Valentine hearts.

Same weather here yesterday, Kim!

Archive on 4 - The Advance Guard of the Avant-garde - BBC Sounds DJ Taylor tells the story of an influential group of experimental 1960s British writers.

DJ Taylor's 2018 radio doc 'The Advance Guard of the Avant-Garde' on experimental 1960s British writers: BS Johnson, Ann Quin, Eva Figes, Brigid Brophy, Rosemary Tonks, Prynne & C Brooke-Rose. Views from Jen Hodgson, Jonathan Coe, Eimear McBride & Jeremy Noel-Tod. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lovely pic.

Oh- how *wonderful* is this? Thank you @nguthrie.bsky.social

"Hackenfeller's Ape" by Brigid Brophy In this novel, London Zoo houses a pair of Hackenfeller's Apes, the nearest primates to humans. The Professor is studying them, hoping to be...

Just finished my first Brigid Brophy book 'Hackenfeller's Ape' ... 73 years after it was published. Better late than never! Excited to explore more by this author.

Here's my review:
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Live in the Archive: Iris Murdoch and the poems in the Live in the Archive is a collaboration between The London Library and Curtis Brown Heritage to celebrate some of the greatest literary stars in our combined history. This time, we’ll be turning o...

Come and join the fabulous panel discussing Iris's poetry at The London Library in March!

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Oh, thank you very much!

An unusual two-Brophy post! Brigid Brophy and John Brophy. Thank you @casmilus.bsky.social

Traffic not too bad locally this morning.

Been reading mid-20th century humanist campaigners for prison reform and just come across a description by Brigid Brophy saying in imprisoning people we are ‘burying them alive’. What a powerful image, even more true of conditions today! If you don’t already, do support @thehowardleague.bsky.social

Let Brigid Brophy tickle your brain and bend your mind. Read In Transit.

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Just a reminder that the deadline for the first round of applications for our (frankly excellent) MA Writing programme at the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social closes next Monday, 19 January, so if you're thinking of applying please do so soon!

This is a marvellous Highsmith!

Enjoying *some* of these.

Nothing but these blooming in the garden at present:

Oh thank you! Wishing you well and happy!

Hoo, lovely! What a nice comment.

Brophy looking stern with a glass in her hand, a statue of Antinous behind her.

Now we're in 2026, it's *ONLY three years* until the centenary of Brigid Brophy's birth, so here's to 2029!

Photo of Brigid Brophy (and Antinous) by J. Lewinski.

When I rule the world in a job share with you, I will endorse this action.

Haha! What a good plan. Count me IN!

Ha! I read it twice before I got the gist!

Featuring, right, an early Brigid Brophy non-fiction volume, Black Ship to Hell, 1962. An interesting read, imo.

Hooo!

@edisky.bsky.social Thank you for reposting! Best wishes, K.

Brigid Brophy, The Finishing Touch (1963)
David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
George V. Higgins, Kennedy for the Defense (1980)
George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream (1982)
Jay B. Laws, The Unfinished (1992)
Tahar Djaout, The Last Summer of Reason (1993)

Collage of the following book covers: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926) Nathanael West, A Cool Million (1934) Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (1951) Tewfik Al-Hakim, The Tree Climber (1962) Brigid Brophy, The Finishing Touch (1963) David Lodge, Changing Places (1975) George V. Higgins, Kennedy for the Defense (1980) George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream (1982) Jay B. Laws, The Unfinished (1992) Tahar Djaout, The Last Summer of Reason (1993) Mae Murray, I’m Sorry If I Scared You (2024) Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., The El (2025)

Since I just started a chonky book that I won't finish before 2026, my 12 favorite reads of 2025 (in publication order):

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926)
Nathanael West, A Cool Million (1934)
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (1951)
Tewfik Al-Hakim, The Tree Climber (1962)

Oh wow! I admire your spirit, and your deed, indeed!

Aha! It's quite intense.

Just your annual reminder that this photo accurately reflects what Brigid Brophy thought of Christmas.