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It was good to launch our #Modernism1922 film series with Nanook of the North today. The series is a tribute to Moose, Kevin Jackson, who died last year. His Constellation of Genius book is our inspiration. https://t.co/9sTsr3tHFa

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@MichaelDTubbs Will do. Just finishing Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle. Your book is next.

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Colm Tóibín on James Joyce and Ulysses. 1922 was a remarkable year, bookended by the publications of Ulysses and The Waste Land. We’re marking this in 2022 with #Modernism1922. Reading Ulysses is part of this. https://t.co/CJcLmhKO3u 1/3

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Cormac McCarthy doesn’t give interviews now but here’s some early ones. His next two books - The Passenger and Stella Maris - will be out soon: https://t.co/tTiEjggvWA

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This is out in June, from @picadorbooks. Inspired by John Berger’s and John Mohr’s A Fortunate Man (which is a classic and one of the most moving books I have read - and I’ve read it many times). Looking forward to reading this. https://t.co/iArabVgyhB

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And the FT praises My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden - @sallyhayd and The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins - @mattaikins https://t.co/k5DA7lVjsP

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The first anti-war film in WW1 – though it was not about the war - was the Danish Die Waffen neider/ Lay Down Your Arms based on the book by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bertha Von Suttner. Released in 1914, in the US it was used to support isolationism. https://t.co/bd8iqHHqmK 4/ https://t.co/vbsQLH786n

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This is very good: a novel narrated in the voice of Joseph Roth’s masterpiece Rebellion, a book saved from the Nazi book burning. It’s out from @4thEstateBooks. https://t.co/7tvOdJ4iEB

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Cloud Cuckoo Land celebrates books, ‘…the power and possibilities of reading. Manuscripts do burn, but the fact we have held onto so many and still find continued value in reading them is an aspect of our humanity that this novel justly celebrates.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/books/review/anthony-doerr-cloud-cuckoo-land.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Jon Alexander - @jonjalex - is the author of Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us. Andrew Kelly interviewed @jonjalex on his book earlier this year: https://t.co/gtIJqLnm63.