My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

also me - no Cloudflare, I’m not a malicious bot, I’m just trawling through every single Radio Times listing from 1954… Please stop making me select images of hats.

For today's #ModWrite I'm working on Patrick Hamilton's last play, The Man Upstairs. After a failed regional theatre tour, it found a home on BBC television, giving rise to this fabulous headline in The Scotsman - which my fingers refuse to type as anything other than 'Red Meat, Jeeps and Critters'

a person sits writing at a desk with a giant helmet covering their head, two small eye holes and a mouth hole connected to an oxygen canister

the people yearn for the Isolator (i am the people)

The Modernist Review Issue #60: New Work in Modernist Studies 2 April 2026 Following on from the 15th edition of New Work in Modernist Studies (NWiMS) held virtually in January, we are delighted to present a selection of articles from the conference’s speaker…

Wishing everyone a lovely Easter Monday #ModWrite! 🌞🐣

Don't forget to check out #TheModernistReview60: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

The Modernist Review Issue #60: New Work in Modernist Studies 2 April 2026 Following on from the 15th edition of New Work in Modernist Studies (NWiMS) held virtually in January, we are delighted to present a selection of articles from the conference’s speaker…

For your Easter weekend perusal, we are delighted to share #TheModernistReview60! Our sixtieth, diamond issue celebrates New Work in Modernist Studies 15 with pieces from the conference's speakers.

Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

Let us know what you're working on for #ModWrite today using the hashtag 📚

The Fool from Pamela Colman Smith's 1909 Rider-Waite Tarot Deck. The Fool is standing on a cliff or ledge, dressed in a colourful tabard, with the sun at their back and a white dog yapping at their feet.

🧵 Registration for BAMS/MSA 2026 is now open! If you're joining us in Loughborough in July, the BAMS PGR reps are hosting 2 events and we'd love to see you there (full details below). Sign up for both events using the conference's new additional programme form here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

23 March 1778 – I breakfasted, and slept again at home. Memorandum. In shaving my face this morning I happened to cut one of my moles which bled much, and happening also to kill a small moth that was flying about, I applied it to my mole and it instantly stopped the bleeding. Rev. James Woodforde.

Er... so, happy 248th anniversary to this entirely bizarre diary entry from Parson Woodforde

for today's #ModWrite I'm working on the relationship between radio and TV drama, and celebrating this exacting request hidden in the props lists for the BBC's 1967 production of Pinter's A Night Out. Verisimilitude is key, and cheese rolls *must* be soft.

A pre-printed postcard with the message 'Thank you for writing. Unfortunately Harold Pinter is abroad, and it is not possible for mail to be forwarded for the time being.'

next in the series of pre-printed postcards we should all be ordering... Harold Pinter's Out of Office ☀️

We're so excited to welcome everyone to Loughborough for Weird Modernisms! Registration opens next week and, if you're a grad student or ECR, consider signing up for our workshop ('What's Next - Life and Work After Submission) & informal social event 💃
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

New ChatGPT analysis of Robert Frost poem just dropped

A black and white photo of Evelyn Waugh with a large, black ear trumpet pressed to his ear. He is staring into the middle distance with a look of characteristic disdain.

today's #ModWrite is dedicated to Evelyn Waugh's ear trumpet - although Waugh did suffer from hearing loss, Claud Cockburn's assessment of its function as "an advertisement of his personal attitude, a form of rebuke, and a weapon" is spot on.
www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/23/e...

A new week, a fresh #ModWrite Monday! We’d love to see what you’re working on today — share with us using the hashtag 📚📖

Paddington in the Criterion Closet

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1807

same!!

love these, in all of their melting weirdness!!

For today’s #ModWrite I’m looking at some (slightly disturbing) 1920s wax mannequins in relation to Mina Loy’s concerns over women, the face, aging, and creativity. These ones are melting in a window on a summers day

The Modernist Review Issue #59 6 March 2026 As March and the promise of Spring arrives, we are pleased to bring you the latest issue of The Modernist Review. Our new issue contains an exciting range of research articles, book re…

I'm spending today's Monday #ModWrite with the latest issue of The Modernist Review - modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/t...

Making notes - taking inspiration - writing about my own reflections in response to the edition. Perhaps I will make this a regular thing!

#BAMS #modernism

invaluable!!

for today's #ModWrite I'm digging around in the archives for some work on Evelyn Waugh and radio, and enjoying the number of times Waugh sent the BBC one of these pre-printed rejection postcards.

just wrote some Punisher x Daredevil fan fic and got this work of art in return, this is my new favourite thing

The Modernist Review Issue #59 6 March 2026 As March and the promise of Spring arrives, we are pleased to bring you the latest issue of The Modernist Review. Our new issue contains an exciting range of research articles, book re…

We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!

Face to Face - Original: Evelyn Waugh A rare glimpse into the life and temperament of one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century - Evelyn Waugh interviewed by John Freeman in 1960.

and the results of this impressive feast are on iPlayer 🍷 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Bowls of nuts, crisps, cherries, twiglets etc
16 rounds assorted sandwiches (chicken)
20 cigarettes, matches
2 flasks hot milk
2 flasks black coffee
4 bottles Guinness, 4 bottles light ale

(in the interests of transparency, there were 8 people on set including Waugh, but still...)

A black and white photo of Evelyn Waugh lounging in an armchair, cigar aloft and ginormous cup (of tea, or something strong) on a stand beside him.

for friday cheer, may i present Evelyn Waugh's rider for a 1960 TV interview:
1 bottle very best dry sherry
1 bottle very best medium sherry
1 bottle very best sweet sherry
1 bottle each brandy, whisky, gin, orange squash, lime juice
1 bowl ice cubes

(don't worry there's more...)

📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details.

If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email info@bams.ac.uk.

screenshot from a gmail inbox. message is tagged "newsletters" in a green highlight. body of subject line reads "Your Body is a Cage & Here is the Key"

it's important to subscribe to newsletters so that sometimes they give you something like this in the middle of your workday

An open book on a bed with a smiling, orange cuddly toy looking out at you.

in a hellish week for the world, taking to one’s bed to read with a cuddly little fruit (kenneth williams voice) isn’t the worst thing you can do