I usually think autoplay is a damned nuisance but today it brought me this little gem that I would otherwise almost certainly not have seen.

8½/10 ⭐️

Available until November 13.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022nnt/miss-pyms-day-out-bookmark

#TV #drama #biography #BarbaraPym #PatriciaRoutledge

Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark

Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 November 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony.

BBC iPlayer

I absolutely loved Barbara Pym's QUARTET IN AUTUMN. This was my first Pym and it certainly won't be my last. She writes about near retirees who don't gave much of a life with SO MUCH LIFE! Then there's Caitlin R. Kienan's THE DROWNING GIRL, which is surprisingly punchy but gritty in a casual "Hey, this happened" sort of way. Both of these writers have inspired my creative noggin to work in dystopian times! Chop chop, bald man! Off to the cafe to imagine!

#books #BarbaraPym #CaitlinRKiernin

“Author Barbara Pym may have worked for MI5, research suggests.” Not just Some Tame Gazelle then! If you don’t know her wry work try!! #BarbaraPym
Un 11 de enero muere
🖋️ #BarbaraPym (1913-1980)
Después pasó un tiempo de cierto olvido.
Ahora, esta fascinante escritora,
que narra como nadie historias de gente corriente,
es una ineludible de la #Literatura inglesa del XX
Aquí, sus #novelas están siendo editadas
por @gediciones
How to Start a Bookstore in This Economy | The Tyee

In Gibsons, Reasons to Live bookstore has been life-changing for its young proprietors. Despite the odds, they’re keeping on.

The Tyee
Totally against the grain of my personal aesthetic, I LOVE American editions of #BarbaraPym w/ the horrifically colored graphic tessellating wallpaper patterns, they’re what my local library has & I’m steadily replicating the collection at home, thanks to eBay, not JUST so I can admire their spines arranged so harmoniously together, but so I can finally annotate & leave crumbs & jam smears & coffee splashes in them guilt-free. What can I say?—I’m a library patron with a conscience. #booklover

“Encouraged by her silence Mr. Mold went on: ‘What I mean to say is, that I think we should be very happy if we married. My house is large and comfortable and my financial position is sound… and,’ he added, rather as an afterthought, ‘I loved you the moment I saw you.’”

(Keep in mind he had a backup plan if she didn’t seem as pretty to him that day, as she had initially struck him before.)

“Some Tame Gazelle”
#BarbaraPym
#British #novel

This is Barbara Pym.
If you are a woman entering the age of invisibility & feeling awfully alone these holidays—feeling wretchedly jilted in love—feeling like drinking or eating yourself into a coma—then please, read one of her novels.
She will become your best friend. She will make you piss yourself laughing. She will turn spinsterhood into pure comedy gold.
#EnglishLiterature #BarbaraPym #humor
‘Een glas vol zegeningen’ van #BarbaraPym, vertaald door #AndaSchippers op tafel bij #BoekhandelRoelants in #Nijmegen.

Delighted that the Barbara Pym Eoghan Harris sockpuppet account is going to be forced to cough up its secret. Should be a great few sweaty days for some other right wing journos...

#EoghanHarris
#BarbaraPym
#Sockpuppets