Gordon MacMillan
@gordonmacmillan
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Former journalist, worked at Twitter and wrote two Novels: Songs For Your Mother & Blind Dates. Book blog Tangled Prose 👇
London
Joined October 2007
The setting as a character, and why the places in some novels stay with you https://t.co/OM04w9wkvU
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I keep thinking Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life and A God in Ruins should be talked about far more than they are. Not because they’re obscure, but because they’re quietly radical. Time, war, memory, the routes our lives take. https://t.co/sMCaPCtF5z
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I keep thinking Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life and A God in Ruins should be talked about far more than they are. Not because they’re obscure, but because they’re quietly radical. Time, war, memory, the routes our lives take. https://t.co/sMCaPCtF5z
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We pretend we don’t judge books by their covers. We do. We just call it intuition. New on Tangled Prose: what covers really do, how design trends shift, and five books I’m eyeing purely on cover energy. What was your last cover-led preorder? https://t.co/muNvrYss5J
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What do you read after Lonesome Dove? Not the sequels. Not the prequels. Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is the better answer. Three novels, one sustained reckoning with land, loss, and the end of the West. #bookrecommendations #cormacmccarthy
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What do you read after Lonesome Dove? Not the sequels. Not the prequels. Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is the better answer. Three novels, one sustained reckoning with land, loss, and the end of the West. #bookrecommendations #cormacmccarthy
https://t.co/kFD3RlUYXc
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It’s been 15 years since the last book, and we’re still trying to wash the taste of "King Bran" out of our mouths. We don't just want the next chapter; we need the narrative restored to its former glory. https://t.co/NI2oSOuoxl
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It’s been 15 years since the last book, and we’re still trying to wash the taste of "King Bran" out of our mouths. We don't just want the next chapter; we need the narrative restored to its former glory. https://t.co/NI2oSOuoxl
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Five books for the in-between: Blue Nights Stoner Gilead Outline Foster A new post on liminal reading and why these are the ones I return to. https://t.co/VaDe7PGRzY
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Donna Tartt hasn’t published in a decade. She rarely speaks, never posts. And yet her influence is everywhere. Why we’re still obsessed with Donna Tartt and her novel The Secret History. #DonnaTartt #DarkAcademia #TheSecretHistory
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What happens when crime novels get lyrical, and sci-fi starts sounding like elegy? In 2025, genre is less a boundary than a suggestion. From Babel to Station Eleven, writers are dismantling the old labels. https://t.co/K3LGDs6D7y
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We’re not interested in dystopias.” “This has no commercial appeal.” “Consider a writing course.” Yes, those are real rejection letters of some well known writers. A short history of publishing getting it wildly wrong: https://t.co/S1dqCijUi4
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Orwell. Plath. Nabokov. Golding. All turned down by publishers who couldn’t see it. This isn’t just literary trivia — it’s a reminder that rejection is often the first draft of success. Here are some of the best (and worst) no’s in publishing history https://t.co/1R68OnY96l
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Orwell. Plath. Nabokov. Golding. All turned down by publishers who couldn’t see it. This isn’t just literary trivia — it’s a reminder that rejection is often the first draft of success. Here are some of the best (and worst) no’s in publishing history https://t.co/1R68OnY96l
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Why does every bestseller sound the same? Clean. Marketable. Totally forgettable. Here’s a manifesto against beige prose, and 5 books that really aren’t: https://t.co/d7oCgfj2wh
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The 'by zombies' test: how to spot (and fix) passive voice in your writing https://t.co/Y8wSfckZiK
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Why does every bestseller sound the same? Clean. Marketable. Totally forgettable. Here’s a manifesto against beige prose, and 5 books that really aren’t: https://t.co/d7oCgfj2wh
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Not another list of writing books. These 5 titles didn’t teach me structure. They disrupted it. Broke things open. Got my writing unstuck. Books that saved my writing (and didn’t come from the usual lists): https://t.co/IRZiexXhJG
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David Szalay’s Flesh might be the blokiest Booker winner yet: sex, silence, working-class grit. Is the male body back in fiction? https://t.co/pSrWgevaSz
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David Szalay’s Flesh might be the blokiest Booker winner yet: sex, silence, working-class grit. Is the male body back in fiction? https://t.co/pSrWgevaSz
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