When Daunt Books reprinted Celia Dale's books in the UK it was a nationwide phenomenon. When we republished them here in the US, the response was somewhat more muted. We wish people would give these a shot, they're truly chilling novels of domestic terror: valancourtbooks.com/a-helping-hand…

My mum hated Anita Harris with a white-hot passion that would have only made sense if she were a mass murderer or Cilla Black,

Because Gary Larson is trending.

Andrew Male OMG. How good is that record. Happy Sunday.

#NowPlaying

Shoebill.

Amazing and underrated record.

The ratio to how badly we've f*cked up the world is equal to the brutality we are prepared to direct towards the young people who have noticed 😧

Antoine et Colette

Truffaut
1962

“Three tickets to Challengers, please.”

Andrew Male Popcasting I did this Archive on Four and at one point go down the rabbit hole of trying to find the programme Mark Knopfler was watching when he saw Marina Warner on TV and wrote Lady Writer!

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Andrew Male a new song on Knopfler's new album revisits his time at the Evening Chronicle. A lovely small vignette ('I wonder, if I stay in this / How hard boiled will I become? (...) My friends in the newsroom / The Colins and Bobs / All done their black tie jobs') youtube.com/watch?v=v1SGEU…

scent of plum blossoms
on a mountain path
at sunrise

Basho

Glenn Kenny BILL RYAN I thought this moment probably captured the feeling succinctly without making a big deal out of it. It’s also enormously touching.

Exactly. Lou Ford lives.

Aidan Tulloch’s FT Weekend article about the UK’s only call centre for Lift Alarm calls is a delight, not least because he quickly discovers that not much happens there. As a result, you get to experience a writer working at their absolute best, finding poetry in the banal.