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@jo_hamya

3 years

I am obsessed — OBSESSED — with this new Joan Didion interview in which she cannot work her TV, admires no one, is tired of being asked about New York a lot

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5 months

'The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.' - George Orwell, 'Why I Write'

Arts Professional

@ArtsPro

5 months

APNews: Arts Council England ( @ace_national ) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)

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THE HYPOCRITE is available for pre-order: ‘An acid chamber piece…It’s tense, it’s painful, it’s funny. I loved it.’ —Chris Power ‘Brilliant & unpredictable…a story of failed connection, told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality.’ —Natasha Brown

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@jo_hamya

4 months

I’m doing my PhD at the same place I did my BA ten yrs ago & the shift in the common room is astounding. No chat, no laughter, no curiosity abt fellow students, no exchange of ideas. We used to drunkenly harass lecturers in the kitchen after hours &now the place feels like a void

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@NoreenMasud

4 months

students are sadder and sadder, more and more anxious, in significant part because they are being given shiny buildings instead of what they need: time and attention from non-burnt-out older human adults

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2 years

Holy fucking shit

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@maxjohnporter

2 years

Good books

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@jo_hamya

2 years

you lot out here debating the length of the contemporary novel have too much free time, go have sex

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@jo_hamya

3 years

the fact that I have not seen a single link to or quote from that letter, have no idea what it says or where it was published, and have instead had my tl flooded with love for and links to buy Detransition, Baby — that’s poetry in motion; that’s lit twitter working right for once

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@jo_hamya

2 months

Treasure the below photo from pub night of me reassuring my worried father that writing a novel about daddy issues does not mean I have daddy issues. We love when life imitates art! Thank you @LRBbookshop for having me, and thank you to everyone who came 🍾💚

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@jo_hamya

3 months

presenting my well-adjusted, non-publishing fiancé with a fevered gossip session on who oyler is and what reviews she’s getting, only for him to digest it in two seconds with the words ‘live by the sword, die by the sword, eh?’

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@jo_hamya

3 months

enjoyed this; would love someone to pick up the line of thought begun in this essay on the production of glamorous literary personae online vs the low-wage, precarious nature of the book industry offline

helena constance 🕊

@helenarambles

3 months

not sick of the discourse yet? i wrote about the 'literary it girl' and the insidious ways we market female writers online. with digressions into the critic wars, a certain new album, and 'glamorous' female authors. link in bio♥️

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@jo_hamya

2 months

THE HYPOCRITE publishes today in the U.K. It's been buoyed and cared for by @letticefranklin , @gibbsne , @gigicroft , Susie Bertinshaw, Dan Jackson, @davide_etc , @yadss_ , Sophia Rahim, and the brilliant @harriet__moore . I couldn't ask for better; I couldn't feel more gratitude.

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@jo_hamya

5 months

Reunited with Natasha for THE HYPOCRITE’s publication day. She’s a genius. The @LRBbookshop is staffed by angels. Please come, and bring friends — I can’t wait 🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️

LRB Bookshop

@LRBbookshop

5 months

25 Apr: @jo_hamya joins us to discuss THE HYPOCRITE, a thought-provoking tale of misunderstanding between the generations, with Natasha Brown Book here:

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@jo_hamya

3 years

✨ THREE ROOMS well reviewed and now in all good bookshops near you, with signed copies at @LRBbookshop @GoldsboroBooks @SouthKenBooks @PHBookshop @Dauntbooks @WELBooks @waterstones and @Foyles ✨

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@jo_hamya

1 year

THE HYPOCRITE, 2024

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

1 year

. @jo_hamya 's "dazzling" second novel The Hypocrite will be published by @wnbooks . Read here:

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@jo_hamya

6 months

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@jo_hamya

1 year

THE NEW @TheBookerPrizes PODCAST LAUNCHES JULY 6TH 🚀 Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts to hear @JamesWalton_ and I turn the book trade's most unlikely blind date into 45 minutes of Booker gossip every Thursday

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

1 year

Introducing The Booker Prize Podcast. Coming to a podcast player near you on 6th July. Find us on @ApplePodcasts , @SpotifyUK or wherever you listen to podcasts and make sure to follow the show so you know when our first episode releases. ➡️

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@jo_hamya

1 year

sorry, netflix wants me to believe that joe walks from south kensington to royal holloway uni and back everyday??? bc i can excuse him getting away with ten plus murders across three seasons but i kind of draw the line at this

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@jo_hamya

3 years

I broke C-LB’s heart and the inside of my head will never probably never shut up about it until I die, POND was a *gift*

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@jo_hamya

3 years

freshly signed copies of THREE ROOMS at @LRBbookshop now!

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@jo_hamya

4 months

this is such a glorious interview...

The Paris Review

@parisreview

4 months

“I seldom know where I’m headed, but if the story is meant to be, you cross over to the other side—you’re inside it, and there’s an engine.” From our Art of Fiction interview with Jhumpa Lahiri in our new Spring issue.

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Olivia Laing says you should read my book, I don’t make the rules

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@jo_hamya

7 years

@Scatterbrie @DOGGEAUX @lowercasename Berry certain brutalism is berry shit 🤷‍♂️

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@jo_hamya

4 months

One month until THE HYPOCRITE publishes in the U.K. 🌊 Merciless according to Sarah Bernstein; witty and astute according to @DavidNWriter (!!!). Every pre-order helps:

Jo

@jo_hamya

8 months

THE HYPOCRITE is available for pre-order: ‘An acid chamber piece…It’s tense, it’s painful, it’s funny. I loved it.’ —Chris Power ‘Brilliant & unpredictable…a story of failed connection, told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality.’ —Natasha Brown

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@jo_hamya

3 years

US edition! It’s sexy and colourful!! A thing of matte, geometric beauty!!!

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@jo_hamya

3 years

I'm sorry but this is the funniest fucking thing I've heard

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@jo_hamya

1 year

Last month, I visited @HMPDownview to see Books Unlocked in action, and to interview @poorsasquatch , @woodgaby , and @DUALIPA about the project. The best part of that day was what we couldn’t film: Downview’s reading group 1/

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

1 year

Our Books Unlocked project, run in partnership with @Literacy_Trust , encourages people in prisons across the UK and Ireland to read for enjoyment and improve literacy. We invited @DUALIPA to join us at a reading group session at @HMPDownview to find out more about the initiative.

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Avenue magazine: may we ask you a question? Joan Didion: no.

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@jo_hamya

3 years

The problem with trying to think of a humble yet witty caption for being Olivia Laing’s favourite read of 2021 in The New Statesman is that the more wine I celebrate with, the more brain cells I lose to the process. Not a single thought to be had. Just pure, confused joy.

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@jo_hamya

2 years

Rosemary Tonks’ THE BLOATER is republished by @vintagebooks today. It’s the sort of thing I’m going to shamelessly plagiarise the next time I write. Every sentence is exquisite. As though Love Island got staged as an opera scored by Delia Derbyshire 💜

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@jo_hamya

2 years

On August 9th, I’ll be at the @LRBbookshop , talking to the wonderful Mohsin Hamid about his new novel, THE LAST WHITE MAN

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@jo_hamya

2 years

Oxford! I will be in conversation with the brilliant Natasha Brown at @DauntSummertown on April 27th. Come say hi, and then come have pints in the city centre after.

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@jo_hamya

1 year

I finished the manuscript for book 2 and wrote @gibbsne an unhinged email in the middle of the night after she left Mariner, begging her to take me with her. ‘The Hypocrite’ will be published by @PantheonBooks in the U.S. next year ✨🇺🇸

Naomi Gibbs

@gibbsne

1 year

So pleased to reunite with @jo_hamya and bring this sharp, hyper-astute, gorgeously written novel to readers. It’s at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times perfectly, satisfyingly cringe-inducing. And always she gets our modern world better on the page than most anyone.

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@jo_hamya

11 months

there’s a girl on tiktok persuading gen z into reading physical print media by relaying stories from the new york times like she’s putting out hits on deuxmoi…she deserves a nobel peace prize; a pulitzer, good hair days and uninterrupted sleep for the rest of her life—

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@jo_hamya

7 months

🌊 THE HYPOCRITE is now also available for pre-order from U.S. retailers ahead of its release by @PantheonBooks on August 13th 🌊

The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya: 9780593701034 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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@jo_hamya

8 months

THE HYPOCRITE is available for pre-order: ‘An acid chamber piece…It’s tense, it’s painful, it’s funny. I loved it.’ —Chris Power ‘Brilliant & unpredictable…a story of failed connection, told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality.’ —Natasha Brown

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Had a beautiful time listening to Mohsin Hamid and @HamishH1931 reminisce over writing and publishing EXIT WEST - now up via @TheBookerPrizes

The Making of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West | The Booker Prizes

Read a discussion between Mohsin Hamid and his editor, Simon Prosser, about the creative process involved in writing Exit West.

thebookerprizes.com

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@jo_hamya

11 months

quite literally not true…? you lot will say anything for likes and clicks

CAT MARNELL

@cat_marnell

11 months

Your fave joan didion voted Republican her whole life

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@jo_hamya

7 years

@Scatterbrie @novaramedia Guess even Jeremy has to conceed that at the end of the day he is an old white guy 😂 9/10 for effort.

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@jo_hamya

5 months

I’ve donated two copies of ‘THREE ROOMS’ to Burley Fisher, who are working with other indies to raise money for PEN’s Emergency Fund for Writers at Risk. The copies are annotated w/ the playlist I used to write the novel. I’ve never shared it before. 🍉

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@jo_hamya

1 year

‘It is all very well, saying one will write notes but writing is a difficult art…& I am too sleepy…’ — The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1931-1935

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@jo_hamya

7 years

#KingCharlesIII : *10 mins in*: well this is all rather bold and arrogant *1hr later*: Bartlett is a genius; the play *is* Shakespeare

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@jo_hamya

7 months

knocked the wind out of me… an exquisitely fine and profound piece of writing, possibly the best essay i’ve read this year:

RMJ

@rebeccamjohnson

7 months

A new nonfiction essay for @GrantaMag 🩸

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@jo_hamya

1 year

@BarryPierce A rare L. Take your point re the triumph of Puritanism over critical faculties, but with the idol it’s not a case of dirty content. Ppl’s issue is that it’s a show that started out with feminist vision/intent & got derailed into straight porn. Surprised you didn’t mention that.

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@jo_hamya

2 years

i need a new yorker long-read on the logic ottessa moshfegh is using to price her stuff on depop with. $78 for a zara blouse, but also $70 for one from thakoon? unhinged!

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@jo_hamya

1 year

🍞🥐 Thrilled to have published my first review for @GuardianBooks , and thrilled for it to be Sophie Mackintosh’s brilliant CURSED BREAD 🥖 🥨

Sophie Mackintosh

@fairfairisles

1 year

Love to see Cursed Bread described as “deliciously horny” in the Guardian, sorry to my mum (and ty @jo_hamya !)

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@jo_hamya

2 years

Had a lot of fun writing this up: spoke to Yann Martel about his envelope system for writing, parsing the best and worst out of religious systems, magical thinking, and Coetzee for @TheBookerPrizes

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

2 years

'From the very first sentence, I knew what the last sentence would be' - Booker Prize winner @WriterYann explains how he researched, planned and wrote Life of Pi, and why some people find his methods very strange @canongatebooks @jo_hamya

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Spoke to @InterviewMag about smoking while writing; listening to St. Vincent while writing; good Tolstoy quotes for writing; my da and boyfriend cooking for me while writing; wanting to read Tove Jansson; wanting to have Nick Cave round for dinner👇🏾

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@jo_hamya

3 years

I have been raving about INTIMACIES on podcasts, to friends, to strangers for the past two weeks, and so it's really fucking thrilling to be so precisely x-rayed by @katiekitamura in the NYT

Well Educated, Well Employed, and a Paycheck Away From Disaster (Published 2021)

Jo Hamya’s debut novel, “Three Rooms,” exposes the precarious state of life for a woman of color in publishing.

www.nytimes.com

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@jo_hamya

2 months

I’m back in @GuardianBooks this weekend, outing myself rather horrendously in order to rave about @prasifcat ’s THIS IS HOW YOU REMEMBER IT — which you should all be buying copies of.

Catherine Prasifka

@prasifcat

2 months

Absolutely stunned at this review of This Is How You Remember It in The Guardian… it’s not often that you see a book force a reviewer to break with form themselves. Couldn’t ask for a better response.

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@jo_hamya

3 years

thank you, thank you wonderful @courttianewland and in what company! for @GuardianBooks ❤️

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@jo_hamya

3 years

10.01.21 - 22.03.21, winter into spring

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@jo_hamya

2 years

Adored and reviewed @mieko_kawakami ’s ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT for @nytimesbooks 🌙 With thanks to @lachristensen

川上未映子 Mieko Kawakami

@mieko_kawakami

2 years

It's utterly fantastic review about "Lovers" in ⁦⁦⁦ @nytimes ⁩ I am sincerely glad to read this. Thank you very much💫⁦ @EuropaEditions ⁩

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@jo_hamya

2 years

There are freshly signed paperback copies of THREE ROOMS, now at @LRBbookshop , @Foyles , and @gowerst_books 🧡

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@jo_hamya

5 months

@ImogenWK Help (2021) starting Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham genuinely floored me, but I think the trick was that gave a fully fleshed out stories to fictional characters based on the news of the time instead of giving the leads bad wigs and word for word newsfeed dialogue

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@jo_hamya

1 year

Tired of ‘Waterstones Dad’, ‘literary non-hottie’ & ‘intellectual bimbo’ discourse? 💥 The @TheBookerPrizes Podcast launches one week from now 💥 We kick off with episodes on Patricia Lockwood, Patrick McCabe, & Han Kang. Subscribe today for the book world’s greatest unifier

Jo

@jo_hamya

1 year

THE NEW @TheBookerPrizes PODCAST LAUNCHES JULY 6TH 🚀 Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts to hear @JamesWalton_ and I turn the book trade's most unlikely blind date into 45 minutes of Booker gossip every Thursday

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@jo_hamya

3 years

this magnificently strange film turned argument of James Baldwin in Paris is on @mubi , and it’s free to watch on Valentine’s Day

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@jo_hamya

3 months

THE HYPOCRITE is an @LRBbookshop spring pick!! Thank you @gyllzd 💚

LRB Bookshop

@LRBbookshop

3 months

It's 🌱 SPRING PICKS🌱time!

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@jo_hamya

5 months

anecdotally, the reading rooms at the british library are a fascinating place to be rn. lots of grown men and women losing their shit over having to order books manually. lots of academics being undone by paper slips. material culture dying on its ass in the most improbable place

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@jo_hamya

1 year

@BarryPierce if we're going to use a degree of the nuance you've espoused in that article, don't you think it's a) disingenuous to completely erase context from what you're discussing, bc you're right, it has 'morphed', not sprung out of nowhere, & b) a bit ironic to cherry-pick? no shade

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Imagine using Joyce or Woolf as an argument against auto fiction — IMAGINE!!!!!!

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@jo_hamya

1 year

McEwan opening AMSTERDAM with lines like these at a funeral — I fear a novel may never hit this hard again

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Have thought a lot about recording this with Jack and Jess over the past month - their generosity and supreme intelligence, and their incredible shrewdness in approaching THREE ROOMS. Makes me blush. Would listen to them for hours on any book, but glad to talk about mine here:

Tender Buttons Podcast

@buttons_tender

3 years

🎙️💥 TB012 w/ Jo Hamya 💥🎙️ We chat to @jo_hamya abt her brilliant novel Three Rooms ( @JonathanCape ), myths of meritocracy, the commodification of protest and what it really means to inhabit a room of one's own in contemporary Britain (1/2) Listen here:

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@jo_hamya

1 year

🌊 For @DauntBooksPub ’s new anthology on rivers, I’ve written about Woolf, and every joy she took from being by the water 🌊

DauntBooksPublishing

@DauntBooksPub

1 year

🐸 We're excited to add this beauty to our Daunt anthologies next year! Ready to dive in? 🐸 🌊This collection celebrates water and its transformative qualities, travelling from Seville to Trinidad, Virginia Woolf to Rumer Godden🌊

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@jo_hamya

1 year

I spoke to Eleanor Catton and Max Porter about their editorial relationship, and the process of publishing ‘The Luminaries’ for @TheBookerPrizes :

‘When I finished it, I felt immortal’: How Eleanor Catton wrote The Luminaries | The Booker Prizes

To mark the 10th anniversary of her Booker win, Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter discuss The Luminaries’ journey towards publication and the prize

thebookerprizes.com

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@jo_hamya

3 years

I've been doggedly not retweeting my own press, but I had such a great time talking to @eva4fr , and she gave me a space to finally rant about why plans for differential tuition fees in the UK are a pipeline for Conservative rhetoric to be better swallowed in this country.

The Rumpus

@The_Rumpus

3 years

Don't miss @eva4fr talking with @jo_hamya about her debut novel THREE ROOMS, out 8/31 from @MarinerBooks !

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@jo_hamya

9 months

I have not stopped thinking about literary hotties. Thank you @CharlieFBBaker1 for indulging me.

The Fence Magazine

@The_Fence_Mag

9 months

Issue 17 is here 🪻 w/ features from @rix_harriet , @isobelvthompson & @jo_hamya , investigations by @clive_mart1n & @Emmafmagnus , dispatches from @sarahsjahan & @joe_zadeh ; shorts from @bertiebrandes & @_F_B_G_ and illos by @DHBJones and @nishantchoksi

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@jo_hamya

3 months

🎟️ APRIL EVENTS for THE HYPOCRTIE 🎟️ I’ll be at @DauntSummertown on 24/4 for publication eve: And at @WaterstonesN8 w. @chloelashby on 30/4: Final @LRBbookshop tickets w. Natasha Brown on 25/4 are here:

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Dredheza is the legend who made this all possible. She sent the original manuscript in for consideration without my knowing. @DredhezaM — I still can’t thank you enough 💛

Dredheza Maloku

@DredhezaM

3 years

✨ SO exciting to see @jo_hamya ’s THREE ROOMS proof in the flesh...publishing 8 July as a @JonathanCape lead debut. Can’t wait for you all to experience reading it for the first time ✨

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@jo_hamya

1 year

☀️ @John_Clegg_37 ’s beautiful ALIQUOT — ☀️ ‘This is the best I think I can offer you with any hopefulness: if not uninteresting times at least uninteresting objects: a tame sun hung from wires, I believe in it,’

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@jo_hamya

2 years

I will be moderating a conversation between Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Natasha Brown on 25/9 for Barnes Literary festival. Tickets below 🤍

Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Natasha Brown - New Literary Voices at Barnes Green Centre

Tickets are now available for Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Natasha Brown - New Literary Voices at Barnes Green Centre, on Sunday 25th September 2022. Click the link for further information and to secure...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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@jo_hamya

3 months

i don't know where i'm going with this, but i do know I need a silly little op-ed on the relationship between these two images

John Phipps

@John__Phipps

2 years

beautiful moment in Pretty Woman where Richard Gere's character reads to Julia Roberts from a book called 'Shakespeare Quotations'

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@jo_hamya

2 months

I am *also* in the @FT , having a great time thinking over Olivia Laing’s THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME, out via @picadorbooks 🌿

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@jo_hamya

3 years

Mostly, I love SPENCER for joining IN BRUGES via the medium of 'Christmas films about people who aren't quite sure whether or not they want to kill themselves' -- I have been waiting my whole life to call it a pantheon

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@jo_hamya

5 months

👀

The Hypocrite | Jo Hamya | London Review Bookshop

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?…

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

Gayle Lazda

@gyllzd

5 months

My first reads of 2024:⁣ ⁣ Loved the Helen Garner - a perfect short novel of family disintegration - can't wait to read more of her work ( @wnbooks reissuing lots this year from March)⁣

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@jo_hamya

3 years

so —

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@jo_hamya

3 years

okay who do i need to have sex with to get the rachel cusk proof

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@jo_hamya

3 years

a fail safe line for a beauty of a book, thank you @yazzarf @immmy @littlebrown (and also my mum, for urging me out of literary prostitution) 💛

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@jo_hamya

3 years

okay who do i need to have sex with to get the @yazzarf proof

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@jo_hamya

3 years

that sound you hear is hollow laughter

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

3 years

George Osborne has resigned as editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard to become a full-time banker.

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@jo_hamya

7 years

@rachsyme Blance Pêche sounds more like the name of the perfume you buy trying to be sophisticated age 13.

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@jo_hamya

3 months

There are still some tickets left (below) for my event at @DauntSummertown tomorrow. If you’re in Oxford, come 🕊️🎟️ Tickets for the LRB shop event have now sold out, but there are still plenty for my conversation with @chloelashby at @WaterstonesN8 here:

Daunt Books Summertown

@DauntSummertown

3 months

Low ticket warning for tomorrow's event with @jo_hamya - if you are hoping to come along make sure you book your ticket soon & avoid disappointment!

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@jo_hamya

1 year

📣 @TheBookerPrizes podcast launches today 📣 We kick off with @JamesWalton_ and I discussing our love for Patrick McCabe’s ‘The Butcher Boy’, and Patricia Lockwood’s ‘No One Is Talking About This’. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Jo

@jo_hamya

2 months

Thinking over it, the FT was the first big paper to offer me work, back in 2019. It’s nice to be writing there again 🚀

Jo

@jo_hamya

2 months

I am *also* in the @FT , having a great time thinking over Olivia Laing’s THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME, out via @picadorbooks 🌿

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Jo

@jo_hamya

1 year

Charting! In @BritishVogue !

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Jo

@jo_hamya

1 year

@BarryPierce Short form sucks. Actually what your piece reminded me of, rather than the idol, was TikTok cancelling Sylvia Plath last year for being as bigoted as any other white woman in 1960 while she wrote The Bell Jar. I remember marvelling at the idea of 'cancelling' someone 59 yrs dead

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Jo

@jo_hamya

3 years

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@jo_hamya

9 months

For this week’s @TheBookerPrizes podcast, James and I kick off a two-part special on this year’s shortlist. Hard to overstate how much I love Sarah Bernstein’s complex and riveting STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE ( @GrantaBooks ): it’s my personal winner for this year—

The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 18: Exploring the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist (part 1) | The...

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts take a closer look at If I Survive You, This Other Eden and Study for Obedience from this year’s shortlist

thebookerprizes.com

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Jo

@jo_hamya

3 years

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Jo

@jo_hamya

7 months

beautiful night cosplaying as the booker trophy — tune in monday 27/11 and thursday 7/12 @TheBookerPrizes podcast for a behind the scenes look at this year’s ceremony 🏆✨

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Jo

@jo_hamya

1 year

From my notes, two comments made by the women there still strike me: 1) '[Books] humanise harrowing behaviour a lot of people don't want to understand' 2) 'Every book has its place; the right place and time to be read.' I loved listening to them 3/3

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Jo

@jo_hamya

2 years

the problem with people running for their platform at euston is that they have nowhere chic to be. where are you and your little suitcase in such a hurry to? milton keynes? lmao, pls

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Jo

@jo_hamya

7 years

@Ajamu_X @Scatterbrie I am living for the shit storm this has generated rn

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Jo

@jo_hamya

7 years

@Scatterbrie @novaramedia I wish that had been a natural response though. Then I would have made a socialist pun and kissed the floor Jezza walks on. Only then.

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Jo

@jo_hamya

2 years

If you'd like a front row seat to the country burning, I'm told our London Living event at @southbankcentre this Saturday looks out onto the Houses of Parliament. Come pour one out for UK democracy with me, @SNFSchlee , and @Victoria_Spratt :

London Living

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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Jo

@jo_hamya

2 years

So, so loved this from Tender Buttons with @maxjohnporter -- particularly on egalitarian approaches to craft, and thinking about form before conventional plot and character content

Tender Buttons Podcast

@buttons_tender

2 years

🎙️💥 V excited to bring you our first ep. of Season 2 with the inimitable @maxjohnporter . We chat abt writing as a mode of time travel, the relationship between novel & stage, mourning as a form of love & much more (1/2) 💫🌿✨

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Jo

@jo_hamya

3 months

I will not be judged for misspelling the title of my own novel, also x

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Jo

@jo_hamya

2 years

being a hottie is a self determined vibe; idk why we’re ignoring the swathes of ppl in academia & publishing who thrive by actively enforcing a binary between intelligence and looks the lack of adventurousness & progress in both has a lot to do with a loss of sex appeal/joy/fun

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Jo

@jo_hamya

1 year

The scope of their interests (magical realism; business manuals; YA; historical non-fiction) was vast, and the conversation profoundly intelligent. For them, books have been recovery or rehabilitation tools, companions, escape modes, teachers of empathy-- 2/

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Jo

@jo_hamya

6 months

thank you @lithub xx

Naomi Gibbs

@gibbsne

6 months

So many lovely books here, including so many lovely @PantheonBooks . Especially happy to see TEHRANGELES by @PKhakpour and THE HYPOCRITE by @jo_hamya .

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@jo_hamya

2 months

If you've been thinking of buying a copy, it would mean the world to me if you did so through your local independent, or via the @bookshop_org_UK link below. Thank you to everyone who has said a kind word over the past few months 💛

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Jo

@jo_hamya

3 years

reminded yet again of @neevkm 's line from last summer, about publishing - but really, about 90% of book trade: "It is deeply hypocritical...to use the aesthetics of counter-cultural politics to sell...products while quietly profiting from...cheap labour..."

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Jo

@jo_hamya

10 months

Derrida was very real for that

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Jo

@jo_hamya

2 years

There are freshly signed copies of THREE ROOMS at @Dauntbooks Marylebone 🍊🧡

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