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Bah, impossible choice. I think I'd have to go with option 2.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this a good time to admit that there are more songs that I haven't heard than songs I have?

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This sums up almost everything I felt about 70 UP - especially Jackie. I could watch her having a go at Michael Apted (and then speaking warmly of him years later, because people are not one thing) all day

juderogers.substack.com

The unanswered questions of 70 Up

The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast

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Temporarily a four-piece. Still great.

A stripped-down version of The New Pornographers at The Cannery in Nashville

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're going to see the New Pornographers tonight. I gather some of the band members are stuck in Canada due to visa difficulties and am really glad our government is protecting us from the baleful influence of middle-aged Canadian indie musicians.

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Reading about the pointlessly reignited controversy over the Garvaghy Road and hoping (with all fingers tightly crossed) that decency and good sense prevail. Peace is so fragile.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dickens needed 10 drafts to get the title of "Bleak House" right

Drafts 6 and 7

7: Tom All ALONES, The Solitary house where the Wind howled

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Joe Bonomo @joebonomo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey friends, a heads up that Bloomsbury is having a #BackToSchool sale! That means 30% off all 33 1/3 titles (@3313books.bsky.social) until October 4th. Now's your chance to get your Bon on if you haven't and to dig other 33 1/3 books!

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Be quicker if they got AI to write those novels, I guess.

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It's a bummer that all the people currently writing novels about rogue AI agents won't get to see their novels published because the rogue AIs will have killed us all before the pub date.

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Interesting. This story just popped up on my Insta feed. I could gather from the comments what the upshot was. Don't believe I'll be subscribing, though.

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Whoops, sorry - it's paywalled. As you would expect from a publication called Nashville Business Journal, I suppose.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Was hoping they'd just give the Booker Prize to Bob Dylan this year.

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Full-time, hybrid working, 6 months, £36,433-£42,891.

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're now accepting applications for the Hachey Professorship of Irish & Irish-American History! This is a tenured position in the History Department and the Irish Studies Program. Apply here apply.interfolio.com/194167 by November 13.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Andy Miller will be interviewing Hermione Lee about Anita Brookner: Art & Life at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. The event takes place at Cheltenham Town Hall at 5pm on Tuesday 13th October. Tickets here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/anita...

cheltenhamfestivals.org

Anita Brookner: Art and Life | Cheltenham Festivals

A distinguished art historian and one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices, Anita Brookner captivated readers with her elegant, unco

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Love to have a sleepless night when I might, in a moment of weakness, scroll a bit of the ol' social media only to be bombarded the next morning with targeted ads for quack insomnia cures.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love that the dancing is scheduled to follow the spinning of the record. Would love to have seen anyone trying to dance during it.

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Randomly recalling that most of the damage to the Parthenon was caused by a direct hit from a Venetian mortar shell in 1687, when the Ottomans were using it as an ammunition depot.

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I hear there was much lantern flies discourse.

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Think I might read Stoner soon. People seem to like it.

Cover of the NYRB edition of Stoner, the 1965 novel by John Williams.

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This album, just released yesterday, is really inventive and tender and sometimes angry and quite good. strawberryhands.bandcamp.com/album/a-jazz...

strawberryhands.bandcamp.com

A Jazz Blessing for the Animal, by Strawberry Hands

9 track album

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had a bad experience once. It's not really mac & cheese's fault.

Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The current president of the United States is the biggest hoax of all.

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pleased to announce everything I don't like is a hoax. Macaroni and cheese is a hoax. Ragweed season is a hoax. Missing the nail when I hammer something and hitting my thumb instead? Hoax.

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first prof I ever TA'd for has died. We weren't close & didn't stay in touch, but he taught me how to lecture in a way that'll hold a room: for years, I copied his mannerisms and expressions until they became my own. It's funny how our lives ripple through other lives whether we know it or not.

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I'm happy to talk to any and all interested students, Jay.

Fabulous. I'm happy to talk to any students who are interested. The site and the data aren't as clean as we'd like, and we'll be adding to it for a long time, but it's nice to have it at least semi-ready for public consumption.

Thanks, Glenn. It's still a little clunkier than I'd like, but it's getting there.