James McConnachie
@j_mcconnachie
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Writer, Sunday Times critic, editor of The Author. Runs, sings, parents.
UK
Joined October 2012
"It is like finding a playing board without any counters or instructions" – I wrote a thing about mazes. via @aeonmag
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RT @PaulWaters99: The Reluctant Optimist - V interesting & positive piece in the @Soc_of_Authors magazine by @KiaAbdullah about getting Bri…
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Come for the twist, stay for the erotic pear eating – no, hang on, that's @HackettLaura.
To have 'Republic' picked by @dcsandbrook as his favourite book of the year has made my Christmas. And, unlike Cromwell, I'll def be celebrating Christmas.
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@_CFTA @RhonddaBryant Sounds good. So why this appalling government proposal to sell creatives down the river with the shoddy 'opt-out' scheme for training gen-AI? Effectively robbing from small creators and giving to big-tech firms! How can that be Labour policy?
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Just to say that the @ENBallet's new Nutcracker at the @mayflower is witty, inventive, magical, gorgeously choreographed and entirely delightful.
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@TheVelvetNap Pettipraicly? That sounds a bit odd though. Could be a single house or farm that has gone?
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RT @andrewsillett: @j_amesmarriott "[A] book by Jordan Peterson, a cleverly edited...paperback edition... I shall have to be clear... the n…
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RT @ae_stallings: Nothing delights the heart of the freelancer like "you will need to set up an account in our processing system" for payme…
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Banging classic lede
I reviewed Jordan Peterson's new book. Never read anything like it. Really quite mad.
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 won the @BGPrize. Here was my review for The Sunday Times @TheTimesBooks: "all the complexity and emotional heft of a great novel"
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My review for @TheTimesBooks began like this: "It is not often that a book forces you to put it down repeatedly because you feel shaky. Question 7 did that to me. It is that good."
Huge congratulations to Richard Flanagan, who has won this year's prize with Question 7. Read more on our website: #nonfiction #winner @ChattoBooks @vintagebooks @penguinrandom
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@ArmandDAngour @PerfectAccentUK @PPapakonNucl It sounds spendidly like a Frankish epithet. "Armand the Unripe"
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