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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunrise swim at Tynemouth yesterday!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Grotesquely America-centric list and no Lodge 49? No Detectorists? No Small Prophets? No Treme or The Bridge?

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm lucky to be in Santiago de Compostela for @2026esse.bsky.social - Presenting on #Andor on the 'Modalities of Resistance' panel. I position Andor within traditions of prestige TV, political space opera, and SW, testing material for the book I'm editing with @literarymetal.bsky.social for MUP!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The description of Numero Group’s ‘natural wine bar’ playlist is just perfect-

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I don’t know enough about Natalie Portman to see her in this book but I’m enjoying it and loving that a baker at work is enough so that the ‘border between representation and reality becomes unclear’! Remy is less impressed.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was very glad to write this short feature on Colson Whitehead’s wonderful Harlem Trilogy, now complete with Cool Machine. Is there a better trilogy out there?!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Big Thief at the Barrowlands! I’ve seen them six times over the last decade (and Adrianne and Buck solo - once each - too), and they have thrilled, surprised, and moved me each time. Truly extraordinary band.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The complete SI of @c21literature.bsky.social, The Century at 25, ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I is now published: c21.openlibhums.org. Working on this with Alice, Denise, and Melissa was such a pleasure!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A real treat to spend time with this book by Polly Barton published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Highly recommended, especially for karaoke people! My review for @ftweekend.com

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This article features analyses of the following novels:

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I wrote two fiction reviews that published this weekend - on Elisa Shua Dusapin's The Old Fire @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for the TLS and Makenna Goodman's Helen of Nowhere @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for the FT weekend. Very different books but both immensely rewarding reads!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is Ernie, though we now mostly call him ‘Biggles’. It happened like this: Ernie > ‘Little E’ > ‘Big E’ > ‘Biggie’ > ‘Biggles’.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Wish I could clear my schedule!!!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The wonderful Jolie Holland at The Cluny last night.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Joyful night at the Cluny with Nev Clay and The Burning Hell last night.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The opening lines evoke 'the primordial gas stations of America' and the I10 journey across the Southeast of the US that finally drops you into Florida.

Screenshot of the opening paragraph of False War

Another screenshot of a paragraph from False War

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Devoured Jonathan Buckley’s One Boat and I think I like this one even more!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Alan Sparhawk, wow. Stunning show.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

For the first time my Y4 seminar, Fictions of Terror, doesn't include a '9/11 novel'. A long overdue change.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Very excited to read this one, forthcoming with @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. I loved her first three and particularly Vladivostok Circus.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Absolute treat to be in the front row for Jessica Pratt tonight - so good!!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

RIP Simon James. Generous, joyful, gentle, and sharp as a tack. He’ll be remembered as a world renown scholar and ambassador for literary studies, and I’m today remembering him rocking out to Shellac. What a loss.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

What an opening paragraph! - ‘the primordial gas stations of America’. Damn.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The wonderful Waxahatchee at the Barrowlands on Sunday. Such a moving show!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The perfect circle of Ernie and smooth lines of his brother Remy. ❤️

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Katie Kitamura' writing in Audition is so far from being lifeless! Mostly bugged by this attack on 'trendy fiction courses', though.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

David Grubbs at the @starandshadow.bsky.social on Monday night - so good.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is such an affecting and wise collection of short stories by Guadalupe Nettel - pub by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Didn’t want it to end!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I have abandoned my post to read a short story in the sun. As Dale Cooper advises: every day give yourself a present!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

An exciting pair of research events on literature / music at Napier on Feb 19: @literarymetal.bsky.social presenting new work from his Feels Like Hell project on metal music and US Literature and a ranging panel including @henryivry.bsky.social, Katie Harling-Lee, and Haftor Medboe! Come along!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My two modules this term: ‘C21 Fiction’ and ‘Generation Television’

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've got four books on the go which is usually not my style. Too many exciting new novels, though!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Two novels to read to think through the violence of Trumpism in America (though this violence is international, of course): Idra Novey's Take What You Need and Attica Locke's Heaven, My Home - the second in the Darren Matthews Trilogy.

Book covers of Idra Novey's Take What You Need and Attica Locke's Heaven, My Home

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Fighting despair with kitty cuddles + an Andor rewatch. Happy Friday.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Compelling central protagonist, gripping storytelling and Locke pulls no punches in her accounts of MAGA terrorism - brilliant book!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

It includes analysis in-depth analysis of the following books:

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

My new book is out with @edinburghup.bsky.social - lots of emotions! I mostly hope it is useful for anyone researching, teaching, or studying the contemporary literature of terrorism.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Lovely end to the first iteration of my new module, 'Generation Television'. We celebrated our journey from Twin Peaks to Lodge 49 with donuts (of course) and the lovely students baked me a RR-style cherry pie!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

What a wonderful novel by Rita Bullwinkle which reverses the ‘whittling’ logic of a boxing tournament toward a kind of ‘accumulation’ - and in such style! Best sports fiction I’ve read in ages!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Writing a new lecture on Moshfegh's My Year, wearing my NBs, drinking too expensive coffee, my copy of the book tucked in my canvas tote... feeling a bit seen here-

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