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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 10h

The @backlisted.bsky.social family will know Rob best from his astonishingly clever ‘choose your own adventure’ short story collection WE ALL HEAR STORIES IN THE DARK, discussed on the Beowulf episode! Fans of the Halloween show will really enjoy CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT for its riff on ghost stories! 👻

Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 10h

Many congratulations to the brilliant @robertshearman.bsky.social whose two new Doctor Who novels were published this week- JUBILEE & CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT! 👏🥂🍾🥳 And check out the new issue of Doctor Who magazine for an interview about the new books & how Rob adapted the original Big Finish audios ✨

Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman

Doctor Who magazine cover featuring a golden Dalek

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Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social · 2d

This is enraging, it is not relaxing viewing. But it is wonderful.

Also interesting on something we’ve seen here in UK: one campaigning obsession (eg Covid masks) because against libraries. We’ve all seen people obsessed with one issue go absolutely doolally on ALL the issues.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 6d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

Picked up this collection of Graham Greene’s film criticism from the late 1930s in Oxfam this morning. Haven’t seen one for a while. (His views on Shirley Temple aside, most of the reviews are unfamiliar to me. I will add anything eyebrow-raising to this post.) @backlisted.bsky.social

A copy of The Pleasure Dome, a collection of Graham Greene’s film criticism from 1935 to 1940.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3d

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

Human slop.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

Please stop using the term ‘AI slop’. It’s lazy and derivative and you’re recycling it from Internet memes, all of which undermines the argument for the inherent superiority of human creativity.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

The track list of Vic Mars’s beautiful The Land and the Garden LP on @claypipemusic.bsky.social reads like a poem that perfectly complements the music.

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 3d

Read more Orwell, listen to more Clark

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 3d

Lots to enjoy here ("it is hard not to see the name of Clark’s first television series, Petula Clark’s Pets Parlour, as a sly dig at George Orwell’s Animal Farm") ... if not the music.

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely to receive an email invitation to a cocktail party at UEA (‘you may be too busy with Booker stuff of course!’) but I have had to decline. ‘RSVP: Unfortunately for all concerned, I am the wrong Andrew Miller’.

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Anna Tuckett @annatuckett.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve had it on my wish list ever since I’ve heard of this book on @backlisted.bsky.social, so thank you very much!

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

This week's free Kindle
A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell #freetillfriday
US🔗 bit.ly/4n18Rza
UK🔗 bit.ly/3KWDQPd
#furrowedmiddlebrow #booksky

Print of girl's face looking pensive as she clutches an envelope. There is a port with boats and a church behind her.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 3d

Another Wednesday morning delight from @iammilliam.bsky.social. An Easter egg filled study of a musical oddity. Thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social I have both heard of and read Hapworth 16, 1924, but I know there are other references that have escaped me. Sign up. These alone are easily worth it.

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 3d

By the time I got to ‘fuck this shit, thinks Petula Clark’ I was laughing out loud. Excellent work!

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 3d

Reader, I hooted.

Beware the savage lure
Of Pet Clark’s rotogravure.

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 3d

Hugely looking forward to this one! Worth being a Backlisted patreon member just for the INVENTORY! 😊

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent thread. Here's the Backlisted episode on Comyns as well: www.backlisted.fm/episodes/14-...

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

“No, it’s the books that are wrong.” etc

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 4d

I used to listen to a podcast that put out a bonus episode during a fundraiser, specifically for backers, of all the "umm" and "uh"s etc etc that they'd edited out of normal episodes

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charlotte @tambourine.bsky.social · 4d

listening to a podcast that’s put out an episode with an unedited ad read in the middle. like, multiple takes, host saying “nope”, lots of dead air, laughing at the lines she has to say. a modern horror story lol

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 4d

To clarify, she wasn’t even a guest on the show; one of her novels was discussed by us and our guests. But she still wrote individual notes of appreciation. - Andy

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 4d

To clarify, she wasn’t even a guest on the show; one of her novels was discussed by us and our guests. But she still wrote individual notes of appreciation. - Andy

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 4d

Drove down to Norwich listening to this,I can confirm that although the book is hyperlocal to Kent it worked in the flatlands too , ancient forgotten places , isolated murder bungalows, obscure factory units and as it finished I pulled up next to a heavily fly tipped Lover's lane. #booksky

Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 11d

New episode up now. All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook: part 2, with guest Jason Hazeley in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @jasonhazeley.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...

All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

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