Rebecca Watson
@rebeccawhatsun
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Author of little scratch (2021, @FaberBooks ; @DoubledayBooks ) and I Will Crash (4 July)
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i look forward to the day when something significant happens in my life that I can make a pinned tweet
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very happy to now be part-time assistant Arts editor at the FT. Send me pitches, Wednesday to Friday // send me writing advice, Monday to Tuesday // send me drinks, Saturday to Sunday.
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so
@FaberBooks
will be publishing my debut novel, 'little scratch', next year and I am ECSTATIC!!
.
@FaberBooks
has won a six-publisher auction for Financial Times journalist
@rebeccawhatsun
’s debut novel:
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I...am one of The Observer's top 10 best debut novelists of 2021.
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So happy that little scratch has been shortlisted for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize!!
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Eimear McBride, on being asked - often, and angrily - why there was no hope at the end of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.
via
@TheWhiteReview
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Literary ambush: the collective noun for all the books the postman left on my doorstep yesterday
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little scratch has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott prize and I am very happy about it!!!
Congratulations to
@akblakemore
@rebeccawhatsun
&
@GiantRatSumatra
who have made it to the
@DElliottPrize
shortlist. Discover more about all three books here:
@WritersCentre
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it's june 21 at the Club and all is chaos; jars of fermented vegetables smash on the floor, people rip hunks of sourdough and feed it to their lockdown dogs that roam the dancefloor, a woman cries: BE CAREFUL OF MY JUMPER, I KNITTED IT MYSELF
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Very excited to be presenting a programme on stream-of-consciousness for Radio 4. A one-episode stream-like exploration with conversations with writers and academics intertwined. Tuesday 8 February, 11:30am.
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little scratch has been longlisted for this year's Desmond Elliott prize! ! ! ! !
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Introducing..... little scratch, the play.
Adapted by
@hellomiriam
for
@Hamps_Theatre
and directed by the one and only Katie Mitchell. A genuine dream come true. On stage from November:
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had a dream that my first book had been published. the title was: THE BIRD IS A DOG.
The first review had come in, and it was savage. It was a picture of a doughnut, with the word NO underneath.
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For
@theipaper
, I wrote a piece about being mistaken for my novel's protagonist. Often harmless, sometimes brutal.
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First time bookshops have been open since my novel came out and I'm looking forward to ticking off missed experiences: one loud shriek on sight; telling customers I wrote the book; moving it subtly into a prominent spot; trampling over other books until there's nothing else left
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People on goodreads be like: this is the best book I have ever read I would die for this book, if I had to choose between me and this book it would be this book hands down, I will recommend this book to everyone for the rest of my life! 3.75 out of 5.
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'I think of writing as the arena of peril'
I interviewed Hilary Mantel:
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'I never expected that my love of football and my life as a writer would have much overlap, but they do.'
For
@ObsNewReview
, I've written about football, writing and the imagination. At the very least, it'll explain why I tweet about Forest and Watford...
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I am on page 182 of the new Sally Rooney. I signed an NDA so I think that's about all I can say.
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"Every moment feels filled with life and with jeopardy...Little Scratch is an extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency"
My first UK review of little scratch is in the
@guardian
today and I am fucking delighted.
By the brilliant
@AlexClark3
:
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As of this morning I have read all of James Baldwin's novels and I cannot state how glad I am to have read them and how bitter I am to have none left. (Brilliant design by Natasha Michaels.)
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I was refusing to participate in the Shrek discourse but then my friend sent me this
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okay it’s just hit me that I’ve written a book
that is being published
a book
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saw little scratch in the bookshop near my office where I used to spend many lunchbreaks and where I hoped to one day see it and yep it feels just as good as they say
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I wrote about
@HanifKureishi
, and my gratitude for him, for the
@FT
's Person in the News this week.
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I'm so thrilled that my second novel will be published by
@FaberBooks
in July.
Introducing: I Will Crash.
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I finally launched little scratch in person and my friend even made plaster-themed biscuits 🥲
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little scratch has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle's 2020 John Leonard Prize! I love the way they describe it:
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You can only talk about the "millennial novel" if you also like to use the phrase "boomer novel"
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During the first lockdown last year, one of my friends created a WhatsApp group. They had a suggestion: every day we send a photo. The catch? It had to be positive.
I wrote a piece on friendship and the pandemic, with insights from psychologists & others:
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It's an amazing fact of life to be able to be both a writer and someone who cannot speak in full sentences
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Would you like a distraction? I interviewed Mary Gaitskill for the Financial Times.
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'My brief for being in Italy was a strange one. I was there to follow in the footsteps of someone whose identity I didn’t know and didn’t want to know either.'
I travelled to the island of Ischia in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante for
@FTWeekend
.
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I won't rest until I've had a ride on the Financial Times rollercoaster
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“I realized how much the imagery on the internet and on placards – showing human-like qualities at this early stage of development – has really permeated the culture,” says Fleischman. “People almost don’t believe this is what comes out.”
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have shifted floors in the
@FT
building and am excited to now be acting assistant arts editor, which is v nice, and if you make it into an acronym it sounds like you're screaming. aaae!
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With some seriously cold takes about Holy Commutes and Delicious Pret Sandwiches doing the rounds, I am resharing my column on why I don't want to go back to the office:
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Last week I had lunch with George Saunders, this week you can read about it.
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Last night I had a dream (a vision?) that Zadie Smith told me the secret to good writing:
‘Lie. Lie between your teeth.’
Then she drove off in her Mini. I was in prison.
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lots of chat about the Jeremy Strong profile, not enough praise for Paola Kudacki for this brilliant portrait
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I've written a piece for
@TheTLS
on the aftermath of sexual assault that I would very much like you to read:
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My novel is an "intelligent, invigorating marvel" according to the.......................Daily Mail!?
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In Margate and a curious theme is emerging:
--the weather is shit
--no one can swim because a pumping station got struck by lightning and sewage was redirected into the sea
--last night I saw a drunk man typing 'poo' into the searchbar of a jukebox
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little scratch is being published 7 January 2021.
In the meantime, some brilliant authors have been reading it and saying some very generous things.
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my great grandma deserved first prize for this outfit and the rest of my life will be spent fighting for that
As we slowly browse through my mother's belongings after her death last year, I start to see where some of my artwork comes from.
This is my maternal grandmother in a spider-queen (?) outfit she made herself for a local fancy dress competition (apparently she won third prize)
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27 pints for 27 years: please help me reach the tally
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I wrote a column for
@FTLifeArts
(my workplace) about why I don’t want to go back to the workplace.
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today is my ghost publication day: where in a healthier world my book would have been published and where this moment – in which my narrator pees, with three strangers in cubicles next to her, and then doesn’t wash her hands – would not have felt OUTRAGEOUS
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thinking about the time I got invited to take part in an event to promote my "exciting new novel Little Prick"
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you guys better read this novel when it's done because writing in this heat is no joke
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I was possessed, for a year, by a woman whose name I do not know.
My notes on craft for
@GrantaMag
.
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I've written an obituary of Hilary Mantel for the FT. I interviewed her at the end of 2020, and exchanged a few emails since (all marked with 'sent from my iPad'). She was undoubtedly special, not just for her sheer talent but her integrity and strength.
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There are only five floors in the new FT office, but 9 buttons. Very, very suspicious.
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'I think of my Grandpa, who would meet his mates at his local every week. The area they settled in was fondly known as Bullshit Corner — now just another groove in that pub’s history.'
I tackled a very important subject this week in
@ftweekend
: the pub.
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"little scratch" is on
@pagesofhackney
's infamous chalkboard as one of their top 10 January bestsellers! also known as the dream dinner party
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I wrote about the ways writers are incorporating the digital age into fiction, and how it can feed new life into writing. For
@FTLifeArts
. Online now, print tomorrow:
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Potentially the best list that little scratch has featured on so far
"Every type of wife"
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A gloomy day has been brightened by the post.
little scratch: coming from
@doubledaybooks
on 11 August.
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ELLE have featured my "profound debut" (😏) in their 2021 picks!
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I've interviewed three powerhouses over the last year.
Mary Gaitskill:
Hilary Mantel:
Maggie Nelson:
The pieces are now free to read thanks to
#FTFreeToday
.
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I have written two short stories – which will be appearing in March and April for different places – and I'm looking forward to sharing them soon.
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📌"Reading little scratch has broken my heart and opened my mind."—
@JennySlate
📌“A powerful debut, one of the year's best new writers to watch."—
@Bustle
LITTLE SCRATCH is published today by
@DoubledayBooks
in the US and
@StrangeLight_
in Canada.
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Congratulations to
@isabelwaidner
and
@PressPeninsula
for winning the Goldsmiths Prize! A huge achievement. I am so proud to have been on the shortlist surrounded by such smart writers. Thank you to my friends for today's hangover.
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The play of little scratch is...BACK!
Miriam Battye's adaptation, directed by Katie Mitchell, is at London's
@NewDiorama
from 12 April. Tickets on sale now:
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How are you getting there? Oh, I think I'll take the...bin train
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"I had a terrible time trying to write a second book. Then, in order to wrongfoot some of the pressure I felt, I told myself it need only be a small, short, book."
Claire-Louise Bennett is back next year baby
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"At just over 200 pages, it’s a bullet of a novel, ricocheting between grief, anger and hope."
I love this review of little scratch, which is in the Observer today. Thank you
@Saltounite
.
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