'Watching him wander in circles around a Tesco brings to mind King Lear on the heath.'

Susie Mesure (Susie Mesure): A daughter pricks her father’s conscience in dramatic style
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Percival Everett being interviewed by ⁦Susie Mesure⁩ for ⁦⁦i newspaper⁩ at our offices this morning (not a bad spot, eh?). #JAMES

Keir Starmer has confirmed that, under a Labour government, parliament would get to vote on assisted dying.
Marianne Brooker’s INTERVALS (@FitzcarraldoEds) ought to inform any debate, suggests Susie Mesure:

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“For the first year, we coped, more or less.”
In a review of Marianne Brooker’s INTERVALS (@FitzcarraldoEds), Susie Mesure reflects on family, illness, mortality…
…and the possibility of assisted dying.

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“Hunt’s trilogy is to Indiana what Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge novels are to Maine or Kent Haruf’s Plainsong trio is to Colorado.”

Susie Mesure reviews Laird Hunt’s FLOAT UP, SING DOWN:

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“Hunt’s trilogy is to Indiana what Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge novels are to Maine or Kent Haruf’s Plainsong trio is to Colorado.”

Susie Mesure reviews Laird Hunt’s FLOAT UP, SING DOWN:

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Come chat about book at the other place, which is what this place is called over there. True, it's a select crowd, but you can select yourselves to join!

Am not here, but here, so: it's particularly pleasing writing for a new-to-me publication. This month, it's Prospect, and although my review is short, the memory of reading Laird Hunt's Float Up, Sing Down will linger. He's a fabulous writer. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book

James Marriott raised some interesting thoughts in his recent column on the contemporary novel, but I don't think he was quite right. You can read why here. Yazar Elif Şafak, Penguin Books UK @northernfictionalliance
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Susie Mesure Can confirm it's nicer there, but it would benefit from having more people on it!

Could more people pleas use B***sky? I want to get distracted by more people's random thoughts over there, instead of getting annoyed here. I have four codes if anyone wants them, if you still even need them, if anyone is still even reading this post.

The Mongol Khan London Coliseum 🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳

The Mongol Khan London Coliseum is… Words fail me! It‘s a performance genre that is not European. There‘s a lot to think about. My sense is that the nation of Mongolia wants UK to take notice. It is part of a celebration of 60 years of UK-Mongolia diplomatic relations.

What has everyone still here got against Bluesky?

A reminder that you now all have one week to book your tickets to see the Mongol Khan at the Coliseum. Truly - do it. It will be an awesome spectacle. Think Lion King but Shakespearean.

Some of those watching or taking part in the #RemembranceDay2023 parade may have noticed it slowed down in the last half. Here’s why. /🧵

'His actual family home ... ends up slowly sinking into the soil: a metaphor for the collapse of his family’s American Dream.'

Susie Mesure (Susie Mesure) on errant fathers, mixed identity and the search for home

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Me. On Jonathan Escoffery. (Which, coincidentally, was the book the Booker Prize quiz picked for me to read out of the long list.)

'This brilliant book, which is less a novel and more a philosophy, is the most interesting I’ve read this year. I’ll be shocked if anyone disagrees.'

Susie Mesure on Teju Cole's TREMOR 🔥
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