UK Literary Luvvies

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queenamber said:
Nailed it.

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I 100% agree with this tweeter, but similarly, this style of tweeting (with no caps or punctuation) is so early 2010s. She makes so much sense, but if I was a commissioning editor I’d just roll my eyes. Like, YES, the world of media and lit-fic needs more voices, but please don’t get in your own way.


I really hope I’m proved wrong and it turns out she already has a weekly column in a broadsheet.
 
Speaking of the pool, I’ve always been a bit confused about how it ended. I thought that Lauren Laverne was one of the founders and owners but she seemed to keep her nose very clean when it came to the end and there were loads of journos going unpaid.

I always wished they’d invested more in longform investigative journalism. In theory it was so good but in practise it was same same same
 
Love_hate_small_town said:
Speaking of the pool, I’ve always been a bit confused about how it ended. I thought that Lauren Laverne was one of the founders and owners but she seemed to keep her nose very clean when it came to the end and there were loads of journos going unpaid.

I always wished they’d invested more in longform investigative journalism. In theory it was so good but in practise it was same same same
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Yes Lauren Laverne was a founder and owner, and as far as I recall saw the writing on the wall and withdrew herself from it all before it collapsed. Therefore not leaving herself for any fallout/expenses. I'm sure this is completely simplified and there is more to it than that - but that is what I recall. And a lot of freelance contributors did go unpaid.
 
Jelly Bean said:
Yes Lauren Laverne was a founder and owner, and as far as I recall saw the writing on the wall and withdrew herself from it all before it collapsed. Therefore not leaving herself for any fallout/expenses. I'm sure this is completely simplified and there is more to it than that - but that is what I recall. And a lot of freelance contributors did go unpaid.
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That’s right! I remember now. Also remember listening ing to her, maybe on desert island discs, shortly after it all happened and there was a heap of stuff about writers not being paid and feeling like she was just fronting it out.

Just had a little delve on google and there really isn’t much about it. Read an article on guardian from when it was launched. Their main selling point seemed to be that the articles would have a ‘time needed to read’ stamp at the top which I now remember as faintly stressy and not something that ever caught on lol.
 
Love_hate_small_town said:
That’s right! I remember now. Also remember listening ing to her, maybe on desert island discs, shortly after it all happened and there was a heap of stuff about writers not being paid and feeling like she was just fronting it out.

Just had a little delve on google and there really isn’t much about it. Read an article on guardian from when it was launched. Their main selling point seemed to be that the articles would have a ‘time needed to read’ stamp at the top which I now remember as faintly stressy and not something that ever caught on lol.
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Medium have time needed to read but they only let you have three free articles a month, so annoying if the title of one is click bait :)
 
Pandora 'i don't post my life online, just super awkward semi-naked photos of my children promoting stuff I get for free' Sykes. SMH.

Case in point, gifted stay at one of her posho friend's places:

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cee-bee said:
there a certain section of society in London who seem to think swimming in Hampstead Heath ponds are a personality trait… I don’t get it. I’ve been several times, it ain’t that amazing
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There was a parody Twitter account that they talked about on the high low which was a literary millennial who swam in the ponds and made jam (or similar)
 
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