I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

This means you can buy Living Rooms in the US!

Cops off campus

Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

Solidarity with all the university staff in the US standing alongside their students . Solidarity with the students taking action on campuses all over the world in support of Palestine. And eternal shame on the administrators calling the cops on their own students. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Really enjoyed writing about Jess Allen’s show “This is Now” for Unit. Including a little bit of Holly Pester’s Lodgers Granta Books

unitlondon.com/2024-03-12/sam…

“It is unusual to be able to love the marks left behind on the chair where you are going to sit.”

Just listened to Gas, Oil and the Essex Blues by Sam Johnson-Schlee on #bbc #freethinking
Wonderful 15 minutes poetically following the pipes of central heating back to the Mississippi delta, Dr Feelgood, Wilko’s living room and housing regulations.
Listen here:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Academics should really be speaking out about this. It’s bad research!

It’s the last ever BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 before our move to BBC Radio 4. Will Virginia Woolf convince the Navy she is an Abyssinian prince? Who will triumph in our game of rubber biscuit Russian roulette? Find out live at 10pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Well! If you're still awake and bored this evening, at 10.45pm, I'll be on BBC Radio 3 BBC Free Thinking talking about a 17C French board game created by a Jesuit missionary, to try and convert Mohawk to Catholicism (and to the French colonial project). bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… (/1)

Sam Johnson-Schlee on how the changes in heating systems changed the way we live. Savia Palate also has published articles on the impact of central heating in the Parker Morris Report.

How central heating changed everything about our homes - superb piece by The British Academy supported Sam Johnson-Schlee on how architecture can overlook comfort, and the need for new imaginings for green homes of the future
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And you can listen again to my BBC Radio 3 essay from Friday on Canvey Island, Gas Infrastructure, Dr Feelgood, Louisiana, toxicity, heating, and blues music…

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

In Case you missed it.