today (thread)
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The Little Britain affair is a reminder of the UK’s long and toxic love affair with blacking up – superb by
@DavidOlusoga
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Enjoying the Chris Morris quality of the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year shortlist.
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"When I'm a grown-up I don't want to have kids," says my 6 yr old, "because they will just annoy me when I'm on my meetings".
Not sure whether to laugh or cry (so will probably do both at the same time)
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Yvonne Rolzhausen, senior editor at The Atlantic, explains her fact-checkign in an email to subscribers. Here's a single page of her work on Graeme Wood's "What Isis really wants"
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A lot of number crunching, careful reporting, late nights and screen-based eye-strain have gone into this week's special issue - from the whole
@NewStatesman
team - so I'm excited to finally see it go out into the world. Here are some highlights (thread)
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2. "The exceptionalism at the heart of Brexit – Britain is humiliated by being merely one European country among others – is what shaped the official responses to the unfolding coronavirus disaster." A righteously scathing essay by
@fotoole
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Few things say “1973” like a first edition of The Rachel Papers
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This is the short story to end all short stories. (Daniil Kharms)
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On our former literary editor
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What to read in 2019 - aka I Scoured All The Publishers' Catalogues So You Don't Have To, You're Welcome.
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“Our whole government has gone missing in action, though I use the term ‘action’ very loosely here”
So many bullseye lines in this
@Aiannucci
column from the summer issue of the
@NewStatesman
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After saying goodnight to the 7 yr old, I always get a few call-backs. Tonight, she opened with: "Two things. The first is a question, the second is a statement."
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Enormously pleasing fact: Roachford begins his 2020 UK tour in... Norwich
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LONG PLAYERS is out in papeback today! Most households won’t need this many copies but better safe than sorry. Feat Ali Smith,
@MarlonJames5
@BernardineEvari
@neilhimself
@tracey_thorn
@Beathhigh
@TriciaLockwood
@Okwonga
@billybragg
@SabrinaMahfouz
@DaljitNagra4
& many more
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“Another tactic is to rebrand historians ‘activists’ who have surrendered to ‘woke’ ideology. I myself have been denounced as an ‘ideological historian’ despite being a rather old-fashioned empirical historian.”
@DavidOlusoga
on history & the culture wars
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"The modern anti-Semite is more subtle than his great-grandparents - he does not smash windows but insinuates himself into our minds" Howard Jacobson's powerful reflection on Holocaust Memorial Day & the return of anti-Semitism
“Never again” is the sacred promise we gather annually to reaffirm. It must be more than a mere wish.
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Delighted that
@JasonCowleyNS
has just won editor of the year (current affairs & politics) at the
#bsmeawards2020
– wonderful recognition for Jason and the whole
@NewStatesman
team who have worked insanely hard over the past year
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There is a person who five years ago did not exist and now is coming home from school and telling me facts about the Stone Age. It’s occasionally a bit mind-blowing, this business.
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"We were the 2nd generation of black people in this country: most of us were born here, we felt entitled to everything the UK had to offer. But we weren’t factored into anything."
@BernardineEvari
spoke to me about sex, power, prizes & Britain in the 80s
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Books of the year! Feat
@garyyounge
@NicolaSturgeon
@Elif_Safak
@jonathancoe
@BernardineEvari
@StuartMaconie
@PhilipPullman
@RichardDawkins
@KitdeWaal
@helenlewis
@Beathhigh
@EricaWgnr
@mark_haddon
@maryjean_chan
@M_Z_Harrison
@DalrympleWill
& many more
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Congratulations Kim Moore, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Prize for her slow-burningly brilliant debut collection The Art of Falling. Was an honour to judge, with Katharine Towers & Gillian Clarke. Here's one of my favourites:
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"Trump is a product of the US’s racial, nationalist and xenophobic pathologies, not the originator of them. They long preceded him and will long outlast him."
This week's
@NewStatesman
cover story by
@garyyounge
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Brexitland looked lovely from the holiday brochure - but now we've read the Trip Advisor reviews, we're not so sure . . . by
@fotoole
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I spoke to Robert Harris for our special issue on the lack of an opposition in politics. On Labour: utter disbelief
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Published today!
The best of the
@NewStatesman
1913-2019
💣 JB Priestley on the bomb
🐰 Virginia Woolf on Lewis Carroll
🖌️ John Berger on Picasso
💵
@NaomiAKlein
on brands
💎
@tracey_thorn
on Sade
⚽️ "Robbie Brady's astonishing late goal..." by
@sallyrooney
& much more
@wnbooks
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“I’ve always thought that people who go into politics really are a different species... The sort who say ‘fist bump’ when they fist bump.”
@Aiannucci
on the awfulness of No 10
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David Walliams might just be the World’s Worst Children’s Author
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I know it was well-meaning & probably tongue-in-cheek but I do think the Booker chair possibly shouldn't have compared Milkman to "a walk up Snowdon" or "not too hard" compared to "articles in the Journal of Philosophy". It has framed the debate all wrong from the start.
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Alan Garner: the stone-age axe, the space telescope & my life in storytelling
http://t.co/mWBB5WoS0M
cc
@neilhimself
http://t.co/zcLCzgdvTL
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"When I was very young, Hitler and Stalin were still alive. While I was growing up, Mao was actively reducing the population of China. Are you really asking someone of my generation to regard this posturing dolt as the apex of evil?" Clive James on Trump
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It was a privilege to talk to the brilliant Anna Burns last night at
@Foyles
in her first event as
@ManBookerPrize
winner for
#Milkman
. She deals in realness, by which I mean she is the REAL DEAL.
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For the Christmas
@NewStatesman
- out today - I asked 28 writers to nominate an album that's important to them. They wrote brilliantly on everything from Joni Mitchell to Cypress Hill. Here's the💥line-up👇
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"Her willingness to face up to surly men who disparaged the songs she sang resonates today... In the beery, beardy world of folk music, Collins had few people on her side"
@billybragg
on the remarkable rise, fall & return of Shirley Collins:
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@Elif_Safak
in the
@NewStatesman
@camlitfest
Debate: "Let us never trust nationalism, even the "nice" kind. Those of us from the Balkans, Anatolia or elsewhere have seen that it only takes one political or financial crisis for a "nice" nationalism to turn ugly.
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The winner of the
@GoldsmithsPrize
announced tomorrow. Here are our interviews with the six shortlisted authors:
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“Emily Wilson’s beautiful, fluent, memorable translation tells us once again that the Olympian gods and the would-be superhumans who want to emulate them are not yet dead in our world.”
Rowan Williams on
@EmilyRCWilson
’s Iliad
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“Had British troops opened fire on unarmed civilians in London or Manchester it is unimaginable that nobody would have been held to account half a century on. But this was Northern Ireland, & the victims were nationalists.”
@mfletchertimes
#BloodySunday50
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“Most of us just live hand-to-mouth. We are no different from good potters or violin players or embroiderers" - Nicola Barker on the "crisis" affecting literary authors
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"I was falling in love with Paris and I wanted Paris to fall in love with me. But Parisians are hard to get, & anyway, I was always struggling to speak French, which is frankly not that attractive."
Roll up for the 1st in Deborah Levy's new travel series 👇
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"For the 8 years after Hardy's death, Laurel wrote sketches and routines for the duo that would never be performed. It was, perhaps, a way for him to speak with Babe again, if only in his head."
As
@StanAndOllie
arrives, here's
@jconnollybooks
on Stan
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“Bez is like that dog that chews up your best Gucci slippers. Two hours later the dog doesn’t know what it’s done.”
Kate Mossman is the best pop profiler in the business, so you know her Shaun Ryder interview will be very much worth your time...
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Media studies has never been more complex or vital. John Humphrys saying you don’t need 3 years but only “5 minutes” to study it is not only lazy (the decades-old “Mickey Mouse subject” cliche) but beyond dense, even for him.
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The brilliant
@chris_power
turns his attention to the degrading barrel-scraping of the Roberto Bolaño industry
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Some
@NewStatesman
staff promotions:
Kate Mossman is our new features editor
@annaleszkie
is our new culture editor
and
@GavJacobson
joins as commissioning editor & writer
Congrats to all!
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This thread has become a one-stop shop for the most irrational & ultra-specific toddler complaints. Common themes: bananas, socks, food prep, demands that defy the laws of physics or time.
Causes of 3-year-old’s meltdowns this morning:
-Banana too small
-Top of banana slightly squashed
-Honey on porridge doesn’t sufficiently resemble “a swimming pool”
-Sister had her 1st wee before his 3rd
-Doesn’t want scooter
-Does want scooter
-Something to do with sleeves
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“I’ve never seen anything like the fear I witnessed on a recent trip: the fear, shared by the majority of Afghans, of starvation.”
@JohnSimpsonNews
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Apparently a third of Britons want a new national anthem.
@billybragg
had some thoughts on what it should be...
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It was an honour to judge the
#OrwellPrize
for political fiction & I cannot overstate my admiration for our winner,
@colsonwhitehead
's The Nickel Boys – its craft & compression, its moral drive, its deep-rooted politics & beautifully clean prose. A novel that demands to be read.
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"though I grow so weak
I can no longer see, the flowers will speak
Their language, which is time made visible.
It thrilled me from the start. It thrills me still."
I feel very lucky to have published some of Clive James' remarkable late poems in the NS. He will be sorely missed.
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Multiple mentions in the
@NewStatesman
books of the year for:
Twilight of Democracy by
@anneapplebaum
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by
@mjohnharrison
Radical Attention by
@JuliaBell
English Pastoral by
@herdyshepherd1
....
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Just seen a woman reading Milkman with total concentration while walking & weaving up a busy London street and it has made my morning
#readingwhilewalking
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Putting the roof rack on the car for the family summer holiday, we finally become our fathers
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Really delighted to be judging this mighty prize in its 10th year
The
#GoldsmithsPrize2022
is here!
Meet our judges: Natasha Brown, Tom Gatti, Tim Parnell (Chair), & Ali Smith.
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Male
@NewStatesman
letter writers seemingly un-annihilated by
@kimmoorepoet
and her “ferocious, challenging and humane” poem
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Did a talk this morning to 30 five-yr-olds. They reeled off the names of politicians, told me about the environment, found our Trump & Boris covers (Pinocchio nose, trousers down etc) hilarious. Some said they wanted to be journalists - and all wanted to keep a copy of the mag 👊
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Animals other than humans have no legal rights. But what if it could be proved that an elephant also has personhood?
@SEMcBain
's fascinating report on the battle for nonhuman rights
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I know Updike’s “give the mundane it’s beautiful due” is well trod territory but honestly is there anyone who does it better than
@Jon_McN
? His latest
@NobrowPress
book KINGDOM is a meticulous, gorgeous ode to summer holiday boredom.
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Ali Smith's wondrous
@NewStatesman
@GoldsmithsPrize
lecture has been podified for your listening pleasure. The text is in tomorrow's mag
Listen to Ali Smith talk about why the novel matters in the age of Trump on the latest episode of The Back Half:
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Judging
@TheOrwellPrize
for Political Fiction alongside
@JudeKelly_
@sarahshaffi
&
@matt_sperling
has been a real privilege. Here's our 13-strong longlist (friendly C-3PO model's son's own)
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"How can academics present the writers of the future with such a limited palette of writers who are mostly white and writing whiteness?"
A manifesto for new literary canons:
@BernardineEvari
's
@NewStatesman
@GoldsmithsPrize
Lecture
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🥁🥁🥁
The first issue of the new-look New Statesman feat.
@adam_tooze
,
@MsRachelCooke
with Hilary Mantel,
@jnpowell1
on the war on terror,
@lenadunham
on Britney Spears,
@annaleszkie
on Sally Rooney +
@tracey_thorn
@sarahrainsford
@stephenkb
@richardosman
@PhilippaNuttall
& more
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My dad is reading The Hobbit to my daughter over FaceTime, which strikes me as some pretty top level lockdown grandparenting
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This evening Patti Smith talked about dreams, Lewis Carroll & Trump, sang After the Goldrush - and told the audience how much she loved my shoes. So yes, it was a perfect night.
And thank you
@Tom_Gatti
for beautifully chairing and letting Patti do the talking . A perfect evening
@camlitfest
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Publishers! These "100% recyclable" all-plastic padded envelopes you’ve started using can NOT be recycled according to
@PaperRound
. Plus they are a bugger to open and hard to re-use. Please revert to the Jiffy "Green" paper-padded bags which are fully recyclable.
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“So many of us live in suburbia, yet we heap scorn upon the place, and what does that do, I wonder, to our sense of self.”
I loved
@tracey_thorn
’s memoir which captures - thoughtfully, wittily, elegantly - our strange relationship with the suburbs. 🏠 🏠 🏠
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“I was in the top 1 per cent of GCSEs in the country. I got 100 per cent in my English exam. Year Nine, my friends start cutting each other up” Essntial
@akalamusic
interview by
@Anoosh_C
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From Covid-19 to police brutality, how systemic racism is killing black people. By
@garyyounge
- our cover story this week
Image by
@andre_carrilho
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Richard Lloyd Parry /
@dicklp
has won the
@RathbonesFolio
for Ghosts of the Tsunami. Here's
@YoZushi81
's review from 2017
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BBC neutrality overload: pro-remain letter from 1300 businesses and pro-leave letter from 1 boss (Tate&Lyle) presented almost as equivalent
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George Saunders a just winner but I'm sad for Ali Smith - the 4th shortlisting for a writer who should have this award on her mantelpiece.
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It's the mixture of anarchy, menace, sweetness, humour and grit that I love in John Burningham's work. Very sad to hear he's gone but what a back catalogue he has left . . . I'm still discovering new gems. Here's the unsettling egg-demanding bear from The Shopping Basket.
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Stop press: BBC leak appears to confirm that Robert Pattinson has won the Goldsmiths Prize. I always knew he had it in him.
For coverage of the
#GoldsmithsPrize2017
winner announcement, listen to tonight's
@BBCFrontRow
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