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Kate @katebattrick.bsky.social · 4h

I was going to take the train to Brighton but in the end it was easier and cheaper to drive. It meant I had the unbridled joy of the repeat Jilly Cooper episode of @backlisted.bsky.social

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent work, Claire!! 10/10 from the Headmistress of Horror 👻🎃

Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social · 5h

The anticipation is palpable … what book will be joining my @backlisted.bsky.social Hallowe’en shrine this year?

A collection of the Backlisted books featured on previous Hallowe’en episodes:
Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton
The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
Beowulf
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

All the books are arranged on a dark green background and are surrounded by Hallowe’en decorations including a black cat, some tombstones, candles, spiders and cobwebs, pumpkins and coffins.

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Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social · 5h

The anticipation is palpable … what book will be joining my @backlisted.bsky.social Hallowe’en shrine this year?

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 15h

New old episode up now. In tribute to Jilly Cooper, our 2019 show on her fifth novel Imogen with guests Ian Patterson and Daisy Buchanan, plus a new intro from Andy and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/250...

250. Imogen by Jilly Cooper - revisit — Backlisted

To honour the life of Jilly Cooper, we are replaying this joyous episode from 2019 with a new introduction. Joining Andy and John in this episode are Daisy Buchanan , writer, feminist, host o...

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 12h

I prefer to look after objects I buy; and I find the 'smear it with jam, it's your book' argument both consumerist and contemptuous of the object, in so far as if I went around saying 'smear your coat with jam, it's your coat', people would probably think I was nuts. But it's all bollocks.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 12h

Neither breaking the spine of a book you are reading, nor trying to ensure the spine does not break while you read it, nor using an e-reader, indicates a more 'authentic' approach to reading or signals the correct attitude to the object. 'Fetishise' or 'vandalise', two sides of a pointless debate.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 15h

New old episode up now. In tribute to Jilly Cooper, our 2019 show on her fifth novel Imogen with guests Ian Patterson and Daisy Buchanan, plus a new intro from Andy and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/250...

250. Imogen by Jilly Cooper - revisit — Backlisted

To honour the life of Jilly Cooper, we are replaying this joyous episode from 2019 with a new introduction. Joining Andy and John in this episode are Daisy Buchanan , writer, feminist, host o...

www.backlisted.fm

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 16h

DM Brendan if you can use his spare ticket for our upcoming podcast at 92NY on Monday 27th October.

Brendan @brendanbe.bsky.social · 22h

Yo, I have an extra ticket (my partner can't get out of work early enough to go), and I can't figure out how to cancel it on the 92NY website.

So ... DM for deets if you’re in the NY area and want to go, I guess?

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

We’re also at the Bitter End on Bleecker St on the evening of Weds 29th Oct, discussing books written by Bob Dylan inc. Tarantula and Chronicles Vol. 1. @BacklistedPod Tickets on sale now. bitterend.com/#/events

The Bitter End | New York City's Oldest Rock Club

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, Backlisted has just been moved to the biggest stage at the 92nd St Y due to “unprecedented demand”. Join the waiting list, New York! Two weeks today, we’ll be celebrating William Maxwell, a century of the New Yorker and, oh yeah, a decade of @backlisted.bsky.social. Tickets via 92NY.org.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Every book is perfect until somebody reads it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lonepilgrim @lonepilgrim.bsky.social · 1d

How do you get to the biggest stage at the 92nd St Y?
Practice, Practice, Practice!

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Rumours are swirling around this show, and not just the ones I started.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it would be ridiculous if Elston Gunn or Blind Boy Grunt turned up as a last-minute guest wouldn’t it. But he’s done more ridiculous and unexpected things, so who knows?

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

We’re also at the Bitter End on Bleecker St on the evening of Weds 29th Oct, discussing books written by Bob Dylan inc. Tarantula and Chronicles Vol. 1. @BacklistedPod Tickets on sale now. bitterend.com/#/events

The Bitter End | New York City's Oldest Rock Club

bitterend.com

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LeeAnn Hollister @sweetbittertart.bsky.social · 1d

I will be there!! I’m coming in for both shows from Kansas City - I wouldn’t miss it for the world! 🤍

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John Dunbar @dunbartunes.bsky.social · 1d

Tickets already purchased.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

I’m saying this like it’s nothing, but fuck me.

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 2d

Croydon gets everywhere @backlisted.bsky.social - one for Andy in @andrewgallix.bsky.social novel Loren Ipsum - a playful English novel in the French tradition.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading #2. An annual read since @backlisted.bsky.social did an episode on it back in 2018.

The cover of Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

Readers of my first book Tilting at Windmills may be interested to learn that the inner sleeve of @warringtonruncorn.com’s new LP depicts the ‘betong’ category of miniature golf course, as utilised in international minigolf tournaments to this day. Hats off to that dead town planner!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 3d

The @backlisted.bsky.social family will know Rob best from his astonishingly clever ‘choose your own adventure’ short story collection WE ALL HEAR STORIES IN THE DARK, discussed on the Beowulf episode! Fans of the Halloween show will really enjoy CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT for its riff on ghost stories! 👻

Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 3d

Many congratulations to the brilliant @robertshearman.bsky.social whose two new Doctor Who novels were published this week- JUBILEE & CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT! 👏🥂🍾🥳 And check out the new issue of Doctor Who magazine for an interview about the new books & how Rob adapted the original Big Finish audios ✨

Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman

Doctor Who magazine cover featuring a golden Dalek

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Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social · 5d

This is enraging, it is not relaxing viewing. But it is wonderful.

Also interesting on something we’ve seen here in UK: one campaigning obsession (eg Covid masks) because against libraries. We’ve all seen people obsessed with one issue go absolutely doolally on ALL the issues.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 9d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5d

Picked up this collection of Graham Greene’s film criticism from the late 1930s in Oxfam this morning. Haven’t seen one for a while. (His views on Shirley Temple aside, most of the reviews are unfamiliar to me. I will add anything eyebrow-raising to this post.) @backlisted.bsky.social

A copy of The Pleasure Dome, a collection of Graham Greene’s film criticism from 1935 to 1940.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6d

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5d

Human slop.

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