Sarah Crown

My second novel, The Catchers, is out today. A dark tale for dark times that just happens to be set in 1920s America. Contains moonshine, mountain music, & human oddities. Step right up 🪕saltpublishing.com/products/the-c…

This review of The Catchers by the one & only Sandra Newman makes me wonder if I've ever had a better review for anything, like ever, in my life. Dumbstruck, disorientated, completely undone theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

What a poem; what an astonishing poet. RIP John Burnside - it was an honour to know you.

Changing lives one story at a time: @GrimmAndCo - a remarkable, awe inspiring @ace_national #NPO in #Rotherham. A privilege to look round their magical new home today. Their excellent work now leads the way, influencing other literacy organisations around the world #LetsCreate

📚 "Reading with a child sets off fireworks in their brains" 🎆 @BookTrust's Chief Executive, Diana Gerald MBE, took a moment to tell us about what books and stories mean to them, and why they are so important for our children’s future 👇 buff.ly/49YAtyD #LetsCreate

@shattenstone God, Simon, this is awful. She was great - your obit captures her perfectly. x

This is my obit of Guardian production editor Julie Reid – smart, principled, super funny, totally Guardian (in the best sense) and simply loved by all of us here theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…

@JohnJCrace John!! Good grief. So glad you’re on the mend. Much love xxx

Personal News. I had a heart attack at the gym on Friday night. Been in hospital ever since. Not knowing what's wrong terrifying. Today had angiogram and dodgy artery now mended. Thank you so much to all the staff at St George's. You could not have cared more.

@DrJamesJBailey Have been thinking all day about the time our youngest dressed up as Iris Apfel in the kids’ bit of a jazz age exhibition at the @AmericanMuseum

Life lessons from Iris Apfel: ‘I think there should be mystery and glamour’ 👓

@meg_clothier I feel like Eowyn’s arc is our go-to doubleheader

Good question to encounter on a day when I've spent quite a long time pondering the fact that I've been thinking about 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' on and off for nigh-on 30 years(!), and yet more I think about it, the stranger, wilder, and less explicable it becomes.

@lizmuseums I was thinking about getting this for my stepdaughter this year! Thank you!!

"Reading print improves comprehension more than looking at digital text, say researchers." True! And I think that's one reason why kids still LOVE physical books. They can get totally absorbed in the world of a book, with no distractions, unlike a screen! theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

Time to revisit this masterpiece of suspense and cheer. One of the gretest ever Christmas stories.

@frankcottrell_b This is just wonderful. It's caught me at a wobbly moment, and I'm now welling up on the sofa x

@DrJamesJBailey oh MY

a stern-looking Shirley Jackson doll

@MayaCPopa Surely Advice to a Discarded Lover by Fleur Adcock? "Go away until your bones are clean"... ronnowpoetry.com/contents/adcoc…

Poetry Rx: A friend is going through a breakup. Which poem do you send them? (Serious to hilarious answers only, please) (Remember, I’m trying to get to know you) (Props if it’s something like “The Charge of the Light Brigade”). Drop the poem below:

We’re proud to support the @Literacy_Trust Connecting Stories project which transforms people’s access to literature and reading: ➡️ Read our blog with one of the Literacy Champions artscouncil.org.uk/blog/five-ques… ➡️ Read the latest evaluation of the project literacytrust.org.uk/research-servi…

Dream. Job.

Proud of @XanBrooks all the time; cranking that up a notch today

“You're looking for one detail that lights up the page: one line to perturb or challenge the reader, make him feel acknowledged, yet estranged.” “Acknowledged, yet estranged”! Put that above every writer’s desk. Me on Mantel’s “final book” (huh! I bet): theguardian.com/books/2023/oct…