Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 13/12/2025I love your poems and your book covers are fabulous too. 120
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I am so delighted with the weather today. Saying this because I think it is important to give the weather positive reinforcement when it behaves well rather than just complaining when it is bad. So, thank you, weather. Mild and sunny, a temperature at which I do not wish to peel off my own skin. VG 1525133
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025An unforgettably perfect vignette from The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner of two women keeping watch at an old man's deathbed. 020
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Angel's character didn't make me think anything about writers or how they should be - just about the limits we all have in understanding people we don't like. Angel's portrayal surprised me because it was so harsh. Taylor is usually more nuanced. 100
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 03/07/2025@irwinredlener.bsky.social 827295
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Former CDC Officials. All those smart, committed people now crying out in the wilderness. 010
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025She seems to me, though I hesitate to say it because I have many autistic friends, but she did seem to be on the spectrum, though more pathological. Like Donald Trump. 000
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Angel is someone to pity, not blame. Elizabeth Taylor made her grotesque and unbelievable, I think. More a caricature than a real person. 230
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025A brilliant essay. I would love to have heard @kshams.bsky.social deliver this lecture in person. Every word rings true. lithub.com/politics-is-...lithub.com“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s CharterFirst, an apology. I was asked by English PEN to respond to any line, phrase or word from the 4 articles that make up the PEN Charter—and I’m afraid I’ve taken up this offer in the manner of a gues… 010
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I'm guessing Philip Hensher will be the guest on the @backlisted.bsky.social upcoming episode. 🤞 000
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025After a fitful night filled with dreams of ICE kidnappings and Israeli bombs, I read this passage in The Corner That Held Them: "It will not happen," he said. "I assure you it will not happen. The things which one dreads never come to pass." 240
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I don't know how everyone else is coping with imminent world war, but I am listening to the entire @backlisted.bsky.social archive. Just finished "The Dud Avocado" and now playing "Harpo Speaks!" It's very effective medicine. 1161
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban knocked me sideways. I'm still thinking about it 5 months later. Norah Webster and The Master, both by Colm Toibin. Exquisite writing and riveting stories. 010
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice. 645251545932
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I met Martin Sheen at a church in Malibu Beach where I was speaking about my work in India with disabled kids. At the gathering after, he bought me a donut, we chatted about West Wing and he gave me a check for $5000. That's my President. 000
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Your regular reminder that fraudsters read the news more closely than anyone - and use real hooks like the winter fuel payment u-turn to make their fraudulent scams more believable. Please warn your family members 26966
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 11/06/2025What we value in CIVILIZATION: Agriculture, Architecture, the Arts, Transportation, Communication, Health, Wealth, Security. All pivot on enlightened investments in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, & Mathematics. "STEAM". Without them, we descend into the Dark Ages. 1663770801
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Good alt descriptions (especially the second one) too. 100
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Even just listening to this brilliant episode will make you feel smarter, funnier and suffused with the milk of human kindness. It's a banger. @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/241...backlisted.fm241. Summer Reading Special — BacklistedBooks we think you might enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the park. Andy, Nicky and our old friend Una McCormack discuss the following fantastic beach reads - Birch reads? - and a novel from Back... 1112
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I find it amazing and inspiring how you keep on writing and reading and showing up insanely well prepared on Backlisted no matter what you're going through. Such a pro. A lesson to us all. 1150
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Stoner. What a brilliant book. One of my all time favorites. 120
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanValarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Portland friends, I have two tickets to this concert tomorrow night (Wednesday) but can’t make it. Anyone want to go? Orchestra seats, last row, free to a good home. www.orsymphony.org/productions/...orsymphony.orgThe Music of Angelo Badalamenti & Twin PeaksJoin the Oregon Symphony for a hauntingly surreal evening celebrating the music from David Lynch’s mysterious town of Twin Peaks. 245
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025A very funny and surprisingly moving episode. The book is hilarious, no doubt, but the thoughts and emotions it stirs are poignant and full of strange longings. I'm listening to the episode for the 2nd time, reading the book for the first. Both are so good and you do need both. 181
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Awww. Thanks! I always wonder if anyone notices. 000
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Here's a photo of him holding my mother (the one on his right) and her twin sister in 1924. (He died in 1936, so no, I didn't ever meet him! 😂) 110
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025His biography of Charles Dickens is wonderful. 110
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025OMG, so much good news on one day! This is wonderful, Valerie. 110
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Sound up for a terrific May Day pro-Democracy demonstration in #SanJose this afternoon. Go away, Mr #Trump. Nobody wants you here. @50501sanjose.bsky.social 192
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Good old Greyhound! This is great to hear. I'll write to thank them tomorrow. 010
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I've read it several times and have given it to friends. It gets more chilling with each reread. 010
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I found a beautiful first edition in a 2nd hand store! Thanks for the tip. 110
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025She was the best. I read the Old Filth trilogy in my 30s, in my 50s and just now in my 60s. It ages deeply and profoundly with the reader and I know I will read it again and again. I've read almost everything she wrote, but Old Filth is forever. Godspeed, Jane www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...theguardian.comJane Gardam, author of Old Filth and The Hollow Land, dies aged 96Described by Ian McEwan as ‘a treasure of English contemporary writing’, the Yorkshire-born novelist’s career spanned 50 years 010
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025She was the best, one of my all-time favorites. Read the Old Filth trilogy in my 30s, again in my 50s and just now in my 60s. It ages deeply and profoundly with the reader and I know I will read it again and again. I've read almost everything she wrote, but Old Filth is forever. Godspeed, Jane 0102
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 26/04/2025 28171343524
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081 5865977420435
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025A system that works for all, not just the few. 010
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanJon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 20/04/2025I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room. 2106680978
Reposted by Jo Chopra McGowanPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 18/04/2025Sign of the day… 813150678
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Thanks, Kate! So glad to know there are still some I haven't read. 000
Jo Chopra McGowan @indiajo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025How do I thank #ColmToibin for his beautiful writing? This year I have read Nora Webster, Brooklyn, Long Island and, just now, The Master. So grateful. @backlisted.bsky.social @claramay.bsky.social 361
