Alan Humm
@alanhumm.bsky.social
Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
She'll always be Annie Hall to me.
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
She'll always be Annie Hall to me.
Post you from a different era...
When your mum cuts your hair in the 1970s.
When your mum cuts your hair in the 1970s.
October 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Post you from a different era...
When your mum cuts your hair in the 1970s.
When your mum cuts your hair in the 1970s.
I do sometimes struggle with the passages where he seems to be working out his own private preoccupations. He seems to be prodding the reader in the chest. But, yes, I do appreciate them as well. His structure is woeful but his books are very much alive.
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I do sometimes struggle with the passages where he seems to be working out his own private preoccupations. He seems to be prodding the reader in the chest. But, yes, I do appreciate them as well. His structure is woeful but his books are very much alive.
Tommy, what kind of writing are you looking for? I'm a published novelist and poet who could really do with an agent. In the UK, though.
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Tommy, what kind of writing are you looking for? I'm a published novelist and poet who could really do with an agent. In the UK, though.
Mr Iannuci. Apologies for message here. Would you be interested in reading a new published novel about the young Charles Dickens' love life? I've talked about it on BBC Radio and in The Dickens Museum and there's a review coming in The Dickensian. Now I'm stuck. (Struggling for reviews.)
October 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Mr Iannuci. Apologies for message here. Would you be interested in reading a new published novel about the young Charles Dickens' love life? I've talked about it on BBC Radio and in The Dickens Museum and there's a review coming in The Dickensian. Now I'm stuck. (Struggling for reviews.)
The cancellation is bad but I don't think that's the whole point. What's worse is the Kirk tribute, i.e. the replacement of free speech with naked ideology. Can what the Trump administration's doing be defined as fascism? Does it matter? It's a show of extreme authoritarianism. It's frightening.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The cancellation is bad but I don't think that's the whole point. What's worse is the Kirk tribute, i.e. the replacement of free speech with naked ideology. Can what the Trump administration's doing be defined as fascism? Does it matter? It's a show of extreme authoritarianism. It's frightening.
Semi-advanced despair. Mustn't sound like Morrissey.
September 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Semi-advanced despair. Mustn't sound like Morrissey.
I'm in a state of advanced despair. I don't think posting on FB, for example, is the answer - gesture politics - but I feel useless and hopeless.
September 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I'm in a state of advanced despair. I don't think posting on FB, for example, is the answer - gesture politics - but I feel useless and hopeless.
Don't get me wrong: I hate privatisation too. And the trains are shit. But my main worry is what happened on Saturday in London. And the co-opting of the British flag. And Reform. I think that's what we should all be concentrating on right now. Having said that, I don't really know where to start.
September 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Don't get me wrong: I hate privatisation too. And the trains are shit. But my main worry is what happened on Saturday in London. And the co-opting of the British flag. And Reform. I think that's what we should all be concentrating on right now. Having said that, I don't really know where to start.
I've always greatly enjoyed your work, Robin, but I think that, as far as taking our country back is concerned, trains are currently the least of our worries.
September 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I've always greatly enjoyed your work, Robin, but I think that, as far as taking our country back is concerned, trains are currently the least of our worries.