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About Janet

Janet Somerville Janet Somerville taught literature for twenty years in Toronto. She spent the past three years wholly immersed in Martha Gellhorn’s life and words. more

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HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (April '24) #Gellhorn book YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS read by @EllenBarkin. Rep @philipsturner. Reviewer @torontostar book pages. She/her

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newyorker The New Yorker @newyorker ·
September 16, 2026

“Emily St. John Mandel’s novels remind me of swimming pools,” Katy Waldman writes. Over seven works of fiction, Mandel has explored beauty, in nature and in fine art. “Her writing has an aqueous quality: things slip or ripple or hold a soft glow; rain mists down; ships glide

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kjavadizadeh Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh ·
September 16, 2026

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.”

Annie Dillard, from The Writing Life

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coffeewclassics CoffeeWithTheClassics @coffeewclassics ·
September 16, 2026

RIP Annie Dillard.

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pulplibrarian Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian ·
September 16, 2026

Peter Falk was born today in 1927. Here's his statue on Falk Miksa Street in Budapest.

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September 17, 2026

Reading THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers. What an astonishing novel. @wwnorton @PulitzerPrizes

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beathhigh Ian Rankin @beathhigh ·
September 16, 2026

Sad news. Always enjoyed her company when we did Newsnight Review together. Smart, insightful, drily witty, and took no prisoners.

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proudsocialist Power to the People ☭🕊 @proudsocialist ·
September 16, 2026

Plot thickens!

Casey Wasserman, the founder of the talent agency representing Ed Sheeran, is in the Epstein files and flew on Epstein’s private jet.

When this information first came out artists like Chappell Roan immediately left the agency.

Ed Sheeran did not.

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