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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 2d

Lublin is published by @andotherstories.bsky.social and the event is at @waterstones.bsky.social in Hampstead

Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 2d

Manya is originally from NYC but is based in the northeast of England. She’s a very thoughtful and interesting speaker and I’m looking forward to asking her all kinds of questions about how and why she wrote this brilliant book. If you’re in London and free that evening, please join us!

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 2d

Since then, the book has also won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the RSL Encore Award. It’s by turns laugh-out-loud funny, bittersweet and deeply poignant; I think of it as being like a prewar Yiddish fable told through a postwar lens.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 2d

When my fellow judges and I chose LUBLIN by Manya Wilkinson as the winner of the Wingate Prize earlier this year, we called it ‘a wholly unique coming of age novel, fusing fable, history and Jewish joke-making, set against the backdrop of the oncoming darkness of the 20th century’.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 2d

On the evening of Thursday October 23rd I’m hosting an event at Hampstead Waterstones where I’ll be interviewing Manya Wilkinson, the author of LUBLIN — one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

An evening with Manya Wilkinson | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Manya Wilkinson today.

www.waterstones.com

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but now I’m just hearing ‘That’s Amore’

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 3d

Really enjoyed reading this! My favourite from this list? A toss-up between Harold Monro’s “Overheard on a Saltmarsh” and “Wy is School a Fing” by Sonny, aged 8.

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, that’s a beauty!

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 5d

Staircase in Puteaux House, a 15-storey tower block on the Cranbrook Estate, taken from the bottom looking up

View looking up at a staircase in Puteaux House on the Cranbrook Estate, a housing estate in East London designed by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin and completed in 1963.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 5d

Good day on the new book today, writing about Berthold Lubetkin’s Cranbrook Estate in Bethnal Green, Marxism and Tikkun olam (Hebrew for repair of the world)… it all ties together, I think!

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haaarry FEL-FooOOooOOTCH 💜🎃 @doctorwhois.gay · 6d

The fact of the matter is that an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur is antisemitic, not antizionist. Give your Jewish friends and neighbours support and don't let the actions of one antisemite stoke even more division

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 7d

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 7d

Really enjoyed the episode — and by coincidence have just reached this entry in Kenneth Williams’ diaries… a trip to see Charles Hawtrey in Deal in 1970. Every bit as grim as Seabrook suggests!

The entry for May 10th 1970 in Kenneth Williams’ diaries, describing a ghastly trip to Deal to see Charles Hawtrey.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 15d

Ah — except I see Bluesky has cropped Bindon out of the pic… well, you can just imagine him there, and read this if your imagination needs any assistance.

An extract from JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH: DAVID LITVINOFF AND THE ROCK’N’ROLL UNDERWORLD (Jonathan Cape, 2016) describing John Bindon.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 15d

I meant to add alt text to the first image… L-R: James Fox as Chas, Stanley Meadows as Rosebloom, John Sterland as the Chauffeur, and John Bindon as Moody, in PERFORMANCE (1970).

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 15d

I interviewed him a few years ago for an as yet unreleased David Litvinoff documentary, in which we recreated this shot with my copy of Borges’ A Personal Anthology.

The actor Stanley Meadows playing Rosebloom in PERFORMANCE (1970). Here, Rosebloom is reading Borges’ A Personal Anthology on his way to carry out a job for Harry Flowers.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 15d

RIP Stanley Meadows, who has died aged 94. May his memory be for a blessing. A fine character actor whom I’ll always remember for his understated menace as Rosebloom in PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970).

“Your old man was a barber, wasn’t he Rosey?”

“No. No, he wasn’t.”

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 20d

Currently trying to work through some fiercely contested ownership issues regarding our house.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you, Joanne.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 22d

My mum’s yahrzeit, three years since she died. Feels at least twice as long, the world that had her in it feels remote now, but sometimes it’s as if she was here yesterday. So disorientating how grief warps time.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nigel Farage and Reform couldn’t have asked for better publicity than this pathetic piece of BBC ‘journalism’, written with almost childlike enthusiasm by Chris Mason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before - BBC News

The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · Sep 6

(I should mention that this was for UEA, which holds his archive — see archivecollections.uea.ac.uk/lc )

The British Archive for Contemporary Writing CollectionsOnline | LC - Lee Child Archive

archivecollections.uea.ac.uk

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · Sep 6

That’s such a good piece. I interviewed him 20-odd years ago and found him similarly affable and interesting. I recently wrote the copy for an exhibition about his working process — he’s a brilliant re-drafter, so ruthless in honing his prose.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · Sep 6

Authors — you can check if the creators of OpenAI used your books at the Atlantic link below. If they did, do what I’ve done and register your name here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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