Michael Connor

Missing the streets of Soho? Read The Soho Don amazon.co.uk/dp/0957310749/… #goodreads #soho #LockdownReading #readinglist

Flamingo club in London, April 1965. Photo by Don Paulsen

MAR'26 Highlights: @cphdox #filmfest for world premiere of INTELLIGENCE RISING, important new doc about perils and promise of AI, and many more. Worth a look! and Copenhagen, great city, a culinary delight esp. seafood. Tivoli Food Hall, a find, plenty of variety and cool vibe.

Man killed and two injured in stabbing bbc.com/news/articles/…

Looking forward to opening night #theoutrun @worcesterfilmfestival #worcff 🎬🎉🎥

Warren Zevon '81. 🎶'Werewolves Of London'

“I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.“ —Ray Bradbury

“Be careful, when a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus #FrenchElections

🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P. “As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy'"

We are very sad to hear of the death of Booker Prize shortlistee Paul Auster, whose work touched readers and influenced writers all over the world, and whose generosity was felt in just as many quarters. We extend our condolences to his wife Siri Hustvedt and his family

Paul Auster obituary theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

Ernest Hemingway was “a writer who had in his time made the English language new, changed the rhythms of the way both his own and the next few generations would speak and write and think,” Joan Didion wrote. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/ug0tpTF

The legendary Ray Charles (1930 – 2004) born on this day 🎶'Hit The Road Jack'

“When audiences don’t want important movies, then it’s very hard to make good movies. More and more, you have cinema that is made for suspended adolescence. Movies with people who wear capes.” — The Gospel of Paul Schrader buff.ly/44zCCyw

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” — Albert Camus

Our Fall issue is here—featuring interviews with Lynn Nottage and Robert Glück, prose by Ishion Hutchinson and Moira McCavana, poetry by Bei Dao and Yuki Tanaka, art by Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Eric Nathaniel Mack, cover by Joeun Kim Aatchim, & more: theparisreview.org/back-issues/245

The new today 2023 & my "old Soho" coffee bar rendezvous in 1960 wonderful memories,🤗👍 this in Meard Street Soho London

"You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing." 🤫 You can watch Under Milk Wood with Michael Sheen on #NationalTheatreAtHome

Great set by Clare Teal and her musicians at Herne Bay Jazz Festival yesterday. A sunny Sunday afternoon on the pier

„All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”  Jorge Luis Borges

Outside The French House, Soho, 1963