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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gallery 12 at National Museum Cardiff now has EIGHT of our wonderful Monets on display. As viewing experiences go - none of the jostling and filing past you might find in the galleries of Paris and London. If you come early enough you might even have them to yourself!

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh no, not Annie Dillard. She had such an exquisite mind. I, like many I'm sure, return to her book The Writing Life again & again – I teach with it, too. Thinking of what she wrote on that second-to-last page: "What are we here for? Propter chorum, the monks say: for the sake of the choir."

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can't believe it's been two years since I wrote this essay for @thequietus.com – sad to say that the polaroid Pat bought me before he died – & that I took on this road trip – finally died itself last year. Quite poetically, when I was at Derek Jarman's cottage – make of that what you will!

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The Real Surreal: On the Road in the USA with a Polaroid Camera | The Quietus

Kat Lister recreates the journey of Wim Wenders with Polaroid camera in hand to look at the transient nature of life and photography

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's always a surprise to find my mother on the iPlayer when I least expect her! She's 23 here – ❤️ – in the BBC's 1972 Play of the Month, Merchant of Venice, starring Maggie Smith & Frank Findlay, & directed by Cedric Messina. What a delight.

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BBC One - Play of the Month, The Merchant of Venice

By William Shakespeare. A Play of the Month presentation.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It was a privilege to review Lieke Marsman's extraordinary memoir for today's @thetimes.com. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social sent a copy months ago & I devoured it in an afternoon – not a heavy book at all, as I feared, but calm, lucid, cerebral; funny at times; a curious thing – strangely invigorating:

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A young woman’s guide to living with a cancer death sentence

Lieke Marsman in her memoir, On Another Planet They Can Save Me, follows the trajectory of her incurable bone cancer. She died this year aged 35

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A *very* niche Q here at happy hour on a Friday(!), but on the topic of Mann's The Magic Mountain: I would like to use 7 words of it for an epigraph – taken from HT Lowe Porter's translation & I'm losing my wits trying to figure out whether it's out of copyright. Can anyone help?

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just finishing my copy edits, returning to Derek Jarman's Blue, & marvelling at the fact that when it was premiered in 1993 Channel 4 & BBC Radio 3 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so ppl could watch it while also listening to it in stereo. More antiquated – & yet more imaginative times.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a beautiful & accomplished writer Emma Watson is, I had no idea – this piece about her friendship with Gloria Steinem moved me very much. This paragraph in particular, the image of her crouched on the floor showing Steinem her hands: www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can we finally stop describing protestors as oaps, or grandmas or pensioners as if this makes them incapable of bad things

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A delightful relic found in the Boulez/Stravinsky cd boxset that my dad bought me many moons ago – his top listening picks scribbled on his Thames Television message pad:

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A salute to a tender man, Wendell Berry, whose poem 'Be Still in Haste' gave me refuge at a time of great pain in my life – as all great poems have the capacity to do:

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A random ask but: I came away from the RA's brilliantly moving Richard Dadd exhibition with a thirst for more context – & in Googling I discovered that Angela Carter wrote a BBC Radio 3 play about him titled 'Come Unto These Yellow Sands' in 1979. Does anyone know if it's poss to hear it somewhere?

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This will always be my fave Dolly Parton song maybe because it shows just how bold & self-possessed she was. A single woman, pregnant & abandoned by her lover, stands on a bridge ready to jump. She was a teenager when she wrote it. And that ending – my god. It's a wild, extraordinary song:

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The Bridge

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another day, another instance of AI being rammed down my throat. Does anyone know how I can delete the "Ask Gemini" diamond tab that's now loitering at the top right corner of my Chrome screen? Much like U2's Songs of Innocence it's v much an UNSUBSCRIBE.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The sweet relief of a trip to Glasgow later this week. What's that you say? I'm going to be reunited with the fresh coolness of EIGHTEEN DEGREES? Oh the giddiness.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just finished Joan Barfoot’s Gaining Ground, what a book. And those lines: “In a way, it’s not right to do anything; or it’s right to do nothing. It is necessary to let things be.” I’ll be thinking about those lines for some time to come.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And yet there is something quite perfect about Bill Callahan & Ed Askew ending up in Pseud’s corner. Particularly tickled that Askew is getting a shoutout in Private Eye – he’d make it into a song if he could.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Round two of book edits and the current mood is very much: oh god, NOT THESE WORDS AGAIN, SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM MY WORDS* *(editor and agent on left, drowning writer in pool – there truly is a Harold and Maude image for every occasion)

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My forties have really hit, I’ve welcomed an exercise bike into my home. Trying to decide what soundtrack to go with this month…opting for the new David Sedaris audiobook because at-home aerobic workouts don’t define me.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy release day to the wonder that is Ed Askew: whose musical life began with the 10-stringed tiple in the 1950s & ended with his death last year, aged 84, on the verge of releasing this final record. I wrote all about him here – give it a read: listen to the music, spread the word:

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‘His chords are like sheets of diamond ice’: the beguiling psych-folk of late cult songwriter Ed Askew

The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes. Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just to add to the convo around social care: I remember being told by Pat’s hospice that our only alternative for care (hospices don’t have the resources to house residents for more than 2 weeks – & that’s another huge failing in this country) was a care home for the under-55s.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One of my prized possessions at school in the nineties was a GCSE history folder that I painstakingly laminated with cut-outs of various male actors that I fancied and let's just say that most of that folder would need to be redacted now.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I asked my dad if he fancied going to see some Mahler with me at the Proms this summer & forgive me if I take a moment to applaud his reply – that he's "a bit Mahlered out at the moment" – because it's made my week.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I rewatched Paris, Texas over the weekend and, my god, those one-way mirror scenes between Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski inhabit me with a supernaturality I hope to never get to the bottom of.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I know the fashion is for short, “clean” sentences these days but I yearn for lengthier lines from time to time – how old fashioned of me! – & I love this from László Krasznahorkai in the New Yorker:

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How do you write a thousand words on Ed Askew when his music evokes a sea of them? As his pal Jay Pluck said before Askew died last year: “Ed was a brave gay songwriter from the beginning & I hope more come to know this.” I hope so, too. May this be the first feature of many – lord knows it’s time

theguardian.com

‘His chords are like sheets of diamond ice’: the beguiling psych-folk of late cult songwriter Ed Askew

The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes. Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A thug handing out a trophy to thugs would be very 2026, wouldn’t it..

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Well…that was a final in my heart.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

LET’S JUST PRETEND THIS IS THE FINAL, YEAH!

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Let’s just pretend this is the final, yeah?

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We all knew it was over when Mick Jagger started shaking his head.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm compiling a mega spreadsheet for my book permissions & I've got to say I'm a little unnerved by how much I'm relishing the process: a yellow highlight for secondary references? (why not?!), a green highlight for out of copyright quotes? (hell yes – how satisfying!)...should I be worried here?

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If you’re interested in Mendieta’s work, here’s a radio essay for @rteradio1.bsky.social on the 40th anniversary of her murder: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’ve developed a strange habit of replying “your mum” every time a commentator says “Yamal” & very much looking forward to this continuing into the final.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Any other actor playing Ada’s brutal husband in The Piano could have made him an entirely one dimensional character but Sam Neill played him with such complexity that that brutality became something else entirely: frayed & shatterable. He acted as he lived it seems to me – with such integrity.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Has Agassi ever been asked to narrate a philosophical epic like Moby-Dick because I’d be curious to try that audio book

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My social media has been throwing out back-to-back clips of Bellingham doing-good-deeds-in-the-world & I hope by typing out these words with a JUDE BELLINGHAM it continues to do so because it’s an algorithm I can 100% embrace.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’ll be honest, developing an inexplicable crush on Thomas – still waters run deep – Tuchel wasn’t on my bingo card this summer, but life moves us in unexpected directions, doesn't it.

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 11/07/2026

Things you love to see

Graffiti saying FUCK REFORM and VOTE 4 BIN FACE

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Uncontested claim after uncontested claim. There is no need for this to be streamed live. Vet it, then clip it. He is not entitled to an open ended PPB on national networks. Sets a terrible, dangerous precedent.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My boyfriend wanted to watch the match this morning spoiler free and, as predicted, that was FAR too much excitement and anxiety for a 7am replay. Just bought a carton of the fancy M&S orange juice to celebrate.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Pirkko Saisio’s Helsinki Trilogy has been sitting on my bookshelf for longer than it should have, but her writing melts time anyway. The layers she finds, the dreams she collects:

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I can't remember the last time I cried at the end of the play. Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre: cerebral and tender and playful – that delicate dance – with the kind of perceptive staging that made me audibly gasp in its final moment. If I can afford to go again, I will. If you haven't – BOOK.

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