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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What struck me in this very well-written and thoughtful account was the extent to which MRJ was constantly hustling - always on the hunt for the next scholarship or fellowship or post of any kind with an income, borrowing from his relations etc etc….

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“She wrote about male vulnerability better than any man of her generation.” Andrew O’Hagan on Anita Brookner in the new @lrb.co.uk

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To mark the Autumn Equinox, I offer you a biscuit tin. Designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe

A large rectangular biscuit tin with a decorative lid showing red squirrel perched on a tree stump in front of a vivid blue ground

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Book buyer’s disease, the stages: 1. Find a batch of books in a charity shop from a crime writer I haven’t read 2. Think ‘I should buy one and see if I like it’ 3. Notice they are 4 for £1 4. Think ‘What if I really like the first book?’ 5. Buy 16 books

A pile of sixteen paperback books by Dorothy Gilman in a vertical stack.

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eileen Agar, Marine Object, 1939 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1990

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seems all too apt that I read quite a bit of Hermione Lee’s biography of Anita Brookner while awake in the small hours with a migraine… Thought I might have hallucinated this description of AB’s living/working arrangements, but no.

By that time - in or around 1995 - she had bought a second flat on the same floor, corner-on to Number 6, facing the street at the front. Number 8 was on the same plan as Number 6 - a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom - and was also full of books. It looked exactly the same as the other flat, but the main room had a big desk and a typewriter where she sat with her back to the window. From the mid 1990s until she stopped writing, this was where she worked, filling her ring-bound notebooks with rapid, close-filled lines of handwritten pages before they were typed up.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it? (alt text - A Canterbury Tale, in particular the barely even whispered “why?” when Alison Smith finds out her late fiancé’s father is asking for her. Just the right balance of hope and fear)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunday plans: William Strang

Woman sat on wooden backed, green cushioned chair, she is dressed in a dark blue gown, she has her arms and legs crossed, she holds a red book open in one hand, she has black hair pinned up. Behind her there is a small clock and painting on the wall. Painting.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always here for appreciation of Anton Walbrook

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And off it goes, Rachel Malik’s Personal Anthology, coming down early for dinner, wearing an antique bridal gown, turning the heavy signet ring on its little finger, never walking as far as the forbidden Reservoir, moved almost to ecstasy by the scrupulously plotted fate that would redeem it…

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A Personal Anthology, by Rachel Malik

‘Theme of the Traitor and Hero’ by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (First published in Spanish in Sur in February 1944.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 29/08/2026

'Dazzle camouflage on an Elco 80-ft Motor Torpedo Boat 1942'

dazzle camo on a boat. straight line make identification hard.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aug 29th - George Kaplan registered at the Whittier in Detroit. 📽️📅 North by Northwest (1959)

1 Screenshots from the movie "North by Northwest" (1959): First, two men in suits stand in a richly decorated study with bookshelves, a lamp, and paintings; one man reads from a piece of paper while the subtitle reads "August the 29th, George Kaplan of Boston registered at the Whittier in Detroit."

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

b&w page with a photo of a man in a suit extracting a book from a vending machine

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Enjoyed the current exhibition at @victoriagallery.bsky.social, including prints by Lucian Freud, Celia Paul, and, new to me, Stephen Conroy www.liverpool.ac.uk/victoria-gal...

Two black and white portraits of men with dramatic shading - they have a 1950s look to me, though were done rather later. The top one is called Alchemy and the bottom one Head

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Leonora Carrington, Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, France. Photograph by Lee Miller (1939).

A black and white photograph of Leonora Carrington looking upward and smiling.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The first BBC repeat since NINETEEN SEVENTY-FIVE. Which is just mad.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Head Groundsman at Stonehenge mowing the grass, 1955

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And this is before we even get to the accents…

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Also tucked away on the iPlayer, On Falling dir. Laura Carreira - Joana Santos is very moving as Portuguese warehouse employee Aurora negotiating isolation and poverty in Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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On Falling

Portuguese immigrant Aurora is struggling to get by in a dead-end warehouse job in Scotland. Her life is severely limited - unless she can find some hope.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This had a big impact on teenage me - not least Harold himself as Goldberg 👀

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Henry Rosling Ancient Wooden Church, Borgund, Norway; albumen silver print (c.1865)

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Pro-tip: don’t go in without a kick-stool

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Lots of interesting-sounding #WITMonth recommendations here 👇

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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My timeline might be pleased to know that there's now a statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Dorchester's high street.

A statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner. The statue sits on a bench holding a book and papers in her hand. There are more books near her feet. Part of the statue is a cat canoodling with the writer's legs and feet.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Josef Herman, Refugees, ca.1941

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Including probably the shortest piece of fiction I’ll ever write 👇

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Secret Agent: An eccentric, sprawling & viscerally told story about Brazilian dissidents living under a military dictatorship. It’s also a love letter to 70s pop culture & culture itself as the end credits emphasise. Frustrating at times as it’s a messy narrative but also very touching.

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Armando Leaning At A Petrol Station The Secret Agent

ALT: Armando Leaning At A Petrol Station The Secret Agent

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 01/07/2026

Our second anthology is open for submissions! We're after short stories on the theme of sorcery, from writers living in the North of England. Take a look, send us a tale - and if you could help spread the word, that would be magical 🪄 🔮 carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Submissions are open until the 31st July for our sorcery anthology We're looking for strange and lyrical stories from writers luving in the North of England.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One of the first pieces of fiction I had accepted for publication is in this one - lockdown has a lot to answer for! But glad @ellipsiszine.bsky.social is active again.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Morning. 🖼️ Curlew and Oystercatchers, Rachel Hudson.

Curlew and five oystercatchers stood on stones, some covered with seaweed in coastal scene, painting.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Honestly, what better way to spend your Wednesday evening than listening to @drjamesbailey.bsky.social talk about his fab new book?!

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Enjoyed Jodie Foster’s turn as a paranoid (or is she?) psychoanalyst in A Private Life

Jodie Foster looking anxiously round a curtain in A Private Life

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

These chimney pots where I'm staying don't look like they're enjoying the weather either.

A row of old chimney pots, with holes that look like eyes and wavy-edged covers that look a bit like hats.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Jun 16th 1958 - A George Kaplan checked into the Sherwyn Hotel. Days later advertising executive Roger Thornhill is kidnapped by people who believe he is George Kaplan. 📽️📅 North by Northwest (1959)

3 Screenshots from the movie "North by Northwest" (1959): First, two men in suits stand in front of a wooden door in an elegant room, one facing the other while the subtitle reads, "We also know your contact in Pittsburgh since Jason committed suicide." Second, a close-up of the man in front, looking serious and confused as he responds, "What contact? I've never even been in Pittsburgh." Third, another man in a suit and glasses stands behind a large desk in a richly decorated office, reading from a document while the subtitle reads, "On June the 16th, you checked into the Sherwyn Hotel in Pittsburgh..."

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 12/06/2026

David Hockney by Cecil Beaton, 1965

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