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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Van doing the songs of Mose Allison is a total delight on this shiny Friday morning. Georgie Fame is his usual wonderful self.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will defend indie publishers to my last breath but some do make it hard for themselves. Just read a blurb with a weird font, odd moments of bold type in orange against black background whilst making their book sound like some wacky sub Terry Pratchett affair. Not for me. Not for me.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Being led down dark alleys last night

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If anyone is in Paris, a fab new exhibition in the Grand Palais - Cezanne et Nous. Tracing how his influence can be seen across time. Of course some stunning Cezannes but also plenty of other amazing artists. A shame they couldn’t find a Gwen John to put in there though.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As our hotel in Paris is on the same street as where Verlaine lived for a number of years, I thought I’d pay my respects. It was somehow rather apt that his plaque is covered up and almost impossible to find. Poor old Paul.

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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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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the overall scheme of life and death, it’s no biggie but dear god surely a restaurant can offer something else other than risotto as it’s some vegetarian option - it’s so fucking lazy

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just finished the very enjoyable Alex Sharpe We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism from CounterPress Definitely a cut above your average Bowie book.

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

Great night at the Owl Bookshop Kentish Town for the launch of my old mate @judecook.bsky.social and his latest novel published by @saltpublishing.com

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rather obsessed with Time It’s Time by Talk Talk at the moment. It’s such a fitting end to a truly remarkable album. The soul’s uplift.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Turning to Autumn Journal this morning A treasure trove of riches.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What a treat to come home to - the 40th anniversary edition of Talk Talk’s The Colour of Spring

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You would think after 34 years that I have nothing to be stressed out about regarding the new academic year. (Especially as I’m going part time.) But dear god, new term anxiety is through the roof tonight. Serious breathing exercises and distraction required.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This week's AUDITORY, written and narrated by Andy Miller, is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Weird Scenes from the Wirrn Peninsula: The Now! Sounds of Liverpool, Past and Present, part three. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reginald Brill had an indefatigable interest in the everyday lives of people, and they're often captured off-guard as in this work of an orange seller at Sudbury, Suffolk from around the mid-1950s.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yes there are some huge problems in the world, I know but… can we have a parliamentary investigation into the price of a packet of ready salted crisps in pubs please?

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every day is a good day to be reminded of h.d.’s genius.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In case any of the subscribers have missed it - new @backlisted.bsky.social with me, @unamccormack.bsky.social and Nicky Birch discussing the marvellous Capital by Maureen Duffy. I’m rather proud of how it turned out.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This from @nedboulting.bsky.social is a very moving piece on the tragic death of the 19 year old cyclist Fin Tarling. nedboulting.substack.com/p/a-death-in...

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A Death in a Race

I’ll never meet Fin Tarling.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Got to say wandering by myself around an almost empty gallery in Berlin has to be one of my highlights of the year.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 07/08/2026

Today is Primidi the 21st of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate carline thistle. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Carline thistle.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don’t remember who on here recommended Attention Seeking Behaviour from Peninsula Press by Aea Varis-Van Warmelo but thank you. Genuinely original and quite, quite brilliant. Proper writing

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When I say that @tonywhite.bsky.social Phantom deserves to sit alongside David Peace’s GB84, this is the highest possible compliment I can pay. A phenomenal achievement

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There’s a tendency in modern fiction to drop the reader unaided into the story. How long is it reasonable for the writer to continue to withhold info - like who they are, how they’re related, what’s in the big house,what the big secret is that everyone knows except the reader. Asking for a mate.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My wife says I’ve ruined her yoga classes for her because she can’t help laughing at the end of the session now. Yes, I showed her the Larry David Namaste clip.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Criminal behaviour in a city that has enough problems already.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In Birmingham Art Gallery and had to explain why to one of the warders they need to change this display so that the drive side is facing the viewer and in the big ring. He said he’d pass it on. (He’s not passing it on, is he?)

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just cycled across town on an electric hire bike listening to Donald Byrd’s Street Lady and thought life is pretty good - I’m an easy man to please (some days.)

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just reading fellow N Herts lad Simon Critchley On Bowie (yes, I know I’m late to the party) and went digging for versions of Blackout - this 78 version may well be my favourite. A great Nacho film is always a bonus. youtu.be/eo_vAVCHx4I?...

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David Bowie - Blackout - Live 1978

YouTube video by Nacho Video

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Can I recommend the early Netherlandish drawings at the BM - an oasis of calm beauty in a burning world

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Been re-reading Brookner’s Next Big Thing and can’t help but see it as a companion piece to Bellow’s Herzog - even down to the character’s name: Julius Herz. More do die of heartbreak indeed.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Reading @tonywhite.bsky.social fantastic Phantom of the Feast and this just jumped out at me and gave me a chill. I was at that match and had to sit on the perimeter cos of the crush. I’ve never seen it mentioned before. When Hillsborough happened a few years later I wasn’t entirely surprised

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Come for Chaka and stay for the band. I could listen to this all day Rufus: Tell Me Something Good youtu.be/3Fbwok5caD8?...

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Tell Me Something Good - Rufus | The Midnight Special

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What I’ve learnt from the most recent @backlisted.bsky.social - more @iammilliam.bsky.social impressions of authors please. Other Voices indeed.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One for the teachers… As @mickpuck.bsky.social said all those years ago. The term is over and all the holidays have begun.

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Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

At my parents’ house looking after them for awhile. In the meantime enjoy: Paul Quinn & Edwin Collins - “Ain’t that always the way” m.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWY...

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Edwyn Collins & Paul Quinn - Ain't That Always The Way - Live 1985

YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Not for the first time I have somehow managed to take loads of pics while my phone was in my cycling shorts. They make quite interesting collages

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Essex lanes in High Summer. Cannot be beaten.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Print in blue and white featuring a gap through a corn field leading to a hedge and tree under a night sky and full moon

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Re-reading Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight again. To use modern parlance, I don’t think I’ve ever been ‘seen’ by a writer half as much as by Rhys. It’s such painful writing. Faites comme les autres, damn you.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So, sticking 30 children in a poorly ventilated classroom designed to retain heat, with no AC and windows that barely open, when the outside temperature is actually above skin temperature, is really NOT a good idea. They ain't learning anything in that environment! 14/

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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy 91st birthday to the incomparable Terry Riley, one of our greatest American seekers.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

While various sectors of the media are castigating schools for partially closing or sending out sensible advice about hydration and generally caring about kids, I’d like to point out there’s a massive recruitment crisis and all that noise is not helping encourage people to join the profession.

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