Nathan Waddell
@drnjwaddell.bsky.social
Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham, UK | drnjwaddell.co.uk
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A Bright Cold Day | Oneworld
When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but ex...
oneworld-publications.com
Six months since my book, A BRIGHT COLD DAY: THE WONDER OF GEORGE ORWELL, was published with @oneworldbooks.bsky.social, and six months until the paperback. It's a creative biography, or perhaps more accurately a study of how #Orwell wrote about living. oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
At that point in term—in life—where I am having to write reminders to write reminders. It will not be long before I have to write reminders to write reminders to write reminders.
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
At that point in term—in life—where I am having to write reminders to write reminders. It will not be long before I have to write reminders to write reminders to write reminders.
Six months since my book, A BRIGHT COLD DAY: THE WONDER OF GEORGE ORWELL, was published with @oneworldbooks.bsky.social, and six months until the paperback. It's a creative biography, or perhaps more accurately a study of how #Orwell wrote about living. oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
A Bright Cold Day | Oneworld
When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but ex...
oneworld-publications.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Six months since my book, A BRIGHT COLD DAY: THE WONDER OF GEORGE ORWELL, was published with @oneworldbooks.bsky.social, and six months until the paperback. It's a creative biography, or perhaps more accurately a study of how #Orwell wrote about living. oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
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The culture outside is frightful
But critique is so delightful
And since we've no place to know
Adorno, Adorno, Adorno
But critique is so delightful
And since we've no place to know
Adorno, Adorno, Adorno
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The culture outside is frightful
But critique is so delightful
And since we've no place to know
Adorno, Adorno, Adorno
But critique is so delightful
And since we've no place to know
Adorno, Adorno, Adorno
This.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This.
Me, looking at a recent picture of myself: ‘God I look old.’
My eldest child: ‘But daddy—you’ve always looked old.’
My eldest child: ‘But daddy—you’ve always looked old.’
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Me, looking at a recent picture of myself: ‘God I look old.’
My eldest child: ‘But daddy—you’ve always looked old.’
My eldest child: ‘But daddy—you’ve always looked old.’
Having thought long and hard about it, I can confirm that #Chopin's 3rd scherzo, in C sharp minor, is in fact the best of his scherzi. As you were.
P.S. Additional petition for us all to use the pleasingly jagged, jangly, and jocular word 'scherzo' on a more regular basis.
P.S. Additional petition for us all to use the pleasingly jagged, jangly, and jocular word 'scherzo' on a more regular basis.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Having thought long and hard about it, I can confirm that #Chopin's 3rd scherzo, in C sharp minor, is in fact the best of his scherzi. As you were.
P.S. Additional petition for us all to use the pleasingly jagged, jangly, and jocular word 'scherzo' on a more regular basis.
P.S. Additional petition for us all to use the pleasingly jagged, jangly, and jocular word 'scherzo' on a more regular basis.
Can confirm it was rather sublime. Bravo @lukekennard.bsky.social. 🎓
I got to do my inaugural lecture this evening and really enjoyed it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Can confirm it was rather sublime. Bravo @lukekennard.bsky.social. 🎓