Absolutely loving our new Ninja air fryer 😋

"Kathleen Shields’s translation of Paris 1935 is an incentive to rediscover and celebrate a poet of subtle, if often devastating, lyrics and prose" Beverley Bie Brahic on Jean Follain in this week's The TLS the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe… Charles Boyle

Just saw this on Facebook and rather love it 😺 facebook.com/share/p/eouzW4…

"Young"... Those imprisoned today include a man of 53, another post-retirement...

Beautiful, sparkly webs in the garden this morning 🕷️

How lovely to hear the great Nelson Montfort interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Broadcasting House this morning's ng. He's a national treasure here in France, loved for his bilingual, simultaneously interpreted sporting interviews and unfailing smile over decades 😊

Seriously, *another* grand piano sacrificed?

I thought it was a tangram cat...

Well, they lost me at the wobbly polystyrene Nike of Samothrace... #closingceremony

OK, so *now* do we get Tom Cruise??

Oops no smoke... #TomCruise

There's such a flavour of (coincidentally) Antoine Laurain's novels here: an object as the "key" to a deeply personal story! Also coincidentally, a very special type of key features in his latest, FRENCH WINDOWS, out now in my translation from Gallic Books Pushkin Press ❤️🇲🇫📚

Klimt Eastwood.

OMG just heard The The on BBC Front Row, new single "Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Tomb of William Blake"... Think I'll listen to nothing else for the next week or more,and can't wait for the new album...

Wow, that was one helluva #PointofView on BBC Radio 4 just now, from Sarah Dunant. Still don't think I'll be capable of watching it live #thedebate

A simple truth, either wilfully ignored or still not grasped by swathes of Tory journalists & politicians.

Which Springfield is he talking about, I wonder?

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18 Emmies for #Shogun! For more of that sort of thing, w some beautiful tanka poetry to boot, may I suggest THE SAMURAI OF THE RED CARNATION, the new novel fr Denis Thériault & Pushkin Press, in my translation. Perfect for your Shogun-themed tables, Waterstones Rossiter Books 🙏

Wow! Notre Dame has its own little 'Poets' Corner', it seems... Du Bellay was a Pléiade pal of Pierre de Ronsard, whose poetry I translated for my MPhil., in a superb visual setting by Henri Matisse.