m john harrison
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
New novel: The End of Everything
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.
Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.
Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
Pinned
Landscapes are written about, but there will be no landscape writing. Ghosts appear, but not in the ghost stories. Animals feature heavily, but there is nothing here that might be described as “animal fiction”.
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Moon and Ferris Wheel
Parc de la Villette
Paris
Parc de la Villette
Paris
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Moon and Ferris Wheel
Parc de la Villette
Paris
Parc de la Villette
Paris
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‘There is a spectral quality to this “collective portrait”, which includes no actual portrait of Jean Rhys herself. Paintings, sculptures, photographs are shown alongside extracts from Rhys’s writing, without further explanation.’
Susannah Clapp on Hilton Als’s show.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp on Hilton Als’s show.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp · On Jean Rhys
Paintings, sculptures, photographs – and one dress – from the 18th to the 21st century are shown alongside extracts...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘There is a spectral quality to this “collective portrait”, which includes no actual portrait of Jean Rhys herself. Paintings, sculptures, photographs are shown alongside extracts from Rhys’s writing, without further explanation.’
Susannah Clapp on Hilton Als’s show.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp on Hilton Als’s show.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
world's first direct quantum observation of a bench
A little girl peeks inside a tuba during the National Band Festival at Crystal Palace, London, 1923
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
world's first direct quantum observation of a bench
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I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.
always out along the line
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
always out along the line
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'Dora in an Interior.' (1957) John
Koch worked within a genre of American realism that includes Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper as its luminaries, an intimism invariably painted within the glow of what Dorothy Parker called 'the autumn of the day, the late afternoon.'
Koch worked within a genre of American realism that includes Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper as its luminaries, an intimism invariably painted within the glow of what Dorothy Parker called 'the autumn of the day, the late afternoon.'
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
'Dora in an Interior.' (1957) John
Koch worked within a genre of American realism that includes Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper as its luminaries, an intimism invariably painted within the glow of what Dorothy Parker called 'the autumn of the day, the late afternoon.'
Koch worked within a genre of American realism that includes Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper as its luminaries, an intimism invariably painted within the glow of what Dorothy Parker called 'the autumn of the day, the late afternoon.'
I bought the Knausgaard, because I'll read anything even remotely touching on The School of Night.
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I bought the Knausgaard, because I'll read anything even remotely touching on The School of Night.
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‘Hello police? Can a headline commit murder?’
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
‘Hello police? Can a headline commit murder?’
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There are certain writers who I adore as people & as public figures, and I get every single one of their novels bc I love the concepts. And every time I get one or two chapters in & their patronising attitude to the reader, expressed through language choices & characterisation, boils my piss.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
I just reread "The Course of the Heart" and I'm getting creeped out just getting up for the bathroom in the night with the house dark. Dammit, that's a creepy book!
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+1; they make the boundaries of the bodyspace too... malleable. As if flesh were plasticine or silly putty. I think
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
+1; they make the boundaries of the bodyspace too... malleable. As if flesh were plasticine or silly putty. I think
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social sometimes writes things that describe a similar phenomenon (brilliantly, but I don't think it's supposed to be reassuring... 🫣).
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Hampstead Heath, 07:58
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hampstead Heath, 07:58
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Ice pond at sunset, 4.05pm
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ice pond at sunset, 4.05pm
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Packaging up some Changing Landscapes zines to go in the post today if anyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get theirs!
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Changing Landscapes Zine
Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…
www.mariegardiner.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Packaging up some Changing Landscapes zines to go in the post today if anyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get theirs!
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.
£10 including UK postage.
#Photography #Zine
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
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I wrote this short piece www.economist.com/science-and-... about this interesting paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A better way to look for signs of ancient biology
It could also be useful in finding life on other planets
www.economist.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I wrote this short piece www.economist.com/science-and-... about this interesting paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏
A second prize shortlisting for @benpester.bsky.social after the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Whoop!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏
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I have bought the birds “Value Energy Balls” instead of the usual RSPB Suet Balls and if sparrows can said to fly contemptuously then that is what’s happening in the garden right now.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I have bought the birds “Value Energy Balls” instead of the usual RSPB Suet Balls and if sparrows can said to fly contemptuously then that is what’s happening in the garden right now.
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“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.