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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly 20 years ago Arcade books announced Richard Howard's translation of Cioran's Cahiers. There was even a cover. But it never appeared. Searching for news just now, I discovered this: dustyhope.com/bel/emil-cio...

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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 18d

Indeed. And the Scud Mountain Boys before them.

B. S. Johnson by Pernice Brothers

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 18d

Also, how many songs are named after authors? Here's the Pernice Brothers glorious contribution. youtu.be/Bexd18r6ZSU?...

YouTube video by FrohleinU

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Fat Man on a Beach (1973) film by B.S. Johnson dir. Michael Bakewell

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 18d

Relevant trivia: my friend Morris' first job in the film industry was on Fat Man on the Beach, though he's not listed on IMDB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j70...

YouTube video by Daniel Walwin

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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 18d

Found this on a secondhand stall selling supermarket fiction.

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 24d

Lars Iyer has a new website now that Typepad is closing down. larsiyer.co.uk

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Ceaseless Imaginative Striving: A Review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Sep 11

Over a year since it was published and this is only the second review. Very welcome nonetheless.

bigother.com/2025/09/10/c...

By Jeff Bursey “In those months Kafka came to understand that you cannot articulate or grasp final truths, only dramatize the burning need to do so and the impossibility of so doing…” —A Win…

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When John Updike read À la recherche du temps perdu after having read Scott-Moncrieff's translation, he was surprised to find Proust less P...

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks – I saw it last night, and I can vouch for Jeff Bursey.

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Sep 10

How can we sleep? A post in response to reading @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social's
translation of volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/read...

Reading, forgetting

this-space.blogspot.com

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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Sep 3

Looking at the suggestions for a replacement, I may never be able to listen once he's gone.

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 28

"In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession" this-space.blogspot.com/2025/08/read...

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Rosalind Belben Reflects on the Foreplay of Wordplay - Electric Literature

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 19

An interview with Rosalind Belben on the reissue of her 1979 novel Dreaming of Dead People. electricliterature.com/rosalind-bel...

The author of “Dreaming of Dead People” discusses sexuality, double standards in art, and the vicissitudes of literary publishing

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · Aug 19

Please help. Our department runs a groundbreaking part-time degree programme in English Literature and Community Engagement, known as ELCE, designed for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. The University of Bristol has decided to close it.
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19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 19

Take Will Self's suggestion and read Nabokov instead.

What Autism Is ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've never seen the lure either. They appear to be for "as seen on TV" authors, with books providing an alibi for the unserious. Celebrities provide the authority lacking in that private activity.

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Imagine that we do not know what blindness is."

Very impressive essay on Autism by Sinéad Murphy.

brownstone.org/articles/wha...

Autism is attributed to a range of causes, from childhood vaccination to the impersonal routines of metropolitan societies.

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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 9

Claude Monet looks like the van in Dumb & Dumber. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHU...

Impressionists live

YouTube video by Lars Vilks

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Much Depends: An Interview With Gabriel Josipovici | Fallow Media

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Aug 7

I found this 1965 US paperback on a sweltering day in Portsmouth, June 1987, the day Thatcher's Tories were elected for the third time. The page edges are tinted dark pink.

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Jul 31

Astro description

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Jul 22

On this day, 20 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was shot in the head by British police, I remember this entry to the TLS's 2008 Books of the Year.

As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Jul 19

Out next month from And Other Stories. www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-...

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Oxford World Classics of the latest translation of Proust is littered with asterisks. I didn't need them when I first read the novel because it wasn't about gathering knowledge then and isn't now.

Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · Jul 10

A little further down I think, but we came from the racecourse.