thanks so much! what a wonderful opportunity.

today's #ModWrite I'm writing about illustrator Eric Fraser & his depiction of telephone trauma for Hamilton's radio play Money with Menaces. Fraser also invented 'Mr Therm' for British Gas: maybe the ultimate example of cute mascot & terrifying tagline?
www.modernillustration.org/archive/mrth...

John Reith of the BBC: ‘a soul in torment’?

My piece for the BBC looking back at the publication - 50 years ago this week - of the extraordinary ‘Reith Diaries’

joyous week 1 Austin - not pictured, my new friend Lester the trumpet player, and the huge cache of fascinating Hamilton materials at the Ransom Center

today's #ModWrite is from the Harry Ransom Center, with quirky drawings and unique turns of phrase that bring me closer than ever to Patrick Hamilton - if only his handwriting didn't turn each letter into a homogeneous scrawl, life would be perfect (but then wouldn't that be boring).

We're pleased to announce that the CFP for the TMR Virginia Woolf special issue is now open!
📆Important dates:
Expression of interest: September 15th, 2025
Submission due date: October 10th, 2025

Please get in touch with [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you! 🌻

We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...

thank you so much! the bats at sunset look amazing, and a bat kayak tour sounds even better. i’ll check out the tacos and malvern books too :)

today's #ModWrite is more packing than writing - one week before I arrive at the Harry Ransom Center for a deep dive into Patrick Hamilton's archive. Please send recommendations for Austin (bookshops, coffee, live music, nature, and for surviving what looks like 33 degree heat...)

weird modernists (and modernisms) unite!

Our campaign for the continuation of independent access to the BBC Written Archive Centre is highlighted this morning by Vanessa Thorpe in The Observer. Her article, with excellent contributions from David Kynaston and Ian Greaves, outlines the issue with clarity.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Please consider signing! I've been incredibly fortunate to access materials at the BBC Written Archives Centre for both my MA and PhD: my research would be all the poorer without them. Losing open & independent access is a terrible blow for anyone researching the BBC, broadcasting, and so much more.

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

the horrors persist, but so do the poor quality and unhinged nature of my Middlemarch memes

DO NOT DISTURB x2 and ‘this message has no content’ are really adding to the general ‘impending doom’ vibe

at the stage of writing where my brain simultaneously flies off on tangents, and cannot think of how to express a simple concept - so i send myself ominous emails from my bed as i try to get to sleep.

the scenario we all feared

today’s #ModWrite is a delve back into torturous telephones in Patrick Hamilton’s radio dramas - and making a list of dream discoveries for my visit to the Hamilton archive at the Harry Ransom Center next month (happy dance)

🥹❤️!

wonderful lunch of squares (galettes) with the wonderful @becimay.bsky.social, also featuring this tantalising box… choosing to read ‘fire’ as inspirational and mind-blowing, and hoping to find the key.

The @thetls.bsky.social let me eviscerate Wyndham Lewis 🖤🔥🔥🖤

love this so much!

This rabbit hole lead me to this wonderful article on Shaw, vegetarianism, and tomato consomme served with whisky?! Another fabulous title, for the recipe itself: 'Tomato Consomme and Then Some' soupsong.com/zjul05.html

According to Lewis, St. Augustine and the cucumber were elements in a play George Bernard Shaw planned to write, 'full of action'. I really hope the cucumber was intended to be a character on stage, rather than a plot device.