Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official @RobertDFBooks
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, writer, professor of English literature and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Tweets by R and team. Metamorphosis out now! penguin.co.uk/books/452971/m… Joined May 2022-
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Just spotted: a copy of my book Becoming Dickens in a Blackheath bookshop - a place where, 30+ years ago, I spent a school prize on a complete set of Dickens. Seeing it there now makes me feel a bit like an old salmon swimming upstream to visit the place where it was spawned.
Not an April Fool’s Day joke… For this month only, my slapstick misery memoir Metamorphosis is only 99p on Kindle. Please share with anyone who is living with MS (or living with someone with MS). #ms amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0B4N8…
Easter (identity) parade a few years ago starring the late, lamented Edith Bouvier. “Please point out which of these individuals was harassing you earlier, Mr Mouse.”
It lives! To encourage students to read, think about and discuss Kafka’s amazing novella The Metamorphosis we have been able to do a special printing of the text to give to each student @UniofOxford and to the public libraries, as part of #OxfordreadsKafka #OxfordKafka24
I’m going to be flaunting myself at the Oxford Literary Festival next Tuesday. Ticket information in the link. Do come if you’re in the area - it would be lovely to see you there. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…
I just concluded a brisk professional phone call with a complete stranger by accidentally signing off “lots of love”. How’s your day going? 
Thank you @Dauntbooks Summertown for letting me interview @RobertDFBooks last night, for the paperback launch of Metamorphosis! Look what a great time I had. Everyone should get this book, to change the way they live and read
Paperback publication day! Looking forward to seeing some of you at @Dauntbooks in Oxford this evening for a conversation with the brilliant @officialnhaynes. amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/152992…
THIS WEEK! Tickets are just a fiver to see genius @RobertDFBooks in convo with me at @Dauntbooks Summertown (Oxford) 📚 dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/ro…
Listen to Magdalen Fellow @RobertDFBooks talk to Melvyn Bragg about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on In Our Time @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Roses are red Violets are normative Valentine’s Day Is purely performative ❤️
At 7pm on 22 February I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @officialnhaynes to launch the paperback edition of my slapstick misery memoir METAMORPHOSIS: A LIFE IN PIECES at Daunt Books in Oxford. Join us! (Click on the link for tickets.) dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/ro…
She was diagnosed with the same type of MS as me in 2009, and chose to die a decade later. A valuable reminder to be grateful for the tiny yet immeasurable success of each completed day. theguardian.com/books/2024/feb…
Can’t wait to pop into Oxford in a few weeks, to talk to my friend @RobertDFBooks about this incredible book! It will be out in paperback that day! Find us at Summertown @Dauntbooks: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/ro…
On Wednesday, at Oxford University, I talked about storytelling across different media in my role as Visiting Professor Of Creative Media. And yes, that's me that is.
Registration is now open for @Baddiel's talk as this year's Visiting Professor of Creative Media. He will be in conversation with Prof Robert Douglas-Fairhurst discussing storytelling across different media. Tickets free but booking required. All welcome! davidbaddiel.eventbrite.co.uk
Backstage at #NineLessons this year we asked all the performers to give us their favourite books of the year. First up, it's @officialnhaynes with a recommendation of @RobertDFBooks and @EmilyRCWilson.
Lovely to talk to @lisamccormick on her new @bbc5live show this morning about my slapstick misery memoir METAMORPHOSIS: A LIFE IN PIECES, and how I have MS but refuse to let it have me.
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A very warm welcome to Lord Sumption, newly-elected Honorary Fellow of Magdalen.
We're delighted to announce that Jonathan Sumption has been elected an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College. As well as being a student at Magdalen, Lord Sumption was a Fellow by Examination in History at College between 1971 and 1975 magd.ox.ac.uk/news/lord-sump…
Sorry for bring quiet, my novel is going rather well, and just heard my agent really loves it. I was so worried. Hope everyone is well.
slightly belated happy 90th birthday, fred(ric jameson) @NewLeftReview @VersoBooks newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/a…
Full cover reveal!! Thanks so much to those who funded the research for this book, @LeverhulmeTrust @RS4VP @PaulMellonCentr @HoughtonLib @UR_ECW
Today we celebrated the retirement of our beloved Porter, and Deputy Lodge Manager, Rob! He will be much missed 🥹 He said: “it’s very sad that I have to go, but you’ve gotta call it a day sometime”
Final proofs of my forthcoming anthology over which the law casts a long shadow. Coming out on 30 May by @classicpenguins. Pre-order here penguin.co.uk/books/311741/s…
Main highlights of new @RSLiterature magazine are obits of A.S. Byatt by @PhilipHensher and ditto of Martin Amis by Zachary Leader.
‘No one, of course, has had, as yet, the last word on anything’ - ❤️ this by Adam Phillips as an invitation to think, wish, reply
I'll be speaking at this very exciting event next Thursday. Please do come along if you are in Princeton!! I and my colleague Xiaoyu Xia will be speaking about line-endings in English and Chinese literature
The Line of Beauty came out from @picadorbooks 20 years ago today. Won @TheBookerPrizes (then Man) in an insane year. Endlessly delicious, artful, heartbreaking novel. Kensington Pk Gdns looking pretty Hollinghursty when I passed earlier (one of these pics arguably a spoiler)
I am SO RIDICULOUSLY proud that my new intro to Measure for Measure for @OWC_Oxford is out today!! I became obsessed with this play as an A Level student – 18 years later, Shakespeare's exploration of power and female silencing is discomfortingly relevant in a post-#MeToo world.
@RobertDFBooks Something out of a Dickens novel :)
@RobertDFBooks Pop back and slip a note inside!
This came up on Peter's phone from eight years ago. Never to be forgotten, Scrumpy old lad.
In 2021, a friend wrote saying he was having a medical catastrophe and didn’t know if he'd make it. He said he'd been taking finasteride, a baldness drug that thousands of men say has caused them devastating side effects. This is my friend’s story: economist.com/1843/2024/04/0…
28 years ago, on April Fools’ Day, I said I do. Despite the slings & arrows of “outrageous” fortune ( what an apt phrase) made a very, very happy decision. Happy anniversary to us.
Stroked my daughter's head on my way to the kitchen, giving us both a sharp static shock. I said it was because of my MRI scan the other day. 'He's constructing his superhero origin story,' she said.
🃏 Poetry, with its talking in riddles and rhyme, is a lot like fooling. As a pastime—or worse, profession (!)—it is, as a previous employer once warned me, a foolish pursuit. Hence the motley cover @GodzillaKent designed for SERIOUSLY, which is v much in the spirit of today
@RobertDFBooks I ordered the hard cover and worth every bit
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