'also: autopsies of a changing, & in many ways diminishing, publishing industry; frustrations with the tastes of a reading public; & sympathies for poets, short story writers, and other authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres'... lareviewofbooks.org/article/there-…

Happy birthday to the great Herbie Hancock who was born on this day in 1940. As part of Miles Davis’s “second great quintet”, Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the “post-bop” sound.

He was also one of the first…

It used to be fashionable to say Elon Musk would do for EVs what Henry Ford did for cars a century ago.
But that's not happened.
The 21st century's Henry Ford is someone else. The next Industrial Revolution is happening somewhere else.
This is a v big deal
edconway.substack.com/p/no-elon-musk…

Not sure why people have so many questions about the Thames Water/Kemble bond default. Seems simple to me?

(Diagram via JPMorgan)

Idk who needs to see this today but…

The Who at Manchester in 1973

Valuable public service from Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 explaining clearly & in detail why building more housing at market prices improves affordability overall.

Seems to me so obvious as to be barely worth all that effort explaining. But clearly is needed. If you need convincing, do read.

The April issue of Literary Review is out now: literaryreview.co.uk

Richard Williams on Miles Davis
Deborah Levy on David Bowie
Jon Savage on Pulp
*Mark Blacklock* on doomsday lit
miranda seymour on Byron

and much, much more

RIP Trevor Griffiths. Life-changing. Play for Today - Comedians (1979) FULL FILM by Trevor Griffiths & Richar... youtu.be/RmHFDVM4k_4?si… via YouTube

TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY VACANCIES.
Count them!
Even better- apply for them!
🫵

Two weird things that are going to happen in marketing:
1) Marketing to AIs, as people increasingly ask AIs for advice, the goal is 'persuading' AIs, not people, to prefer a solution
2) Selling AIs on tools. LLM agents decide what tools to use, how do you get them to pick yours?

'Rectangles and Circumstance,' an album of ten songs co-written and performed by Caroline Shaw & @SoPercussion, is due June 14. You can hear the title track now and pre-order the album at carolineshawsopercussion.lnk.to/RectanglesAndC…

A Blue Moment piece inspired by a new collection of the great novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's song lyrics, concerning the day the future Nobel laureate presented himself as a young singer-songwriter:
thebluemoment.com/2024/03/31/ish…

😂💪 #NUFC

Happy birthday Frank O'Hara. It's still wild that he went from working MoMA's ticket counter to curating its exhibitions in only five years, despite lacking an art history degree or any formal training. His career—his whole life in poetry—is unimaginable today.

23-24's Northumbria Uni MA in Publishing with Hachette UK & New Writing North is well afoot: so much done, so much still ahead! Obvs my view is pure +ve 🙂But if you know any young people who want to work in publishing, please spread word of what we offer.
newwritingnorth.com/journal/visit-…

BLOOD SIMPLE, BLADE RUNNER, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, STRAIGHT TIME, KNIVES OUT …

M. Emmet Walsh has died. He was 88.

Variety — variety.com/2024/tv/news/m…

Noticing the lighter mornings and evenings? 🌅

#DidYouKnow , we gain more daylight this week over any other week in the year! 🌤️

Never a follower of fashion...

What does it mean to be a ‘Northern writer’? Join Eliza Clark (mostly offline), Richard T Kelly & Rebecca Wilkie at 13:45 in the English PEN Literary Salon #LBF24 . In partnership with New Writing North.