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Ellie Byrne
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Researching borders, queer form and hospitality. Editing a book on Ali Smith. Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University
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Today’s task. Finish the intro to the Ali Smith essay collection. Need to stop reading and get writing!
Pile of books including many Ali Smith novels and a variety of contemporary literary works.
June 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Really feeling this post from Tim Morton’s Instagram today.
Quote from Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those of crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. From The Origins of Totalitarianism.
November 18, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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New reading arrived today just in time to go into the book. A near-future dystopian novel about borders and lost children that haunts the present all too clearly.
Cover of Ali Smith’s new novel Gliff Epigraphs page of Gliff. Citing Valeria Luiselli ‘Beacause - hoe do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity?’
November 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM