Reposted by Will WilesJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026BTW if you enjoy the podcast and fancy leaving a nice review somewhere it’d really help, because it’s not on a network x 021
Reposted by Will WilesJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Postmodern pranks and outrageous fantasy art: the new Monstrosities Mon Amour with Will Wiles is half an hour of cheery excess podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...podcasts.apple.comMonstrosities Mon Amour: Onyx House, Mile End, with Will WilesPodcast Episode · Monstrosities Mon Amour · 23 September · 29min 1146
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I had a lot of fun talking about Onyx House, jewel of Mile End, with John for Monstrosity Mon Amour. And also about the rippling muscles and chainmail bikinis of Boris Vallejo. 020
Reposted by Will WilesApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 26/09/2026‘One building is architecture but two buildings is townscape,’ wrote Gordon Cullen in his influential 1960s guide to urban planning. @willwiles.bsky.social praises Cullen’s humane approach to design and the immensely skilful drawings in which he conveyed that vision.buff.lyWhat today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionaryGordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism 042
Reposted by Will WilesOwen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is predictably wonderful. And bonus points to @willwiles.bsky.social for the Chris Achilleos shout out 232
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@mattfromlondon.bsky.social Hello Matt! Did you know that you're my 2000th follower? I'm glad this milestone has coincided with reuniting with an old friend! 120
Reposted by Will WilesJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The latest Monstrosities Mon Amour is out, with novelist @willwiles.bsky.social choosing the bonkers postmodern extravaganza of Onyx House in Mile End, and the no less outrageous fantasy art of Boris Vallejo johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...johngrindrod.substack.comMonstrosities Mon Amour: Onyx House, Mile End, with Will Wiles#21 John Grindrod and novelist Will Wiles explore the postmodern outrageousness of Onyx House in Mile End and the kitschy, fleshy fantasy art of Boris Vallejo 55011
Reposted by Will WilesApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 20/09/2026A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic paranoia and fears about the future, writes Will Wiles.buff.lyWhat to do when you’re stuck at homeA crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles 051
Reposted by Will WilesWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Akin to writing fiction, for some of us 1842262
Reposted by Will WilesJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833141340
Reposted by Will Wiles✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰 58114153875
Reposted by Will WilesAdam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm just SOOOOOO excited to have Chromatic Architecture reviewed by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in the @theobserveruk.bsky.social today 💥❤️ I do hope that the book will in some small way help bring more sensuous and delightful qualities back into our urban environments. 1265
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm not interested in a folding iPhone but I would like a phone I can scrumple into a ball 33610
Reposted by Will WilesSimon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Posting again because each and every one of these is just utterly perfect. 1245
Reposted by Will WilesMichael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026BUFFO (1982) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" X 22" Reading a novel by M. John Harrison always leaves me with the feeling that I've experienced some vivid, chaotic dream full of important but indecipherable symbols and images. 1/3 3535103
Reposted by Will WilesSimon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Gogmagog by @jeffnoon.bsky.social and Steve Beard is a finalist for the Prix Utopiales. This makes me very happy. I love Gogmagog and Ludluda very much and was befuddled when they appeared on no UK award lists. locusmag.com/2026/09/2026...locusmag.com2026 Prix Utopiales Finalists - LocusThe shortlist for the2026 Prix Utopiales(honoring the best SF published in France) has been announced. Heureux comme jamais,Guillaume Chamanadjian (Aux forges de Vulcain) Spectres, Thomas Gunzig (Au... 2184
Reposted by Will WilesNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 09/09/2026Ah. Super. A nuclear missile system running on Blue Peter homebrew. FanTASTIC. 73512
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In the new @apollo-magazine.com, I look at the lasting influence of Gordon Cullen's "Townscape", and its beguiling illustrations: apollo-magazine.com/gordon-culle...apollo-magazine.comWhat today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionaryGordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism 083
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A building I really disliked when it was new and have come to love. 160
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Come for the lovely evocation of a wonderful exhibition, stay for the unlikely supporting cast 130
Reposted by Will WilesRichard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One of the few permitted late Edo Japan specialists in Western writings came across the Dutch word for “freedom” & spent the rest of his life unable to get the concept out of his head and lived in mortal fear that he’d blab it out in front of the wrong official at the wrong time. 211321
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Went to see Whistler at Tate Britain, which is marvellous. "Completeness is a reason for ceasing to exist." 2180
Reposted by Will WilesJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A Personal Anthology always takes the summer off... but this year has been quiet all round. It will be starting up again in September, and I'm keen to round up potential contributors. Get in touch if you're a fan of short stories and would like to share your favourites! apersonalanthology.comapersonalanthology.comA Personal AnthologyWriters, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories 22823
Reposted by Will WilesJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What's fantastic about the Reform footage is that these people behave the exact spiv twat way that you'd expect. They absolutely are the posh crooks they appear to be. 6739
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The opposite of the "scream test" - who in the workplace falls mysteriously silent? 130
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I remember a piece about ten years ago about women having to tutor their boyfriends on bottom wiping technique so I'm glad we're making progress 241
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ah yes, "the Civilising of the North", that's what they called it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harryin...en.wikipedia.orgHarrying of the North - Wikipedia 0174
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What that needs is a lick of gold leaf, it'll come up smashing 090
Reposted by Will WilesIan McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ooh we’ve got video now? Laputa/Castle in the Sky/whichever you prefer fan art. The first Miyazaki movie I saw and still probably my fave 963087
Reposted by Will WilesKirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wikipedia: "Another newly discovered Australian animal – a species of air-breathing land snail, Crikey steveirwini, was named after [Steve] Irwin in 2009." CRIKEY STEVEIRWINI 1111
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Pandemic anxieties, economic anxieties, I didn't even have room for climate anxieties - no wonder no one can leave the house 1144
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A generation traumatised by the aftermath of the Bulger case is traumatising its children. 150
Reposted by Will WilesApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/08/2026Films like ‘The Last House’ and ‘The End of Oak Street’ are just some of the recent releases to explore what happens when home stops being a safe place. Will Wiles considers these and other survival-mode scenarios, from the serious to the silly.apollo-magazine.comWhat to do when you’re stuck at homeA crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles 011
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026An amazing story. You go in for a bit of simple rubbernecking and what you find is layer after layer of weirdness. 030
Reposted by Will WilesApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/08/2026A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles.buff.lyWhat to do when you’re stuck at homeA crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles 031
Reposted by Will Wilesgarin | comms open @garin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Still open for commissions and looking for work 210749
Reposted by Will WilesDavid Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 29/08/2026www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...standard.co.ukPrince Charles Cinema vows to go 'all the way' to stay open as court battle loomsBen Freedman, the cinema’s owner, told The Standard that the legal process has been ‘very long’ and frustrating’ 13921
Reposted by Will WilesJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 29/08/2026F-shaped blurbs, seducing chatbots, nicking quotes off GoodReads and paying BookTokers: in today's Guardian I investigated the book world's tricks of the trade.theguardian.comHow to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book tradeFrom cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn 2415149
Reposted by Will WilesApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/08/2026Films like The Last House and The End of Oak Street are just some of the recent releases to explore what happens when home stops being a safe place. @willwiles.bsky.social considers these and other survival-mode scenarios, from the serious to the silly.apollo-magazine.comWhat to do when you’re stuck at homeA crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles 011
Reposted by Will WilesWill Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For @apollo-magazine.com, I wrote about "The Last House", "The End of Oak Street" and the "what if home, but bad" micro-genre apollo-magazine.com/end-of-oak-s...apollo-magazine.comWhat to do when you’re stuck at homeA crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces or the menace of dinosaurs points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles 075