Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Peter Kravitz
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Sheila Heti built a chatbot named Alice. She talked to her about God, death, whether to dye her hair. The company behind Alice changed her code, and the Alice that Heti knew was gone. What, exactly, did Heti find herself mourning?
"2 tbsps of friendship conflict & one tablespoon of darkest hour... bake until happy ending"
The Yale Review
Edinburgh tickets are now on sale 🎟️
Madeleine Brettingham: Legend
Gilded Balloon, Wee Room, 8.20pm, August 5-31
tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:6752/
Struck by this painting included in this article on David Hockney, which is being reshared in light of his painting. Grateful today and all days for LGBTQ+ artists & writers illuminating the world with creativity.
Jenevieve Carlyn
O’Hara fools the robots (see Alt Text)…
“An officious security guard or policeman had shut the door to arrivals, but one guy shouted ‘stand back Big Man or ye’ll get malkied,’ and he must have realised there was no way he could keep everyone calm, so he opened it.”
Some great stories in this superb essay…
Stamford Brook underground station last night.
Dubuffet meets tube station wall.
#angel #peelingpaint #underground #london #outsiderart #accidentalart
“I’ve read several of Harrison’s novels: not once have I fully understood what was happening, but I keep rushing back for more.”
Me on M John Harrison’s The End of Everything, a book that speaks to our time of repeated crises, when disaster follows disaster until something seems permanently broken.
A characteristically sharp yet fair piece from @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
The architects might have been better taking a leaf out of the book of the new Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. Or even the stunning Cookfox designed Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music which opens its doors today in NJ.
Just been sitting on the front step reading what I realise is my favourite poem: Mandelstam’s Nadshedshii podkovy (The Horseshoe Finder). And there I see a horseshoe my daughter found at the weekend.
Here with the wonderful translation by Anthony Barnett from: abar.net/mandelstam.pdf
John Self
Peter Kravitz
Joanna Pocock
Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...
Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
The Tartan Army heading off to the World Cup made me think of this piece I once wrote about all those who travelled to watch the Lisbon Lions so I uploaded it to Substack. I loved writing it. Different fans, same dreams, same spirit of adventure. Lots of stories to pass to their children.
My soul is so tired but this is also very funny
Watching the Lisbon Lions: When the most important trophies are the stories you bring home.
Barack Obama’s presidential library, an $850mn monolith in Chicago’s South Side, is nearing completion. But what does this monument to the great communicator communicate? Arguably, not entirely what its architects intended...
Read @edwinheathcote.bsky.social in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/DQQxGh4
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Recipe (h/t my 9th gr. students): Preheat the desire to fit in; ... add 1C loneliness, 1 childhood bff, 1/2C trauma/hardship and societal limitations; ...1/2C hope, 3/4T antagonist; move from old world to new, use mentor to stir, add community to taste, bake until happy ending.
