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Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social · 6h

The Thinking Man’s Sister Wendy.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 6h

On BBC Four at 22.00, Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings. (From 1981.) Cezanne, Ingres, Delacroix and David. Cool.

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BBC Four - Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings

Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on works by the world’s greatest painters.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This week's reading and re-reading. A mixed selection! Finished the first two, carried on with the third and read some bits of Arthur Machen prompted by mentions on the @backlisted.bsky.social chat.

The Blue Moment by Richard Williams (the second half is an interesting but slightly eccentric run through music influenced by Kind of Blue from Terry Riley and La Monte Young to My life in the bush of ghosts).
The Dead Don't Care by Jonathan Latimer (No Exit brilliantly published some semi-forgotten hardboiled crime in the late 80s. Jonathan Latimer is probably my favourite as a sense of humour goes a long way).
Moby-Dick
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First heard it on my fave podcast, w. Steve Coogan as guest. Many podcasts annoy me w. stoned/drunk rambling from punchable dudebros. #Backlisted isn’t like that. Smart bookish Brits w. BBC quality voices, polished delivery & genuine wit. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/137...

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137. Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Backlisted

Published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, and usually abbreviated to Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne's cock and bull story - has entertained, baffled, enchanted, infuriated and inspired...

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Latest read, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760) by Laurence Sterne; famous, hence over-analyzed but that's mostly "cock & bull". It's simply fun, wry, about life (& writing), full of anecdotes & digressions. Don't concern yourself with plot, Sterne doesn't. Loved it. #BookSky

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There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes I’m still plugging these brilliant pieces from @backlisted.bsky.social ‘s Andy Miller. This is so great on a singer and musician I’d never heard of and now feel I’ve missed out on. No time like the present… www.patreon.com/backlisted/p...

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Blossom Dearie, Discover Who I Am: London 1966-1970 | Backlisted Podcast

Blossom Dearie, Discover Who I Am: London 1966-1970 by Backlisted Podcast on Patreon. Join Backlisted Podcast's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 25/09/2026

Sophisticated internet users of many years of extreme onlineosity still reliably getting trolled by Top 100 listicles

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Blossom Dearie: Discover Who I Am, London 1966-1970. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Blossom Dearie peeking out from behind a curtain of hair.

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Anna Twigg @annatwigg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

www.patreon.com/posts/170512... If you subscribe to Backlisted you'll be lucky enough to read this. A wonderful piece about the marvellous Blossom Dearie, who I absolutely love! 💙

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Blossom Dearie: Discover Who I Am, London 1966-1970. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Blossom Dearie: Discover Who I Am, London 1966-1970. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Blossom Dearie: Discover Who I Am, London 1966-1970. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Listening to the Backlisted Summer special, strikes me that it’s about different kinds of male/female relationships. The comedian bits are perhaps the heart and the rest-the person that shaped. I do need to read it again. I don’t think audio would work as well. Nothing like C Chambers. #thepalmhouse

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So delighted to have triggered a great discussion, but I do miss Andy Miller swooping in with a laser-sharp point explaining why we're all wrong ❤️

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THAT's certainly a thing that makes it special. "Was this episode in Dubrovnik even in it the first time I read this?" and also the realisation that Gwendoline Riley is anything but an OOMPH writer. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/264...

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264. Summer Reading Special — Backlisted

Just in time for your holidays, it's our summer books special with a selection of new and not-so-new books. John, Nicky and Andy have each shared two books they have enjoyed recently. Books mentioned...

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am re-reading The Palm House by Gwensoline Riley, which I did enjoy but left with a nagging feeling that I was missing something, that "OOMPH" I get with, say, Claire Keegan or Clare Chambers. But, as the excellent @backlisted.bsky.social points out, it's a book that's different every time and

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Andy Miller will be interviewing Hermione Lee about Anita Brookner: Art & Life at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. The event takes place at Cheltenham Town Hall at 5pm on Tuesday 13th October. Tickets here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/anita...

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Anita Brookner: Art and Life | Cheltenham Festivals

A distinguished art historian and one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices, Anita Brookner captivated readers with her elegant, unco

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week's reading. Obviously not the whole of Moby-Dick, that would be crazy. But I have started it and am finding it weirdly compulsive. Aim is to finish by Christmas. Also enjoyed two other very different books. @backlisted.bsky.social @simonreynolds.bsky.social

Still in a dream by Simon Reynolds. Chronologically a follow on from his excellent Rip it up and start again, but a very different book. Much more personal and very much about 'being there'.
The golden child by Penelope Fitzgerald. Her first book and quite fun. The blurb calls it a 'classically plotted British mystery ' and a 'minor comic masterpiece ', neither of which is true. But it's funny and sharp about workplaces.
A copy of Moby-Dick with a bookmark a short way through

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social one of my reading experiences of the year - stepped right outside my genre comfort zone into this capacious beauty. As only a really good long novel can do, it’s left me feeling a bit bereft after spending so long in its company. (And yes 22 yrs late to the party)

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Deaf School: An Old York State of Mind. www.patreon.com/backlisted

A poster advertising Deaf School at Eric's in the late 1970s

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Deaf School: An Old York State of Mind. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Ian Purser @ip33.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yet another tour de force from Andy. Subscribe obviously! I would have been there in Brighton too but for work. If only it had been next year! www.patreon.com/backlisted/p...

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Deaf School: An Old York State of Mind. A Liverpool institution from the Adult Deaf and Dumb Institute (1887). www.patreon.com/backlisted

Vintage poster for Deaf School at Eric’s in Liverpool.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This one really hurts. Huge thank you to @backlisted.bsky.social for introducing me to her work.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This week's reading (fewer reading hours than usual for various reasons, including watching the magisterial Colin From Accounts - but wisely spent). Excellent Backlisted episode on this as well. #neverenoughbrookner @backlisted.bsky.social

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you’re in London right now there’s still time for you to haul yourself over to Forbidden Planet and let me scrawl on your books. I’m selling this right, aren’t I?

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Miles Davis, Dark Magus: 10/10, No Wrong Notes. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Miles Davis, Dark Magus: 10/10, No Wrong Notes. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We saw these in Chelsea yesterday evening.

A complete set of first editions of the novels of Anita Brookner, stacked in a pile. A card on top reads: £1000.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We saw these in Chelsea yesterday evening.

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Brendan @brendanbe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My bday presents to myself just arrived from England, both @backlisted.bsky.social coded: the Gaining Ground rerun obviously, but Andy read some Benson poems years ago (she’s mostly unpublished in the US) and now I'm hooked. Bless @blackwells.bsky.social for shipping over here for free #booksky

New copies of “Midden Witch” by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry, 2025) and “Gaining Ground” by Joan Barfoot” (Faber and Faber, 2026) lying on a brown cardboard envelope from Blackwell’s.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Teo Macero's production techniques have been put to good use...

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 09/09/2026

This is very good.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Miles Davis, Dark Magus: 10/10, No Wrong Notes. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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LeeAnn Hollister @sweetbittertart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a wonderful review and I can’t wait to read the biography. I’m so grateful to Andy for introducing me to Anita Brookner (now a cherished favorite) via @backlisted.bsky.social!

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Miles Davis, Dark Magus: 10/10, No Wrong Notes. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hermione Lee was on excellent form last night at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk. Can't wait to read this.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This week's (re)reading and buying. Not for the first time I bought more than I read @backlisted.bsky.social More in alt text

Re-read: Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell. My favourite 'golden age' crime novelist. Agatha Christie plus psychoanalysis, witchcraft and, crucially, humour
Read: All the Devil's are here by David Seabrook. Starts like a fairly familiar literary travel book then goes dark quickly. Will re-read

Bought. 2 Penelope Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee following the recent @backlisted.bsky.social re-run and a nice Harvill trade Saramago

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Delighted to have a copy of this new short story collection inspired by the LAND OF OZ 💚 feat. my dear & clever friend @robertshearman.bsky.social, brilliant former student Louise Carey, & super @backlisted.bsky.social co-conspirator Una McCormack! Excited to get stuck in! Well done, team! 👏

The Land of Oz anthology, ed Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane

List of contributors including Robert Shearman, Louise Carey, and Una McCormack

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Jillian Reilly @jillianreilly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I remember getting the dry boak in the staffroom of Princes Street's Virgin Megastore when reading NME trying to shoehorn the NAM (New Acoustic Movement) scene into existence. But this, this made me laugh out loud. Brilliant. @backlisted.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/168484...

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Auditory - A Coin Tossed into a Guitar Case, For Ever: Damien Rice and the Epidemic of the Buskers | Backlisted Podcast

Auditory - A Coin Tossed into a Guitar Case, For Ever: Damien Rice and the Epidemic of the Buskers by Backlisted Podcast on Patreon. Join Backlisted Podcast's community for exclusive content and updat...

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There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you haven’t come across this project “Inventory/Auditory” - an unreliable guide to Andy Miller’s record collection, I can’t recommend it highly enough. Funny, clever and incredibly moving. I seem to cry in every one. Utterly wonderful. @backlisted.bsky.social www.patreon.com/backlisted/p...

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Auditory - A Coin Tossed into a Guitar Case, For Ever: Damien Rice and the Epidemic of the Buskers | Backlisted Podcast

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. A Coin Tossed into a Guitar Case, For Ever: Damien Rice and the Epidemic of the Buskers. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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