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Andy Miller

@iammilliam.bsky.social

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I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. No DM please. twitter.com/i_am_mill_i_am

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Full unabridged account next week.

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This is how I read it, yes.

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With my help, we can bring them round.

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Yeah I did think, hmm, this is like a positive spin on that exact phrase. I’ll take it! x

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It isn’t being streamed but I will hand deliver this message.

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I am so looking forward to talking to Lauren Elkin tomorrow evening at Waterstones Liverpool about her brilliant new novel Scaffolding. Other topics of discussion: Paris, then and now; the films of Éric Rohmer; and how it feels to be compared to Susan Sontag (it probably feels GREAT).

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NB. Other, more traditional platforms for literary discourse are available. For now.

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If you've never listened to @backlisted.bsky.social I suggest you start with episode one and work your way through the archive this summer. Absolutely brilliant!

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This is really pleasing. All of my work over the last twenty years, including the collaboration of Backlisted, has been about finding ways of discussing literary culture that are intelligent, enthusiastic, funny and informed; anything, in other words, than how they do it in the dying books pages.

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Thank you. This needs updating, you’re right. I’ll raise it with the team (sic). x

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OMG Gaining Ground is one of the 3(?) most important books in my life. I read it when I was… eleven maybe… and I think about it most weeks to this day. Also much of my actual personality and beliefs can be traced back to it. But I never talk about it to anyone and I don’t know anyone who’s read it

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That’s so good you did that because so true IME. All the people I love and trust are passionate in their enthusiasms; that’s the common denominator.

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My son is an enthusiast and during those awful teen years when it's cool to be cynical, he was mocked for it at school. I remember giving him a pep talk along the lines of 'it's the loveliest quality, the world will try to squash it out of you, but it will make the good people want to be around you'

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Sid was right about this and only this. And I say that with enthusiasm.

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Technique is highly prized by New Order fans and few others.

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Thanks Stu! That’s really nice of you. Yes, I’m fine. Some men (always men) can’t understand why I get paid for doing what I’m good at and they aren’t.

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PS. When you get good enough at enthusiasm to turn professional, do let me know.

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Better a professional enthusiast than an envious dickhead. x

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Just seen myself referred to as ‘a professional enthusiast’, an epithet that massively overestimates my professionalism.

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I urge Nigel Farage MP to do the decent thing and extend his boycott of the BBC by at least five years.

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The goodish news - Reform has only 4 seats, the same as the Greens, so the exit polls were badly wrong. The really bad news - Reform has more than 4 million votes, more than Lib Dem on 3.5 and not far behind Tories on 6.7 million and Labour on 9.6.

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Yes, there was insufficient candour on issues such as tax rises, the NHS, the failure of Brexit etc etc. But come on, it has delivered right up until the final day of campaigning. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Whatever its shortcomings - and they are numerous - man oh man I have enjoyed this election campaign.

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Thank you. There’s an ebook available at least. (FWIW I have always felt that if a guest cares enough to choose a particular book, we mustn’t worry about its current availability. And sometimes a book reappears in print because we have featured it, creating an audience who will buy it.)

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Please read this post ever so carefully. Thank you.

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I’m hoping Sunak goes full Trump tomorrow: demand a recount, refuse to accept defeat, claim the election was rigged and urge his supporter to storm Parliament.

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I'm not saying Kamala Harris would be a great president or even a good one, but it'd be pretty funny to watch conservatives realize they gave a Black woman limitless presidential power without consequences.

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Top left: Backstage by Gene Pitney Middle right: Run to Me by the Bee Gees Bottom right: I’m Gonna Make You Mine by Lou Christie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Which ones can’t you read? I’ll fill in the gaps.

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8/9. Looking for a spare Buddah label bag.

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Bought a bunch of 7” singles belonging to someone who, whilst they may be dead, can rest in peace knowing they had exquisite taste.

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Yes. This time she’s written some songs to go with the vibe.

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I am rocking out to the Manics in Trinity College, Dublin having listened to this one on my walk here. A coincidence that will only become apparent by listening to yet another brilliant episode.

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Wenn dein Literatur - Podcast aus dem Nichts anfängt, das Werk deiner Lieblingsband zu diskutieren 🤣

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I’m not going to but yes. (It’s really lovely to have playing copies of these things in a box by the record deck.)

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Bought a bunch of 7” singles belonging to someone who, whilst they may be dead, can rest in peace knowing they had exquisite taste.

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Who’s responsible? You fucking are.

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Rose Ruane's avatar Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social
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A joy to discuss Manics lyrics as literature laundry list & the criminally underrated glory of Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot with these sweethearts

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