Two is company ,three is a crowd…
Extrangers when we meet by #HanifKureishi #British #Fiction #Books #bookstodon 📖

Is multitasking harder for men? #Books #HanifKureishi#MidnightAllDay#ThePenis 😬

Hanif Kureishi:

✍️ #Writingtip: your characters should have fascinations and idiosyncrasies.

But they are defined and changed by the events you put them through. These events should pronounce their traits. Story and character are one.

#Schreibtipp #HanifKureishi https://twitter.com/Hanifkureishi/status/1624715931296448514

I'm not sure how many people on here are following Hanif Kureishi's blog posts since he was hospitalised, but they're really worthwhile. (They're being promoted via the birdsite, but you can sign up directly for updates.)

Today, his son Sachin (also a writer) shared a piece about writing for soap opera during Covid.

Hanif also just ran a writing competition and I suspect there may be more to come.

https://hanifkureishi.substack.com/

#HanifKureishi #writing #WritingCommunity #screenwriting

Today's dispatch from #HanifKureishi blogging from his hospital bed, paralyzed.

"Being a tetraplegic isn’t all bad. As I write this, I am having a pedicure while eating caviar with a plastic spoon. My girlfriend is tickling me under the chin. I have just proposed to her."

#Bookstodon #film #MyBeautifulLaundrette

https://open.substack.com/pub/hanifkureishi/p/super-painted-toenails

Hanif Kureishi helped liberate British Asians from their imposed identities https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/22/hanif-kureishi-helped-liberate-british-asians-from-their-imposed-identities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#HanifKureishi
#KenanMalik

#hanifkureishi #writing #humility

Hanif Kureishi pur non essendo in una bella situazione sta cercando di reagire come meglio può: osservando e scrivendo #hanifkureishi #scrittori #newsletter #ospedale https://open.substack.com/pub/hanifkureishi/p/la-dolce-boredom?r=aa5k3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

My father, Hanif Kureishi, was paralysed, now I must be his voice | Carlo Kureishi

#writer #hanifkureishi #paralysed #inspired #writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph11V2W9wuA&t=59s

First casuality of being off the bird site: I completely missed this about someone I had followed there for years, who had followed me back for years, and I am very upset about it. #hanifkureishi https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/books/hanif-kureishi-twitter-hospital.html

#HanifKureishi is not just another writer.
He is the son of a wealthy #Pakistani man and an Englishwoman and grew up in a suburb of London.
In his books, he explores integration problems caused by not being from one place or the other in a broad sense -he recognized himself as bisexual- in the years of #Thatcherism in the #UnitedKingdom.
He started writing #pornographic stories until #StephenFrears adapted a script of his in "My Beautiful Laundrette" -1985- then
"Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"

I don't want to direct traffic to das bird so FYI you can read Hanif Kureishi's messages via substack https://hanifkureishi.substack.com/

NYTimes: A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers.
A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers. https://nyti.ms/3H5pY0Q

#HanifKureishi

Fans of the writing of #hanifkureishi may be interested in this beautifully written piece #incapacity #disability
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/14/i-sat-up-today-like-a-beckettian-chattering-mouth-all-i-can-do-is-speak-but-i-can-also-listen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Kureishi has always been a defining mind & writer for me...since my teens, since My Beautiful Laundrette et al. Now he needs us in his recovery. May all your cells rally, #HanifKureishi!

His beautiful words might be the only reason to ever look at the crumbling bird site again.

https://twitter.com/Hanifkureishi/status/1612472737896742914?s=20&t=hh5IM4FmYUxF7dOqRMmUXg

While Kureishi did not specify his condition, he said he received treatment in a hospital in Rome and made slight improvements

Read more: https://www.boomlive.in/web-stories/hanif-kureishi-paralyzed-in-rome-1367

#HanifKureishi

British novelist Hanif Kureishi said last week that he may not ever hold a pen or walk after a fall in Rome, Italy on December 26 after which he has been paralyzed.

Read more: https://www.boomlive.in/web-stories/hanif-kureishi-paralyzed-in-rome-1367

#HanifKureishi

The brilliant Hanif Kureishi suffered a fall in December and may not be able to hold a pen ever again. My Beautiful Laundrette is on HBO Max - go watch it. #HanifKureishi

https://youtu.be/e5JtE83ksg0

May #HanifKureishi make a full and speedy recovery. He has plenty of words left to write.

https://news.sky.com/story/hanif-kureishi-british-author-and-playwright-in-hospital-unable-to-move-arms-and-legs-after-fall-in-rome-12781328

I'm so sorry to hear the wonderful Hanif Kureishi had a horrific fall, wishing him lots of healing as he recovers from this traumatic injury. He reported that he is unable to move his arms and legs and remains in hospital.

I was fortunate enough to see him last year at the tribute for #SalmanRushdie. Get well soon. #HanifKureishi

#books #bookstodon

https://youtu.be/Qyr0IlHElzY

I guess I'll do my own #7Books for the #bookston community (no Arabic, no order, only #20c #novels):

- 2666, #RobertoBolaño
- Beer in the Snooker Club, #WaguihGhali
- Midnight's Children, #SalmanRushdie
- Snow, #OrhanPamuk
- The Name of the Rose, #UmbertoEco
- The Thief's Journal #JeanGenet
- The Buddha of Suburbia, #HanifKureishi