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#ANightInWithTheWordsworths, @MargaretAtwood, Hele

#ANightInWithTheWordsworths, @MargaretAtwood, Helen McCrory, @InuaEllams, Vanessa Redgrave, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Armitage, @stephenfry, @Lisadwan, Toby Jones, Tom Hollander, @TheMontyDon & me @hayfestival #Wordsworth250 streaming now

It’s nice recording radio at home - and while I

It’s nice recording radio at home - and while I greatly miss our talented studio managers - it does mean I can pretend I’m Madonna singing La Isla Bonita in between interviews. I also imagine the rapturous applause. (It’s VERY rapturous FYI, OK? )🎤🎹 👏👏

Well, @hayfestival this is going to be spectacular

Well, @hayfestival this is going to be spectacular. With the excellent @Elif_Safak @PollySamson and @MargaretAtwood and a dash of #wordsworth250 in there too. Well done @PeterFlorence #HayFestival2020.

The eerie beauty of @lcflondon_ in lockdown.

The eerie beauty of @lcflondon_ in lockdown.

And here’s James Baldwin with soulful expression

And here’s James Baldwin with soulful expression by Marlene Dumas. Also on sale. Go support.

Isn’t this gorgeous? Wolfgang Tillmans, Still Li

Isn’t this gorgeous? Wolfgang Tillmans, Still Life. Tillmans and other artists selling posters in aid of arts spaces at risk of going out of business because of Covid-19. Details at Start Next and @siegessaeulemagazin

19 and a half in 1999. #MeAt20 Who knows what happ

19 and a half in 1999. #MeAt20 Who knows what happened to rest of those losers, eh? @Kings_College Cambridge Class of 1999 #vintageyear

Home studio up & running today. All I need is the

Home studio up & running today. All I need is the traditional mountain of discarded paper cups, a wonky headset and some dog-eared Melvyn Bragg scripts from 2009. Then it will feel EXACTLY like Broadcasting House. @BBCRadio3 & @BBCRadio4 won’t let you down.

US review of Dressed today in @WSJ. I've always w

US review of Dressed today in @WSJ. I've always wanted someone to use the words "a turbocharged and delightful romp" in relation to me. #Dressed @basic_books

One of my favourite images from Dressed - courtesy

One of my favourite images from Dressed - courtesy of the talented and generous @carolinegrovescouture “Sensational bird-wing heels, with blue silk pleats, billowing plumes and a gold claw perched like a goddess on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce”

Looking for #MothersDayGifts? The BEAUTIFUL colour

Looking for #MothersDayGifts? The BEAUTIFUL colour illustrated Dressed is available, hardback & e-book. If you DM me, I can send a pic of a personalised dedication too. #stayathome #socialdistancing. You can search for it @penguinukbooks website and the usual online books store.

Looking for #MothersDayGifts? The BEAUTIFUL colour

Looking for #MothersDayGifts? The BEAUTIFUL colour illustrated Dressed is available, hardback & e-book. If you DM me, I can send a pic of a personalised dedication too. #stayathome #socialdistancing. You can search for it @penguinukbooks website and the usual online books store.

Here’s the UK edition meeting the US edition lik

Here’s the UK edition meeting the US edition like they are great pals. Thanks to the brilliant teams at @JonathanCape & @BasicBooks. Links to buy them here: shahidhabari.com

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‪No touching allowed at the moment, I know, but

‪No touching allowed at the moment, I know, but hard to keep my hands off this which arrived in the post today. Isn’t it lovely? Thanks @BasicBooks ‬

‪No touching allowed at the moment, I know, but

‪No touching allowed at the moment, I know, but hard to keep my hands off this which arrived in the post today. Isn’t it lovely? Thanks @BasicBooks ‬

It’s a gorgeous spring morning and the US versio

It’s a gorgeous spring morning and the US version of Dressed is out today from @basic_books. I know. The cover is unbelievably beautiful.

This is a great little morning in Vienna @mumok_vi

This is a great little morning in Vienna @mumok_vienna for bumping into some Klein, a bunch of Loos and Moholy-Nagy.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Head, 1937, @mumok_vienna

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Head, 1937, @mumok_vienna

René Magritte, The Voice of Blood, Vienna Mumok,

René Magritte, The Voice of Blood, Vienna Mumok, 1959

László Moholy-Nagy, Composition Q VIII 1922 @ V

László Moholy-Nagy, Composition Q VIII 1922 @ Vienna Mumok

Even the tickets are elegant and strictly function

Even the tickets are elegant and strictly functional. #Wittgenstein

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein Hous

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein House in Vienna, I finally managed to visit it. It’s exactly what you would want it to be. Let’s move in instantly.

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein Hous

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein House in Vienna, I finally managed to visit it. It’s exactly what you would want it to be. Let’s move in instantly.

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein Hous

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein House in Vienna, I finally managed to visit it. It’s exactly what you would want it to be. Let’s move in instantly.

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein Hous

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein House in Vienna, I finally managed to visit it. It’s exactly what you would want it to be. Let’s move in instantly.

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein Hous

20 years after reading about the Wittgenstein House in Vienna, I finally managed to visit it. It’s exactly what you would want it to be. Let’s move in instantly.

Hundertwasser Museum. “Photography as a Language

Hundertwasser Museum. “Photography as a Language” by Alec Soth. Images of the American Midwest. Inmates of Angola State Prison, Louisiana 2002

Hundertwasser Museum. “Photography as a Language

Hundertwasser Museum. “Photography as a Language” by Alec Soth. Images of the American Midwest.

Hundertwasser Museum. “Photography as a Language

Hundertwasser Museum. “Photography as a Language” by Alec Soth. Images of the American Midwest.

Vienna Hundertwasser Museum is delightfully eccent

Vienna Hundertwasser Museum is delightfully eccentric as everyone says. But highlight so far is its temporary exhibition. “Photography as a Language” by Alec Soth. Images of the American Midwest. What a find. Unforgettably brilliant.

Moonlight blooms

Moonlight blooms