We're now half way through the current season of LRB Screen at Home in partnership with @mubi! If you haven't joined us yet, there's still four great events to come 👇 lrb.me/screen
On 11 Nov, @harikunzru will discuss the lure of the extreme and the shadows of history in relation to Orson Welles's 1946 noir thriller THE STRANGER lrb.me/screen Image
On 25 Nov, Xiaolu Guo will be in conversation about Angela Schanelec’s tender and enigmatic drama PASSING SUMMER lrb.me/screen Image
9 Dec, Maya Jasanoff, author of award-winning Joesph Conrad biography THE DAWN WATCH, will discuss Chantal Akerman’s ambitious adaptation of Conrad’s first novel ALMAYER'S FOLLY lrb.me/screen Image
And for the final event in the series on 16 Dec, @DavidLammy will discuss Oscar Micheaux's WITHIN OUR GATES, the oldest known surviving feature film made by an African-American director lrb.me/screen Image
All LRB Screen at Home tickets include a FREE 90-day @mubi trial. Find out more and book your tickets here: lrb.me/screen

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3 Sep
had an astonishing conversation with a food photographer who's worked on a load of big recipe books - don't want to say which but you'd have heard of them - who told me something fascinating about prawns
prawns are slightly bioluminescent, which means they're impossible to photograph properly. but they're needed all the time, in photographs of paella etc.
there's a single company which has invested a great deal of money in genetically-engineered prawns to solve this problem - they've produced six of them so far
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11 Feb
so rage against the machine just announced their european tour dates and we were shocked to discover that apparently they are playing at the bookshop on august 14th. first we've heard of it. having an emergency staff meeting now about how we can make this work
presumably they won't need chairs which makes the set-up a bit easier. plan at the moment is to strip the new fiction tables and put the books in the lift. as long as the 'mosh pit' is kept relatively confined to the centre of the shop i think we should be ok
the problem is where are the band going to go. david reckons that if we just take off the till computers etc. they can stand on the till counter. "how many of them are there?" "four of them" "there's room for four as long as they don't jump around a lot"
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12 Jul 19
oh god oh god pierce brosnan is in the shop. I repeat pierce brosnan is in the shop
didn't recognise him for a moment (he has a white beard) but it is definitely him
going to the loo. no wait he's coming back up again
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17 Mar 19
many apologies - i know a lot of you are waiting for an update on the bee situation. twitter app kept crashing on phone! anyway here's what happened
about twenty past 6 yesterday just before we closed we had a gruff-voiced phone call. "i think you have something of mine. i'll be round for it shortly." i was happy to wait, so sat downstairs in the poetry section watching the febrile insects clamber over one another in the jar
the hour grew late. i realised i was dozing off, but was sure the return of the bee gent would wake me up, so I slid my coat under my head and fell immediately into a deep and dreamless sleep
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12 Feb 19
nice old buffer came in to see if we wanted to buy some antique geological maps. told him that we didn't buy secondhand, but he insisted on showing us anyway & spread his maps out over the counter. they were very handsome, mostly mid-Victorian & beautifully inked
as i thumbed through them politely something caught my eye: the words "bury pl. wc1". i reached for my magnifying glass and studied the map more closely (point marked with arrow). "that's us", i said, handing the magnifying glass to the customer.
he stared for a moment at where i was pointing, then dropped the magnifying glass and looked at me with wild eye and shaking hand. "d'ye know what this means", he said. "your bookshop is sitting right on top of the largest vein of silver in london". "well i'll be" i said softly
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