Robert Paul Weston
@rpweston.bsky.social
Writer of stories and novels for Penguin Random House and others // Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Lincoln // Faculty Fiction Editor of the Lincoln Review // Agent: Westwood Creative Artists
Great essay on what it means to be a "foodie" in 2025, by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social, in the @yalereview.bsky.social: yalereview.org/article/alic... #food
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
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November 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Great essay on what it means to be a "foodie" in 2025, by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social, in the @yalereview.bsky.social: yalereview.org/article/alic... #food
New #music mood: "No One Noticed" by The Marías. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlT...
The Marías - No One Noticed
Audio of "No One Noticed" by The Marías
Listen to The Marías: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiQyj3m-vBexDuHh_43LYQSs7nV46U6z_
Discover more in our Sad Songs…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New #music mood: "No One Noticed" by The Marías. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlT...
Traditional polar bear hunting has "gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive" the last in a very long line of hunters: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #climate
One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World
In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Traditional polar bear hunting has "gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive" the last in a very long line of hunters: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #climate
A fascinating, insightful take on recent developments in US politics, from @jonathanbchait.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A fascinating, insightful take on recent developments in US politics, from @jonathanbchait.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Today's music mood: Shannon & The Clams - "Bean Fields" www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvo2...
Shannon & The Clams - "Bean Fields" [Official Music Video]
From the new album 'The Moon Is In The Wrong Place,' available May 10: https://click.ees.link/tmiitwp
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November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today's music mood: Shannon & The Clams - "Bean Fields" www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvo2...
Today's music mood: Iron & Wine - All in Good Time, feat. Fiona Apple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C8_... Gorgeous.
Iron & Wine - All in Good Time (feat. Fiona Apple) (Official Video)
"All in Good Time (feat. Fiona Apple)" by Iron & Wine
From the album, 'Light Verse,' out now on Sub Pop Records.
Listen Now: https://music.subpop.com/ironandwine_lightverse
Director & Editor: Jamie…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Today's music mood: Iron & Wine - All in Good Time, feat. Fiona Apple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C8_... Gorgeous.
Children’s Booker Prize launched! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Children’s Booker Prize launched
Books newsletter: Circling the Square; Listowel curator appointed; Ballyscullion Park Book Festival; Bridport Prize for Irish writer
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November 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Children’s Booker Prize launched! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
I read Paul Theroux a lot in my teens. He's still got it. Lovely story from him in @VQR: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/... #shortstory #shortfiction
The Silent Woman
After a wretched, wakeful night, my hot head buzzing with annoyance, I sat squirming in my study waiting for Ollie to arrive. At nine he put his head in, smiling with his usual greeting, “How are we…
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November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I read Paul Theroux a lot in my teens. He's still got it. Lovely story from him in @VQR: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/... #shortstory #shortfiction
To my students, any alumni who follow me, or anyone else aspiring to work in London #publishing, here's @HarperCollins's 2026 Traineeship. No experience necessary: app.beapplied.com/apply/3wclk4... #editing #books
HarperCollins Traineeship 2026
HarperCollins Traineeship Stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world. We publish incredible authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
To my students, any alumni who follow me, or anyone else aspiring to work in London #publishing, here's @HarperCollins's 2026 Traineeship. No experience necessary: app.beapplied.com/apply/3wclk4... #editing #books
Today in dehumanizing newspeak: cobot. americanbazaaronline.com/2025/10/22/a... #robots #tech #Amazon
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Today in dehumanizing newspeak: cobot. americanbazaaronline.com/2025/10/22/a... #robots #tech #Amazon
Today’s music mood: “Vampire Empire” by @bigthiefmusic
Big Thief - Vampire Empire (Lyric Video)
'Vampire Empire' by Big Thief, out now: https://bigthief.ffm.to/vampireempire
7" will be released October 20th, available to pre-order now: https://bigthief.ffm.to/vampireempire
Lyrics:
Watching TV…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Today’s music mood: “Vampire Empire” by @bigthiefmusic
“Poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history; poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements.” —Aristotle (Poetics, Chapter 9) #writing
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history; poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements.” —Aristotle (Poetics, Chapter 9) #writing
Yep, you read that right. Merry Christmas? 🎄
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Yep, you read that right. Merry Christmas? 🎄
“…a nation writes its history in many books, but the book of its buildings is the most enduring.” @AdamGopnik quoting John Ruskin on the White House renos, in the @NewYorker. #architecture #history www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“…a nation writes its history in many books, but the book of its buildings is the most enduring.” @AdamGopnik quoting John Ruskin on the White House renos, in the @NewYorker. #architecture #history www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Meanwhile, in #baseball news, here's a good example of how comitted and intentional cross-cultural cooperation makes you stronger. #Dodgers www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
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When Yoshinobu Yamamoto arrived in Glendale, Arizona, for his first spring training with the Dodgers, fresh off signing the largest free-agent contract for a pitcher in MLB history, his new team quickly...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Meanwhile, in #baseball news, here's a good example of how comitted and intentional cross-cultural cooperation makes you stronger. #Dodgers www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
Gish Jen, on her new work of autofiction, Bad Bad Girl: When she told her children about their grandmother‘s difficult life, they reacted with, "Oh, that’s awful.“ When they read the book, they were moved to tears. That's the power of #fiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS44...
Bad Bad Girl
Gish Jen—award-winning author of The Resisters—and New York Times bestselling author Lisa See (Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Dreams of Joy) welcome us into a discussion about Jen’s newest novel Bad Bad…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Gish Jen, on her new work of autofiction, Bad Bad Girl: When she told her children about their grandmother‘s difficult life, they reacted with, "Oh, that’s awful.“ When they read the book, they were moved to tears. That's the power of #fiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS44...
Hard to believe public discourse in America has pivoted to speculation about murder in discussions of #freespeech.
Yeesh. A fascinating piece in the @NewYorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Yeesh. A fascinating piece in the @NewYorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us
Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words. What happens next?
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October 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hard to believe public discourse in America has pivoted to speculation about murder in discussions of #freespeech.
Yeesh. A fascinating piece in the @NewYorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Yeesh. A fascinating piece in the @NewYorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
You have to wonder, is it possible America has become such a distorted perversion of itself, its very pastime has left the country? Hm… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseba... #WorldSeries #BlueJays #baseball
MLB World Series Game 1: Toronto Blue Jays beat LA Dodgers 11-4
Addison Barger smashes the first grand slam by a pinch-hitter in World Series history as the Toronto Blue Jays thrash the LA Dodgers 11-4 in game one.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
You have to wonder, is it possible America has become such a distorted perversion of itself, its very pastime has left the country? Hm… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseba... #WorldSeries #BlueJays #baseball
“It isn’t supposed to be easy…But the things Shohei Ohtani does on the field are so astonishing they make you wonder if everything you thought you knew about #baseball for last century and a half was wrong.” —Jared Diamond, @WSJ.
Shohei Ohtani May Have Just Put Up The Best Game For Any Player in Major League History
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October 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“It isn’t supposed to be easy…But the things Shohei Ohtani does on the field are so astonishing they make you wonder if everything you thought you knew about #baseball for last century and a half was wrong.” —Jared Diamond, @WSJ.
Insightful personal essay from @danielleshorr on the pressures facing teachers of Creative Writing at university, in @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/el-author/da...
Danielle Shorr - Electric Literature
Danielle is a professor of creative writing in Southern California. Winner of the Touchstone Literary Magazine Debut Prize in Nonfiction, a finalist for the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative…
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October 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Insightful personal essay from @danielleshorr on the pressures facing teachers of Creative Writing at university, in @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/el-author/da...
Jennifer Egan on Jane Austen in the @ParisReview. Wow. Yes, please. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
How Jane Austen Pulled It Off: On Emma by Jennifer Egan
June 11, 2025 – “Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing the suspects and trying to figure out, not whodunnit, but…
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October 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Jennifer Egan on Jane Austen in the @ParisReview. Wow. Yes, please. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
Education as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.” Fascinating piece from the @NewYorker on: Will the #Humanities Survive #ArtificialIntelligence?
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Education as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.” Fascinating piece from the @NewYorker on: Will the #Humanities Survive #ArtificialIntelligence?
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...