Sophie Ratcliffe

With @n_j_dames, @soratcli discusses trying to avoid the imperative that seems to govern the exercise of thinking, writing, and research: that input must mean output, that hours spent traveling or reading must yield results. buff.ly/3VBrvCJ

“The ethical work of the book itself is in acknowledging that this fictionalizing—this rendering of others as ‘creatures’—is inevitable, tempting, and also a kind of ethical failure.” buff.ly/3DihtAg

@EleanorMayBaker @n_j_dames Thank you so much Eleanor! Hope all is well with you x

So delighted to have the opportunity to have this conversation with the brilliant @n_j_dames in Public Books - just out today : publicbooks.org/parallel-track…

@paulajaynebyrne just woke and A told me. Oh Dearest P. Wonderful. Sending my love and hugs and more hugs xxxxxx

Thank you for prayers and for holding my family in your thoughts. Surgery went brilliantly. Happy mama. Feeling so blessed.

@paulajaynebyrne 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Update for my dear friends. Sorry I can’t contact you individually, but, suffice to say, kidney story continues. Tuesday is the day. Would love a little prayer, if you have time. Keep my family in your thoughts. Thank you.

Please, please give!!

My amazing former student is halfway there in his attempt to get a wheelchair that will give him the freedom he needs - if you can chip in, it would be amazing gofundme.com/f/help-fund-my…

In his own words

We will miss Chris so very much. Honoured to be at his memorial yesterday and to hear @AndrewSchuman give this eulogy about his beloved colleague and friend

Fabulous to be at the launch of this brilliant venture this evening

Looking, tonight, at the Departures board at Paddington Station, remembering other leave takings - this one 36 years ago today

Oh how I love Autumn Journal. Nearly as much as I love Train to Dublin

Happy Paperback publication day @CatJarman - Open up those bone chests, people. There's a treasure of medieval history inside @WmCollinsBooks

As the mornings freshen, a classic @BacklistedPod - Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with matchless readings by Samuel West (@exitthelemming) + lit context from Prof Sophie Ratcliffe (@soratcli). And a six year's younger me, @i_am_mill_i_am and @birchos. backlisted.fm/episodes/220-a…