Unknown Pleasures: looking at Fregoli’s Pleasure Ground

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I had a culture column at WIRED. And then I didn’t. Here’s what happened.

Monica Byre’s excellent summer 2015 account watch out for editors esp lads!

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Photo: an illustration by Eric Battle and John Jennings from Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of the Phoenix. 

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A month ago, with the Hugo fracas in full swing, an editor at Wired wrote me and said, “If you have something to say, you have the platform.” Given Wired’s enormous readership, what an incredible thing. I wrote the piece in an afternoon, they put it up, and it did well.

Shortly thereafter, the same editor said she and the Culture editor wanted me to write a column for them. Which was even more thrilling. And given that my op-ed had been about systemic bias in favor of white men in literature, I thought they knew exactly what they were getting with me: a commitment to changing the conversation around what’s considered newsworthy art. I wrote to the editor, “Boyhood or the new Avengers movie? I could give a shit. A Girl Walks Home Alone at…

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HSE to spend €38m on new health initiatives in 2016

Source: HSE to spend €38m on new health initiatives in 2016

Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work(Old Review from Val Nolan,Corrosposted)

tephen Hawking: His Life and Work 
Kitty Ferguson 
Bantam; £20, Kindle £10.80

Too Brief a History of a Great Man of Our Times

 

Plug time kiddies:https://illusorypromise.wordpress.com/ is Val’s blog and he’s an absoluty gent and all round great guy and lecturer.Val is  a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University this year.His publications include definite account of the John McGahern banning amongest others.His twitter handle is@VallescuraRule

 

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Living with depression (while doing a PhD)

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PhDisappeared For a Year (WordPress blog )

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Interview: Rab Fulton, author and storyteller [Expanded version]

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