lol the booker prize website now only lists six books as the longlist -- do we already know the shortlist? 👀

YES “The best way to increase the amount of good things being made is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to make them… In order to meaningfully support the arts, you have to take on structural inequality as a whole.”

oh sorry ill unfollow him right away I was a fan of his leadership of the white council and casting the necromancer out of dol guldur but I had no idea he abandoned reason for madness and was allying himself with the dark lord sauron

It would be nice, living by the sea with piles of little kids and pigs and chickens, wearing what my grandmother called wash dresses, and sitting about in some kitchen with bright linoleum and fat arms, drinking pots of coffee. 1963

need to know more about this bird woman who's spinning wool and drinking wine. what's her story. is she single

omg can’t wait to see what the Fitzcarraldo Editions cover looks like!!

hogwarts express crossing the picket line on strike day

gay kids taking a pic with their English teacher on the last day of school

Novara Media Personally, I think what a politician does with power when they have it is more important than what's going on inside their head. What they do to us is more significant than how they feel about it!

yeah i think about the roman empire

NO I DO NOT WANT TO TEACH A BUNCH OF TEENAGERS HAMLET WHEN THEY WOULD RATHER BE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. hamlet nerds only plz

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