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Thrilled I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU - my new biography of Marilyn Monroe - is book of the week in the Times! Thanks @simonschusterUK @timesculture @thetimes #marilyn #marilynmonroe Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

My piece in @ST_Culture today about my new biog of Marilyn. @DrMatthewSweet gets a mention too. Thanks @simonschusterUK @susannahbutter thetimes.com/article/40fada…

The first copy of my new Marilyn biography has landed - thanks @simonschusterUK ! You can pre order in the UK here : is.gd/O8sOjQ #MarilynMonroe #marilyn #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNRANVqqq/

Happy Birthday Patricia Highsmith! Here’s a wonderful podcast I’ve just recorded with @RobertMurphyTV ! @BloomsburyBooks #patriciahighsmith open.spotify.com/episode/13aSfh…

There’s a new play about #AlexanderMcQueen opening in NY. As the first biographer of McQueen - a book written with the cooperation of his family - I’m looking forward to seeing it. Check it out ⁦@AmazonUK: ⁩ is.gd/MkSDEF theguardian.com/stage/2025/aug…

I’m so thrilled to be a recipient of this @Soc_of_Authors scholarship which will allow me to travel to India and Spain this year and to write about my trips. I’m looking forward to the ceremony later today @Southwarkcathed

Loved this chat about biscuits on @BBCWorldatOne today with @lizziecollingh1 My favourite is a plain digestive too 😂

Great to see this cool little biro sketch of Andy Warhol (1970) by Alice Neel @victoriamiro signed ‘with love Alice’

Thinking about the creative genius of Sylvia Plath and Alexander McQueen who both died on this day - Sylvia in 1963 and Lee in 2010

Raphael’s sketch of Michelangelo’s David from behind, 1505-10, on show @royalacademy. It’s so great to think of Raphael, aged about 22, looking at this new sculpture in Florence by 30 year-old M and thinking wow I want to draw that. A visual record and way of learning.

Happy Birthday Patricia Highsmith ! Born on this day in 1921.

Luminous Veronese, c1560. This touching scene stopped me in my tracks at the Ashmolean on Saturday. @AshmoleanMuseum

Me too, although I just watched the TV adaptation in a small southern town

The two volumes of Some Men in London are such important books for queer history. But there’s lots that’s very moving as well as laugh-out-loud fun in them too (Kenneth Williams!). Thanks for your tireless work @PParkerWriting and for a brilliant event with @NeilVBartlett

Seafront ramble in Paignton today to the Redcliffe, built as a house in the 1850s and once owned by sewing machine heir Paris Singer. Now a crumbling hotel

Hazlitt ❤️

This 1951 picture of miner Ben James by Robert Frank is one a remarkable new collection of photos of the Welsh coalfield acquired by @AmgueddfaCymru, supported by @artfund. I enjoyed talking to curator Bronwen Colquhoun about the project for the new edition of Art Quarterly

In 1994 Edwina Currie introduced a motion in parliament to equal the age of consent for gay men. Tony Blair spoke passionately in support. The motion was defeated (!) but I remember listening to the debate and feeling good changes were coming ⁦ telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/0…

Pleased to hear today that this 12th-century English carving of the Deposition from the Cross has been saved for the nation by the V&A with @artfund support. Incredible survival of pre-Reformation English religious art

Happy to see Iris Murdoch’s house in Oxford today with its overgrown garden and general air of bohemian unkemptness - still exactly as she liked it to be (blue plaque just over on the right)