Can’t believe these are the conversations yall are having

RT @TroyOnyango: so when it’s not african writers, p*ngr*m ceo can come out and admit to errors but if the accuser was black they would hav…

That post about prose stylists is hilarious and it successfully rage baited me into actually using this account. But honestly, the greatest prose stylist, by quite a large margin, is Jose Saramago.

Derek Owusu: ‘I’ve never figured out how to live in the world’

The novelist on the squeamishness of autofiction, living with borderline personality disorder, and setting his latest book in a recovery house for people experiencing mental health crises

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Quietly powerful and deeply compassionate, Derek Owusu's novel of breakdown, faith and identity explores the almost spiritual air that mundane tasks assume within the walls of an institution in crystalline prose. Order SIGNED copies of The Recovery House: waterstones.com/book/the-recov…

Tbh, Marlon James had already written one of the greatest novels of the 21st century with A Brief History. So I look forward to reading this his second one to make the cut.

You are not obligated to like the new Marlon James novel but many of you are a few polemical sentences away from calling it nigga-babble

people dont wanna be great, they wanna be profitable, which is why they wont even be good

Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions.
This week @TheLancet ree-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…