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Claire Armitstead
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Former Guardian writer/editor. Now at large. Editor of Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City.
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Dec 6, 2023
    I haven’t posted on X since it was twitter but I’m so angry and upset that I will do anything to explain my atom of experience of this horrible, exclusionary new world.
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    Thanks to James Cleverly, I may never live in the same country as my kids again | Claire Armitstead
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Jan 23, 2019
    !!!
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Apr 7, 2022
    Jeanette Winterson and … erm … the daemon of TS Eliot (?) in Southwark Cathedral, at the truly inspiring launch of The Waste Land centenary events. Check them out if you’re in London this weekend.
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    May 30, 2022
    I rarely plug my own pieces but this book by @realsarahpolley feels important: it goes way beyond the usual anecdote and score-settling.
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    Sarah Polley on her unflinching memoir: ‘Can you forgive – and should you forgive?’
    From theguardian.com
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    May 28, 2018
    The green room #hayfestival has suddenly become the red room and look who’s sandwiched between the handmaidens
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Nov 13, 2019
    Just had the lovely (and rare) experience of seeing the right book win the right prize. Congratulations to Lucy Ellmann @FictionAtelier, @GalleyBeggars and @GoldsmithsPrize theguardian.com/books/2019/nov… was t gleggeeg#w#m whgwhffdfq
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Mar 16, 2020
    This is such a nice story. All hail indie booksellers @BurleyFisher @CategoryIsBooks @dogberryfinch @helentamblyn @CorfieldWalters @NOALIBISBOOKS @PortyBooks
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    Delivery by skateboard? Coronavirus sees indie booksellers get inventive
    From theguardian.com
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Jul 12, 2022
    And me. I got to sign my name with George Eliot’s pen, completely amazingly. So overwhelmed it’s taken me three tries to get this tweet right
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    Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature
    From theguardian.com
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Jun 8, 2018
    The splendid new Women’s prize for fiction laureate @kamilashamsie on updating Antigone, citizenship and the problems of “googling while Muslim”
    theguardian.com
    Kamila Shamsie: 'We have to find reasons for optimism'
    The award-winning writer on prophecy, political pessimism and her love of London
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    May 20, 2020
    This @mark_haddon lockdown story is a thing of melancholy beauty. So much more luminous online than in print.
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    Social Distance: a graphic short story for the coronavirus age by Mark Haddon
    From theguardian.com
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Apr 5, 2018
    Ted Hughes winner Jay Bernard really is a class act. I predict they’ll be on all the prize lists when their first collection is out next year. Watch this space... theguardian.com/books/2018/apr…
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Oct 25, 2016
    Two Booker years running for wonderful Oneworld. Marlon James and now Paul Beatty. Power to the indies.
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Jul 24, 2020
    I’ve never read an obituary quite like this. What a life. Where’s the movie? Respect, Charles Webb, author of The Graduate.
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    Charles Webb obituary
    From theguardian.com
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    Claire Armitstead
    @carmitstead
    Feb 15, 2017
    Well, this is exciting @PhilipPullman. End of ponytail Philip Pullman unveils epic fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust theguardian.com/books/2017/feb…
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