Ben Wilkinson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ben Wilkinson

@becimay Always loved this one by Nick Laird, from his 2005 debut To a Fault. https://t.co/lV8bym8ujg

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@lukewrightpoet "People take so much shit they’ll jump at a chance to give some back. David’s rancor was applauded. He didn’t need to justify, but on occasion, some corner of him understood: he was searching not for things to love but a place to put his rage" — Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

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Some grand readings in Manc for the Forwards last night —Nick Laird’s ‘Up Late’ stole the show, a masterful, restrained, heartbreaking elegy— and a great win for Kim Moore’s vital, sharp, variously brilliant All The Men I Never Married, which you need to buy from @SerenBooks now.

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@theothercoogan Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman. No mention of Xmas in the original story.

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‘Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down.’ She was touching the little pearly buttons on her nightdress, agitated. ‘If you want to get on in life, there's things you have to ignore, so you can keep on.’ —Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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@joeheenan @ianduhig 'A Sprig of Turnip' surely the title of the 21st century's answer to Eliot’s 'The Waste Land'

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@tyopfairy Ceaseless fluid movement. No time for dawdle or delay. It’s an ask, but I much prefer it to the alternative!Northern line is alright. Just don’t get trapped on the Circle, which is truly a worthy addition to Dante’s Inferno (cf. Seamus Heaney’s poem).

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‘Toby Martinez de las Rivas’s work has always been arresting. Floodmeadow is more compelling than its predecessors: it is still unabashedly intellectual, but less pretentious, integrating its ideas more fully with its imagery.’ @VictoriaMoul in @TheTLS. https://t.co/zQFbHZKB6I

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Ben Wilkinson

Some grand readings in Manc for the Forwards last night —Nick Laird’s ‘Up Late’ stole the show, a masterful, restrained, heartbreaking elegy— and a great win for Kim Moore’s vital, sharp, variously brilliant All The Men I Never Married, which you need to buy from @SerenBooks now.

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Gave a class on satire and satirical writing today, looking at the contemporary work of @Aiannucci in particular. Whenever I rewatch The Day Today I’m stunned by how prescient it often was, in its send-up of the insidious creep of sensationalism into TV news reportage.

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