George Berridge

900+ reposts smh

@thebooksdesk It was also a bit of a fib by CM. He didn't do Signings as in events, but he gave his son John Francis a stack to sell, and a few other people have reported him signing one as a favour. Still cool though.

"This is from the library of a collector who had McCarthy sign it by using a different dust jacket on the cover". A signed copy (@$50K!) of the novel of which theoretically there are no signed copies: CMC collectors really are sth else abebooks.com/signed-first-e…

From @TheTLS in 2021: Mick Herron on Len Deighton’s world of downbeat glamour the-tls.com/literature/re-…

***Tommaso Debenedetti klaxon***

The new issue of @TheTLS, featuring @CLEdwall on reading; James Hall on Holbein; @francescawade on Rhoda Power; @nclarke14 on Mark Haddon; @NatashaRandall on Maria Stepanova; @MadocCairns on the Bible; Adam Watt on Jacques Rivière – and much more

From 2017: Pardis Mahdavi on the young Iranians reading romance novels as a form of rebellion against the state the-tls.com/politics-socie…

Excellent @TheTLS scoop by Alessandro Gallenzi on the extent of the young Dylan Thomas’s plagiarism the-tls.com/literature-by-…

A brilliant, catty essay on drama criticism by Tom Stoppard, first published in @TheTLS in 1972 the-tls.com/arts/theatre/t…

I reviewed Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for @TheTLS the-tls.com/arts/film/guil…

The new issue of the TLS, featuring Angela Leighton on Tennyson; @katiestallard on US-China relations; @JoyceCarolOates on Daphne du Maurier; @George_Berridge on Frankenstein; @miles_leeson on Iris Murdoch’s poetry; A. K. Blakemore on horror stories – and much more

The new issue of the TLS, featuring @JoyceCarolOates on Sally Mann; Michael Hall on the aristocracy today; @mrjamesob on 7/7; @george_szirtes on László Krasznahorkai; @wmarybeard on the Bacchae; Lucasta Miller on Olivia Laing; @GoingMedieval on Chaucer – and much more

I wrote about Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket in the TLS, impressed that the 88-year-old author hadn't defaulted to wintry calm--no, the paranoid carnival is still going full swing. the-tls.com/literature/fic…

I reviewed Peter Hahn's wonderful memoir Angels in the Cellar for @TheTLS @littletoller the-tls.com/regular-featur…

Victory (anecdotal): The new look @TheTLS is sold out in Muswell Hill M&S

It’s here: the newly refined and now fortnightly TLS.

v pleased to have my review of Michael Clune’s Pan in @TheTLS’s summer issue! the-tls.com/literature/fic…

'Wine-tasting is not just an analytic pastime, but a creative and imaginative one.' George Berridge (@george_berridge) on the pleasures and challenges of making – and describing – great wines #Echobox=1755696204" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.com/culture/food-d…

I reviewed Who’s Afraid of Romanée-Conti? by Dan Keeling (@QuadrilleBooks) and One Thousand Vines by Pascaline Lepeltier (@Octopus_Books) for @TheTLS the-tls.com/culture/food-d…

Now I have a cover to share, I can gleefully announce that AFTER YOU WERE, I AM will be published in the US by @mcsweeneys on September 16. (I will be doing a three-week US tour shortly afterwards. Dates and venues coming soon ...)