Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Thanks to Ali Smith. For writing this book, and also for giving me the chance to state a few facts in The Guardian. Facts that have, for the most part, gone shamefully unsaid over the past few years. Do consider sharing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...theguardian.comGlyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in GazaThis second novel in a sharp duology offers a powerful interrogation of language in the age of mechanical mass destruction 194
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 01/08/2025BIRMINGHAM 🚨 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bir... 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Spoke to the Guardian about my picks for the Booker ( Szalay, McBride, @katiekitamura.bsky.social ) - I also gave the staggering insight that such lists are … wait for it … “mysterious” 020
Reposted by Keiran GoddardChristopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2025"it is hard to shake the feeling that we are in desperate, desperate need of a new story altogether." @keirangoddard.bsky.social reviewing much more than Irvine Welsh here - and posing a very big question indeed. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...theguardian.comMen in Love by Irvine Welsh review – the Trainspotting boys grow upThree decades on from the author’s breakthrough debut, why are we still trapped in the Trainspotting moment? 121
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Reviewed the Trainspotting sequel www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...theguardian.comMen in Love by Irvine Welsh review – the Trainspotting boys grow upThree decades on from the author’s breakthrough debut, why are we still trapped in the Trainspotting moment? 020
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025In a mix up for the ages, rather than copies of my book in translation, I have received in the post approximately 10,000 earrings. This is under half of them, Anyway, I guess I’m in the jewellery business now. 💍💍 020
Reposted by Keiran GoddardLara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 09/06/2025What an incredible piece on a book I've been obsessed with and reccing to everybody for months 232
Reposted by Keiran GoddardSophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Me on Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, love, and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower and West Midlands libraries. Read it now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...lareviewofbooks.orgAn Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of BooksSophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.” 24113
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025open.spotify.com/episode/3ZVV...open.spotify.comRHLSTP Book Club 137 - Keiran GoddardRHLSTP with Richard Herring · Episode 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Lovely to talk to comedy legend Richard Herring about books ( and some other stuff ) 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Shard End absolutely turning out to support 👁️ 🌊 🌆📉 ⚡️ 🎥 🙏❤️ 020
Reposted by Keiran GoddardCurzon Film @film.curzon.com · 08/04/2025We're thrilled to announce that we have acquired BAFTA nominee Clio Barnard's upcoming feature I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING, an adaptation of Keiran Goddard's novel starring Anthony Boyle, Lola Petticrew and Joe Cole. 041
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 08/04/2025👁️ 🌊 🌆📉 ⚡️- May ‘25 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 - @alexandriapubl.bsky.social 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 05/04/2025www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainmen...belfasttelegraph.co.ukSay Nothing stars to reunite for Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Goddard’s novelSay Nothing breakout stars Anthony Boyle and Lola Petticrew are set to reunite on screen for a new film project from Dublin playwright Enda Walsh. 011
Reposted by Keiran GoddardVicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Brilliant news, congratulations @keirangoddard.bsky.social! I highly recommend his novel, I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING! 📚🤩 131
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Reviewed Raw Content by Naomi Booth … www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...theguardian.comRaw Content by Naomi Booth review – those difficult newborn daysThis emotionally astute novel describes a woman’s descent into psychological distress, but some of its ideas remain embryonic 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Hang on?! THIS is the lad you’ve all been swooning over for two hundred years? Perverts. 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Despite an extremely strong field, this might be the most depressing headline of the week… 030
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Reviewed FLESH Which was brilliant. A sort of brutal, flinty, Forrest Gump. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...theguardian.comFlesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a manFrom youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive 180
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025When I read about AI, I wonder about this idea of mimicry If I record my voice, and play it back, that is one thing If I speak in a church, and hear it echo back to me, that is another The latter strikes me as meaningfully different and meaningfully more “alive” As something other than mimicry. 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Lots to love about Sabrina Carpenter But above all else She has made the entire world say “espresso” correctly Removing the ability of tedious, smug pedants to correct people who say “expresso” For that alone, she’s a modern great. 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Sad to report a tragic accident at the Rugby Union viewing party … 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Quick note to Democratic Party “strategists” This brilliant plan, which consists of embracing symbolic nationalism, rejecting any and all meaningful economic reform, pivoting away from the “tyranny” of the people and toward big corporate donors …will not work Evidence: All of history. 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Nice to see at least some people nailed their Oscar red carpet outfits. 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Literary opinion of the day: Thank fuck for Eimear McBride 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025No more novels about PEOPLE Enough There’s a glut Market saturation From here on out: Slim European satires about lawnmowers or walnuts The odd weighty tome about socks or sporks Wan husk autofiction by a rat or a worm Readers are dying out here We are ready for change 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Personal liberty? Is that the liberty of workers monitored so excessively you were fined millions for “dystopian surveillance” ? The ones with the liberty to pass out and even die in your workhouses? Or the ones with the liberty to piss in bottles so they can meet your delivery targets? 020
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Say what you will about Derrida and the long-term impact of Deconstruction on our aesthetic and cultural subjectivities … But that lad LOVED to tilt his head for a photoshoot 020
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Always find it funny when marketing copy says a writer is: “ … at the peak of their powers” They sort of have to say that, no? Unlikely to tell the truth: “ … another more or less passable novel by a writer who is probably past their peak but is still cranking them out.” 110
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 23/02/2025We do “stand a chance” But it won’t come via a vision of individual success It just won’t It will come by collective action, the construction of new institutions, the throwing off of star culture, neophilia and “prizes”, by generosity and audacity 020
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Re: EVERYTHING A fairly reliable indicator of a society being in a state of decay is an increasingly frantic demand that people justify their contribution, their worth, the basic validity of their being. Conditionality on an existential scale. 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Some really good new books out at the moment, but these two in particular are seriously great. Get on it ( them ) 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Sea of signs at a recent Drake concert Including pleas for housing and medical bills As TS Eliot said: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang But with the sound of ten thousand people begging Champagne Papi for a car. 020
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Enjoying the haughty syntax of this music theory book. “Clearly” ( you idiot ) 000
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 11/02/2025🚨 ARTS ACCESS - INFO REQUEST Contacted by someone with physical disability (cerebral palsy) who is deeply interested in literature and film Struggling to find courses, access schemes, work/mentorship, structured opportunities etc Any leads/ideas? Please share - DMs open 001
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025THURSDAY 🚨 Dm me if paying for a ticket is an issue. wearebardbooks.co.uk/francesca-an...wearebardbooks.co.ukFrancesca Reece + Keiran GoddardMEET THE BÀRD Meet the authors Francesca Reece and Keiran Goddard in conversation with none other than Jessica Andrews to celebrate the launch of their paperback books. Ticket only – Francesc… 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I’ve been humbled to meet so many fans this year. Not fans of me, to be clear. Just fans in general. People who are fans of things. Humbling to meet people who like stuff. 050
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Every few days or so, I remember that “The West” finally started to worry about Covid when … Tom Hanks got it. Sort of gets funnier over time. 010
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Come to this, next Thursday! As ever, if paying for a ticket is an issue rn, DM me and we can sort something out. 010
