🚨Some (im)personal news: thrilled to say that I’ve joined FT Weekend Life&Arts as a senior editor, commissioning Books coverage and other things besides for the next nine months. Amazing colleagues, incredible section. Exciting times!

¨I usually compare writing to listening: I don't know exactly what I'm listening for, but I try to listen anyway¨, #JonFosse Andrew Dickson theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar… #literature

Jon Fosse: ‘You don’t read my books for the plots’ ft.com/content/aeb68f… via @ft Well worth revisiting: the newly minted Nobel laureate talks to Andrew Dickson

Quite a thing to have interviewed a Nobel laureate twice (once about plays, once about prose). Thrilled for Jon Fosse, who is one of the kindest and gentlest souls — & at least now ppl will stop asking him when he’s going to win amp.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar… ft.com/content/aeb68f…

New book from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts from Wikipedia ift.tt/Q4H2XR6

If you’re anywhere near a wireless, I’ll be on Free Thinking @bbcradio3 at 10pm, debating Shakespeare and art and all manner of things, to celebrate the #firstfolio at 400

In which I got to speak Klingon BBC Radio 3 — a really interesting debate, great to be involved

Profiled the brilliant, brave and gloriously out-there composer Jennifer Walshe, who was only too helpful about low-gravity bass bows and AI Ireland mash-ups (for The New York Times) nytimes.com/2023/11/15/art…

Dream gig to interview Jeff Wall for ⁦FT Weekend⁩, and ask him about autobiography in his work: “What’s really happened to me is those pictures — they’re my little adventures” on.ft.com/3HxUzDD

Fiction or fact? Proud to work on this urgent Diana Evans FT Weekend Books essay on what American Fiction says about real-life publishing and race. In print tomorrow ft.com/content/cb17af…

Lotsa fun debating Margaret Atwood and conceptual novels on Life and Art podcast, from FT Weekend with Lilah Raptopoulos and Rebecca Watson last week. Do tune in here link.chtbl.com/lifeandart

@salexievich’s books are a reflection of the messy complexities of Belarus’s politics. And as discordant as they are, writes Andrew Dickson, they’re full of deliberately unresolved harmonies. #FromtheProspectArchive: prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/44071/i…

Today! 1.30pm! Pop it on your headphones while you’re walking the dog, in the kitchen as soundtrack to making lunch, surreptitiously on earbuds while standing around in a playground pretending to look interested in your kid’s climbing skills - or however your Sunday pans out. 👂

My review of ⁦@rencontresarles, in this weekend’s Financial Times: subterranean Sophie Calle, a revelatory show of female Japanese photographers and shedloads more on.ft.com/4bXljdL

V chuffed to be starting a new job Financial Times — acting editor on the longform desk, commissioning FT Big Reads, visual investigations and other cool things. Can’t wait to work with a world-beating team of reporters & specialists (& find the box where they keep all the news)

Is Ukraine the world’s most dangerous war? Gaza? No, it’s Sudan. Honoured to have edited today’s FT Big Read on a shockingly under-covered story by the brilliant Andres Schipani on.ft.com/3XgACJ7

How extremist West Bank settlers became the law: amazing to be part of the team working on this hard-hitting, super-important Financial Times visual investigation / Big Read, which has taken months to stand up and pull together. ig.ft.com/west-bank/

Trying to get your head around what's happening in Georgia, post-election (the OTHER Georgia)? Our recent @financialtimes Big Read might help on.ft.com/4hmOSco

How we fell out of love with dating apps -- fun commissioning this business-focused deep dive into why Big Date is failing. Great reporting by Stephanie Stacey on.ft.com/3DtDZ9r

Back-to-school post: after 18 months at the FT, I’m excited to go freelance again. I'm an award-winning writer, a talented exec/story editor, & a consultant who's done everything from podcast dev to top-tier copywriting for blue-chip brands. Do hmu. andrewjdickson.com