Max Liu
@maxjliu
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Freelance writer, London @maxjliu.bsky.social
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Joined June 2011
For today's @ftweekend I interviewed Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi about their brilliant, @TheBookerPrizes winning Heart Lamp
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Edmund White has died aged 85. I have fond memories of interviewing him for @theipaper three years ago when one of his wild late novels was published. He was great fun, open and generous with his answers to my questions. RIP
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Great interview with Yasmin Zaher by @ella_louise_c on the @dylanthomprize winning The Coin, Lispector, Houellebecq Palestine.
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RT @maxjliu: For today's @ftweekend I interviewed Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi about their brilliant, @TheBookerPrizes winning Heart Lamp….
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"The Coin is a profound meditation on our contemporary world and our complicity in the destruction of another place and people." Great piece about why we awarded the @dylanthomprize to The Coin by Yasmin Zaher.
Ysgrif ar enillydd Gwobr Dylan Thomas. Some thoughts on the Dylan Thomas Prize winner. @WeAreFootnote @SwanseaUni
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RT @dylanthomprize: Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher who has woken up to a bright spring morning here in Swansea as the 2025 @SwanseaUni Dyl….
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Tomorrow at the @britishlibrary. I'll be asking @dylanthomprize shortlisted authors about their books. They'll also read. Begins at the beginning at 7pm!.
We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great @michaelsheen, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the @britishlibrary on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!). Tickets:
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I reviewed Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness - the most frustrating novel I've read for some time - for @ftweekend
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RT @ftweekend: The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong — life on the edge in blue-collar America
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RT @dylanthomprize: There's really only one place to be on 14 May and that is the @britishlibrary!. 7pm-7:30pm: The brilliant @michaelsheen….
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One week from today! Come to the British Library to see @dylanthomprize shortlisted authors read from their work, discuss with me and answer audience questions.
We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great @michaelsheen, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the @britishlibrary on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!). Tickets:
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From Three Farmers. to Playground I wrote a guide to Richard Powers' fiction - or an Overview of the Overstory author - for @TheBookerPrizes:
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RT @_emilybootle: The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago today - read this brilliant piece by @maxjliu on why it's chronically misund….
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For today's @theipaper I wrote about The Great Gatsby which was published 100 years ago this week. Happy birthday old sport
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Glorious shortlist left me rapt, nothing safe about these v good books, well worth readers' coin and time, I will stop now. Can't wait to reread, debate, decide the winner!.
📚 THE 2025 SHORTLIST 📚. We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's stellar Swansea University (@SwanseaUni) Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist! #SUDTP25 . Who will be crowned our winner on May 15th? 🏆. PRESS RELEASE 📰 :
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Liz Pelly's fine book Mood Machine, about the way Spotify rips off musicians and degrades listening, is published today. My review:
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RT @prem_thakker: Mahmoud Khalil has filed an emergency petition to return to NY. He is being held in Louisiana. “It feels like my husband….
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RT @DrRafiqRaji: Mood Machine — how Spotify detached music from the makers - via @FT. 28 Feb 2025. Liz Pelly’s rigo….
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Delete Spotify, buy records, go to gigs, listen actively. and read my review of Mood Machine by Liz Pelly, which covers all of this, online now and in this week's @ftweekend:
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