gregory howard
@g_e_howard
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Author of Hospice (FC2). Other fictions. Waiting and waiting and waiting. Anti fascist. BLM. Trans rights are human rights.
Joined March 2012
What's your favourite film set in the snow, or with a memorable snow scene?
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More great stuff as usual from one of the best places for literature
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PLATS endures! Published 11 years ago; finished 17 years ago! Thanks to Books on Books on Books on Instagram for keeping it propped up.
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Itโs not over-exaggerated to say that the bass playing of Mani from The Stone Roses underpins the soundtrack of an entire generation. That intro on I Wanna Be Adored alone is peerless. Revisit that iconic self-titled 1989 debut album immediately.
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Simply one the best. So much music I love wouldnโt exist without him.
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LFG
Hear garage rock girl group Thee Headcoatees return with 'Man-Trap', their first album in 26 years https://t.co/PY2aQUO53I
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None of my graduate workshop fiction writers had ever even heard of The Road Warrior let alone seen it. Off the ice floe, I guess
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And then what if we could get them to talk like Christopher Walkenโฆ.
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"What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjures images of movement, that suggests a restless quality to the world, a travelling that is at the back of everything ..."
today @MinorLits ... In A Nameless Place: Some Notes on Reading Anna Kavanโs Asylum Piece โ Anna Evans https://t.co/dy0fIZ1GIz
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Stats, man. We used to have Leslie fucking Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel. Let people free jazz about literature again.
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One of the best books
The latest in our series of Harry Matthews reissues, THE CONVERSIONS, is available now and features a new introduction by Ed ParkโPulitzer Prize finalist and author of Same Bed, Different Dreams.
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Leo Robson is always worth reading, but this is especially lovely and brilliant
Hereโs my @LRB piece, part cultural history, part metaphysical memoir, all political manifesto, about growing up in cinemas, cast incl Sontag, Cavell, Thomson, @PaulineKael @JonathanRomney @TheMikeFiggis @WhitStillman
@ICALondon @szacharek @ThePCCLondon
https://t.co/vKGMXGCF25
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Concentrated political and economic powers prefer to deal with other concentrated political and economic powers -- which is why antitrust is essential to democracy if it is to exist in any form and why inequality over time leads to autocracy.
Dictatorships make good business partners.
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Happy damp and drizzly November of the soul to all who celebrate.
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A 21st century Anatomy of Melancholy would rip
i tired keeping a diary but i wrote in it seldom and only when drunk or despairing, and all the entries were of statements like, โwe are in need of a literature or a philosophy that will speak not merely of the melancholic temperament (or humour) but of the melancholic TRADITIONโ
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A PDF of Bruno Schulz's exquisite "Republic of Dreams," for anyone who also believes that dreams are the only worthwhile republic. https://t.co/AvVhXm1MmQ
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An excerpt from Bruno Schulzโs โThe Republic of Dreamsโ:
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The only pure literature concerns itself with solving the Anthony Michael Hall/Terry Serpico equation.
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Huge congratulations to Krasznahorkai's wonderful translators, Ottilie Mulzet @caringerel and George Szirtes @george_szirtes , and to Barbara Epler, editor extraordinaire, at @NewDirections !
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Big day for long incantatory sentences, rotting whale attractions, desolate small towns as staging areas for investigations of power; trees, wolves, spiritual longing; and depictions of mania, stupidity, and narcissism.
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