John-Paul Flintoff
@jp.flintoff.org
Writer and artist.
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
It’s NOT been a great week for Peanut.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s NOT been a great week for Peanut.
Made this picture as a thank you to the people who look after sick animals (and do so from the building in the centre of the picture).
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Made this picture as a thank you to the people who look after sick animals (and do so from the building in the centre of the picture).
Helping someone assemble Instagram posts as a booklet.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Helping someone assemble Instagram posts as a booklet.
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Meaning happens in the spacing.
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Meaning happens in the spacing.
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The cover for this week’s issue, “Sudden Shower,” by Sergio García Sánchez. See what’s inside: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/i4knjA
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The cover for this week’s issue, “Sudden Shower,” by Sergio García Sánchez. See what’s inside: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/i4knjA
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵1 The difference between a photo album and a compelling micro-memoir?
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
October 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵1 The difference between a photo album and a compelling micro-memoir?
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
Captions.
Master the skill of caption-writing and you'll make every photograph work twice as hard, showing one thing while revealing another.
Here's how to write captions that transform your images:
🧵 /1
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🧵 /1
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
Many people try to cram their entire life story into a memoir.
That’s a mistake.
Instead: speed through some parts, linger over others.
Here's how a brilliant illustrator told her mother's life in just 128 pages (and what it means for your micro-memoir):
🧵 1/7
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🧵 1/7
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
Lots of people want to create a legacy book.
Most start, then give up.
Not because they didn't try - but because they're waiting for the "right" publisher, the "perfect" story, the "whole" life.
Here's how to publish something beautiful almost immediately:
🧵 1/7
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
October 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🧵 1/7
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
Your micro-memoir needs more than just words.
The right photos, used the right way, can tell years of story in a single image.
Here's how to choose and display images that make your memoir unforgettable:
I enjoyed this in the FT and used a combination of Instagram and TikTok to create the video remix
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I enjoyed this in the FT and used a combination of Instagram and TikTok to create the video remix
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
@financialtimes.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
I just so loved his poem “V.”
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
September 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I just so loved his poem “V.”
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
And “A Cold Coming”.
What a loss.
Oops.
That may explain the relatively low number.
That may explain the relatively low number.
September 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Oops.
That may explain the relatively low number.
That may explain the relatively low number.
Late sun on kitchen tiles.
September 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Late sun on kitchen tiles.
Behind the scenes at the FT Festival, on the lawn at Kenwood.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
September 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Behind the scenes at the FT Festival, on the lawn at Kenwood.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
Staff in white shirts and black trousers took a break while delivery vehicles were unloaded. A JCB stood ready to push and pull.
One thing you can be sure:
This was not written by ghastly ai.
This was not written by ghastly ai.
June 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One thing you can be sure:
This was not written by ghastly ai.
This was not written by ghastly ai.
“The best ‘reasoning’ [AI] models today ‘face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities’.
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
June 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“The best ‘reasoning’ [AI] models today ‘face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities’.
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
Lunch with the FT
@financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com #emilybender
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As AI kills search traffic is it time everyone had a newsletter instead of a website?
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
As AI kills search traffic is it time everyone had a newsletter instead of a website?
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
This is from @simonowens.bsky.social
VS Pritchett is horribly underrated. Just listened to Paul Theroux read one of his stories on my favourite podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett
The New Yorker: Fiction · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
VS Pritchett is horribly underrated. Just listened to Paul Theroux read one of his stories on my favourite podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
open.spotify.com/episode/11sN...
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Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
June 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...
June 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Inbox Armageddon: A Guide to Substack Etiquette
Everyone you know has an email newsletter these days. How did that become your problem?
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