Soma Ghosh
@somaghosh.bsky.social
“A 1000 women in one” - The Hay Festival. “A snake and a prostitute”- some guy. ‘A Guardian Best’ Podcaster, Writer, Rural Raver, Filthy Tree Hugger. Film, books, culture, 'Nature' if you must. Words: Little White Lies, The Independent, The Irish Times etc
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Soma Ghosh
@somaghosh.bsky.social
· Apr 22
So, in between winning a Welsh creative commission and developing brain fever JUST to be more 19th C, @kwoovo.bsky.social & I made possibly the world’s first multicultural, LGBTQ+ histories of trees podcast ever, on Apple, Spotify, Deezer etc tmw! Drama, discussions, travel & music by Arun Ghosh
Hate to be an identity zealot but does shade being thrown by establishment lit press at Ocean Vuong’s new book have to be quite so gleeful? These stumbles are to be expected when developing his kind of style. It’s at the v least unseemly, at worst smells of something other than pure critique
June 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hate to be an identity zealot but does shade being thrown by establishment lit press at Ocean Vuong’s new book have to be quite so gleeful? These stumbles are to be expected when developing his kind of style. It’s at the v least unseemly, at worst smells of something other than pure critique
Magical Solstice stormy evening on the Welsh borders: seeded grass and blackberry blossom psychedelic raving in the hedgerows and a helix of crows cursing the sky’s turbulence of gold, mauve and pink,
June 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Magical Solstice stormy evening on the Welsh borders: seeded grass and blackberry blossom psychedelic raving in the hedgerows and a helix of crows cursing the sky’s turbulence of gold, mauve and pink,
They found the missing Matter. Parents all over the world, various languages: “Where was it, X’s bedroom floor?”
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
They found the missing Matter. Parents all over the world, various languages: “Where was it, X’s bedroom floor?”
if anyone wants to start a Youtube channel about the tortured psychological travails of a cat-lover who feels compelled to intervene in the slaughter of “her” robins .v. the friendly/merciless neighbourhood cats, while ranting against the anthropocene, u know where to find me
June 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
if anyone wants to start a Youtube channel about the tortured psychological travails of a cat-lover who feels compelled to intervene in the slaughter of “her” robins .v. the friendly/merciless neighbourhood cats, while ranting against the anthropocene, u know where to find me
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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.
June 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.
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Light the Vaim flame. New Fosse (extracted in the New Yorker last week, see earlier post), out in October from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Light the Vaim flame. New Fosse (extracted in the New Yorker last week, see earlier post), out in October from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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Very much looking forward to the Wes Anderson adaptation
June 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Very much looking forward to the Wes Anderson adaptation
Shout out to the arts critics whose kids had to write an arts review for today’s English exam and have made it into their pyjamas before 6pm, ready to project on the sitting room wall the best Star Wars film ever (clue: so good it granted New Hope with Andor).
June 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Shout out to the arts critics whose kids had to write an arts review for today’s English exam and have made it into their pyjamas before 6pm, ready to project on the sitting room wall the best Star Wars film ever (clue: so good it granted New Hope with Andor).
Literal literary bliss doesn’t get more fruity, camp or psychologically subtle. I’m so here for you, Marcel
May 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Literal literary bliss doesn’t get more fruity, camp or psychologically subtle. I’m so here for you, Marcel
This. That. Far too much ‘whiching’ in the essay world now and forever. Be bold. Just be That.
People sometimes ask me when to use "that" and when to use "which". Interestingly, there is no known rule for this. Unless you were born with the instinctive ability to tell which one sounds right, like I was, you will simply never know
May 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This. That. Far too much ‘whiching’ in the essay world now and forever. Be bold. Just be That.
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"If you write tremendously fast, you sometimes realise you’ve written down something you didn’t know you knew. And that’s a moment to be treasured. That’s the only reason for doing it!" Wonderful interview with Pat Barker by @john-self.bsky.social thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Pat Barker interview: ‘Success can be more challenging than failure’ | The Booker Prizes
Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices
thebookerprizes.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"If you write tremendously fast, you sometimes realise you’ve written down something you didn’t know you knew. And that’s a moment to be treasured. That’s the only reason for doing it!" Wonderful interview with Pat Barker by @john-self.bsky.social thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
For this eve’s relaxed-brain treat of The Studio: please more leaning into in-jokes like The Oner & The Note & less slapstick. Seth Rogan getting broken is a running gag but comedies like this are so much funnier when satirising those pockets of anal nerd-dom & perfectionism that beset every art
April 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For this eve’s relaxed-brain treat of The Studio: please more leaning into in-jokes like The Oner & The Note & less slapstick. Seth Rogan getting broken is a running gag but comedies like this are so much funnier when satirising those pockets of anal nerd-dom & perfectionism that beset every art
“The fact remained: it was almost impossible to dislike anybody, if one LOOKED at them” - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
April 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“The fact remained: it was almost impossible to dislike anybody, if one LOOKED at them” - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Think how much better Your Friends and Neighbours would have been if it had been a tightly scripted film. Relatability killed the writing room… Again
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Think how much better Your Friends and Neighbours would have been if it had been a tightly scripted film. Relatability killed the writing room… Again
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Epping Forest in the perfect spring rain this morning.
Chuffed to say I'm talking about my favourite place on this planet on BBC Radio 4's Open Country, I think now airing tomorrow, info here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Chuffed to say I'm talking about my favourite place on this planet on BBC Radio 4's Open Country, I think now airing tomorrow, info here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
April 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Epping Forest in the perfect spring rain this morning.
Chuffed to say I'm talking about my favourite place on this planet on BBC Radio 4's Open Country, I think now airing tomorrow, info here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Chuffed to say I'm talking about my favourite place on this planet on BBC Radio 4's Open Country, I think now airing tomorrow, info here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
How have trees shaped who we are? @kwoovo.bsky.social and I launch what might be the multicultural history podcast about trees, culture, and LGBTQ+ identity, joined by a host of divine tree huggers. Travel with us through welsh oakwoods and across the Ganges, here: shows.acast.com/branched-out
Branched Out
shows.acast.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
How have trees shaped who we are? @kwoovo.bsky.social and I launch what might be the multicultural history podcast about trees, culture, and LGBTQ+ identity, joined by a host of divine tree huggers. Travel with us through welsh oakwoods and across the Ganges, here: shows.acast.com/branched-out
So, in between winning a Welsh creative commission and developing brain fever JUST to be more 19th C, @kwoovo.bsky.social & I made possibly the world’s first multicultural, LGBTQ+ histories of trees podcast ever, on Apple, Spotify, Deezer etc tmw! Drama, discussions, travel & music by Arun Ghosh
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So, in between winning a Welsh creative commission and developing brain fever JUST to be more 19th C, @kwoovo.bsky.social & I made possibly the world’s first multicultural, LGBTQ+ histories of trees podcast ever, on Apple, Spotify, Deezer etc tmw! Drama, discussions, travel & music by Arun Ghosh
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Very unfair that Sam Mendes can make 4 films about each member of the Beatles, and yet I can’t make just one film about the time Kate Bush did a photoshoot with a stuffed crocodile in a car park 😤
April 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Very unfair that Sam Mendes can make 4 films about each member of the Beatles, and yet I can’t make just one film about the time Kate Bush did a photoshoot with a stuffed crocodile in a car park 😤
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I’m introducing Lost Highway at MAC Birmingham tonight - tickets still available!
April 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I’m introducing Lost Highway at MAC Birmingham tonight - tickets still available!
Regret to inform you that in the war between the Jack sparrows, and the Margot Robbie Robbins, the Pirates are winning. This morning I watched one hop up to a spider a bigger than its head and carry it off with cold cold indifferent eyes
April 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Regret to inform you that in the war between the Jack sparrows, and the Margot Robbie Robbins, the Pirates are winning. This morning I watched one hop up to a spider a bigger than its head and carry it off with cold cold indifferent eyes
The horror & pathos of Frankenstein's monster, in this 1910 film by J. Searle Dawley made in 3 days, and restored on wonderful @archive.org are remarkable. Esp its link to Frankenstein's own darker psyche in this scene where the monster appears to emerge from a womb above Frankenstein on his couch.
April 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The horror & pathos of Frankenstein's monster, in this 1910 film by J. Searle Dawley made in 3 days, and restored on wonderful @archive.org are remarkable. Esp its link to Frankenstein's own darker psyche in this scene where the monster appears to emerge from a womb above Frankenstein on his couch.
Beside myself for new film by Julia ‘Titane’ Ducournu. However, apropos of no one asking my opinion, would love to see her do creepy in a way that’s tender, unbearably soft.. #Cannes
a close up of a woman 's face with a green shirt on
Alt: sex scene that turns horror from Titane
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April 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Beside myself for new film by Julia ‘Titane’ Ducournu. However, apropos of no one asking my opinion, would love to see her do creepy in a way that’s tender, unbearably soft.. #Cannes
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, DOTD. “She could be herself…Free for the strangest adventures.”
March 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, DOTD. “She could be herself…Free for the strangest adventures.”
“With respect to my livelihood, I will not write for it. I will not run with that most common of crowds, the literary.” Keats, March 1819.
March 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“With respect to my livelihood, I will not write for it. I will not run with that most common of crowds, the literary.” Keats, March 1819.
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Jennifer Jones (born #onthisday) with Joseph Cotton in my beloved Portrait of Jennie (1948).
March 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Jennifer Jones (born #onthisday) with Joseph Cotton in my beloved Portrait of Jennie (1948).