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Damian Barr

@damianbarr.bsky.social

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Writer & broadcaster. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston in Lewes. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 1d

Love a good window

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They are!

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It’s #bookshopday and this handy starter pack has all the LGBTQIA+ book love you need!

@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 2d

And @damianbarr.bsky.social has a Starter Pack for this very thing.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 1d

In a break from normal
Book tour content, I am home for the day. And harvesting! Pls enjoy my autumn splendour. Radicchio, cucumber and cucamelons.

A bowl of bright purple radicchio leaves

Two cucumbers framing some cheeky cucamelons

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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I want to get to be able to do them again.

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Appalling

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I had managed to forget she existed. When it rained in london, I’d grab a free paper to keep me dry and there she would be: at the launch of a thing, sipping something, doing nothing.

Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 3d

Me and Robert Diament and Russell Tovey talk art and class and queerness and LOVE AND REBELLION. The Two Roberts novel and upcoming Charleston-in-Lewes exhibition, on @talkart.bsky.social now.

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Yay!

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Well i am delighted on every count! Hurray!

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Hurray! Thank yiu!

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I absolutely am here for this and also thank you for introducing me to this new and colourful term. I look forward to deploying it the next time my husband fishes a book from my stack.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Aug 20

‘A couple of Tartan queers’ is how the Daily Record described the Two Roberts in 1977. It’s a vile piece: homophobic yet unable to deny their brilliance. This attitude is exactly why they fled to Soho from ‘Puritan Scotland’. I wanted to celebrate their love and talent so wrote The Two Roberts.

A black and white newsprint article showijg text and image. Text headline is ‘the tartan ravers find fame in death.’ Text is mostly trash about artists robert MacBryde and robert Colquhoun. They are shown in a photo standing by easels in
A studio.

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I’ve been curating an exhibition about the Two Roberts and it opens next week at Charleston in Lewes. Over 100 works, including some that have never been shown before! Big gay Scottish working-class art lov and joy FOR YOU! Book now:

www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...

Charleston — Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

Explore the lives and work of the 'Two Roberts'

www.charleston.org.uk

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4d

In conversation with @sarasheridan.bsky.social, @damianbarr.bsky.social discusses his novel THE TWO ROBERTS, which reimagines the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde & Robert Colquhoun. Recorded at the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social on 7 October
www.youtube.com/live/T44S_tn...

Author talk | Damian Barr: The Two Roberts

YouTube video by nationalgalleries

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for sharing!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d

This dream will
Come true

Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d

Now that’s an intro.