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Tony White
@tonywhite.bsky.social
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London author. Latest novel The Fountain in the Forest (Faber). Former Science Museum writer in residence. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. Mailing list and other links👇🏼 https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 11d
Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6
A typical British high street shot from a low angle - blurred figures with shopping bags cross the road beneath Union Jack bunting
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 21h
Does anyone have a copy of The Art of Joy (the English translation of L'arte della gioia) by Goliarda Sapienza? I’m looking for a quote for a translation I’m working on. Thanks!
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Sonic Imperfections @sonicimperfections.bsky.social · 6d
Fundraiser for @resonancefm.bsky.social Friday 17/10/25 @cafeotodalston.bsky.social two-night festival curated on Friday by Resonance Extra’s Kinn featuring Rocheman, Kinn, Mohammed Rowe, Delia Detritus, Christos Stylianides, Cornelia Isaksson, Beatrice Vorster, Yasmin Vardi, Glint Music + more.
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 1d
👋Hello to new followers! BTW if you’d like to get book news from me and hear about gigs like this at #thefrenchhouse Soho, and receive invites to my book launches? It’s easy, and now might be a good time… ;) Plus you can unsubscribe any time👉🏼 stats.sender.net/forms/eE2pka...
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5d
@minorliteratures.bsky.social bang on the [lack of] money, depressingly so, altho i think the majority of us inc the editors have known this to be self-evident for way too long now.

The Cleveland Review of Books piece it links to is REALLY grim too.

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
open.substack.com
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 7d
🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Graphic for PEN America report titled 'Banned in the USA: The Normalization of Book Bans'. Features a stack of colorful books in front of a blackboard with '22,810 books banned in U.S. public schools, 2021-2025' written in chalk.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 7d
Restrictions on books in public schools have become “rampant and common,” according to a new report by the free speech organization PEN America, so frequent in some states that they are now considered “routine and expected part of school operations"... Read free: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Being Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 7d
It's Wednesday afternoon, and so NEARLY the weekend – and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is translator, critic and writer @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social.

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About - A Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 9d
(Misty) morning, all ;)

— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 9d
The two of suns — Thames Tarot #London
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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 10d
Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10d
Leeds Street Scene, 1974, painting by Stuart Walton. #NorthernArt
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 10d
Spotted on an Oxford pinboard a few days ago: an A4 rabbit hole into the world of artist Suzanne Treister (with a nod to @greatdismal.bsky.social there?) ahead of retrospective ‘Prophetic Dreaming’ at @modernartoxford.bsky.social opens 4 October to 12 April 26! modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/suz...
Poster with psychedelic art nouveau typeface that reads ‘THE SKY WAS THE COLOUR OF THE DEATH OF THE INTERNET’ — a flyer for Suzanne Treister exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, UK
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 11d
‘Plain Speaking' was first performed at @davidcollard.bsky.social’s Carthorse Orchestra online salon, then published by #3amMagazine and @irishlitsoc.bsky.social, and in @nicholasroyle.bsky.social’s Best British Short Stories 2022 on @saltpublishing.com — thanks all! 🙏👏✊ More info: bit.ly/46HWKk8
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 11d
Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6
A typical British high street shot from a low angle - blurred figures with shopping bags cross the road beneath Union Jack bunting
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 12d
Thames in SW London at sunset (with ‘tin fish’) today
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 15d
Equinoctial skies above the river in SW London, at 19:19 BST precisely. It’s now autumn in the northern hemisphere — OFFICIAL!
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 17d
“Barthelme! Barthelme! They’ve all read their Barthelme!”
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 19d
Magical Thames around 6:30 pm today
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 20d
Looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant artist Liliane Lijn for EA Festival at the Minories, Colchester, Tuesday 30 September. Come and join us!

Info and bookings here: www.eafestival.com/lilianelijn

(Also I'm teaching @universityofessex.bsky.social this year – very exciting!)
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 20d
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20d
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 20d
Looking downstream from Waterloo Bridge RN
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 21d
The Way We Were* RIP Robert Redford

(*i.e. holding criminal presidents and wholesale political corruption to account…)
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Ann 🦋 📎 @annokla.bsky.social · 23d
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 23d
Loneliest flan in the world #annielennoxpies
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