Kate Hext

Out this March 🎉 featuring Oscar, Salome, Dorian, Roscoe Arbuckle, Ernst Lubitsch, Mae West, Cary Grant, Tallulah Bankhead, Laird Cregar and more… in a new cultural history of how Wilde helped create Hollywood global.oup.com/academic/produ…

@becimay Thank you, brilliant you, for your paper and being, as always perfect ♥️

This was an absolute work of art. I didn’t take pics because was having a phone-lite day but amazing @Kate_Hext had even gotten hold of a grand piano to echo the one in Firbank’s rooms at Cambridge

Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium, at The Warburg Institute on 22nd May. Please come hear #AlanHollinghurst @becimay @michaelscaines @dickon_edwards #ellishanson #matthewingleby @QMULsed @KristinMMahoney And more…! @Warburg_News eventbrite.com/e/ronald-firba…

Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium, at The Warburg Institute on 22nd May. Please come hear #AlanHollinghurst @becimay @michaelscaines @dickon_edwards #ellishanson #matthewingleby @QMULsed @KristinMMahoney And more…! @Warburg_News eventbrite.com/e/ronald-firba…

I reviewed two curious, thought-provoking collections of late-19thC and early-20thC plays in @TheTLS The issue features an ace review by Timothy Brook of @AndrewGrahamDix’s Vermeer, Maria Margaronis on Into the Woods and two poignant poems by Alan Jenkins. Check it out!

Thanks to @washingreview for featuring my double review on Aesthetic and Decadent plays in the current @TheTLS

Christmas Eve proofs ❤️

@becimay ♥️❤️♥️

Adorno. Which is why I’ve spent the evening getting drunk with awesome ⁦@Kate_Hext⁩. ❤️💕🥂

@becimay Hahahaha!! Use it wisely; as often as required.

Learnt tonight about ding-dong 🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=162ogg…

@becimay You looked fab and I couldn’t notice the eye xxx

Successfully masked black eye with pink eye shadow 🥂💪

@becimay This is stunningly good, brilliant you xxx

Come and hear me talk about Bad Competence in Boston next Saturday lunchtime 🖤

@becimay I have a spare copy you can have xxx

Argh the TLS has published my sarcy reply to a query about my Wyndham Lewis piece and Exeter is clean out of copies of the paper 😡

Pre-gaming it with ⁦@Kate_Hext⁩ ✨

Published today. I’m in there somewhere, in distinguished company. Indispensable if not, alas, inexpensive…global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Reminded, again, of this passage from John Berryman's "Recovery."

@becimay Me too. Solidarity. xxx

The banal eternity of endlessly editing a thing that should be done

So happy to be included in the CQ special issue on Chaplin, where I’m writing about his eyes. Inspired by Devon monopoly, the seaside, and the brilliant @becimay this cover image came about, taken by my son.

@becimay Just seen this :) Thank you xxx

Cover image for our Chaplin special issue for Critical Quarterly. The artist: brilliant Rufus Hext.

@TomCook24 @TheTLS I’ve just read this review and came on here to tell you it is wonderful.

My latest review for @TheTLS, in which I suggest, not all that gently, that Brian Vickers’s book about Thomas Kyd is… well, it’s mental the-tls.com/literature-by-…

@becimay Cheers to spilling into August X

Have just written in an email ‘I spill into August’, which is the just typical of the sort of thing I say after a drunken dinner with my favourite scholar of decadence @Kate_Hext ❤️🔥🥰✨

@becimay @TheTLS I cannot wait to read this! ♥️

The ⁦⁦@TheTLS⁩ let me eviscerate Wyndham Lewis 🔪🔪🔪🔥🔥🔥 the-tls.com/literature-by-…