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Jude Cook
@judecook.bsky.social
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Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com https://judecook.substack.com/
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · Nov 15
I wrote about the Booker Prize, Samantha Harvey's triumphant 2024 win, as well as pleasure and pain-principle novels. Read The Wrong Paul for free here: judecook.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 22h
KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 5d
Great to celebrate the launch of Yann Chateigné Tyltleman’s Blackout at Veranda Books last night, expertly chaired by @clementoctober.bsky.social. Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 8d
A wonderful poet. RIP #brianpatten
“I was one of the last children to read at my primary school. There was quite a violent, tense background at home … such claustrophobia. I just started writing to get things down, since there was no one to speak to.”

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Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79
His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly
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Emily Midorikawa @emilymidorikawa.bsky.social · 8d
'For most of my students, the benchmark of whether they fall in love with a work of literature is if they can ‘relate’ to it ... I often suggest that they should go to fiction for the opposite reasons: that it opens up new fields of experience, new worlds, new cultures.' Via @judecook.bsky.social.
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 8d
A September Substack essay from me on the last day of the month. Read What I Love There: On Literary Subjectivity for FREE here: judecook.substack.com/p/what-i-lov...
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 8d
A September Substack essay from me on the last day of the month. Read What I Love There: On Literary Subjectivity for FREE here: judecook.substack.com/p/what-i-lov...
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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 11d
I was bawling long before the end of this.
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‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien
In the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being romanced by Richard Burton
www.theguardian.com
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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 12d
Join us at 6.30 at Veranda Bookshop in London on 2 October to celebrate the launch of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman who will be in conversation with his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social . Get your free tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11d
RIP Tony Harrison.
Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.

Highly relevant today.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 11d
Pre-ordered as soon as this went live, came today, devouring it already. @badaude.bsky.social a great guide for this journey. Fuck it makes me sad tho, thinking about The Internet That Might Have Been and How It Was Online In the Old Days. Brilliant so far.

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Amateurs!
Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...
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Max Liu @maxjliu.bsky.social · 11d
Good appreciation of Tony Harrison the dramatist and translator www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard
Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist
www.theguardian.com
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Clem Clement @clementoctober.bsky.social · 29d
One of my favourite paragraphs from Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from the French by me, forthcoming from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social on 2 October. Yann's first book in English and my first full-length translation. 🌑
A paragraph from a book. The text is: The moment in scenes of violence and trauma in certain films when the sound is suddenly cut. The deaf-mute vision of a world whose intensity becomes purely visual, as though emotion had saturated the spectrum of sound, imposing its noise on the noise, rendering it imperceptible, cancelling it out. Two copies of the book BLACKOUT, by Yann Chateigné Tytelman and published by Les Fugitives, lying on a wooden table. The cover is black. The title and author name, in silver, are encircled by a solar eclipse.
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 16d
Thank you @galleybeggars.bsky.social for another splendid proof package. Out November 2025: Gonzalo C. Garcia’s new book, Telenovela.
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 28d
Best of luck to @andrewgallix.bsky.social, launching his mind-bending satirical thriller Loren Ipsum this evening. One of the unsung heroes of the UK lit scene as i alluded to in @thebookseller.com this month.

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Librarians’ autumn picks 2025
Five librarians from across the UK pick their most-anticipated autumn reads.
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James Cook @jamesbpcook.bsky.social · Sep 5
I wrote about Caroline Elton's 'Looking After', a vitally important addition to the tiny corpus of literature about autistic adults, for the new-look @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/lives/biogra...
How autism shapes adult life
“If it takes a village to raise a child”, writes Caroline Elton in Looking After, “it takes a small town” to care for an autistic adult. A psychologist
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Sep 4
'Her outrage, in the act of expression, seems to feed on itself. If a point is conceded, she finds another hair to split, by return of post.'

Gwendoline Riley on Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
A spitting comet
www.the-tls.com
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · Sep 4
Thank you, Emily! Hope all is good with you.
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Emily Midorikawa @emilymidorikawa.bsky.social · Sep 4
Morning reading. I love the way that this essay by @judecook.bsky.social captures the essence of a place, & intertwines the author's personal memories with his literary work. It also made me miss Paris. 'Paris in the Blood': open.substack.com/pub/judecook...
Paris In the Blood
How To Research a Novel
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James Cook @jamesbpcook.bsky.social · Sep 2
'Rights matter'. Essential reading from @johnharris1969.bsky.social about the proposed changes to SEND provision. #autism
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · Sep 2
The Maybe I'm Amazed Substack returns! Latest piece from me is here: a long cold lonely winter for SEND families?... subscriptions are free
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James Cook @jamesbpcook.bsky.social · Sep 3
Two authors speak out about Britpop! My joint interview with the brilliant @annadoble.bsky.social www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...
Inside the other Britpop
30 years since Blur beat Oasis in the Battle of Britpop, two authors explore being both inside and outside the mid-90s music explosion
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · Aug 28
I reviewed Benjamin Wood's lyrical, Hardyesque @thebookerprizes.com 2025 longlisted novella, Seascraper, in @guardianbooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page
A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed tale
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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 27
Our first book of poetry comes out tomorrow. a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur translated by Bill Johnston. The perfect book for the end of summer and the end of Women in Translation month.
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · Aug 27
My sister would've been 55 today. She died 10 yrs ago & her presence has inspired me to make films, write my acclaimed memoir about our utopian commune childhood, Home Is Where We Start, Penguin, my novel The Orange Notebooks @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social & more...
RIP 💔
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Aug 27
'For me a text is the beginning of a conversation, not the final word.' @joannapocock.bsky.social was interviewed for The London Magazine about her new book, GREYHOUND: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-jo...
Interview | Joanna Pocock on Greyhound and America as the Ailing Motherland - The London Magazine
Joanna Pocock speaks to Emmeline Armitage about Greyhound, America, environmental ruin and the political responsibility of art.
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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · Aug 27
A late-August Substack from me: an essay about writing my second novel, Jacob's Advice (2020). Paris In the Blood: How To Research a Novel. Read for FREE here 👇 judecook.substack.com/p/paris-in-t...
Paris In the Blood
How To Research a Novel
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · Aug 24
‘Through the voices of ten women, this collection explores the joyous burden of relationship, the pain and comfort of loneliness, and the challenge and freedom of 21st-century living.’ Richard Lamey reviews Michael Arditti's The Mellow Madam and Other Stories.
Book review: The Mellow Madam and Other Stories by Michael Arditti
Richard Lamey enjoys 21st-century tales
www.churchtimes.co.uk
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