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Catharine Morris

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Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer

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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 11h
The new issue of the TLS, out tomorrow @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The new issue of the TLS - out tomorrow @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The new issue of the TLS, out tomorrow @thetls.bsky.social
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Helen Garner on the cons and pros of being a writer. (From ‘On Turning Fifty’, from True Stories: Collected Short Non-Fiction)
and grim stubbornness required in order to keep going; the episodes of elation, the occasional sense of hitting your stride, or of being in tune with the force that creates the feeling that now you've got it, now you can't put a foot wrong then the guilt you feel, when your work's going well, that you are allowed to spend your days having this much fun and ultimately being paid for it, while others have jobs in offices or schools, and bosses, and laid-down work hours they have to stick to—then the arrival next morning at your desk, the dropping away of the floor from under your feet as you see the thinness of what yesterday seemed so rich and right; the picking up of the pen, the dogged keeping going-the sickly envy of people with jobs, because they have got bosses to tell them what to do next, and work hours that finish at a certain regular time so they can go home, and holidays, and secretaries, and superannuation-and they're allowed to ask for help; the pathetic pleas for encouragement you make, invariably to the wrong person—a child, a husband, a parent— someone who can't possibly know the right thing to say, or who is in the grip of some barely conscious hostility towards you that they can't help expressing at the most destructive possible moment; the hatred of your own name, because of its connection with this slogging labour and with the expectations which you have caused the outside world to have of you, and that you're afraid you'll never live up to; the despair of feeling trapped inside your own style.
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The new issue of the TLS, out tomorrow @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The new issue of the TLS: @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Isn’t it! Props to my colleague Lily Herd, who who does the picture research and design for our covers
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The new issue of the TLS @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The latest issue of the TLS - @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
London Bridge architecture. I’m a fan
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
😃
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This bit of Hard Times reminded me of the “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch:
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It took me about four seconds to become obsessed with the Merlin birdsong app. Thank you, @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social!
Merlin (Cornell Lab)
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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'll be running a three-day #travelwriting workshop at West Cork Litfest this summer. Loads of other great workshops too, if travel writing isn't your thing...
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pulled a calf muscle via the “explosive movement” of crossing the road
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James Cook @jamesbpcook.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mark Ronson’s memoir is a hoot. He makes 90s NYC sound even more exciting than 90s London. My review for this week’s @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
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Coming of age in New York’s music scene
“Every room was to be destroyed”, Mark Ronson writes in Night People, his rapturous account of his early life as a hip-hop DJ in New York in the 1990s.
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
An inspiring and beautifully written piece!
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A wonderful piece by @akennedysmith.bsky.social about her father Joe Kennedy: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Joe Kennedy obituary
Other lives: Plant breeder who created new varieties of primula based on rare Irish primroses
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A lovely sentence from a segment of the Today programme: “Gorillas understand the concept of a friend of a friend”.
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This story about Laurence Sterne (told here by Ian Campbell Ross) is new to me
Oxford World’s Classics
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism. Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling! First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Very well, thanks! Hope you are too
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If my brother Tom, former producer of In Our Time, were on here I’d tag him for confirmation
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It’s a very good thing that @maryelmorris.bsky.social and I made ourselves do Parkrun this morning, because our reward was meeting this gentleman:
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Bristol: the home of Aardman Animations
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Unity Street, Bristol
Unity St, Bristol
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A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Doing this very soon! Arrghh!
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The US-China confrontation; beliefs vs facts; Tennyson, science and catastrophe; Iris Murdoch’s poetry; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein; a history of shamanism – and much more. The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The aristocracy today; Sally Mann’s creative process; the majesty of László Krasznahorkai; the charge against Chaucer; how grey became cool; small press struggles – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
That sounds like such an interesting talk!
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
As part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Lecture Programme, in partnership with Coventry University, I will be reading and discussing Indignity tomorrow. 6pm, free event, followed by reception and book signing but registration is required 👇!!! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
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Dignity and Historical Injustice: The History of an Albanian Family
Join Professor Lea Ypi FBA as she reads and discusses her new book, tracing the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war communist Albania.
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It’s here: the newly refined and now fortnightly TLS. www.the-tls.com/
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Strong intro. “There are lots of kinds of insects all of them a bit the same.”
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here we have Eimear McBride with her TLS tote bag: @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
(One for you, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social ?)
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Falmouth fox
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I recently heard about the “theory of unexpected red” in interior design. The Fox Rosehill (subtropical) Gardens next to Falmouth University show us how it’s done:
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Wow!
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Sorting through childhood stuff again. There’s no way I’m ever getting rid of this
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🤣 Good advice
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I bought a second-hand footstool online. I noticed later that there was something rattling around inside the box it came in, and it turned out to be this:
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Touch of class
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Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Great to be taking part in this ‘Historians on Substack’ live event in London on 27 March, with a focus on modern storytelling in the digital era, tips & tricks for Substack writers and wine-fuelled networking. Booking details below. akennedysmith.substack.com/p/historians...
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'Historians on Substack' live event
A panel discussion (with wine!) in London on 27 March 2025 to celebrate Women's History Month
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A section from my introduction to the current issue of the TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Our cover review is Andrew Scull on the letters of Oliver Sacks
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Roy Gibson on Tom Holland’s translation of Suetonius in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I've enjoyed listening to Brahmacharini Shripriya Chaitanya on Radio 4 this week. Uplifting: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
More watch what’s happening in US/Trumpland, more feels imperative to understand Putin’s rise to power, how he used Russia’s oligarchs to consolidate power - and what happens you cross him Reviewed two new books on that theme for latest @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...
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The ruthless oligarch who underestimated Vladimir Putin | Book review
On March 23, 2013, the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his multimillion-pound mansion at Titness Park, near Ascot. He was discovered by his bodyguard in a locked bathroom, with a l...
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