Novelist, feminist killjoy, Hackney via Queens via Dhaka. The Startup Wife is out now: https://xitter.cf/t.co/66vPNb4ggx
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Travel nightmare on @VirginAtlantic who have left my parents stranded at Dulles airport for the last 48 hours. No solutions, no apologies, and I was just yelled at by someone on the phone.
Hi @UPS my husband’s passport has been stuck/delayed in your system for 10 days. No one seems to know where it is, no one will help us or tell us the reason for the delay. Can you help? #passport #deliveryfail
It has now been three weeks - three weeks! - since the passport was sent. Your website says there was a “sortation delay”. We can’t get a human to respond or look into this. #passport #deliveryfail #whatisasortationdelay
In which I compared watching Baby Reindeer to sitting on a damp park bench and gushingly thanked @SalmanRushdie for a) not leaving us in a world where he dies by the hand of a fanatic and b) writing, among other things, about his great love. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001y8…
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We are very excited to be hosting @arunava and @tahmima who will be discussing Sinha's newly edited anthology, 'The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories'!
📅12th March, 7pm
📍Brick Lane Bookshop
🎟️£5 (link in bio)
@PenguinUKBooks
Dhaka friends, I’ll be at Bookworm tomorrow morning at 11:30. Come and say hello!
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Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza's voice to the outside world.
He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister's home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids...
Anyone else getting Berry Guilt, aka the guilt that is born from watching people wash the s**t out of their berries, knowing you give yours just a passing rinse, at best?
Finally, I can swear at will. theguardian.com/technology/2…
In the house tonight: @tahmima and @JasonCritic on Polite Society and Citadel. And Patrick Bringley with a museum guard’s guide to looking at art. Including this great painting.
Join us at 7:15 on @BBCRadio4
I’m here to lower the tone. @CWIPprize
To celebrate the countdown to #CWIPawards23 - we'll be sharing a new video everyday showcasing the wonderful women we're lucky enough to know! Kicking things off is @tahmima reading an extract from her #CWIP shortlisted book
'The Startup Wife' at @thelondonlibrary 💁♀️🙌
Ten years ago, I had a life changing moment when @GrantaMag put me on the Best of Young British Novelists List. Since then, the writers in my cohort have been garlanded and celebrated in every possible way. Who will be on this decade’s list? #youngbritishnovelists
For Mother’s Day I would like a halo, a crown, a medal, safe streets, and affordable childcare. And rape convictions. A ban on wife jokes. And reproductive freedom. And not worrying I’m going to get raped every time google maps leads me down a back alley. And breakfast in bed.
In a room full of witty women, I was the one who told a story about a vibrator. @CWIPprize #loweringthetone #tellitlikeitis #startupwife #flitter
I had an amazing night with these brilliant funny women!
An amazing night with the shortlisted CWIP authors - love in the room - no really there was 💫#womensupportingwomen #writers #writer #author #bookstagram #booktok #read #femaleauthors
My phone is such a prude. Like, doesn’t it know me by now? I am not talking about Ducks, Ricks, and Punts.
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In celebration of the Comedy Women in Print Prize, join us to raise a glass or two to *all* the funny women - with @destheray @helenlederer and @ladycariad!
We’ll be joined by some of the CWIP shortlisted authors: @tahmima @phoebeluckhurst @NikkiOMay @CharlotteMende1 📚
ALT Helen Lederer, Cariad Lloyd and Desiree Burch headshots