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Really chuffed with this book. Cover by @jasonanscomb, published by @BarbicanPress1, story by the grace of God. Out July 2022. Another world is possible👊
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DD Johnston
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DD Johnston
@dd_johnston
Novelist & stay-at-home dad. "Bringing light to a dark world" - The FT. "One of the country's most important left-wing fiction writers"- The Morning Star.
Cheltenham Katılım Ekim 2012
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@AndrejevicSenja Thank you for coming 🙏 It was great to see you there!
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Last night I went to a Cheltenham Lit Fest event organised by the Gloucestershire Writers Network, to hear my colleague Mike D. D. Johnston read from his new novel “Disnaeland”. Such a funny, brilliant novel. It’s a privilege to work alongside writers such as Mike!
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@dd_johnston Thank you so much! As I turn around sat here, Disnaeland hovers on the shelf over my shoulder. I hope you enjoy mine as much as I enjoyed yours!
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Another fantastic @BrunelUCU raffle prize!
Signed copy of @dd_johnston's latest novel, Disnaeland: "an uplifting story about the end of the world"
Tickets £3, don't forget to buy one here before the raffle closes 18th November! peoplesfundraising.com/raffle/brunel-…
@UCU #ucuRISING
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Haunting, moving, brilliantly clever - @MartinGoodman2 's Stradivarius of a novel is here restrung. Have a listen!
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THE CELLIST OF DACHAU OUT NOW! This powerful historical fiction is a 'masterful' novel of music and the Holocaust. @MartinGoodman2 weaves a tale that spans generations. barbicanpress.com/book/the-celli…
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The Luckiest Thirteen by @brianlavery59 is out NEXT MONTH. Brian brings us a powerful true story of disaster and courage. Pre-order now!
bit.ly/3Ldofbi
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@anarchy_sf Just finished @dd_johnston
's Disnaeland, which I highly recommend, and have added to anarchysf.com. Also, don't miss his page on the role of anarchism in fiction - ddjohnston.uk/essays/politic…
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@BenSE14 @jasonanscomb @BarbicanPress1 Cheers, Ben. That's very kind and greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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@dd_johnston @jasonanscomb @BarbicanPress1 Just finished this, and I absolutely loved it. Thanks so much for giving us something to cherish!
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Really chuffed with this book. Cover by @jasonanscomb, published by @BarbicanPress1, story by the grace of God. Out July 2022. Another world is possible👊
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Farewell #Cheltenham and thank you. 17 years, some pain and sadness, but enough love and laughter to fill a lifetime. Thanks to everyone who has lit up my life here.
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@MartinGoodman2 That sounds absolutely terrifying, Martin! I'm so glad you're all right and that you will soon be home. Please take good care.
PS I imagine this happening to an Iggy Pop soundtrack
youtube.com/watch?v=SaP7qm…
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An interesting night. I was sent flying across the bonnet of a car and into its windscreen, then to the road. People have been lovely and the hospital impeccable. I've got off lightly and will be home soon.
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Of the 36 academic jobs to be cut @uniofeastanglia 31 are in the Humanities. No discipline will be spared, we are told. We have many strengths in HUM. I run the world-famous Creative Writing programme. This is us in Sept 2022 in Zimbabwe, with new writers. @uealdc changes lives.
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The Fisherman of Lake Tana
~ @JamesThorntonCE
From his Waymarks poetry collection
Waymarks is out in the UK now, and launches in the USA on 23rd May...
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@workingclasslit I would dig in and fight for the functional importance of speculative writing!
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@dd_johnston Also, I feel like she's doing the "creative/speculative/experimental writing is frivolous; we need functional/useful writing that makes us think about reality" rhetorical move, which I just find annoying tbh
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@workingclasslit Aye - agreed, in so far as that's definitely what dystopian fiction *should* do. But in an ideological climate of fear and defeatism, maybe they communicate something else?
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@dd_johnston Can't help but feel this misunderstands what dystopian fiction is all about, no? E.g. when Jameson says science fiction doesn't give us images of the future but defamiliarises and restructures how we experience the present
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