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damian entwistle Jan 5, 2025

Today's poem: a 'letter'

My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be

- by Isabel Waidner

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/771833929557819393/my-fathers-lover-was-never-the-stepdad-i-wanted?source=share

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My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be

Isabel Waidner WHAT A GOAL! goal of the season, Justin Fashanu we want you, we love you, the way you volleyed it in with your left foot from well outside the box, the way you spun round and slipped…

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Paul Semel Feb 6, 2024

In my new interview with author Isabel Waidner, they explain why their new novel, "Corey Fah Does Social Mobility" is "...a literary novel that deliberately works across established genre distinctions..." and has a deer / spider hybrid who isn't a monster.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-corey-fah-does-social-mobility-author-isabel-waidner/
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Interview: "Corey Fah Does Social Mobility" Author Isabel Waidner .

Exclusive Interview: "Corey Fah Does Social Mobility" Author Isabel Waidner \ In which they discuss this literary novel.

paulsemel.com

Poldy Bloom Aug 19, 2023

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#coreyfahdoessocialmobility

Stoked for this. Loved Sterling Karat Gold so much.

Also love the library: my email: you need to stock this. Their email: okay, we will. My email: cheers nice one! Three weeks later their email: come and get it!

Gary Hall Aug 8, 2023

2/2

Brings to mind the powerful critique Isabel Waidner makes in the final paragraph of her essay-play, 'The Prince of Homburg':

'UK publishing professionals are always wondering why the working classes aren't engaging with canonical literature. Books come cheap off the Amazon, so--? What's your excuse? You too dumb to read this? Ill-educated, and lazy? You prefer sci-fi and Netflix, you unintelligent shits? But the working-classes are disengaging, not because they lack educational capital or intelligence, but because literature is stupid. It gets almost everything wrong.'

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