Paul Martinovic
@paulmartinovic
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@filmsradiance . Formerly @BFI @picadorbooks @penguinukbooks @denofgeek @digitalspy . @movies_are_dead . Picaresque account. Views own, thanks
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Physical media “is a ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ proposition. If you care about movies, and movie history, and you want to be able to see the things that you love over time, it’s the best way to ensure that.”
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I’ve had some time to reflect at I think the BT sport coverage of the Champions League final was, on balance, the worst TV sports broadcast I’ve ever seen. Commentary, pundits, editing, tenor of coverage, the game itself, a Jake Humphrey victory lap - historically shit
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‘A communist takeover has been slyly implemented? Has there?’
‘I must have missed that’
The time to speak is now. A communist takeover is slyly being implemented, they’re very clever but they don’t fool everyone. Good will triumph over evil 💪
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RIP Terry Hall, a titan. For my money these are two of the greatest minutes in the history of pop music
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For everyone using the ‘don’t judge by modern standards’ line - Enid Blyton had a manuscript rejected by Macmillan in 1960 on the grounds of xenophobic content. An editorial decrying her racist book ‘The Little Black Doll’ was published by the Guardian in 1966. Don’t do this.
The Royal Mint has refused to put Enid Blyton's face on a commemorative coin after being known to be a ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ and ‘homophobe’, according to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee.
Are they right or should this best-selling writer still be celebrated?
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I have eaten
the bananas
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for the wolf
Forgive me
they were delicious
Much love,
Grandma
#eurovision
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Sorry if it puts a dent in your childhood memories (I loved her books too) but there are reams of publicly available material out there that, put together, make a pretty watertight case that Enid Blyton was a nasty piece of work.
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PUBLISHING SEINFELD
GEORGE: well - I got pre-empted!
JERRY: you got pre-empted?
GEORGE: I got pre-empted
JERRY: No empt?
GEORGE: No empt! They pre’d before I could empt!
ELAINE: sounds like most of the guys I date
[Kramer falls through the door with a box of tote bags]
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@grangeblue
@btsportfootball
For me it was the anecdote about Noel Gallagher and the rain in Manchester tasting like champagne tonight. Legitimately boiled my piss
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I'm still actively looking to commission writers for Radiance with expertise in the following (era generally the 60s/70s/80s)
- Italian cinema
- Japanese cinema
- French cinema
- Spanish cinema
- Film noir
- Crime movies/polars/polizio
if this is you DM me with details!
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Seems like I wasn’t the only one who went to bed angry
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Reached the point in the RT cycle where City fans are now in my DMs telling me to kill myself. Normal stuff
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If you’d told 10 year old me that one day I’d be publishing Cormac McCarthy, I’d have asked you, ‘Who is Cormac McCarthy?’ If you’d told 21 year old me, however, I’d have lost my shit. Like I am now.
Look at how good these look! In bookstores *next week*!
#PicadorCollection
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I’m saying goodbye to Picador this week, and publishing, at least for a bit. Somehow a four week temp contract turned into a ten year career, which introduced me to people and experiences I never thought possible + I feel so lucky and grateful for those opportunities.
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My favourite piece of Martin Amis’s writing, or at least the one I immediately thought of upon learning of his passing, was his account of being forced to watch ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ with Salman Rushdie during the peak of the fatwa
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@RunningEamonn
@btsportfootball
Similarly if it had been Fiorentina fans who had thrown the coins…
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@LWhannell
@GuyLodge
Hi, I'm generally a fan of your stuff but you are the one instigating a pile-on from your followers onto another artist, asking them to 'review his work' with a nudge-wink. His benign opinion on the film didn't tag you or mention you by name. Only one person is lacking class here
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Didn’t think it was possible to love STOP MAKING SENSE any more after dozens of watches but seeing it in IMAX 4K with the genuinely remarkable new Atmos mix was hands down one of the best cinema experiences of my life. Best concert film, best album, best film. Same as it ever was
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He still feels weirdly underrated. On a short list of the greatest pop filmmakers of the past twenty years
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@StefanKingg
That was almost as bad but the fact the game was actually fun and also that the celebrations were so good counted for a lot
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Side note - I got to read Enid Blyton’s (several pages long) handwritten response to being asked to testify in the Penguin/Lady Chatterly trial a few years ago. It is genuinely one of the most unhinged things I’ve ever read.
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@AdamCrafton_
I actually agree with how Liverpool are framing this. There’s been 3 PGMOL incidents in 2 months deemed serious enough for an apology, suspensions etc. It’s not sustainable. Escalation and resolution means heads rolling or rules being changed, and I think we’ve reached that point
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I am very delighted to share the news that I am joining
@FilmsRadiance
as Production Manager, and working across a number of their upcoming Blu-ray releases. If you know me you’ll know this is a dream role - I couldn’t be happier!
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Remarkable bespoke comic strip ad for When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
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👀
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@picadorbooks
senior communications manager
@paulmartinovic
has been appointed to the new role of associate editor for backlist and popular non-fiction at the imprint. He will also start his own pop culture list. More about the promotions here:
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I couldn’t be more delighted to finally be able to talk about this.
The Picador Collection - launching February 17th 2022, as part of Picador’s 50th Anniversary year
#PicadorCollection
@picadorbooks
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REBEKAH VARDY'S LAWYER: Objection your honour - I fail to see how this is relevant
JUDGE WEARING FADED CANTONA TOP: overruled
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SINCERE TWEET ALERT: I've worked full time in publishing for nearly six years and I've never been more excited by upcoming projects than I am by those in the works at
@picadorbooks
right now. There are just too many amazing books coming your way, you don't understand
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TRENQUE LAUQUEN is off to print. We've added even more special features since announcement, including exclusive new interviews with Laura Paredes and Ezequiel Perri, and annotated BTS galleries. The accompanying booklet is a wonderful read too. Out 27th May!
@FilmsRadiance
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Behold - new jackets for our series of Don DeLillo
#PicadorCollection
reissues. Just a few of the finest American novels ever written, published on December 1st to give you plenty of time to read a couple before the release of the (excellent) WHITE NOISE film on Netflix, Dec 30
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Here are the extremely attractive finished copies of NEVADA by
@imogenbinnie
- ‘The book that launched the trans writing scene’ Torrey Peters
Publishing on 9th June but I have five (5) copies to give away now, RT to enter and I’ll pick five at random (UK only). Also…
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a publishing professional to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if they want any prosecco
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I have seen both BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER. All fun and games aside, do NOT watch them on the same day. Allow at least 24 hours between them to decompress and evaluate. You will thank me later….jfc
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Developing my own pop culture over here
Massive news for Martinovic—
@picadorbooks
has promoted
@paulmartinovic
to associate editor for backlist and popular non-fiction, where he will develop his own pop culture:
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I will mainly remember Silvio Berlusconi for ensuring TENEBRAE was censored in Italy for decades because his wife’s character is murdered in it. He probably did worse stuff. Look I’m no politics buff
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Look at these lovely, perfect-for-the-beach paperback editions of Olivia Laing’s CRUDO - in bookshops May 2nd. However, if you want a copy before your friends have them I’m giving away 5 copies on here - RT and I’ll pick the winners at random. 🦀🔨
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@imteddybless
I used to do this all the time. For an added frissson it’s also nice to spend a few minutes taking in the new view and imagine you’re staying in an exotic hotel
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Extremely delighted and excited to announce that
@picadorbooks
will be bringing
@imogenbinnie
’s groundbreaking, darkly funny and poignant cult novel NEVADA to the UK for the first time in June 2022!
@fsgbooks
@jaxxonhoward
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The MCUification of Roald Dahl is hilarious to me, just an absolutely doomed and cursed project destined to be despised on both sides of the cultural divide that nevertheless must plow ahead because the forces of capitalism demand it.
It's 2024. Why are newly announced children's books adding disability to characters as proof they are 'disgusting'? As children's authors, it's our duty to write for *all* children, including children with eye prostheses or blind children.
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Just filed an invoice for my first piece of freelance work in many years. Very exciting.
I have 15 years of experience in journalism and publishing, and am actively looking for editorial/copywriting freelance work. DM me if you have something suitable - RTs appreciated!
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The cover for YOUNG MUNGO,
@Doug_D_Stuart
's follow-up to the Booker Prize winning SHUGGIE BAIN is being revealed over at
@picadorbooks
at 2.30pm today. I've seen a sneak preview and I'm going to say it - it'll go down in publishing lore as an iconic cover. Yes, really!
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@dalelamb288
Yeah, fair point that the BBC were equally uncritical and accepting of the City Cinderella narrative. I just thought BT tipped over into outright fawning, which was then compounded by the whole presentation being relentlessly third rate and incompetent
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@EmpsonJanet
I think it's totally right to acknowledge the influence of her work and even celebrate it (apart from the more obviously bigoted stuff), but then there's also enough evidence to suggest that she personally shouldn't be held up as one of our proudest exports
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Film Twitter! Book Twitter! Chevy Chase Twitter! I have proof copies of the wonderful WILD AND CRAZY GUYS by
@NickdeSemlyen
available for reviewers and bloggers now. DM me if you're interested in a copy - in the meantime here are some advance quotes...
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10 days and thousands of books later the Eddie Jones tour is over. A true gent and a pleasure to work with. Go buy his book for you or someone else for Christmas - it’s really good!
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But really - the
@donhertzfeldt
Simpsons couch gag is as poignant, angry and hysterical as his best stuff
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Watching MAESTRO. As a neutral bystander I have been feeling a lot of sympathy for the way Bradley Cooper has been vilified in this Oscar race but now I realise everyone was 100% right to dunk on him, please carry on
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Praise for
@FitzcarraldoEds
absolutely deserved but can’t help but feel their ridiculous run also reflects lack of interest from bigger ‘literary’ publishers in supporting formally progressive literature from around the world. The business model just isn’t there.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023
#NobelPrize
in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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I’m looking to commission writers old and new to write essays to accompany upcoming
@FilmsRadiance
releases. Looking for interesting perspectives +high doses of passion/knowledge. If this is you, drop me a DM with a bit about you/your tastes and let’s see if we can work together!
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I know many people who have written for
@RollingStoneUK
and every one of them has had to chase for months to get paid. They’re fobbed off with the same lines but it’s very clear that delaying payment or trying to avoid it entirely is a feature not a bug in their business strategy
Hate calling stuff out on here, it's so not me, but with my emails now being ignored, I dunno what else to do. I invoiced
@RollingStoneUK
in early Dec for an interview I did with
@rickygervais
&
@StephenMerchant
. It's now nearly April and still no payment
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The
#PicadorCollection
launches today, and with it the start of what we hope is a new era for Picador paperbacks, one that pays homage to a remarkable legacy while creating something relevant and essential for readers new and old. These are great books!
In 2022, Picador celebrates its 50th anniversary and the launch of the Picador Collection, a new list of era-defining modern classics with a bold new look.
Learn more about these technically dazzling, award-winning, and culturally significant books here:
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Actually now doubting if this was handwritten... it was definitely long though
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In honour of the
@therealjoebob
Dinners of Death marathon on
@Shudder
why not check out the man's fantastic 22,000 word history of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
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y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
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@Andr6wMale
At a showing of ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL at the Prince Charles the lights came up to reveal that the only people in attendance were me, Julia Davis and Julian Barratt. All of us had been crying. Also sat next to a visibly moved Ian Hislop at DUNKIRK
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Exciting news - Wilding by
@isabella_tree
is the
@waterstones
Non-Fiction Book of the Month! Some richly deserved attention for this special book.
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I'm not above this, and neither are you
The first trailer for the ‘ROAD HOUSE’ remake has been released.
Releasing March 21 on Prime Video.
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Look
@BarristerSecret
! The awards keep coming!
And the Best Non-Fiction Winner is the campaign for The Secret Barrister, led by
@paulmartinovic
of
@panmacmillan
#BMSAwards
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Patricia Lockwood on Knausgaard is as good as you’d expect
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Happy 50th birthday to Picador, which launched in the UK as an imprint of Pan Books on 7th October 1972. A new paperback imprint for the ‘thinking, seeking young’, the eight launch titles included Rosshalde by Herman Hesse and Heroes & Villains by Angela Carter (🧵)
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Just off the back of watching MAY/DECEMBER, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, THE BOY AND THE HERON, ALL OF US STRANGERS and FERRARI in a 48 hour period. Think this might be pretty hard to top as the best weekend of watching new films that I’ve ever had?
#LFF
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Very excited to share something with you I've been working on for a while - the huge bumper special edition that is BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (AND OTHER WRITING), featuring over 100 pages of new and rare material from Helen Fielding, out Feb 6th 2021.
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Deathly serious when I say this is a vital and important piece of our shared cultural heritage. You are doing the lord’s work
@networktweets
#Eurotrash
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Piping hot proof copies are in of this rich, beautiful and genre-bending novel, beloved of
@SavidgeReads
and Australian critics + finally published in the UK April 18. If you are a blogger/vlogger and want to read some uniquely thoughtful historical sci-fi get in touch via DM
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@artcraftcollect
I totally agree that the work is the work. The issue here is that she is personally being celebrated and deified, which I do have an issue with given her history. Give your kid your dog-eared copy of Noddy by all means, but don't build her a statue.
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They say there are no long term side effects to the Pfizer jab but since I got my first one I have become interested in both Formula One and Neon Genesis Evangelion after a lifetime of antipathy. I guess what I’m saying is be careful out there
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Hello, over the next few days this is where I will be tweeting my top 100 films of the decade (2010-2019). 50-1 will have commentary attached. And yes, all of these films are overrated (by me) and underrated (by everyone else). Without further ado:
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I have a stack of exciting new books here that I probably should send to 'influencers' and 'authors' and 'people who have specifically requested them' but i'm going to give some away on here instead as I am a MAN of the PEOPLE
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@hering_david
Would earnestly call this one of the best films ever made. There is truly nothing else like it
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Happy International Women's Day! Here are four of my favourite
#womenonthepage
@PenguinUKBooks
http://t.co/L38UYQvNX8
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(for the 367th time) why did the Sunday Times make their chief film critic a journalist who clearly hates films?
@Loulou45Grant
Its not a joke. Film adaptations of books are a lazy form of art and not one Nobel prize winners should entertain
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Just walked past a couple in their fifties sat in a parked convertible, staring at the sea drinking pints of bitter while wearing matching flat caps and just *blasting* ‘The Bitter End’ by Placebo over the soundsystem. So guess I’ll be thinking about that for the next few weeks
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Exciting news! So proud and pleased to bring the super-talented
@EmilysCartoons
to Picador. TWELVE PERCENT DREAD is going to blow minds
.
@picadorbooks
picks up a "remarkable" graphic novel from
@EmilysCartoons
, Twelve Percent Dread, promising a "remarkable joke hit-rate and knack for comic plotting of Emily’s previous work while demonstrating a formal ambition and a keen satirical eye":
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I’m also giving away an early finished copy of the spectacularly funny, Broad City-meets-Bad Blood graphic novel TWELVE PERCENT DREAD by the hugely talented
@EmilysCartoons
- published 23rd June
RT to enter - winner will be picked at random! (UK only)
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@BertWright1
@CormacKinsella
There is surely a middle ground between ‘scrap heap’ and ‘face on legal tender’ though, no?
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A genuinely beautiful week at
@edbookfest
w/
@picadorbooks
friends old and new:
@imogenbinnie
@HJosephineGiles
@nellstevens
@JackieKayPoet
@Doug_D_Stuart
@JuliaArmfield
@MaddieMortimer
@Kiran_MH
@hopeisreading
@Orla_K
@rachelkfox_
@graceharrison55
Hernan Diaz + Jamaica Kincaid ❤️
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