#Joel Golby

[hrhprincegalitzine]

"Galitzine's George is moping and moaning and wet and soft..." - Joel Golby for The Guardian

[ayearincontent]

books 2017-2021

2017

A View from the Foothills, Chris Mullin (2009)

The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes (2016)

The End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley (2010)

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee (1969)

2018

A Death in the Family, Karl Ove Knausgård (2013)

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes (1989)

Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (2017)

In Love, Alfred Hayes (1953)

Autumn, Ali Smith (2016)

Educated, Tara Westover (2018)

The Children Act, Ian McEwan (2014)

The Only Story, Julian Barnes (2018)

Bad News, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (2007)

The Power, Naomi Alderman (2016)

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney (2017)

Swimming Home, Deborah Levy (2011)

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (1998)

Less, Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (2018)

Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (2017)

The Swimming Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst (1988)

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)~

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)#

This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay (2017)

Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)#

Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday (2018)

2019

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)#

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott (2016)

Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)#

Outline, Rachel Cusk (2014)

Florida, Lauren Groff (2018)

The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (2013)#

Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy (2018)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris (2018)#

Ordinary People, Diana Evans (2019)

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1999)

The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)#

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Joel Golby (2019)

Love, Nina: Dispatches from Family Life, Nina Stibbe (2013)

On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)

The World According to Garp, John Irving (1978)#

Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys (1939)

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)#

Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker (2017)

This is Pleasure, Mary Gaitskill (2019)

Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

Mr Salary, Sally Rooney (2019)

2020

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)

Three Women, Lisa Taddeo (2019)#

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, Adam Kay (2019)

The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier (2018)

South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami (1999)#

Smile Please, Jean Rhys (1979)

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson (2015)#

Reunion, Fred Uhlman (1971)

Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry (2019)

A Little Life, Haniya Yanagihara (2015)

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)#

Boomerang, Michael Lewis (2012)#

Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan (2020)

An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2018)#

Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick (2010)

Calypso, David Sedaris (2018)#

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)

Any Human Heart, William Boyd (2002)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (1968)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)#

Lullaby, Leïla Slimani (2016)#

Summerwater, Sarah Moss (2020)

Intimations, Zadie Smith (2020)

The Appointment, Katharina Volckmer (2020)

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1938)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1831)#

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (2018)

The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard (2017)

2021

I'm Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya (2018)#

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, Isabel Hardman (2018)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carre (1963)#

Emma, Jane Austen (1815)

News of the World: A Novel, Paulette Jiles (2016)#

Transit, Rachel Cusk (2018)

Good Behaviour, Molly Keane (1981)#

Deep Work, Cal Newport (2016)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984)#

We Are All Birds of Uganda, Hafsa Zayyan (2021)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1970)

Dead Souls, Sam Riviere (2021)

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (2020)#

Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton (1941)

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2012)

The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis (1973)

Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason (2021)

Kudos, Rachel Cusk (2018)

Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2019)#

How to Write a Novel in 6 Months, Thomas Emson (2020)

Writing a Novel, Richard Skinner (2018)

Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent, Emily Chappell (2019)#

Arbitration: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas Schultz and Thomas Grant (2021)

No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, Lauren Elkin (2021)

Metroland, Julian Barnes (1980)

[p-evvy]

Locking Joel golby in a room until he tells me the exact circumstances under which Jack grealish would eat a worm

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(From Rob Brezsny)

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“For ten years now, I have lived under a singular monster, a hive brain with many bitter limbs. For ten years I have lived under landlords” ― Joel Golby

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“Evictions should be the absolute last resort for landlords and not the first-choice, nuclear option. Evicting people is mostly an unnecessary exercise in power-tripping and avoidable.” ― Stewart Stafford

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“Urban landlords quickly realized that piles of money could be made by creating slums: “maximum profits came, not from providing first-class accommodations for those who could well afford them… but from crowded slum accommodations, for those whose pennies were scarcer than the rich man’s pounds.” Beginning in the sixteenth century, slum housing would be reserved not only for outcasts, beggars, and thieves but for a large segment of the population.” ― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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“The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he had made $42,500 in rent but paid only $2,400 in maintenance. When accused of making excessive profits, the landlord simply replied, “That’s why I bought the building.” ― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

And then I realised, suddenly, that these interior trends weren't a choice, or an option: they were a reaction, that having fewer things (minimalism) makes it easier to move house with them, once a year, every year; that having a pack of four or five go-to items that act as a cosiness shorthand then bypasses the need for you to have a truly cosy house. It is easier for Dimitri to haul your idea of cosy up the stairs if it can all be packed neatly in to the same box. And this: if you were born in the late eighties to early nineties then the closest you can get to ownership of your home - the only way you can, truly, tap a vibe and imprint an identity on it that is unique only to you - is to have like, six black things on a shelf, or a £60 eiderdown from John Lewis. All the bricks are taken. All the bricks are owned. Pay what's left of what you have to the landlord above you.

Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant

[arwensabendstern]

I think through all of this it’s clear that quarantine is an ultimate unknown, and we are reacting to the vagaries of it by telling each other off for not doing it properly, a relic from the old society we had, when we were allowed to go outside. My prediction is this sort of tone-policing will drop off shortly, when the actual impact of coronavirus proper starts to take hold and quarantine becomes less a weird series of days with the taste and flavour of a wasted bank holiday, and instead becomes a new normal that we have all adjusted sharply to.

Coronavirus has forced us to spend our lives online — and it shows | Joel Golby | Opinion | The Guardian

[adz]

re: Cats, Joel Golby wrote a brief review of other CGI monstrosities for The Guardian and his section on the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog movie really spoke to my soul

[lastyearsgirl]

culture consumption: february 2019;

culture consumption: february 2019;

I opened this month complaining on Twitter that my cold wasn’t so bad that I got to stay off work and watch Netflix, and then the next two days forced to do just that.

While Stringer was in Colorado.

Too sick for my own opinions, never mind cooking for myself, I retreated into everything my friends had been recommending to me during recent hang-outs: getting back into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, on

[28dayslater]

I can’t see Haaland without thinking about that Joel golby tweet about how there’s a bunker full of failed haalands somewhere, headbutting each other to death. Probably not exact wording but the point stands

jesus that man really doesn't miss

[spiced-wine-fic]

“But here’s the most powerful (and coolest, by the way) thing Musk can do with the website: delete it, or at least get whichever Tesla engineer was responsible for those cars catching fire to build new servers so it deletes itself. Twitter is nearing its endgame because it has changed the way discourse works on its platform so it is now eating itself: people are in a daily race to have the most unhinged or worst possible faith interpretation of any major event (“Elon Musk is Will Smith and Twitter is Chris Rock. We are all Jada” – some moron who is about to get 250,000 likes, probably), the way many of us process politics is irreparably changed, and frankly every single user on there, myself included, needs to go outside and touch grass.”

[quirinerose]

BOOK HAUL //

I’m filing a restraining order for myself against bookstores now for at least a three months (lol) (who am I kidding).

From top to bottom:

• Dune by Frank Herbert (cause honestly how could I not with the movie coming up)

• Brilliant (x5) by Joel Golby

• Essays by Lydia Davis

• The remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman (horror food for horror season!)

• The artist’s way by Julia Cameron

• Would you like to see the house? by Lorraine Kirke and Patti Stoecker

Now it’s time for me to put my phone away, make a cup of coffee and dive into this pile. 📚

On Instagram @quirinerose

[merelygifted]

England's food is awful – and the Tories still refuse to give it to children | Joel Golby | Opinion | The Guardian

[merrikstryfe]

forgot that mum thing mums do where they leave things on the stairs for u to take up with u. just constant neat little piles. see an ibuprofen pack, an off-brand phone charger and an empty water bottle on a stair and know: a mum has been here, recently, and might still be around

— joel golby (@joelgolby) December 27, 2019

Surprising no one, I am, apparently, a mum.

[valkyrien]

@liliana-von-k prepare to be enraged in the funniest possible way.