Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social
Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); non-canonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
I just feel like this is not the ideal thing for the Max Spielmann photo booths helpdesk to show up as in one's email inbox
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I just feel like this is not the ideal thing for the Max Spielmann photo booths helpdesk to show up as in one's email inbox
Some very important messages via graffiti seen on Cramond Island this afternoon.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Some very important messages via graffiti seen on Cramond Island this afternoon.
Here's a great pic of Steve Cropper from Gordon's book 😎
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Here's a great pic of Steve Cropper from Gordon's book 😎
Also, I just finished reading Robert Gordon's history of Stax, which is a good read.
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Also, I just finished reading Robert Gordon's history of Stax, which is a good read.
Supermarket herbs, offering superfluous advice to academics
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Supermarket herbs, offering superfluous advice to academics
Merry Christmas from Burntisland High Street.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Merry Christmas from Burntisland High Street.
But you also got the solo classics and hits like 'Rip it Up', 'Don't Silly Shally', and 'A Girl Like You', as well as a finish of the Orange Juice classics 'Felicity' and 'Blue Boy'.
October 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
But you also got the solo classics and hits like 'Rip it Up', 'Don't Silly Shally', and 'A Girl Like You', as well as a finish of the Orange Juice classics 'Felicity' and 'Blue Boy'.
Just back from the last show of Edwyn Collins's last tour, in Edinburgh, his birthplace. An incredibly moving show, packed with favourites and hits. And the beginning of the encore, where he played 'Low Expectations' and 'Home Again' was absolutely emotionally devastating.
October 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just back from the last show of Edwyn Collins's last tour, in Edinburgh, his birthplace. An incredibly moving show, packed with favourites and hits. And the beginning of the encore, where he played 'Low Expectations' and 'Home Again' was absolutely emotionally devastating.
That's it - until another tbc but potentially very exciting location in another couple of years time. Meanwhile, I'm home.
October 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
That's it - until another tbc but potentially very exciting location in another couple of years time. Meanwhile, I'm home.
Enjoyed walking round Thessaloniki a bit more yesterday - a fascinating range of cultures colliding.
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Enjoyed walking round Thessaloniki a bit more yesterday - a fascinating range of cultures colliding.
Appreciated the trip to the Zeitenlik (military cemetery) in Thessaloniki, led by Vlasis Vlasidis. It was interesting to see the different decisions made about the politics and iconography of memorialisation in the different parts of the cemetery - English, French, Italian, Serbian, etc.
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Appreciated the trip to the Zeitenlik (military cemetery) in Thessaloniki, led by Vlasis Vlasidis. It was interesting to see the different decisions made about the politics and iconography of memorialisation in the different parts of the cemetery - English, French, Italian, Serbian, etc.
I'm on the final leg of my journey back to Fife from the @fwwsoc.bsky.social conference at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, so here's some pics and thoughts. Firstly, well done @sdanisimova.bsky.social and local organisers for putting on a great, truly international, collegial event!
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm on the final leg of my journey back to Fife from the @fwwsoc.bsky.social conference at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, so here's some pics and thoughts. Firstly, well done @sdanisimova.bsky.social and local organisers for putting on a great, truly international, collegial event!
I laughed out loud for approx 5 mins at this from the Dalgety Bay Diary Newsletter (sic)
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I laughed out loud for approx 5 mins at this from the Dalgety Bay Diary Newsletter (sic)
Not a spice, but I've got these cocktail sticks which have a 2005 date on them.
September 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Not a spice, but I've got these cocktail sticks which have a 2005 date on them.
You can come and see how this figure features in my show...
August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You can come and see how this figure features in my show...
Different times in academia in summer 1947.
![A letter from Kenneth Tynan to Julian Holland of 1 July 1947. Tynan writes: "Have been offered a permanent job at Windsor Rep on strength of my Holofernes in OUDS - Coghill advises me not to take it, and the Windsor man in a kind letter agrees to hold the job till next year - there may be a Chair of Drama at Oxford in five years time and I'd I get a good degree Coghill says he will get me a lectureship". [Tynan was 20.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wk4fit2bo4uu3z6khvilchyl/bafkreiakuqtg2zkipgmezkkeyegzkmxdkvmb7pxdcaaswbl4elyrzztsfy@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Different times in academia in summer 1947.
Guess this is definitely happening... Come see my try to be funny about what we're doing when we call something a classic, and when we demand that people read them!
11.45am Mon 11 Aug; 5.40pm Fri 15 Aug. Ticket links in thread from quoted post.
@standcomedyclub.bsky.social
11.45am Mon 11 Aug; 5.40pm Fri 15 Aug. Ticket links in thread from quoted post.
@standcomedyclub.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Guess this is definitely happening... Come see my try to be funny about what we're doing when we call something a classic, and when we demand that people read them!
11.45am Mon 11 Aug; 5.40pm Fri 15 Aug. Ticket links in thread from quoted post.
@standcomedyclub.bsky.social
11.45am Mon 11 Aug; 5.40pm Fri 15 Aug. Ticket links in thread from quoted post.
@standcomedyclub.bsky.social
Looks great - congratulations Matt. I might pre-order it along with R. F. Kuang's Katabasis, which looks like quite the mood...
July 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Looks great - congratulations Matt. I might pre-order it along with R. F. Kuang's Katabasis, which looks like quite the mood...
How do you know you're back in Scotland? A black marker sign on a piece of A4 in the loos at Edinburgh Gateway saying "no toilet paper", and an empty mickey of Whyte & Mackay on a seat on the station platform.
July 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How do you know you're back in Scotland? A black marker sign on a piece of A4 in the loos at Edinburgh Gateway saying "no toilet paper", and an empty mickey of Whyte & Mackay on a seat on the station platform.
Scotland looks very nice in summer in the late evenings.
July 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Scotland looks very nice in summer in the late evenings.
I'm very grateful to the no doubt I paid people who pull together the local freesheet, but every month this tautology makes me grind my teeth.
July 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm very grateful to the no doubt I paid people who pull together the local freesheet, but every month this tautology makes me grind my teeth.
Who's this in the @edfringe.bsky.social catalogue?
July 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Who's this in the @edfringe.bsky.social catalogue?
I have some questions.
June 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have some questions.