Patrick Christie
@patrickchristie
Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere.
A tribute to Bernhard *and* a send up of academic malaise in contemporary HE? The Sick List from @ansgarallen.bsky.social is great fun
Rather than an old adage, this is a foundational principal of talking therapy
Very much enjoying Shadow Lines and discovering that I can summon @nicholasroyle.bsky.social to my door by ordering some chapbooks from the wonderful Nightjar Press.
What a cute little girl young unbreeched H.P. Lovecraft was... is not a sentence I expected to write.
When you go to the ballot box today, there's only one correct choice you can make
I guess Kahlo is a change maker if the change is a communist revolution
I love how contemporary the subject of this painting by Ernst Kirchner looks, even though it's from 1910
Felt very little sympathy for Robert Pattinson's character's plight in 'The Drama' given that, as an art curator with a literary agent girlfriend, he can somehow afford to live in this kind of flat in New York.
I really like the Masthead / Contributors page of New Papers lit mag
It is better, for the simple reason that the book is not very good
Len Deighton illustrated the British first edition of On the Road
Went to see John Cassavetes' Husbands at The Nickel yesterday, which is basically a cinema that's been set up in a shop.
Jonathan Cape obviously knew Saturday was a dud so didn't want to waste any money coming up with a new cover design
Did Random house just re-use the design of Portnoy's Complaint for Muhammad Ali's Biography?
Why is it called the 'Oslo Trilogy' and not the 'Let's Fuck up Anders Danielsen Lie Trilogy' ?
I've always thought Jean-Jaques Rousseau bears a resemblance to Jimmy Carr