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Tom Cook retweeted
If you've heard me wanging on about John Clare recently, here's the reason - I've been writing about him for the @LRB.
Read! Enjoy!
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n19/…
Tom Cook retweeted
People who like CS Lewis more than me are unsophisticated, simple naïfs. People who like him less than me are tryhard pseuds. Only I like CS Lewis the correct amount.
Tom Cook retweeted
'Nashville Skyline' is the situation when Bob Dylan acts like it's perfectly normal that his new LP is a wildly horny 28-minute Country & Western album wherein he sings like a particularly hash-drunk Dean Martin, and we all agree that it's perfect. Throw my ticket out the window.
Tom Cook retweeted
Any bibliophile Larkinophile out there: this is your Christmas come early.
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Tom Cook retweeted
65 years ago today Robert Shelton’s review ran in the New York Times, kickstarting the series of events that led
to Bob Dylan signing a Columbia recording contract less than a month later. We’ll never know how his career would have played out if this review hadn’t been written.
Tom Cook retweeted
historians writing about england in 1640-41 love interspersing their primary narratives with coy little asides about "an obscure backbencher from Cambridge named Oliver Cromwell"
Tom Cook retweeted
New book on the way! A decade-plus in the making. And it's coming into the world with the most absurdly glorious honour guard. Couldn't be happier. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
Tom Cook retweeted
Tall, curvaceous Buck Mulligan picked his way from the stairhead, his strawberry-blonde hair rippling as he strode briskly along.
Tom Cook retweeted
You can also add a copy of our anniversary book, Life in Every Word: The TLS Guide to Great Writing (edited by one Camille Ralphs), to your ticket.
Or you can pre-order here from mid-October:
harpercollins.co.uk/products…
Tom Cook retweeted
The mighty @TheTLS turns 125 in January, and we're celebrating in style.
Join us on Jan 30th at the @southbankcentre for a special event with @wmarybeard, Paul Muldoon, Gwendoline Riley and Ben Markovits. It'll be a literary night to remember.
Tix here:
southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
Tom Cook retweeted
good evidence of how stupid AI people are in how they think AI will kill us all by inventing SkyNet or something, when really it’s killing us by being an extraordinary and unprecedented resource drain/climate change accelerant that makes the brains of people who use it atrophy
Tom Cook retweeted
I am once again hobsbawmposting, but I yearn for the days when the best-selling history author was a heavy-weight historian and not Tom Holland
