Gregory Dowling
@gregorydowling.bsky.social
Taught American literature at Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Translator, literary critic, crime-fiction writer.
Well, that was neatly symmetrical.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Well, that was neatly symmetrical.
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Venice Noir now has its own YouTube channel. Two videos now loaded giving an overview of the recent festival: short version (1:36) and long version (5.59). Please enjoy - and subscribe! Here's the shorter one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sf...
Venice Noir Festival - 2025 edition
YouTube video by Venice Noir
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Venice Noir now has its own YouTube channel. Two videos now loaded giving an overview of the recent festival: short version (1:36) and long version (5.59). Please enjoy - and subscribe! Here's the shorter one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sf...
Just managed to avoid a phew.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Just managed to avoid a phew.
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Getting quite a few phews…
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November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Getting quite a few phews…
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And it’s another three…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
And it’s another three…
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And so now we find ourselves forced to think positively not only about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert but also Dick Cheney.
I suppose something of the same happened with Stalin during the Second World War...
I suppose something of the same happened with Stalin during the Second World War...
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
And so now we find ourselves forced to think positively not only about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert but also Dick Cheney.
I suppose something of the same happened with Stalin during the Second World War...
I suppose something of the same happened with Stalin during the Second World War...
Important word for Wordlers.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Important word for Wordlers.
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A lot of possibilities for that fourth letter so did some tactical elimination in row three.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A lot of possibilities for that fourth letter so did some tactical elimination in row three.
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Reposted by Gregory Dowling
Phew it is…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Phew it is…
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Reposted by Gregory Dowling
🔥 When Trump called a female reporter “piggy,” he thought the outrage would fade. Instead, a family member lit the match — and the whole thing blew up.
Mary Trump Torches the President: “The Only Pig Here Is Donald”
The video lasted just a few seconds — but the fallout was immediate, volcanic, and humiliating for the White House. Aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump snapped at Bloomberg correspondent C…
allchronology.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🔥 When Trump called a female reporter “piggy,” he thought the outrage would fade. Instead, a family member lit the match — and the whole thing blew up.
Reposted by Gregory Dowling
I thought I must have mis-heard her...
Watching the Epstein survivor admit that she voted for Trump really fucked with my head. The brainwashing against the left that apparently people endure from birth, must be way deeper than I ever imagined. A victim voting for a rapist, who has also been accused by 26 other women? Over a woman? WTAF?
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I thought I must have mis-heard her...
Superb close reading by A.E. Stallings of a poem by Karen Solie:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Superb close reading by A.E. Stallings of a poem by Karen Solie:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
Took a while after a promising start…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Took a while after a promising start…
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Reposted by Gregory Dowling
We’ve had such a lovely bunch of authors at our first Venice Noir and such great feedback. I asked Barbara Nadel author of the great Ikmen series in Istanbul if I could share the one she just set me.
Of course Barbara said yes. You’ve no idea how much this fires us up for Venice Noir 26
Of course Barbara said yes. You’ve no idea how much this fires us up for Venice Noir 26
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We’ve had such a lovely bunch of authors at our first Venice Noir and such great feedback. I asked Barbara Nadel author of the great Ikmen series in Istanbul if I could share the one she just set me.
Of course Barbara said yes. You’ve no idea how much this fires us up for Venice Noir 26
Of course Barbara said yes. You’ve no idea how much this fires us up for Venice Noir 26
The moment of decision: the award-giving ceremony of Venice Noir at the Teatro del Ridotto, Hotel Monaco, yesterday.
#IanRankin #venicenoir
#IanRankin #venicenoir
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The moment of decision: the award-giving ceremony of Venice Noir at the Teatro del Ridotto, Hotel Monaco, yesterday.
#IanRankin #venicenoir
#IanRankin #venicenoir
Another four…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Another four…
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Enjoyable panel on "Don't Look Now" at #VeniceNoir, with Sir Ian Rankin, Lisa Hilton, John Bleasdale and Philip Gwynne Jones (oh, and me).
Venice Noir panel for “Don’t Look Now” right now at the Ateneo Veneto: @gregorydowling.bsky.social, @ianrankin1.bsky.social, @www.johnbleasdale.com, Lisa Hilton, @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Enjoyable panel on "Don't Look Now" at #VeniceNoir, with Sir Ian Rankin, Lisa Hilton, John Bleasdale and Philip Gwynne Jones (oh, and me).
Reposted by Gregory Dowling
Venice Noir panel for “Don’t Look Now” right now at the Ateneo Veneto: @gregorydowling.bsky.social, @ianrankin1.bsky.social, @www.johnbleasdale.com, Lisa Hilton, @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Venice Noir panel for “Don’t Look Now” right now at the Ateneo Veneto: @gregorydowling.bsky.social, @ianrankin1.bsky.social, @www.johnbleasdale.com, Lisa Hilton, @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social
Got there before midnight at least.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Got there before midnight at least.
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Not sure why line 4 took me so long.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Not sure why line 4 took me so long.
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Comment I saw on a BBC video on YouTube: "it's like having Jimmy Savile as PM and half the country supporting him."
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Comment I saw on a BBC video on YouTube: "it's like having Jimmy Savile as PM and half the country supporting him."
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November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#VeniceNoir: Friday 14/11, Ateneo Veneto:
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#VeniceNoir: Friday 14/11, Ateneo Veneto:
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge
Trial of G. Casanova: daring adventurer or grifting charlatan? Great lover or sexual abuser? 300 years on, the jury's still out, so the audience will decide. D. Hewson prosecutes, L. Hilton defends, A. Mazzola analyses evidence and G. Dowling acts as judge