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Lara Pawson

@larapawson.bsky.social

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Writer #stopthegenocidenow #freepalestine #sisterhoodnotcisterhood https://larapawson.com/

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · Jul 1

"As If Proust Dipped His Madeleine in LSD"
Thank you Steven van Ammel for this fabulous 4**** review for Verbruikt Licht (aka @cbeditions.bsky.social Spent Light) published by Koppernik in the Netherlands & Belgium. Best headline ever!

“Alsof Proust zijn madeleine in lsd sopt”: ‘Verbruikt licht’ van Lara Pawson is een boek vol excessen dat onder de huid kruipt ★★★★☆

Als de pepermolen aan een handgranaat doet denken en de kookwekker martelfantasieën oproept, weet je dat je te maken hebt met een boek over trauma.

www.standaard.be

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

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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georgeszirtes.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social · 6h

CELEBRATING LK

In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,

but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken

breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,

spouting as it dives.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 15h

Damn. I'm out of town for this.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 15h

I just hope he shares the cash with his translators.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 15h

Also, you're real and your hair (is looking fantastic!).

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

Boyd Tonkin. He's just on it. Always. Congratulations Paul.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

That link isn't working!

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

So frustrated to have missed this. Really very very special.

Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 4d

Boyd Tonkin on "let me tell you" performance (London, October 3)
theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

theartsdesk.com

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

👊🏼😘😂😉

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

I think I can. Imagine what it would be like.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

🙄🤷🏼

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

This little yellow glossy book just keeps running. How grateful I am to have this reader, himself a pretty glorious writer. 🙏🏼👇🏼😘

Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 3d

Wanted to be sure Spent Light by @larapawson.bsky.social is the best book I've read this year so I read it for a third time to check and it turns out Spent Light by @larapawson.bsky.social is indeed the best book I've read this year.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Oh Michael, thank you so much for both the praise and the time you gave it. Really, I'm grateful. If you know any Aussie publishers who might feel the same, please let me know! 😉😘🙏🏼

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Beginning to feel that the more Labour chases the far right, the better it is for the left. They're leaving a chasm for @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk to fill, plus indy candidates like @faizashaheen.bsky.social. Great! Let's do it!

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Penny for your truly honest thoughts on Fosse.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Vicky! 😘

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Off to Hastings in December to inspire & support other writers. Promise to smile & laugh more than the photo suggests! Please spread the word, literally & metaphorically!
@hastingswrites.bsky.social

Mining For Material — Hastings Writers Workshop

A writers workshop focusing on finding material for writing

www.hastingswritersworkshop.com

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

"How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?"

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 6d

Goodness, this is writing.

My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’

From fleeing Gaza City to a birthday in the family – Karim recounts a month in the territory

www.theguardian.com

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 6d

Just signed up. Super excited. I love Will's work.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 6d

Couldn't agree more.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 7d

Cheeky 😉! I don't think she's written another book, tho.

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 7d

Just looking at it now!