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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Gonna delete BS soon I think, so come find me on IG at chrisllloyd9 got more vests and books and green circles

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

never not humbled by leg/glute day

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New episode of Books Up Close with @remikalir.bsky.social! Listen to us talk about his book Re/marks from @mitpress.bsky.social! We discuss annotation and close reading - of books, border walls, statues, and the world around us! Subscribe wherever you get podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We told you from the start that transphobia goes hand-in-hand with every other system of domination. Kathleen is as heinous as ever. Stop giving this woman a platform

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New episode with Kieran Yates talking about her book All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In 💙@simonschusteruk.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New episode of Books Up Close out with THEE @garthgreenwell.bsky.social! 💙https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-37-garth-greenwell-small-rain/id1792209740?i=1000776247022

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New episode with @annmorgan.bsky.social! Listen to Books Up Close wherever you get your podcasts - subscribe now. Find out more via the Linktree in bio. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New episode of Books Up Close is out now with @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social! We talk about Dad Had a Bad Day @dauntbookspub.bsky.social Was a really fun conversation. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New episode of Books Up Close with THEE Carys Davies. We talk about her @grantamag.bsky.social novel Clear. Listen wherever you get your shows. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

New episode of Books Up Close with Oluwaseun Olayiwola! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Please watch! Please sign! Bit.ly/uhhum

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New episode of my podcast Books Up Close - with Madeleine Dunnigan. We talk about her @dauntbookspub.bsky.social novel Jean. Listen wherever you get your pods or find more info here: open.substack.com/pub/booksupc...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

New episode of the show with Fatima Bhutto! We discuss her nonfiction book The Hour of the Wolf from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social Listen and subscribe wherever you get your shows: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Everything is terrible but we went to a friend’s wedding yesterday and we looked good

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

New episode of the podcast is out now with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Nice walk to Dovedale 🏔️ 🌲

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Have you listened to the newest episode of Books Up Close with @sethinsua.bsky.social? zencastr.com/z/zPhFppKv listen and subscribe now!! Find me wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe to the substack and insta for more

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Forgot to post pics of our rural island adventure in Jura 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New episode of my podcast with the amazing Torrey Peters!! @serpents-tail.bsky.social Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts rhttps://zencastr.com/z/u8LLFwJw

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Also lovely to see the @edinburghup.bsky.social stand at #baas2026 conference. Thanks to @emilysharp.bsky.social for promoting mine/Loïc Bourdeau’s book on millennial novels, as well as @keeblearin.bsky.social’s (and many others’) great research

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Enjoying day 1 of the @officialbaas.bsky.social conference at Uni of Glasgow. There are beautiful buildings, many great talks, and numerous Tunnocks (obvs) #baas2026

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

New episode of Books Up Close with Sasha Debevec-McKenney, talking about her poem “WHAT AM I AFRAID OF?” from her @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social collection Joy is My Middle Name. Listen wherever you get podcasts, and find out more here or IG: booksupclose.substack.com/p/sasha-debe...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Come work with me and @rvytniorgu.bsky.social on this Mapping Queer Hertfordshire Project! ce0997li.webitrent.com/ce0997li_web...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

New episode of Books Up Close is out now, with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social about their @princetonupress.bsky.social book Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Subscribe and listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! zencastr.com/dashboard/Bo...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I had the absolute honour of having @saranahmed.bsky.social on Books Up Close! We talk about her new book, No is Not a Lonely Utterance. Listen wherever you get your shows! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

New episode of Books Up Close podcast with the amazing Saleem Haddad. His novel Floodlines came out yesterday. Listen on your fave podcast app and share far and wide plz zencastr.com/z/oKVY3khI

Cover of Floodlines next to photo of author in pink shirt, against background with text: Saleem Haddad, Books up Close, Episode 23.

Photo of me in fluffy pink jumper holding Floodlines novel.

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Season 2 of my podcast begins! I talk to the incredible Elaine Castillo about her novel Moderation. Find it in all the places you get your shows, or here: zencastr.com/z/4n02i8Ep

post with an image of the moderation book cover (two people and a dog in regency wear, but with the top half stretched out), plus photo of the author in black jacket with her German shepherd. Turquoise background and text that says Elaine Castillo, Books Up Close, Episode 2.

Me in black jumper holding the novel moderation by Elaine Castillo

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Had the best time in the Lake District this weekend. Here is me with some views

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Did a gorgeous chilly walk this weekend at Bamford Edge

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

For ep. 17 I talked to my friend Danielle Cameron (LSE) about Joan Didion's essay 'Goodbye to All That' from Slouching Towards Bethlehem. We discussed tone, self, NYC, identity, and THOSE SENTENCES (as well as Joan's problematics). listen now: zencastr.com/z/SFrteMOl

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

For ep 18, I talked to my friend and colleague Kaja Franck about Bram Stoker's classic DRACULA! This was a fun Halloween episode. We talked about genre and tone and sexuality. Listen for Kaja's brilliant "daddy's home" reference...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

In ep. 19, I talked to the glorious Victoria Adukwei-Bulley about 'The Ultra-Black Fish' from QUIET @faberbooks.bsky.social. We talk form, the sea, @alexispauline.bsky.social, Karens, visibility, Black aliveness, and much else! Give it a listen zencastr.com/z/A4HYRgcs

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

In ep. 20 I talked to the engaging Michael Donkor about a passage from Grow Where They Fall. Was fun to discuss the ways that his high-school-teacher protagonist lacks awareness. We looked at perspective, narrative voice, and tone. One for educators and non-educators alike. zencastr.com/z/uGXrCpca

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Ep 21 was a great Christmas special with Prof Holly Furneaux (of Cardiff Uni). We talked about the opening of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - with its strangeness, comedy, reader-narrator relations, and much else. A novella for now as much as then, Holly says! zencastr.com/z/ZUsZbcuE

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Hey bloomfs. Looking for something short to watch during these weird days of the holidays? Get on my YT channel and see my 2025 roundup!! Subscribe while you’re there and smash that like button (even if you don’t like it) 💖 youtu.be/j9vYOltIDic?...

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Nadolig Llawen / Merry Christmas, from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Evil twink from Christmas 2010 🧑‍🎄

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Some festive reading for y’all. Listen my podcast - Books Up Close - for your literary content, and follow the Instagram for this month’s advent calendar 🎄

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