James McConnachie
Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running...
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- I wonder how other authors and critics have solved the 'reading becoming a chore' problem. Like Sathnam S, I turn to fiction for pleasure. But if you're a novelist...?
- My guide to getting over reading block in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/12c0...
- A novelist friend (who also has to read a lot of novels for interview/review purposes) listens to a lot of audio books.
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- This quote from a Reform UK councillor sums it up beautifully. Cross-boundary moral outrages, exported online and sold (especially, but not exclusively) to generations that grew up before the internet, are such a central feature of radicalisation today. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
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- My guide to getting over reading block in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/12c0...
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- My heart breaks at the end of the Books section at the Post. So many brilliant people there, especially @roncharles.bsky.social, the most beloved book critic I know. I feel like I should write more about this, but I’m on deadline and trying to finish a freelance piece myself.
- I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
- I was granted a marvelous platform at The Washington Post for a couple of years, and I'm heartily sorry to see it systematically, malignantly destroyed.
- The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
- My heart breaks for the editors, reporters, and staff at The Washington Post who try to serve the public with integrity and don't deserve this. And also: many of us saw this coming from a mile away. Jeff Bezos has destroyed this once great American institution.
- Hi, my name is George, and it’s been 484 days since my last purchase from Amazon.
- I don't think Bezos is one of your visionary secret man-behind-the-curtain lever-pullers among the oligarch class. I think he bought the Post out of vanity and is gutting it mostly to placate Trump. But gutting the Post to placate Trump is still a way to prosecute the larger class agenda
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- I should point out that not all the poems in my book are this rude
- Spent a few hours with @ravoon.bsky.social's fab 'Dirt Rich' last night. He lightly and lovingly provides an anatomy of what we might pretentiously call England Profound. It put me in mind of JL Carr's 'A Month in the Country', a very good thing. Oh and funny too, like so:
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- There is a new book by Mark Bowles on the way. It's called How Do People Stay The Same. It is, as you might expect, a thing of beauty and wonder. Details here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
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- This is from my book THEM. It was back in 1998, and I was outside a Bilderberg meeting having just been chased through Portugal by their shadowy henchmen… (H/T @isaac_kh on X)
- More of this kind of thing!
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- the problem with this newfound “bursary” argument aired in the Times is this: twhen we first heard about these payments in September a person close to Mandelson said it couldn’t possibly be the case and, er, threatened to sue us
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- Always a bit weird when you take on a commission and you casually mention ‘oh hey I used to work for you guys in 2003, funny how these things go’ and you laugh but actually you’re thinking good lord I’m old and I’ve been doing this forever now. Leave me behind. I’m the bones in the temple.
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- Just noticed an AI-generated image in a magazine to which I subscribe; if the image was supplied, the editor may not even have realised - but alertness to AI is now an indispensable part of being an editor. People don’t want to pay for slop, and subscriptions will haemorrhage
